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 the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Okanogan County, in the State of Washington, as taxes claimed by said county under section 2 of the Act of July 1, 1892, relating to the payment of local taxes on allotted Colville Indian lands, the sum of $77,435.31: Provided, That there may be deducted from said amount by the Secretary of the Interior such sum or sums as he may find to have been paid to said county for Indian tuition; also the excess, if any, where the rate based on the value of Indian allotments may be found to be in excess of the rate on taxable land.
That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $77,435.31, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the payment of said sum to said county, as provided in the foregoing section: Provided, That the payment of such authorized appropriation to the said Okanogan County, in the State of Washington, shall be in full settlement of all claims arising under and at any time after the passage of the Act of July 1, 1892 (Twenty-seventh Statutes, pages 62, 63).
Approved, April 23, 1928.
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