Stamps purchased for the Indian-Office, including Indian agencies. 2,000 1-cent stamps, equal to 18,800 2-cent stamps, equal to 67,000 3-cent stamps, equal to 48,000 6-cent stamps, equal to 5,000 10-cent stamps, equal to 11,300 12-cent stamps, equal to 2,800 15-cent stamps, equal to 2,500 24-cent stamps, equal to 1,900 30-cent stamps, equal to $20.00 376 00 2,010 00 2,880 00 500 00 1,356 00 420 00 600 00 570 00 8,732 00 Recapitulation showing the amount expended for official postage-stamps by this Department In addition to the sum paid for stamps it was found necessary to incur the following expenses in order to fully carry out the provisions of the act: Of the stamps purchased for the use of the Secretary's Office the following are still on hand: From this exhibit it will be seen that the sum of $2,121.57 only has actually been expended for postage since July 1, 1873, for the carrying on of the business of the Secretary's Office, and that it will not be necessary to make, within this fiscal year at least, another requisition for stamps. Several of the Bureaus of the Department have also on hand enough stamps to last into, and perhaps through, the third quarter of the fiscal year, from which I infer that not over half of the appropriation, which is $220,000 for this Department, will be used during the year. I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, Hon. JAMES G. BLAINE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. C. DELANO, Secretary. An estimate of appropriation for the continuation of the geological and geographical survey of the Territories of the United States during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875, dc. JANUARY 23, 1874.-Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Washington, D. C., January 20, 1874. SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith a copy of a letter of this date from Professor F. V. Hayden, United States geologist, submitting an estimate of appropriations" for the continuation of the geological and geographical survey of the Territories of the United States," during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875, amounting to seventy-five thousand dollars, ($75,000,) and an estimate of appropriations "for the preparation and publication of the maps, charts, geological sections, and other engravings necessary to illustrate the annual and final reports of the United States geological survey of the Territories for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875, twenty thousand dollars, ($20,000,) to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior." The continuance of this survey was recommended in the last annual report of this Department. The estimates are, therefore, respectfully submitted for favorable consideration by Congress. I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, Hon. JAMES G. BLAINE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. B. R. COWEN, Acting Secretary. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, SIR: I would respectfully request the sanction of the Secretary of the Interior to the usual annual estimate for the continuance of the geological and geographical survey of the Territories of the United States for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875. During the season of 1873 the survey continued its labors in the mountainous portions of the Territory of Colorado with great success. It is the desire of the survey to continue the work westward toward the Green and Colorado Rivers. In a geological as well as geographical point of view this is one of the most interesting portions of our continent. It forms the greatest continuous area of lofty peaks, and the general level varies from 6,000 to 10,000 feet above the sea. Hundreds of mountain peaks rise about 12,000 and 14,000 feet. Rivers cut long continuous cañons or gorges deep into the earth's crust, revealing sections of the strata often a mile or more in thickness, with wonderful flexures, and in many instances the complete subversion of immense groups of beds without a parallel on any other portion of the continent. It is the intention of the survey to complete the exploration of Colorado in a detailed and systematic manner so that the work will not need to be repeated by the General Government, and to present this monograph to Congress as an illustration for future work in the public domain, believing that this style will in the end prove far less expensive and more creditable to the Government and to science. In view of the above facts, I would most earnestly request the Secretary of the Interior to recommend to Congress the usual appropriation of $75,000 for the coming fiscal year. Hoping that the above estimate may be granted, I remain, very respectfully, your Hon. COLUMBUS DELANO, obedient servant, United States Geologist. For the preparation and publication of the maps, charts, geological sections, and other engravings necessary to illustrate the annual and final reports of the geological and geographical survey of the Territories of the United States, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875, ($20,000) twenty thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, For the continuation of the geological and geographical survey of the Territories of the United States by Professor F. V. Hayden, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875, ($75,000) seventy-five thous and dollars. |