. Annual Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to the Secretary of the Interior for the Fiscal Year ended June 30, 1903 . ds 185, 000 Expenses of inspecting mines in Territories 6, 800 Expenses of publishing maps for public use 19,160 Total 1, 054, 023 As has been noted in prior 3Tears, these and other similar expendi-tures in the land service pertain to the general functions of the Gov-ernment, as do expenditures in other bureaus which yield no incomeor receipts whatever. Omitting, then, the expenses thus above noted($1,054,023), there remains a net grand surplus of receipts o
. Annual Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to the Secretary of the Interior for the Fiscal Year ended June 30, 1903 . ds 185, 000 Expenses of inspecting mines in Territories 6, 800 Expenses of publishing maps for public use 19,160 Total 1, 054, 023 As has been noted in prior 3Tears, these and other similar expendi-tures in the land service pertain to the general functions of the Gov-ernment, as do expenditures in other bureaus which yield no incomeor receipts whatever. Omitting, then, the expenses thus above noted($1,054,023), there remains a net grand surplus of receipts over expend-itures amounting to $10,155, Some of the items of increase inthe work performed in this division during the fiscal year just closedover that of 1902 are as follows: Letters received and considered Letters written Certificates of deposit posted Timber-depredation accounts adjusted Sales of timber accounts adjusted Sales of Government property accounts adjusted Surveyors-general accounts adjusted Repayment accounts adjusted (lands erroneously sold) Deputy surveyors accounts adjusted * Miscellaneous accounts adjusted. The total increase in number of accounts adjusted during the year of1903 over that of 1902 was 1,016, or 10 per cent. A large amount of work has been performed by the division thatcan not be conveniently tabulated, such as the preparation of statisticaltables; estimates for annual and other appropriations; reports calledfor by the Court of Claims and by Congress; receipt, examination,recording, and distribution of returns from local land offices; compila-tion of statistics for this annual report, and much other service in con-nection with the public lands. The following tables are submitted, showing a recapitulation of thepublic-land transactions in the several States and Territories duringthe year: Amount deposited by mining claimants on account of the platting of their claims and otheroffice work in the surveyors-general offices during the fiscal
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