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INTERNATIONAL AMERICAN CONPERENCE.

under the direction of the presideut of the Tehauntepec aud Nicaragua. routea, to

aseertain t;ho pra.ctica.bility of can:1la.

Act of Coogres , May

18, 1t;72,

appropriated

$20,000

for the cornpletion of tho sur–

veys of the Tehauutcpec

Nicaragua routes, aml

$5,000

to complete the survey of

the Darien route. Uuuer the acts of

1870

and

1872 a.

nnmber of surveys were made

by the Navy Departrnent.

A coromi sion composed of General Humphreys, 1\fr. C. P. Patterson, of the Coa!!t

Snrvey, aml Commod.oro Ammon, of the Navy, was appointed.l\'Iarch 13, 187;¿, to re–

port upon the re ·tllts of these surveys.

cts of Congress, l\brch

1:3,

1849, March 3,

1tl5:3,

Ma.y

:.n,

1854,

August 4, 1 '54, ap–

propri<~ted

in all $44-!,:WO for surveys by arruy engineers for the Pacific milroad in

th United States.

Acts of Congress appropriated money for Arctic explorations mado under De Haven,

De Long, Franklin, and Greely.

An Antarctic expedition was seut out either by the Navy Department or under

special appl'opriation.