INDIAN AFFAIRS: LAWS AND TREATIES

Vol. III, Laws     (Compiled to December 1, 1913)

Compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler. Washington : Government Printing Office, 1913.

ACTS OF SIXTIETH CONGRESS—FIRST SESSION, 1908.
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Chapter 153
I.  General Provisions | II.  General Officers and Employees

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Chapter 153
    30. Apr, 1908. [H. R. 15219.] | [Public, No. 104.] 35 Stat., 70.

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An act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, and for other purposes, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of paying the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, and in full compensation for all offices the salaries for which are specially provided for herein for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, namely:

To enable the President to cause, under the provisions of the act of February eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled “An act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians,” such Indian reservations as in his judgment are advantageous for agricultural and grazing purposes to be surveyed or resurveyed, for the purposes of said act, and to complete the allotment of the same, including the necessary clerical work incident thereto in the field and in the Office of Indian Affairs, and delivery of trust patents, so far as allotments shall have been selected under said act, seventy-five thousand dollars, of which fifteen thousand dollars shall be immediately available.

That no purchase of supplies for which appropriations are herein or hereinafter made for the Indian service, exceeding in the aggregate five hundred dollars in value at any one time, shall be made without first giving at least three weeks’ public notice by advertisement, except in case of exigency, when, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, who shall make official record of the facts constituting the exigency, and shall report the same to Congress at its next session, he may direct that purchases may be made in open market in amount not exceeding three thousand dollars at any one purchase: Provided, That hereafter supplies may be purchased, contracts let, and labor employed for the construction of artesian wells, ditches, and other works for irrigation, not to exceed the sum of five thousand dollars in any one purchase or contract, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, without advertising as hereinbefore

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provided: Provided further, That as far as practicable Indian labor shall be employed and purchase in the open market made from Indians, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior.

Hereafter when the Secretary of the Interior deems a new bond necessary he may, in his discretion, require any disbursing officer under the jurisdiction of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to execute a new bond, with approved sureties, in such amount as he may deem necessary, and when accepted and approved by the Secretary of the Interior the new bond shall be valid and the surety or sureties of the prior bond shall be released from liability for all acts or defaults of the principal which may be done or committed from and after the day on which the new bond was approved.

The Secretary of the Interior shall take possession of all buildings on lands belonging to the Five Civilized Tribes, now or heretofore used for governmental, school, or other tribal purposes, together with the furniture therein and the land appertaining thereto, and appraise and sell the same at such time and under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe and deposit the proceeds, less expenses incident to the appraisement and sale, in the Treasury of the United States, to the credit of the tribes respectively owning the said land and improvements, and immediately after any such sale patents for the realty thus sold shall be made and delivered in the same manner as now provided by law for other tribal property: Provided, That when practicable preference right shall be given to the State, counties, and municipalities of Oklahoma to purchase said lands and improvements at the appraised value: And provided, That pending such appraisement and sale the Secretary of the Interior may temporarily lease said buildings and lands for the benefit of the tribes respectively to which they belong.

For construction of ditches and reservoirs, purchase and use of irrigating tools and appliances and water rights, including lands necessary for canals, pipe lines, and reservoirs, for Indian reservations, in the discretion of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior and subject to his control. two hundred thousand dollars, of which twenty-five thousand dollars shall be immediately available: Provided, That the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, may employ superintendents of irrigation, who shall be skilled irrigation engineers, not to exceed five, as in his judgment may be necessary to secure the construction of ditches and other irrigation works in a substantial and workmanlike manner.

For survey and subdivision of Indian reservations and of lands to be allotted to Indians, and to make allotments in severalty, to be expended by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, seventy-five thousand dollars, of which fifteen thousand dollars shall be immediately available.

To enable the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, to take action to suppress the traffic in intoxicating liquors among Indians, forty thousand dollars;

For support of Indian day and industrial schools, and for other educational purposes not hereinafter provided for, one million four hundred thousand dollars;

For construction, purchase, lease, and repair of school buildings, and for sewerage, water supply, and lighting plants, and purchase of school sites, and improvement of buildings and grounds, four hundred thousand dollars;

In all, two million, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.

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For collection and transportation of pupils to and from Indian schools, and also for the transportation of Indian pupils from all the Indian schools and placing of them, with the consent of their parents, under the care and control of such suitable white families as may in all respects be qualified to give such pupil moral, industrial, and educational training, seventy-five thousand dollars: Provided, That not exceeding five thousand dollars of this amount may be used, under direction of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in the transportation and placing of Indian pupils in positions where remunerative employment can be found for them in industrial pursuits. The provisions of this section shall apply to native pupils brought from Alaska.

To enable the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, from time to time as he may deem necessary, to detail clerks from his office to make special investigations in the field: Provided, That while thus absent from Washington under such detail they shall receive a per diem of three dollars to cover all expenses, exclusive of transportation and sleepingcar fares, three thousand dollars.

To enable the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to conduct experiments on Indian school or agency farms, designed to test the possibility of soil, climate, and so forth, in the cultivation of trees, grains, vegetables and fruits not hitherto raised in those neighborhoods, using Indian labor in the process, five thousand dollars.

That all expenditure of money herein or hereafter appropriated for school purposes among the Indians shall be at all times under the supervision and direction of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and in all respects in conformity with such conditions, rules, and regulations as to the conduct and methods of instruction and expenditure of money as may be from time to time prescribed by him, subject to the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, That, except for pay of superintendents, not more than one hundred and sixty-seven dollars shall be expended for the annual support and education of any one pupil in any school herein specifically provided for, except when, by reason of epidemic, accident, or other sufficient cause, the attendance is so reduced or cost of maintenance so high that a larger expenditure is absolutely necessary, when the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, may allow a larger per capita expenditure: Provided further, That the total amount appropriated for the support of such school shall not be exceeded: Provided further, That the number of pupils in any school entitled to the per capita allowance hereby provided for shall be determined by taking the average enrollment for the entire fiscal year and not any fractional part thereof.

There shall not be paid out of any appropriation, made in this act any greater rate of annual compensation to any superintendent of Indian schools during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, than is authorized and paid out of appropriations made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight.

The Commissioner of Indian Affairs is hereby authorized, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, to ascertain whether and upon what terms it may be possible to dispose of any of the nonreservation Indian schools which in his judgment are no longer of value to the Indian Service, and to report the result of his investigations to the next session of the Congress.

That hereafter any United States Indian agent, superintendent, or other disbursing agent of the Indian Service may deposit Indian moneys, individual or tribal, coming into his hands as custodian, in such national bank or banks as he may select: Provided, That the bank or banks so selected by him shall first execute to said disbursing agent a bond, with approved surety, in such an amount as will properly safeguard the funds to be deposited. Such bond shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior.

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That the Commissioner of Indian Affairs is hereby authorized to send a special Indian agent, or other representative of his office, to visit any Indian tribe for the purpose of negotiating and entering into a written agreement with such tribe for the commutation of the perpetual annuities due under treaty stipulations, to be subject to the approval of Congress; and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs shall transmit to Congress said agreements with such recommendations as he may deem proper.

Telegraphing, telephoning, and purchase of Indian supplies: To pay the expense of purchasing goods and supplies for the Indian Service, including inspection, pay of necessary employees, and all other expenses connected therewith; advertising, at rates not exceeding regular commercial rates; telegraphing and telephoning; and transporting Indian goods and supplies, including expenses of transportation agents and rent of warehouses, three hundred and fifteen thousand dollars: Provided, That hereafter warehouses for the receipt, storage, and shipment of goods for the Indian Service shall be maintained at the following places: New York, Chicago, Omaha, Saint Louis, and San Francisco: Provided further, That hereafter payment for transportation of Indian goods and supplies shall include all Indian transportation lawfully due such land-grant railroads as have not received aid in Government bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court in cases decided under such land-grant acts), but in no case shall more than fifty per centum of full amount of service be paid to said land-grant roads: Provided, That such compensation shall be computed upon the basis of the tariff or lower special rates for like transportation performed for the public at large, and shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service: Provided further, That hereafter in expending money appropriated for this purpose a railroad company which has not received aid in bonds of the United States, and which obtained a grant of public lands to aid in the construction of its railroad on condition that such railroad should be a post route and military road, subject to the use of the United States for postal, military, naval, and other Government services, and also subject to such regulations as Congress may impose, restricting the charge for such Government transportation, having claims against the United States for transportation of Indian goods and supplies over such aided railroads, shall be paid out of the moneys appropriated for such purpose only on the basis of such rate for the transportation of such Indian goods and supplies as the Secretary of the Interior shall deem just and reasonable under the provisions set forth herein, such rate not to exceed fifty per centum of the compensation for such Government transportation as shall at that time be charged to and paid by private parties to any such company for like and similar transportation; and the amount so fixed to be paid shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service.

For buildings and repairs of buildings at agencies, and for rent of buildings for agency purposes, and for water supply at agencies, seventy-five thousand dollars.

For pure vaccine matter and vaccination of Indians, five thousand dollars.

For expenses of the commission of citizens, serving without compensation, appointed by the President under the provisions of the fourth section of the act of April tenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-

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nine, four thousand dollars, of which amount not to exceed three hundred dollars may be used by the commission for office rent.

For pay of eight Indian inspectors, two of whom shall be engineers, one to be designated as chief, competent in the location, construction, and maintenance of irrigation works, at two thousand five hundred dollars per annum each, except the chief engineer, who shall receive three thousand five hundred dollars, twenty-one thousand dollars.

For traveling expenses of eight Indian inspectors, at three dollars per day when actually employed on duty in the field, exclusive of transportation and sleeping-car fare, in lieu of all other expenses now authorized by law, and for incidental expenses of negotiation, inspection, and investigation, including telegraphing and expenses of going to and going from the seat of government, and while remaining there under orders and direction of the Secretary of the Interior, for a period not to exceed twenty days, twelve thousand eight hundred dollars.

For pay of one superintendent of Indian schools, three thousand dollars.

For necessary traveling expenses of one superintendent of Indian schools, including telegraphing and incidental expenses of inspection and investigation, one thousand five hundred dollars: Provided, That he shall be allowed three dollars per day for traveling expenses when actually on duty in the field, exclusive of cost of transportation and sleeping-car fare in lieu of all other expenses now allowed by law.

For payment of necessary interpreters, to be distributed in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, four thousand dollars; but no person employed by the United States and paid for any other service shall be paid for interpreting.

For services of officers at twenty-five dollars per month each, and privates at twenty dollars per month each, of Indian police, to be employed in maintaining order and prohibiting illegal traffic in liquor on the several Indian reservations and within the Territory of Alaska, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, for the purchase of equipments, and for the purchase of rations for policemen at nonration agencies, two hundred thousand dollars.

To enable the Secretary of the Interior to employ suitable persons as matrons to teach Indian girls in housekeeping and other household duties, at a rate not to exceed sixty dollars per month, and for furnishing necessary equipments, and renting quarters where necessary, thirty thousand dollars: Provided, That the amount paid said matrons shall not come within the limit for employees fixed by the act of June seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven.

To enable the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to employ practical farmers and practical stockmen, subject only to such examination as to qualifications as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, in

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addition to the agency farmers now employed, at wages not exceeding seventy-five dollars each per month, to superintend and direct farming and stock raising among such Indians as are making effort for self-support, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That the amounts paid such farmers and stockmen shall not come within the limit for employees fixed by the act of June seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven: Provided further, That the Commissioner of Indian Affairs may employ additional farmers at any Indian school at not exceeding sixty dollars per month, subject only to such examination as to qualifications as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, said farmers to be in addition to the school farmers now employed.

For compensation of judges of Indian courts, twelve thousand dollars.

For contingencies of the Indian Service, including traveling and incidental expenses of Indian agents and of their offices, and of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs; also traveling and incidental expenses of special agents, at three dollars per day when actually employed on duty in the field, exclusive of transportation and sleeping-car fare, in lieu of all other expenses now authorized by law, and expenses of going to and going from the seat of government, and while remaining there under orders and direction of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, for a period not to exceed twenty days; for pay of employees not otherwise provided for, and for pay of special agents, at two thousand dollars per annum each, eighty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That hereafter the expense of procuring the official bond of any agent, superintendent, or other disbursing officer of the Indian Service shall be paid by the United States.

ARIZONA.

For pay of Indian agent at the San Carlos Agency, Arizona, one thousand eight hundred dollars.

For support and civilization of the Apache and other Indians in Arizona and New Mexico who have been or may be collected on reservations in Arizona and New Mexico, three hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That the unexpended balance for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight is hereby appropriated and made available for nineteen hundred and nine.

For support and civilization of the Indians of Pima Agency, Arizona, forty thousand dollars, to be expended for their benefit in such manner as the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion, may deem best.

For support and education of two hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school at Fort Mojave, Arizona, and for pay of superintendent of said school, thirty-five thousand dollars;

For general repairs and improvements, three thousand dollars;

For repair of water system, three thousand dollars;

For purchase of steam boiler, two thousand dollars;

In all, forty-three thousand dollars.

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For support and education of seven hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school at Phoenix, Arizona, and for pay of superintendent, one hundred and nineteen thousand four hundred dollars;

For improvement of power and heating plant, to be immediately available, nine thousand dollars;

For general repairs and improvements, eight thousand dollars;

In all, one hundred and thirty-six thousand four hundred dollars.

For support and education of one hundred pupils at the Indian school at Truxton Canyon, Arizona, and for pay of superintendent, eighteen thousand two hundred dollars;

General repairs and improvements, one thousand dollars;

In all, nineteen thousand two hundred dollars.

For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Arizona, including traveling expenses of agents, one thousand five hundred dollars.

CALIFORNIA.

For support and civilization of the Mission Indians in California, including pay of employees, fifteen thousand dollars, part of which may be used for making improvements on lands in the use and occupation of Indians in southern California.

For support and civilization of the northern Indians, California, twenty thousand dollars, part of which may be used for making improvements on lands in the use and occupation of Indians in northern California.

That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to expend not to exceed fifty thousand dollars to purchase for the use of the Indians in California now residing on reservations which do not contain land suitable for cultivation and for Indians who are not now upon reservations in said State suitable tracts or parcels of land, water and water rights in said State of California, and have constructed the necessary ditches, flumes, and reservoirs for the purpose of irrigating said lands and the irrigation of any lands now occupied by Indians in said State, and to construct suitable buildings upon said lands and to fence the tracts so purchased, and to fence, survey, and mark the boundaries of such Indian reservations in the State of California as the Secretary of the Interior may deem proper. And there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act: Provided, That this appropriation shall be so expended as to make further appropriation for this purpose unnecessary.

For support and education of five hundred Indian pupils at the Sherman Institute, Riverside, California, and for pay of superintendent, eighty-six thousand dollars;

For general repairs and improvements, ten thousand dollars;

For additional water and sewer system, three thousand dollars;

For addition to storehouse, four thousand dollars;

In all, one hundred and three thousand dollars.

For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in California, including traveling expenses of agents, and support and civilization of Indians at the Round Valley, Hoopa Valley, and Tule River agencies, four thousand dollars;

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And pay of employees at same agencies, seven thousand dollars;

In all, eleven thousand dollars.

That one thousand dollars of the unexpended balance of eight thousand dollars appropriated by the acts of June twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six (Thirty-fourth Statutes, page three hundred and thirty-three), and March first, nineteen hundred and seven (Thirty-fourth Statutes, page one thousand and twenty-two), for the purpose of removing obstructions both within and without the reservation from the bed of the stream which flows through the Round Valley Reservation, Mendocino County, California, and drains into Eel River, be, and the same is hereby, reappropriated and made available for use during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine.

That the sum of ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same hereby is, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the construction of a wagon road on the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation, in the State of California, including necessary surveys, transportation, purchase of materials and tools, and for the subsistence of Indians furnishing labor, including forage for their animals, the labor for said construction to be performed as far as practicable by the Indians for the reservation: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be available until the proper officer of the Indian Bureau shall investigate and report that the work contemplated can be completed for the amount herein appropriated.

There is hereby appropriated the sum of ten thousand dollars for the Indians of the Yuma Reservation, to be expended for their benefit in such manner and for such purposes as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, said sum to be reimbursable out of the proceeds derived from the sale of their lands, there is also appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the further sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to enable the Secretary of the Interior to reserve and set apart lands for town-site purposes in the Yuma Indian Reservation, California, and the Colorado River Indian Reservation in California and Arizona, and to survey, plat, and sell the tracts so set apart in such manner as he may prescribe, the net proceeds to be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Indians of the reservations, respectively, to be reimbursed out of the funds arising from the sale of the lands.

COLORADO.

For support and education of two hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school at Grand Junction, Colorado, and for pay of superintendent, thirty-five thousand dollars;

General repairs and improvements, six thousand dollars;

In all, forty-one thousand dollars.

For the support and education of two hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school at Fort Lewis, Colorado, and for pay of superintendent, thirty-five thousand one hundred dollars;

For general repairs and improvements, three thousand seven hundred dollars;

In all, thirty-eight thousand eight hundred dollars.

For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Colorado, including traveling expenses of agents, one thousand dollars.

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IDAHO.

For a superintendent in charge of agency and educational matters on the Coeur d’Alene Reservation, Idaho, one thousand two hundred dollars.

For support and civilization of the Shoshones and Bannocks, Sheepeaters, and other Indians of the Fort Hall Reservation in Idaho, including pay of employees, thirty thousand dollars.

For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Idaho, including traveling expenses of agents, one thousand dollars.

For carrying out the provisions of the act of March first, nineteen hundred and seven (Thirty-fourth Statutes at Large, page one thousand and four), authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to acquire lands and other property necessary in constructing a reservoir for storing water for the purpose of irrigating lands on the Fort Hall Reservation in Idaho and those ceded by the Indians of said reservation and for construction of the system determined on, one hundred thousand dollars.

That the Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railway Company of Idaho is hereby authorized to locate, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, an additional station ground not to exceed two hundred feet in width by a length of three thousand feet, west of Plummer, upon its located line in the Coeur d’Alene Indian Reservation, in the State of Idaho: Provided, That full compensation therefor shall be determined and paid under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, in accordance with the provisions of the act of March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine. (Thirtieth Statutes at Large, page nine hundred and ninety.)

That the land in the following subdivisions now embraced in the Coeur d’Alene Indian Reservation in Idaho, to wit: Sections one, two, and twelve, township forty-six north, range four west, Boise meridian; sections thirty-five and thirty-six, township forty-seven, north, range four west, Boise meridian; all of those portions of sections two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, and eleven, township forty-six north, range three west, Boise meridian, lying south and west of the Saint Joe River in said township; all of those portions of sections thirty-one and thirty-two, township forty-seven north, range three west, Boise meridian, lying south and west of the Saint Joe River in said township is reserved and withdrawn from allotment and settlement, and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to convey any part thereof to the State of Idaho to be maintained by said State as a public park, said conveyance to be made for such consideration and upon such terms and conditions as the Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe. The proceeds of such sale shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States for the use and benefit of the Coeur d’Alene Indians in such manner as Congress shall hereafter prescribe.

BANNOCKS: For pay of physician, teacher, carpenter, miller, engineer, farmer, and blacksmith, as per tenth article of treaty of July third, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, five thousand dollars.

For pay of blacksmith, carpenter, and physician, and purchase of medicines, as per the eleventh article of agreement, ratified by act March, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, three thousand dollars.

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FULFILLING TREATIES WITH FORT HALL INDIANS, IDAHO: For last of twenty installments, as provided in agreement with said Indians, approved Feruary twenty-third, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, to be used by the Secretary of the Interior for the benefit of the Indians in such manner as the President may direct, six thousand dollars;

That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to issue patent in fee to the Board of Missions of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States for certain lands heretofore set apart and used for church purposes, and more particularly described as follows: The southeast quarter of section thirty-six, township four south of range thirty-four east of Boise meridian, county of Bingham, State of Idaho, containing one hundred and sixty acres, more or less, being part of the lands included within the Fort Hall Indian Reservation: Provided, That said patent shall not issue until the Indians of said reservation shall have given their consent to the grant through their business committee or council in such manner as the Secretary of the Interior shall provide.

INDIANS FORMERLY OF LEMHI AGENCY, IDAHO: For the second of twenty installments, as provided in agreement with the Indians of Fort Hall and Lemhi agencies, Idaho, approved February twenty-third, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, to be used by the Secretary of the Interior for the benefit of the Indians removed to Fort Hall Reservation from Lemhi Agency, Idaho, in such manner as the President may direct, four thousand dollars

In all, ten thousand dollars.

The unexpended balance of the appropriation for the survey of the Lemhi Indian Reservation, Idaho, in the act approved June twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six, is hereby made available for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine.

IOWA.

For support and education of eighty Indian pupils at the Indian school on Sac and Fox Reservation, Iowa, and for pay of superintendent, fourteen thousand five hundred and sixty dollars;

For general repairs and improvements, six hundred dollars;

In all, fifteen thousand one hundred and sixty dollars.

That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized in his discretion, to expend out of the trust fund of thirty-eight thousand six hundred and three dollars and ninety-three cents, now on deposit in the United States Treasury to the credit of the Sac and Fox Indians of Iowa, a sum not exceeding twenty-four thousand dollars in the purchase of certain tracts of land adjoining or surrounded by the present reservation of said Indians in Tama County, Iowa.

And the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to expend out of said trust fund a further sum not exceeding five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as he may deem necessary, to assist the said Sac and Fox Indians of Iowa in clearing and reducing to cultivation the tracts now owned by them and those that may be purchased under this act.

That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Rebok and Cramer, a copartnership composed of Philip K. Rebok and Hiram W. Cramer, of Toledo, Iowa, the sum of seven hundred and sixteen dollars, found due them by the Secretary of the Interior under contract dated October second, nine-

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teen hundred and five, for construction of laundry building and water system at the Sac and Fox Indian School, Iowa, out of the appropriation heretofore made for said purposes.

KANSAS.

For support and education of seven hundred and fifty Indian Pupils at the Indian school, Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas, for transportation of pupils to and from said school, and for pay of superintendent, one hundred and thirty-seven thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars;

For general repairs and improvements, ten thousand dollars;

For porches and dormitories, three thousand dollars;

For heating plant, one thousand dollars;

In all, one hundred and fifty-one thousand seven hundred and fifty-dollars.

For support and education of eighty Indian pupils at the Indian school, Kickapoo Reservation, Kansas, and for pay of superintendent, fourteen thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars;

General repairs and improvements, two thousand dollars;

In all, sixteen thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars;

For permanent annuity, in silver, per fourth article of treaty of August third, seventeen hundred and ninety-five, three hundred and fifty-seven dollars and eighty cents;

For permanent annuity, in silver, per third article of treaty of September thirtieth, eighteen hundred and nine, one hundred and seventy-eight dollars and ninety cents;

For permanent annuity, in silver, per third article of treaty of October second, eighteen hundred and eighteen, eight hundred and ninety-four dollars and fifty cents;

For permanent annuity, in money, per second article of treaty of September twentieth, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, seven hundred and fifteen dollars and sixty cents;

For permanent annuity, in specie, per second article of treaty of July twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, and second article of treaty of September twentieth, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, five thousand seven hundred and twenty-four dollars and seventy-seven cents;

For permanent provision for payment of money in lieu of tobacco, iron, and steel, per second article of treaty of September twentieth, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, and length article of treaties of June fifth and seventeenth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, one hundred and seven dollars and thirty-four cents;

For permanent provision for three blacksmiths and assistants, and for iron and steel for shops, per third article of treaty of October sixteenth, eighteen hundred and twenty-six; second article of treaty of September twentieth, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, and second article of treaty of July twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, one thousand and eight dollars and ninety-nine cents;

For permanent provision for fifty barrels of salt, per second article of treaty of July twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, fifty dollars;

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In all nine thousand and thirty-seven dollars and ninety cents.

For building fences, cleaning up and putting in proper repair the old Pottawatomie Indian cemetery in Mission Township, Shawnee County, State of Kansas, the sum of six hundred dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.

The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to establish public roads not to exceed sixty feet in width on section lines on the Pottawatomie Reservation in Kansas wherever in his judgment such roads will be a benefit to the residents on such reservation.

For support of a school, per fifth article of treaty of March sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, two hundred dollars.

That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to pay per capita to the Iowa Tribe of Indians in the States of Kansas and Oklahoma, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, the balance of the Iowa trust fund in the United States Treasury: Provided, That the Oklahoma branch of Iowas shall receive such an amount of this trust fund as will equalize for them the payment made to the Kansas branch under the act approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and two (Thirty-second Statutes at Large, page two hundred and sixty-seven).

MICHIGAN.

For support and education of three hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, and for pay of superintendent, fifty-one thousand eight hundred dollars;

For general repairs and improvements, four thousand dollars;

In all, fifty-five thousand eight hundred dollars.

That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed to make a complete roll of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of the State of Michigan entitled to participate in the funds arising from the judgment of the Court of Claims, in case numbered twenty-seven thousand five hundred and thirty-seven, decided by the Court of Claims March fourth, nineteen hundred and seven, and of any other funds to their credit in the hands of the Treasurer of the United States, and said roll, when completed and approved by the Secretary of the Interior, shall be final and conclusive: Provided, That the expense thereof shall be paid out of the moneys found due said Indians in said cause.

MINNESOTA.

For pay of Indian agent at the Leech Lake Agency, Minnesota, one thousand eight hundred dollars.

For pay of Indian agent at White Earth Agency, Minnesota, one thousand eight hundred dollars.

In all, three thousand six hundred dollars.

To complete the drainage survey provided for under the act of June twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six, ten thousand dollars: Provided, That said amount shall be reimbursed to the Treasury of the United States from the funds in the Treasury belonging to said Indians derived from the sale of lands under the act of January fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine.

That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to pay to D. C. Lightbourn, of Ada, Minnesota, the sum of one thou-

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sand two hundred and forty-four dollars and forty-five cents, and to George D. Hamilton, of Detroit, Minnesota, the sum of eight hundred and thirty dollars, out of any money standing to the credit of all the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota out of the fund known as “Chippewas in Minnesota Fund,” in payment of bills incurred in advertising, and the said sums are hereby appropriated for said purpose: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior shall first examine said accounts and approve the same.

The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to pay to the executive committee of the White Earth band of Chippewa Indians in Minnesota the sum of one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended in the annual celebration of said band to be held June fourteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, out of the funds belonging to said band.

For the support and education of one hundred and fifty Indian pupils at the Indian school, Morris, Minnesota, and for pay of superintendent, twenty-six thousand five hundred and fifty dollars;

For general repairs and improvements, three thousand dollars;

In all, twenty-nine thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.

For support and education of two hundred and twenty-five Indian pupils at the Indian school, Pipestone, Minnesota, and for pay of superintendent, thirty-nine thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars;

For general repairs and improvements, two thousand five hundred dollars;

In all, forty-one thousand six hundred and seventy-five dollars.

For support of a school or schools upon said reservation, during the pleasure of the President, in accordance with third article of treaty of March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven four thousand dollars.

Advance interest to the Chippewa Indians in Minnesota, as required by section seven of “An act for the relief of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota,” approved January fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, in the manner required by said act (reimbursable), ninety thousand dollars.

To enable the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, to carry out an act entitled “An act for the relief and civilization of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota,” approved January fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, namely, the purchase of material and employment of labor for the erection of houses for Indians; for the purchase of agricultural implements, stock and seeds, breaking and fencing land; for payment of expenses of delegations of Chippewa Indians to visit the White Earth Reservation; for the erection and maintenance of day and industrial schools; for subsistence and for pay of employees; for pay of commissioners and their expenses, and for removal of Indians and for their allotments, to be reimbursed to the United States out of the proceeds of sale of their lands, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

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That section three of the act approved February twentieth, nineteen hundred and four (Thirty-third Statutes at Large, page fifty), modifying and amending the agreement with the Indians of the Red Lake Reservation in Minnesota, is hereby so far modified as to permit the payment of the annual installments provided for in said section during the month of April each year, instead of October.

MONTANA.

For pay of Indian agents in Montana at the following-named agencies at the rates respectively indicated, namely:

At the Blackfeet Agency, Montana, one thousand eight hundred dollars.

At the Crow Agency, Montana, one thousand eight hundred dollars.

At the Flathead Agency, Montana, one thousand eight hundred dollars.

For support and civilization of the Indians at Fort Belknap Agency, Montana, including pay of employees, twenty thousand dollars.

For support and civilization of the Crow Indians in Montana, including pay of employees, eight thousand dollars.

For support and civilization of Indians at Flathead Agency, Montana including pay of employees, nine thousand dollars.

For the rebuilding of the flour, saw, and shingle mill at the Flathead Indian Reservation subagency, Montana, at Ronan, ten thousand dollars, the same to be immediately available from any balance now in the Treasury, to be reimbursed from the proceeds of sales of surplus land after allotment.

For support and civilization of the Indians at Fort Peck Agency, Montana, including pay of employees, fifty thousand dollars.

For completion and extension of the Milk River Irrigation System on the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana, twenty-five thousand dollars.

That for the purchase of machinery, tools, implements, other equipment, and animals for the Indians on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, in the State of Montana, to enable said Indians to engage in the raising of sugar beets and other crops, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be immediately available, the same to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, That said expenditures shall be made under such conditions as said Secretary may prescribe for the repayment by said Indians to the United States of the sum so expended.

For preliminary surveys, plans, and estimates of irrigating systems to irrigate the allotted lands of the Indians of the Flathead Reservation in Montana and the unallotted irrigable lands to be disposed of under the act of April twenty-third, nineteen hundred and four, entitled “An act for the survey and allotment of lands now embraced within the limits of the Flathead Indian Reservation in the State of Montana, and the sale and disposal of all surplus lands after allotment,” and to begin the construction of the same, fifty thousand dollars, the cost of said entire work to be reimbursed from the proceeds of the sale of the lands within said reservation.

For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Montana, including traveling expenses of agents, two thousand five hundred dollars;

To enable the Secretary of the Interior to complete the survey, allotment, classification, and appraisement of the lands in the Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana, fifteen thousand dollars: Provided, That this sum shall be reimbursed to the United States from the proceeds of the sale of the surplus lands after the allotments are made.

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For pay of physician, as per tenth article of the treaty of May seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, one thousand two hundred dollars;

For pay of carpenter, miller, engineer, farmer, and blacksmith, as per tenth article of same treaty, three thousand six hundred dollars,

For pay of second blacksmith, as per eighth article of same treaty; one thousand two hundred dollars;

In all, six thousand dollars.

For subsistence and civilization, as per agreement with the Sioux Indians approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, including subsistence and civilization of Northern Cheyennes removed from Pine Ridge Agency to Tongue River, Montana, ninety thousand dollars;

For pay of physician, two teachers, two carpenters, one miller, two farmers, a blacksmith, and engineer, per seventh article of the treaty of May tenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, nine thousand dollars;

In all, ninety-nine thousand dollars.

That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to expend not to exceed thirty thousand dollars for the purpose of settling Chief Rocky Boy’s band of Chippewa Indians, now residing in Montana, upon public lands, if available, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Interior, or upon some suitable existing Indian reservation in said State, and to this end he is authorized to negotiate and conclude an agreement with any Indian tribe in said State, or, in his discretion, to purchase suitable tracts of lands, water and water rights, in said State of Montana, and to construct suitable buildings upon said lands and to purchase for them such necessary live stock and implements of agriculture as he may deem proper. And there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of thirty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this section.

NEBRASKA.

For support and education of three hundred Indian pupils at the Indian School, Genoa, Nebraska, and for pay of superintendent, fifty-one thousand eight hundred dollars

For general repairs and improvements, three thousand dollars;

In all, fifty-four thousand eight hundred dollars.

For interest on eight hundred and four thousand nine hundred and nine dollars and seventeen cents, at five per centum per annum, per fourth article of treaty of November first, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, forty thousand two hundred and forty-five dollars and forty-five cents; and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed to expend said interest for the support, education, and civilization of said Indians, to be expended in such manner and to whatever extent that he may judge to be necessary and expedient for their welfare and best interest;

For interest on seventy-eight thousand three hundred and forty dollars and forty-one cents, at five per centum per annum, to be expended

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under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior for the erection of houses, improvement of their allotments of land, purchase of stock, agricultural implements, seeds, and other beneficial objects, three thousand nine hundred and seventeen dollars and two cents;

For the purpose of rewooding and repiling the present old bridge across the Niobrara River between the Santee and Ponca Reservations, Nebraska, supplying the same with new ice breaks, but using the iron-work of the old combination bridge, the sum of twelve thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, the work to be done under the direction and supervision of the War Department;

In all, fifty-six thousand one hundred and sixty-two dollars and forty-seven cents.

NEVADA.

For support and civilization of the Indians of the Western Shoshone Agency, Nevada, including pay of employees, eight thousand dollars.

For support and education of three hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school at Carson City, Nevada, and for pay of superintendent, fifty-one thousand nine hundred dollars;

For general repairs and improvements, five thousand dollars;

In all, fifty-six thousand nine hundred dollars.

For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Nevada, including traveling expenses of agents, and support and civilization of Indians located on the Piute, Walker River, and Pyramid Lake Reservations, five thousand dollars;

And pay of employees, including physician at the Walker River Reservation, four thousand dollars;

In all, nine thousand dollars.

That in carrying out any irrigation project which may be undertaken under the provisions of the act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two (Thirty-second Statutes, page three hundred and eighty-eight), known as the reclamation act, and which may make possible, and provide for, in connection with the reclamation of other lands, the irrigation of all or any part of the irrigable lands heretofore included in allotments made to Indians under the fourth section of the general allotment act, the Secretary of the Interior be, and he hereby is, authorized to make such arrangement and agreement in reference thereto as said Secretary deems for the best interest of the Indians: Provided, That no lien or charge for construction, operation, or maintenance shall thereby be created against any such reserved lands: And provided further, That to meet the necessary cost of carrying out this legislation, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to expend, out of the sum appropriated in this act for irrigation, an amount not exceeding thirteen thousand dollars.

NEW MEXICO.

(See Arizona for “Support and civilization of the Apache, and so forth,” in Arizona and New Mexico.)

For support and education of three hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school at Albuquerque, New Mexico, and for pay of superintendent, fifty one thousand nine hundred dollars;

General repairs and improvements, five thousand dollars;

For completing water system, two thousand dollars;

In all, fifty-eight thousand nine hundred dollars.

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For support and education of three hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school at Santa Fe, New Mexico, and for pay of superintendent, fifty-one thousand nine hundred dollars;

For general repairs and improvements, five thousand dollars;

For water supply, one thousand six hundred dollars;

In all, fifty-eight thousand five hundred dollars.

For pay of one special attorney for the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico, one thousand five hundred dollars;

And for necessary traveling and incidental expenses of said attorney, five hundred dollars;

For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in New Mexico, including traveling expenses of agents, one thousand dollars.

For the completion of the Zuni irrigation project in New Mexico, twenty-five thousand dollars.

NEW YORK.

For pay of Indian agent at the New York Agency, New York, one thousand dollars.

For pay of physician, New York Agency, six hundred dollars.

For permanent annuity, in lien of interest on stock, per act of February nineteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, six thousand dollars;

For interest, in lieu of investment, on seventy-five thousand dollars, at five per centum, per act of June twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and forty-six, three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars;

For interest, at five per centum, on forty-three thousand and fifty dollars transferred from the Ontario Bank to the United States Treasury, per act of June twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and forty-six, two thousand one hundred and fifty-two dollars and fifty cents;

In all, eleven thousand nine hundred and two dollars and fifty cents.

For permanent annuity, in clothing and other useful articles, per sixth article of treaty of November eleventh, seventeen hundred and ninety-four, four thousand five hundred dollars.

NORTH CAROLINA.

For support and education of one hundred and sixty pupils at the Indian school at Cherokee, North Carolina, and for pay of superintendent, twenty-eight thousand two hundred and twenty dollars;

For general repairs and improvements, five hundred dollars;

In all, twenty-eight thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars.

NORTH DAKOTA.

For pay of Indian agent at the Standing Rock Agency, North Dakota, one thousand eight hundred dollars.

For support and civilization of Sioux of Devils Lake, North Dakota, five thousand dollars.

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For support and civilization of Indians at Fort Berthold Agency, in North Dakota, including pay of employees, twenty thousand dollars.

For support and civilization of Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewas, North Dakota, including seeds, thirteen thousand dollars.

For support and education of three hundred and twenty-five Indian pupils at the Indian school, Fort Totten, North Dakota, and for pay of superintendent, fifty-five thousand nine hundred and seventy-five dollars;

For general repairs and improvements, five thousand dollars;

In all, sixty thousand nine hundred and seventy-five dollars.

For the support and education of one hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school at Wahpeton, North Dakota, and for pay of superintendent, eighteen thousand two hundred dollars;

For general repairs and improvements, two thousand dollars;

For purchase of live stock, seed, equipment of farm, and machinery, five thousand dollars, to be immediately available;

For construction of concrete walk, driveways and grading, two thousand five hundred dollars;

For the erection of a school hospital, six thousand dollars;

For equipment of laundry, workshop, and school buildings, three thousand dollars.

In all, thirty-six thousand seven hundred dollars.

For support and education of one hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school, Bismarck, North Dakota, and for pay of superintendent, eighteen thousand two hundred dollars;

For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in North Dakota, including traveling expenses of agents at three agencies, one thousand dollars.

For pay of Indian agent at Fort Berthold Agency, one thousand eight hundred dollars.

OKLAHOMA.

For pay of Indian agents in Oklahoma at the following-named agencies at the rates respectively indicated, namely:

At the Kiowa Agency, Oklahoma, one thousand eight hundred dollars.

At the Osage Agency, Oklahoma, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For support and civilization of the Apaches, Kiowas, Comanches, Wichitas, and affiliated bands who have been collected in the reservations set apart for their use and occupation, twenty-five thousand dollars. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay or cause to be paid, out of any money in the Treasury to the credit of the Kiowa-Comanche and Apache Indians of Oklahoma, an amount of money, the total of which shall not exceed one hundred dollars per capita to the Kiowa-Comanche and Apache tribes of Indians in Oklahoma. This shall not apply as a limitation on any former powers vested in the Secretary with reference to the funds to the credit of said Indian tribes.

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For support and civilization of the Arapahoes and Cheyennes who have been collected on the reservations set apart for their use and occupation, thirty-five thousand dollars.

For support and civilization of the Kansas Indians, Oklahoma, including agricultural assistance and pay of employees, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For support and civilization of the Kickapoo Indians in Oklahoma, two thousand dollars.

For support and civilization of the Ponca Indians, including pay of employees, nine thousand dollars.

The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to issue a patent to the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions for the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section six, township twenty-eight north, range twenty-four east of the Indian meridian, Indian Territory, the same having been set apart to the Roman Catholic Church for church and school purposes by the Quapaw National Council, on August twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and said church having maintained a church and school thereon since that date.

That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to sell and convey six hundred and forty acres of the lands, together with the buildings and other appurtenances thereunto belonging, heretofore set aside as reservations for the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Agency and the Arapahoe Indian School in Oklahoma; and that he be further authorized to use all or any part of the proceeds of the sale thereof in the erection of new buildings, and in repairs and improvements, at the present Cheyenne Boarding School under the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Agency, Oklahoma, and in the establishment of such day schools as may be required for the said Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians in Oklahoma; and that the balance of the said proceeds of sale, if there be any, may be utilized in the support and maintenance of the said Cheyenne Boarding School or the said day schools.

That the restrictions on the alienation of any one acre of the lands allotted to William Billy and Tom Jack, Choctaw allottees, are hereby removed.

For support and education of seven hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school at Chilocco, Oklahoma, and for pay of superintendent, one hundred and nineteen thousand four hundred dollars;

For general repairs and improvements, ten thousand dollars;

In all, one hundred and twenty-nine thousand four hundred dollars.

For perpetual annuity, which is to be paid in cash to them, per second article of treaty of September twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, and agreement of November twenty-third, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, article three, thirty thousand dollars;

For support of two manual-labor schools, per third article of same treaty of September twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, ten thousand dollars;

For pay of one farmer, two blacksmiths, one miller, one engineer and apprentices, and two teachers, as per fourth article of same treaty, five thousand four hundred dollars;

For pay of physician and purchase of medicines, one thousand two hundred dollars;

For purchase of iron and steel and other necessaries for the shops, as per fourth article of treaty of September twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, five hundred dollars;

In all, forty-seven thousand one hundred dollars.

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For education, per third article of treaty of May thirteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, one thousand dollars;

For blacksmith and assistants, and tools, iron, and steel for blacksmith shop, per same article and treaty, five hundred dollars;

In all, one thousand five hundred dollars: Provided, That the President of the United States shall certify the same to be for the best interests of the Indians.

For permanent annuity, in goods or otherwise, per third article of treaty of November third, eighteen hundred and four, one thousand dollars;

For interest on two hundred thousand dollars, at five per centum, per second article of treaty of October twenty-first, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, ten thousand dollars;

For interest on eight hundred thousand dollars, at five per centum, per second article of treaty of October eleventh, eighteen hundred and forty-two, forty thousand dollars: Provided, That the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars of this amount shall be used for the pay of a physician and for purchase of medicine;

In all, fifty-one thousand dollars.

That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to pay per capita to the Sac and Fox of the Mississippi tribe of Indians in the State of Oklahoma, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, out of the trust fund now to their credit in the United States Treasury, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe: Provided, That said payment shall only be made upon application of a majority of the members of said tribes expressed in open council: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion, to pay, upon the surrender of the note hereinafter described, out of the above sum appropriated for the Sac and Fox Indians, to Helen Pennock, the widow and surviving heir of William Pennock, the sum of six hundred dollars, in full settlement of a promissory note given by Mo-ko-ho-ko and Ke-wa-quah, chiefs of the Sac and Fox Indians, and Ketch-e-Cush, a councilman.

That there be, and hereby is, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars, for the fulfillment of certain treaty obligations to the Mexican Kickapoo Indians for differences arising out of the stipulations of article four of the treaty of June twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and for all other differences growing out of any and all treaties and agreements heretofore made between said Indians and the United States. Said sum of two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars shall be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury as authorized and directed by a majority of the members of said Mexican Kickapoo tribe in council assembled. Such council shall be composed of a majority of those surviving members of said tribe, male and female, heretofore allotted in Oklahoma. The authorization above mentioned and the proceedings of said council shall be attested by a clerk of the United States district court of the Territory of Arizona. Said sum shall be immediately available and the indorsement of the warrant issued in payment thereof shall be deemed and shall be a receipt in full for all claims of every kind whatsoever of the said Mexican Kickapoo Indians against the United States, and such authorization to the Secretary of the Treasury by said Indians as herein provided shall be considered to be and shall be an acceptance of said sum in final

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settlement of all claims of every kind whatsoever of the said Mexican Kickapoo Indians against the United States.

FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES.

For pay of Indian agent at the Union Agency, Oklahoma, four thousand five hundred dollars.

For special clerical force in the office of the United States Indian agent, Union Agency, and miscellaneous expenses in connection with entering of remittances received in account of payments of town lots and issuance of patents, six thousand dollars.

For clerical work and labor connected with the leasing of Creek and Cherokee lands, for mineral and other purposes, and the leasing of lands of full-blood Indians under the act of April twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and six, and acts amendatory thereto, forty thousand dollars.

For clerical work and labor connected with the sale of inherited and other lands, Five Civilized Tribes, fifteen thousand dollars.

Removal of intruders, Five Civilized Tribes: For the purpose of removing intruders and placing allottees in unrestricted possession of their allotments, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, twenty thousand dollars.

To enable the Secretary of the Interior to carry out the provisions of the act approved April twenty-first, nineteen hundred and four, for the removal of restrictions upon the alienation of lands of allottees of the Five Civilized Tribes, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Oklahoma, and for pay of employees, twenty-two thousand dollars.

To enable the Secretary of the Interior to investigate or cause to be investigated any lease, power of attorney, contract, deed, or agreement to sell any allotted land which he has reason to believe has been obtained by fraud, or in violation of the terms of existing agreements with any of the Five Civilized Tribes, as provided by the act approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, ten thousand dollars.¹

That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to make such contract as in his judgment seems advisable for the care of orphan Indian children of the Five Civilized Tribes, and for the purpose of carrying this provision into effect the sum of ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as is necessary.

That contracts heretofore or hereafter made by and between persons stricken by the Secretary of the Interior from the final rolls of the Five Civilized Tribes, and attorneys employed by them to secure their restoration to said rolls, shall be valid and enforceable when approved by the Secretary of the Interior in their original or in such modified form as he may deem equitable and not otherwise; and such contracts as are approved as herein provided, when recorded in the county where such land is located shall be a lien, in the event of the restoration of such persons to the rolls against allotted lands or tribal funds of the persons so restored to or given rights upon said rolls.

That the Secretary of the Interior be, and is hereby, authorized, if after investigation he believes such action be justified, to pay Samuel Brown seven thousand three hundred and eighty-four dollars and ninety-four cents, from any funds in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Creek Nation.

That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to pay out of the Chickasaw fund to D. H. Johnson, governor of the Chickasaw Nation, compensation for his services as such governor, at

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the rate of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum from March fourth, nineteen hundred and six, so long as he shall legally serve as such governor.

For the maintenance, strengthening, and enlarging of the tribal schools of the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole nations, and making provision for the attendance of children of parents of other than Indian blood therein, and the establishment of new schools under the control of the Department of the Interior, the sum of three hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be placed in the hands of the Secretary of the Interior, and disbursed by him under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe.

Tribal schools. Maintenance, etc.

For the completion of the work heretofore required by law to be done by the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes, one hundred and forty-three thousand four hundred and ten dollars, said appropriation to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, and the Secretary of the Interior is directed to so disburse this appropriation as to complete said work by July first, nineteen hundred and nine.

For permanent annuity, per second article of treaty of November sixteenth, eighteen hundred and five, and thirteenth article of treaty of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, three thousand dollars;

For permanent annuity for support of light horsemen, per thirteenth article of treaty of October eighteenth, eighteen hundred and twenty, and thirteenth article of treaty of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, six hundred dollars;

For permanent annuity for support of blacksmith, per sixth article of treaty of October eighteenth, eighteen hundred and twenty, ninth article of treaty of January twentieth, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, and thirteenth article of treaty of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, six hundred dollars;

For permanent annuity for education, per second and thirteenth articles of last two treaties named above, six thousand dollars;

For permanent annuity for iron and steel, per ninth article of treaty of January twentieth, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, and thirteenth article of treaty of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, three hundred and twenty dollars;

In all, ten thousand five hundred and twenty dollars.

For five per centum interest on two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be paid as annuity, per eighth article of treaty of August seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, twelve thousand five hundred dollars;

For five per centum interest on two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be paid as annuity (they having joined their brethren West), per eighth article of treaty of August seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.

For interest on fifty thousand dollars, at the rate of five per centum per annum, to be paid annually, for the support of schools, as per third article of treaty of March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, two thousand five hundred dollars;

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For interest on twenty thousand dollars, at the rate of five per centum per annum, to be paid annually for the support of the Seminole government, as per same article, same treaty, one thousand dollars;

In all, twenty-eight thousand five hundred dollars.

For the care and support of insane Indians in Oklahoma, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

OREGON.

For support and civilization of the Klamath, Modocs, and other Indians of the Klamath Agency, Oregon, including pay of employees, eight thousand dollars.

That there is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred and eight thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to pay the Indians of the Klamath Agency for the lands conveyed to the California and Oregon Land Company, in accordance with the provisions of the act of June twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six (Thirty-fourth Statutes at Large, pages three hundred twenty-five and three hundred sixty-eight), said sum to be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of said Indians and expended for their benefit in such manner and for such purposes as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe: Provided, That this appropriation shall not be effective until said Indians, through the usual channels, shall execute a release of any claims and demands of every kind against the United States for the land involved.

For support and civilization of the confederated tribes and bands under Warm Springs Agency, and for pay of employees, four thousand dollars.

For support and civilization of the Walla Walla, Cayuse, and Umatilla tribes, Oregon, including pay of employees, three thousand dollars.

For support and education of six hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school, Salem, Oregon, and for pay of superintendent, one hundred and two thousand two hundred dollars;

For general repairs and improvements, nine thousand dollars;

In all, one hundred and eleven thousand two hundred dollars.

For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Oregon, including traveling expenses of agents, and support and civilization of Indians of Grande Ronde and Siletz Agencies, three thousand dollars;

Pay of employees at the same agencies, three thousand dollars;

In all, six thousand dollars.

For pay of teachers and for manual-labor schools, and for all necessary materials therefor, and for the subsistence of the pupils, per second article of treaty of December twenty-first, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, three thousand dollars.

PENNSYLVANIA.

For support and education at Indian school at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, for transportation of pupils to and from said school, for pay of superintendent, and for general repairs and improvements, one hundred and sixty-four thousand dollars;

In all, one hundred and sixty-four thousand dollars.

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SOUTH DAKOTA.

For pay of Indian agents in South Dakota at the following-named agencies at the rates respectively indicated, namely:

At the Cheyenne River Agency, one thousand eight hundred dollars;

At the Crow Creek Agency, one thousand six hundred dollars;

At the Lower Brule Agency, one thousand five hundred dollars;

At the Pine Ridge Agency, two thousand two hundred dollars;

At the Rosebud Agency, one thousand eight hundred dollars;

At the Sisseton Agency, one thousand five hundred dollars;

At the Yankton Agency, one thousand six hundred dollars;

In all, twelve thousand dollars.

For the support and education of two hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school at Chamberlain, South Dakota, and for pay of superintendent, thirty-five thousand four hundred dollars;

For general repairs and improvements, two thousand five hundred dollars;

In all, thirty-seven thousand nine hundred dollars.

For support and education of three hundred and seventy-five Indian pupils at the Indian school at Flandreau, South Dakota, and for pay of superintendent, sixty-four thousand four hundred and twenty-five dollars;

For general repairs and improvements, five thousand dollars;

In all, sixty-nine thousand four hundred and twenty-five dollars.

For support and education of one hundred and fifty Indian pupils at the Indian school at Pierre, South Dakota, and for pay of superintendent, twenty-six thousand five hundred and fifty dollars;

For general repairs and improvements, three thousand dollars;

In all, twenty-nine thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.

For support and education of two hundred and fifty Indian pupils at the Indian school, Rapid City, South Dakota, and pay of superintendent, forty-three thousand three hundred and fifty dollars;

For general repairs and improvements, five thousand dollars;

That the Commissioner of Indian Affairs is authorized and directed to invite proposals for the construction of a gravity water system for the Rapid City School to be supplied from the springs located on the school farms, said bids to cover construction of suitable reservoir and laying of a six-inch main thereon to said school buildings and grounds, and such minor and collateral piping as may seem necessary, and to report thereon to Congress.

For domestic science building, five thousand dollars;

For sewerage system, six thousand dollars;

In all, fifty-nine thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.

For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in South Dakota, including traveling expenses of agents at seven agencies, three thousand dollars.

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For pay of five teachers, one physician, one carpenter, one miller, one engineer, two farmers, and one blacksmith, per thirteenth article of treaty of April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, ten thousand four hundred dollars;

For pay of second blacksmith, and furnishing iron, steel, and other material, per eighth article of same treaty, one thousand six hundred dollars;

For pay of additional employees at the several agencies for the Sioux in Nebraska and Dakota, eighty-five thousand dollars;

For subsistence of the Sioux, and for purposes of their civilization, as per agreement ratified by act of Congress approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, five hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That this sum shall include transportation of supplies from the termination of railroad or steamboat transportation, and in this service Indians shall be employed whenever practicable: And provided further, That the number of rations issued shall not exceed the number of Indians on each reservation, and any excess in the number of rations issued shall be disallowed in the settlement of the agent’s account;

For support and maintenance of day and industrial schools, including erection and repairs of school buildings, in accordance with article seven of the treaty of April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, which article is continued in force for twenty years by section seventeen of the act of March second, eighteen hundred and eightynine, two hundred thousand dollars;

In all, seven hundred and ninety-seven thousand dollars.

For last of twenty installments (last series), to be paid to them or expended for their benefit, per fourth article of treaty of April nineteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, fifteen thousand dollars;

For subsistence and civilization of Yankton Sioux, heretofore provided for in appropriations under “Fulfilling treaty with Sioux of different tribes,” and so forth, twenty-thousand dollars;

In all, thirty-five thousand dollars.

For the maintenance of the asylum for insane Indians at Canton, South Dakota, for incidental and all other expenses necessary for its proper conduct and management, including pay of employees and for necessary expense of transporting insane Indians to and from said asylum, twenty-five thousand dollars;

For the purpose of making the allotments to the Indians on the Rosebud Reservation, South Dakota, provided by section two of the act of March second, nineteen hundred and seven (Thirty-fourth Statutes at Large, page twelve hundred and thirty), fifteen thousand dollars: Provided, That the same shall be reimbursed to the United States from the proceeds received from the sale of the lands described in said act.

To enable the President to cause, under the provisions of the act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, entitled “An act to divide a portion of the reservation of the Sioux Nation of Indians in Dakota into separate reservations and to secure the relinquishment of the Indian title to the remainder, and for other purposes,” to be allotted the lands in said separate reservations as provided in said act, including the necessary resurveys, thirty thousand dollars.

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UTAH.

For pay of Indian agent at the Uintah and Ouray Agency, Utah (consolidated), one thousand eight hundred dollars.

For support and education of seventy-five pupils at the Panguitch Indian School in southern Utah, twelve thousand five hundred and twenty-five dollars, and for pay of superintendent, one thousand two hundred dollars;

General repairs and improvements, five thousand dollars;

In all, eighteen thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars.

For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Utah, including traveling expenses of agents, one thousand dollars.

For constructing irrigation system, to irrigate the allotted lands of the Uncompahgre, Uintah, and White River Utes in Utah, as provided by the act of June twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six, two hundred thousand dollars.

For pay of two carpenters, two millers, two farmers, and two blacksmiths, as per tenth article of treaty of October seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and fifteenth article of treaty of March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, six thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars;

For pay of two teachers, as per same article of same treaty, one thousand eight hundred dollars;

For purchase of iron and steel and the necessary tools for black-smith shop, per ninth article of same treaty, two hundred and twenty dollars;

For annual amount for the purchase of beef, mutton, wheat, flour, beans, and potatoes, or other necessary articles of food, as per twelfth article of same treaty, thirty thousand dollars;

For pay of employees at the several Ute agencies, fifteen thousand dollars;

In all, fifty-three thousand seven hundred and forty dollars.

The Commissioner of Indian Affairs is hereby authorized and directed to expend so much of the trust funds of the Ute Indians, not exceeding seventy-five thousand dollars, now in the United States Treasury, as in his judgment may be necessary to prevent want and suffering among the Absentee Utes, and the amount so expended for each individual Absentee shall be made a matter of record to be charged against and deducted from the share said Absentee may be entitled to receive when the trust funds of the Utes are allotted and distributed to the members of the tribe.

That whenever it shall appear to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Interior that the allotted lands of any Indian of the former Uintah and Uncompahgre reservations in Utah are susceptible of irrigation and that the allottee is unable to cultivate the same or any portion thereof, such lands or such portion thereof may be leased by the Secretary of the Interior with the consent of the allottee for a period not exceeding ten years, under such rules and regulations as he may establish.

VIRGINIA.

For the support and education of one hundred and twenty Indian pupils at the school at Hampton, Virginia, twenty thousand and forty dollars.

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WASHINGTON.

For pay of Indian agent at the Colville Agency, Washington, one thousand five hundred dollars;

For support and civilization of the D’Wamish and other allied tribes in Washington, including pay of employees, seven thousand dollars;

For support and civilization of the Makahs, Washington, including pay of employees, two thousand dollars;

For support and civilization of the Qui-nai-elts and Quil-leh-utes, including pay of employees, one thousand dollars;

For support and civilization of Yakimas, and other Indians at said agency, including pay of employees, five thousand dollars;

For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Washington, including traveling expenses of agents, and support and civilization of Indians at Colville and Puyallup agencies, and for pay of employees, thirteen thousand dollars.

For pay of a blacksmith and carpenter to do necessary work and to instruct the said Indians in those trades, one thousand dollars each, per sixth article of agreement with said Indians, dated March eighteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, ratified by act of Congress approved July thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, two thousand dollars;

For purchase of agricultural implements, and support and civilization of Joseph’s Band of Nez Perce Indians, one thousand dollars;

For the extension of the irrigation system on lands allotted to Yakima Indians in Washington, fifteen thousand dollars, to be reimbursed from the proceeds of the sale of surplus lands, as provided by the act of December twenty-first, nineteen hundred and four, entitled “An act to authorize the sale and disposition of surplus or unallotted lands of the Yakima Indian Reservation in the State of Washington”; in all, fifteen thousand dollars.

For the second of five installments to the Indians residing on the Colville Reservation for the cession by said Indians to the United States of one million five hundred thousand acres of land opened to settlement by an act of Congress “To provide for the opening of a part of the Colville Reservation in the State of Washington, and for other purposes,” approved July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, being a part of the full sum set aside and held in the Treasury of the United States in payment for said land under the terms of the act approved June twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six, ratifying the agreement ceding said land to the United States under date of May ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, three hundred thousand dollars, to be expended for the benefit of said Indians in accordance with the provisions of the said act setting aside in the Treasury the money in payment for the land ceded.

WISCONSIN.

For pay of Indian agent at the La Pointe Agency, Wisconsin, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For the support and education of two hundred and ten pupils at the Indian school at Hayward, Wisconsin, and pay of superintendent, thirty-six thousand six hundred and seventy dollars;

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For general repairs and improvements, two thousand two hundred dollars;

For steel tower for water tank, two thousand dollars;

In all, forty thousand eight hundred and seventy dollars.

For support and education of two hundred and fifty Indian pupils at the Indian school, Tomah, Wisconsin, and pay of superintendent, forty-three thousand four hundred and fifty dollars;

For general repairs and improvements, three thousand dollars;

In all, forty-six thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.

For support and civilization of the Chippewas of Lake Superior, Wisconsin, to be expended for agricultural and educational purposes; pay of employees, including pay of physician, purchase of goods and provisions, and for such other purposes as may be deemed for the best interests of said Indians, seven thousand dollars.

WYOMING.

For support and civilization of Shoshone Indians in Wyoming, twelve thousand dollars.

For support and education of one hundred and seventy-five Indian pupils at the Indian school, Shoshone Reservation, Wyoming, and pay of superintendent, thirty-one thousand and twenty-five dollars;

For general repairs and improvements, three thousand dollars;

For remodeling buildings, five thousand dollars;

In all, thirty-nine thousand and twenty-five dollars.

For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Wyoming, including traveling expenses of agents, one thousand dollars.

For continuing the work of constructing an irrigation system within the diminished Shoshone or Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That said sum be reimbursed to the Treasury of the United States from the sale of lands made under the provision of the act of March third, nineteen hundred and five. (33 Statutes at Large, page 1016.)

That all lands allotted to Indians in severalty or reserved for their use in common on the Shoshone or Wind River Reservation, in Wyoming, susceptible of irrigation, may be leased for a term not exceeding twenty years for cultivation under irrigation in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, and he is hereby authorized to perform any and all acts and to make such rules and regulations as may be necessary for the purpose of carrying this provision into full force and effect.

That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to issue a patent to the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America for and covering the following-described lands, amounting to approximately one hundred and sixty acres, now and for many years reserved for and occupied by the said board of missions as an Indian school, to wit: The northwest quarter of the southeast quarter, the north half of the southwest quarter, and the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section eight, township one south, range one west of the Wind River meridian, on the Wind River Reservation, in Wyoming: Provided, That the said patent shall not issue until the Indians of the said reservation have given their consent to the grant through their business committee or council in such manner as the Secretary of the Interior shall provide.

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That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to issue to the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions a patent for and covering the following described lands, amounting approximately to three hundred and eleven acres, now and for many years reserved for and occupied by the said Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions as an Indian school, to wit: All of the south half of section nine lying north of the Big Popoagie River; that part of the west half of the southwest quarter of section ten west of the Big Popoagie River, and that part of section sixteen north of the Big Popoagie River; all in township one south, range four east of the Wind River meridian, on the Wind River Reservation, in Wyoming: Provided, That the said patent shall not issue until the Indians of the said reservation have given their consent to the grant through their business committee of council in such manner as the Secretary of the Interior shall provide.

SHOSHONES: For pay of physician, teacher, carpenter, miller, engineer, farmer, and blacksmith, as per tenth article of treaty of July third, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, five thousand dollars;

For pay of second blacksmith, and such iron and steel and other materials as may be required, as per eighth article of same treaty, one thousand dollars;

In all, six thousand dollars.

Approved, April 30, 1908.

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