Compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler. Washington : Government Printing Office, 1929.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1 of an Act entitled ‘An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, and for other purposes, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1914,’ approved June 30, 1913," approved May 26, 1920, be and is hereby amended to read as follows:
"That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to pay, out of any funds of the Creek, Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole Nations, on deposit in the Treasury of the United States, the proportionate cost of street paving, construction of sidewalks and sewers heretofore or hereafter constructed and abutting on unsold lots belonging to any of said tribes and as may be properly chargeable against said town lots, said payments to be made upon submission of proof to said Secretary of the Interior showing the entire cost of the said street paving, sidewalk, and sewer construction, and that said improvement was duly authorized and undertaken in accordance with law: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior shall be satisfied that the charges made are reasonable and that the lots belonging to the above-mentioned tribes against which the charges were made have been enhanced in value by said improvements to not less than the amount of said charges."
Approved, January 7, 1925.
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