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does not, however, in any way impair the legal right of an entryman to contest before the Commissioner of the General Land Office or the Secretary the propriety or accuracy of the classification.

The progress up to June 30, 1917, of the systematic classification of lands classified and restored to entry under such classification may be seen from the following:

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The status on June 30, 1917, of lands withdrawn from entry either permanently or pending the enactment of legislation for their disposition is as follows:

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These figures, it should be noted, include under each class all lands now withdrawn from entry. The lands so withdrawn, however, have not all been examined and classified, and are, therefore, subject to restoration to entry should they be found, on examination, not to fall in the class indicated.

Classification on Applications. The classifications made by

the Survey of tracts with respect to which entries or applications have been filed in the Land Office now cover virtually all applications for and entries upon lands not yet classified, except homestead and desert land entries, metalliferous mineral entries, and coal land applications, the investigation of which, both in office and field, is made solely by the General Land Office.

In its land classification work on applications the Survey makes no field examinations but merely renders an opinion to the General Land Office on the basis of the data already on hand. If these data be inadequate, the necessary field examination is made by the General Land Office itself.

Operation of Lithographing and Engraving Plant. The operation of a lithographing and engraving plant is listed as one of the activities of the Survey, since this plant is operated not only for the execution of work for the Survey itself, but for other branches of the government as well. The policy of executing work for other services of the government has been adopted in order that the plant of the Survey may be maintained on the scale necessary to perform economically its own special work, to keep its equipment and personnel more continuously employed, and to make possible the concentration of a large force for emergency work for the Survey and for other government bureaus or offices as the demand may arise. The report of the Director of the Survey for the year 1917 shows that a large quantity of lithographic work of great variety was performed for the Government Printing Office in printing maps to be incorporated in publications of many departments of the government. Much work was also done directly for other departments and bureaus. The value of the work thus done directly or indirectly for other branches of the government amounted to about $97,000, for which the Survey's appropriation for engraving and printing geologic maps was reimbursed by transfer of credit on the books of the United States Treasury.

A small amount of work, totaling about $550, involving the reproduction, for publication, of Survey maps, was also done for eleven organizations and companies. The money received for this work is turned over to the Treasury to be credited to miscellaneous receipts.

The total number of copies of all kinds of engraved and printed matter produced during the year 1916-17 was 3,338,028, requiring 9,805,217 impressions.

CHAPTER III

ORGANIZATION

The primary divisions of the Survey are six, and are known as branches. They are:

1. Administrative Branch

2. Topographic Branch
3. Geologic Branch

4. Water Resources Branch

5. Land Classification Board

6. Publication Branch

Administrative Branch. The Administrative Branch includes all divisions carrying on all the general business of the Survey that is not included in the technical, scientific and publication work. It is composed of two offices:

1. Office Proper of the Director

2. Office of Chief Clerk

The Director is by law the administrative and scientific head of the Survey, reporting officially to the Secretary of the Interior, directing all scientific work, and being generally responsible for the organization and operation of the service. The Director spends a part of his time in the field exercising a general oversight of the Survey's field work. In his absence his administrative duties are performed by a geologist. who is designated as Acting Director.

The chief clerk is the officer having direct charge of, and responsibility for, the conduct of the administrative work of the service. For this work his office embraces five divisions which, with their sections, are as follows:

1. Office Proper of Chief Clerk

2. Executive Division

a. Office of Chief of Executive Division

b. Mails, Records and Files

c. Appointments

d. Addressograph, Multigraph and Mimeograph

Section

3. Division of Accounts

4. Library

5. Messenger Force

The Executive Division has charge of appointments, mails, records and files. The Division of Accounts has supervision of administrative bookkeeping, property accountability, purchases, express and freight. Of the 934 permanent employees of the Survey on June 30, 1917, 60 were employed in the Administrative Branch.

Topographic Branch. The Topographic Branch conducts the topographic surveys and prepares the originals of the topographic maps. The manuscripts of the several publications on spirit leveling and other topographic subjects are also prepared by this branch. The branch is administered by the chief geographer.

On June 30, 1917, the Topographic Branch comprised 166 of the 934 employees of the Survey.

For purposes of supervision and administrative control, the branch is divided into seven divisions:

I. Administrative and General

2. Atlantic Division

3. Central Division

4. Rocky Mountain Division

5. Northwestern Division

6. Pacific Division

7. Division of Military Surveys

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