GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Cross references: See subtitle "Protection of Watersheds of Navigable Streams" under "Forest Reserves," pp. 136, 139; sec. 2406, R. S., under subtitle "Mineral Surveys," under title "Supervisor of Surveys, etc.," p. 704. CREATION OF THE OFFICE OF DIRECTOR Extract from the sundry civil appropriation Act, approved March 3, 1879 (20 Stat. 377, 394) created. For the salary of the Director of the Geological Sur- Office of Director vey, which office is hereby established, under the Interior Department, who shall be appointed by the President by * and with the advice and consent of the Senate, the Geological no interest in Provided, That this officer shall have the direction of Employees of the Geological Survey, and the classification of the pub- Survey to have lic lands and examination of the Geological Structure, lands under mineral resources and products of the national domain. survey. And that the Director and members of the Geological Survey shall have no personal or private interests in the lands or mineral wealth of the region under survey, and shall execute no surveys or examinations for private parties or corporations. (U. S. C., title 43, sec. 31.) SALE OF MAPS AND ATLASES Joint Resolution Providing for the distribution of the maps and atlases of the United States Geological Survey vey. Sale of maps and atlases. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Director of the Geological Survey be, and is Geological Surhereby, authorized and directed, on the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, to dispose of the topographic and geologic maps and atlases of the United States, made and published by the Geological Survey, at such prices and under such regulations as may from time to time be fixed by him and approved by the Secretary of the Interior; * (U.S. C., title 43, sec. 42.) * Approved, February 18, 1897 (29 Stat. 701). SURVEYS UNDER ACT OF JUNE 4, 1897 Extract from the sundry civil appropriation act approved June 4, 1897 (30 Stat. 11, 34) Such surveys, field notes, and plats thus returned shall Force and effect. have the same legal force and effect as heretofore given Inconsistent Topographic surveys. Proviso. the surveys, field notes, and plats returned through the surveyors-general; and such surveys, which include subdivision surveys under the rectangular system, shall be approved by the Commissioner of the General Land Office as in other cases, and properly certified copies thereof shall be filed in the respective land offices of the districts in which such lands are situated, as in other cases. All laws inconsistent with the provisions hereof are hereby declared inoperative as respects such survey: Provided, however, That a copy of every topographic map and other maps showing the distribution of the forests, together with such field notes as may be taken relating thereto, shall be certified thereto by the Director of the Survey and filed in the General Land Office. (U. S. C., title 16, sec. 474.) TOPOGRAPHIC SURVEYS Extract from the sundry civil appropriation Act approved June 11, 1896 (29 Stat. 413, 435) * For topographic surveys in various portions of the United States * * *: Provided, That hereafter in such surveys west of the ninety-fifth meridian elevations Marks of surveys. above a base level located in each area under survey shall be determined and marked on the ground by iron or stone posts or permanent bench marks, at least two such posts or bench marks to be established in each township or equivalent area, except in the forest-clad and mountain areas, where at least one shall be established, and these shall be placed, whenever practicable, near the township corners of the public-land surveys; and in the areas east of the ninety-fifth meridian at least one such post or bench mark shall be similarly established in each area equivalent to the area of a township of the public-land (U. S. C. title 13, sec. 38.) Topographical States. Completion of, in 20 years, authorized. surveys; * * An Act To provide for the completion of the topographical survey of the United States Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assurvey of United sembled, That the President be, and hereby is, authorized to complete, within a period of twenty years from the date of the passage of this Act, a general utility_topographical survey of the territory of the United States, including adequate horizontal and vertical control, and the securing of such topographic and hydrographic data Maps to be pub- as may be required for this purpose, and the preparation and publication of the resulting maps and data: Provided, That in carrying out the provisions of this Act the President is authorized to utilize the services and facilities or such agency or agencies of the Government as now exist, or may hereafter be created, and to allot lished. Proviso. utilized. to them (in addition to and not in substitution for other Agencies to be funds available to such agencies under other appropriations or from other sources) funds from the appropriation herein authorized, or from such appropriation or appropriations as may hereafter be made for the purposes of this Act. (U. S. Č., title 43, sec. 39.) agreements with SEC. 2.1 That the agencies which may be engaged in Cooperative carrying out the provisions of this Act are authorized States and funds to enter into cooperative agreements with and to receive from, authorized. funds made available by any State or civic subdivision. for the purpose of expediting the completion of the map ping within its borders. (U. S. C., title 43, sec. 40.) Approved February 27, 1925 (43 Stat. 1011). Extract from the Interior Department appropriation act approved * * * * ment of expendi minerals, etc., etc. Hereafter, at the close of each fiscal year, the Director Annual stateof the Geological Survey shall submit to the Secretary tures under leas of the Interior a statement of all expenditures from this ings of oil, appropriation during the previous year for the benefit of on Indian lands, any Indian tribe or allottee, in connection with the adminstration of the laws relating to the operation of oil, oil shale, and gas leases and to the mining of minerals other than oil, oil shale, and gas on Indian lands, and the Secretary of the Interior shall transmit the same an- Transmission to nually to Congress on the first Monday in December with a report as to whether or not there are any funds available belonging to any beneficiary from which the Treasury might be reimbursed therefor. (U. S. C., 3d supp., title 43, sec. 47.) Congress. In carrying on work involving cooperation with any State, Territory, or political subdivision thereof, the amounts received by the Geological Survey from any State, Territory, or political subdivision thereof shall be used to reimburse the appropriation from which the expense of such work is paid. (U. S. C., 3d supp., title 43, for States, to sec. 48.) 1 See the act of May 10, 1926 (44 Stat. 453, 487), infra. Sums from co operative work reimburse appropriation. |