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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 28 STAT. · March 2, 1895 · Chapter 188

Chapter 188. Making appropriations for current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department and fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes for the fiscal year ending Juno thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 188.— An Act Making appropriations for current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department and fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes for the fiscal year ending Juno thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and for other purposes.March 2, 1895. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Indian Department appropriations. 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 the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and fulfilling treaty stipulations for the various Indian tribes, namely: pay of indian agents For pay of fifty-seven agents of Indian affairs at the following-namedPay of agents at agencies. agencies, at the rates respectively indicated, namely:
At the Blackfeet Agency, Montana, one thousand eight hundred dollars; At the Cherokee School, North Carolina: Additional compensation to superintendent of said school for performing the duties heretofore required of the agent at the Cherokee Agency, two hundred dollars; At the Cheyenne an’d Arapahoe Agency, Oklahoma Territory, one thousand eight hundred dollars; At the Cheyenne River Agency, South Dakota, one thousand seven hundred dollars; At the Colorado River Agency, Arizona, one thousand five hundred dollars;
At the Colville Agency, Washington, one thousand five hundred dollars; At the Crow Creek and Lower Brule Agency, South Dakota, one thousand eight hundred dollars; At the Crow Agency, Montana, one thousand eight hundred dollars; At the Devils Lake Agency, North Dakota, one thousand two hundred dollars; At the Flathead Agency, Montana, one thousand five hundred dollars; At the Fort Belknap Agency, Montana, one thousand five hundred dollars; At the Fort Berthold Agency, North Dakota, one thousand five hundred dollars;
At the Fort Hall Agency, Idaho, one thousand five hundred dollars; At the Fort Peck Agency, Montana, one thousand eight hundred dollars; 877 At the Grand Ronde Agency, Oregon, one thousand two hundredIndian agents—Continued. dollars; At the Green Bay Agency, Wisconsin, one thousand eight hundred dollars; At the Hoopa Valley Agency, California, one thousand two hundred dollars; At the Kiowa Agency, Oklahoma Territory, one thousand eight hundred dollars; At the Klamath Agency, Oregon, one thousand two hundred dollars;
At the La Pointe Agency, Wisconsin, one thousand eight hundred dollars; At the Lemhi Agency, Idaho, one thousand two hundred dollars; At the Mescalero Agency, New Mexico, one thousand six hundred dollars; At the Mission Tule River Agency, California, one thousand six hundred dollars; At the Navajo Agency, New Mexico, one thousand eight hundred dollars; At the Neah Bay Agency, Washington, one thousand two hundred dollars; At the Nevada Agency, Nevada, one thousand live hundred dollars;
At the New York Agency, New York, one. thousand dollars; At the Nez Perce Agency, Idaho, one thousand six hundred dollars; At the Omaha and Winnebago Agency, Nebraska, one thousand six hundred dollars; At the Osage Agency, Oklahoma Territory, one thousand six hundred dollars; At the Pima Agency, Arizona, one thousand eight hundred dollars; At the Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota, one thousand eight hundred dollars; At the Pottawatomie and Great Nemaha Agency, Kansas, one thousand two hundred dollars;
At the Ponca. Pawnee, Otoe, and Oakland Agency, Oklahoma Territory, one thousand five, hundred dollars; At the Pueblo and Jicarilla Agency, New Mexico, one thousand five hundred dollars; At the Puyallup (consolidated) Agency, Washington, one thousand six hundred dollars; At the Quapaw Agency. Indian Territory, one thousand four hundred dollars; At the Rosebud Agency, South Dakota, one thousand eight hundred dollars; At the Round Valley Agency, California, one thousand five hundred dollars;
At the Sac and Fox Agency, Iowa, one thousand dollars: At the Sac and Fox Agency, Oklahoma Territory, one thousand two hundred dollars; At the San Carlos Agency, Arizona, one thousand eight hundred dollars; At the Santee Agency, Nebraska, one thousand two hundred dollars; At the Shoshone Agency, Wyoming, one thousand five hundred dollars; At the Siletz Agency, Oregon, one thousand two hundred dollars; At the Sisseton Agency, South Dakota, one thousand five hundred dollars; At the Southern Ute Agency, Colorado, one thousand four hundred dollars;
At the Standing Rock Agency, North Dakota, one thousand eight hundred dollars; At the Tongue River Agency, Montana, one thousand five hundred dollars; 878 At the Tulalip Agency, Washington, one thousand two hundredIndian agents—continued. dollars; At the Uintah and Ouray Agency, Utah (consolidated), one thousand eight hundred dollars; At the Umatilla Agency, Oregon, one thousand two hundred dollars; At the Union Agency, Indian Territory, one thousand five hundred dollars; At the Warm Springs Agency, Oregon, one thousand two hundred dollars;
At the Western Shoshone Agency, Nevada, one thousand live hundred dollars; At the White Earth Agency, Minnesota, one thousand eight hundred dollars; At the Yakima Agency, Washington, one thousand eight hundred dollars; At the Yankton Agency, South Dakota, one thousand six hundred dollars;*Provisos*.Not available for army officers as agents. in all, eighty-six thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided*, That the foregoing appropriations shall not take effect nor become available in any case for or during the time in which any officer of the Army of the United States shall be engaged in performance of the duties of Indian agent at any of the agencies above named: *Provided further*,Superintendents of schools may act as agents.
That the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, may devolve the duties of any Indian agency upon the superintendent of the Indian training school located at such agency, whenever in his judgment such superintendent can Bond.properly perform the duties of such agency. And the superintendent upon whom such duties devolve shall give bond as other Indian agents. For payment of necessary interpreters, to be distributedInterpreters. in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, ten thousand dollars; but no person employed by the United States and paid for any other service shall be paid for interpreting.
For pay of five Indian inspectors, at two thousand five hundred dollarsInspectors. per annum each, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. For necessary traveling expenses of five Indian inspectors, includingTraveling, etc., expenses. telegraphing and incidental expenses of inspection and investigation, seven thousand dollars. For pay of one superintendent of Indian schools, three thousandSuperintendent of schools. dollars. For necessary traveling expenses of one superintendent of IndianTraveling, etc., expenses. schools, including telegraphing and incidental expenses of inspection *Provisos*.Per diem.and investigation, one thousand 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 Other duties.fare: *And provided*, That he shall perform such other duties as may be imposed upon him by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior.
For buildings and repairs of buildings at agencies, twenty-five thousand dollars.Agency buildings. For contingencies of the Indian service, including traveling andContingencies. incidental expenses of Indian agents, and of their offices, and of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs: also traveling and incidental expenses of five 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; for pay of employees not otherwise provided for, and for pay of the five special agents, at two thousand dollars per annum each, forty thousand dollars.
For expenses of the commission of citizens, serving without compensation,Citizen commission. appointed by the President under the provisions of the Vol. 16, p. 40.fourth section of the Act of April tenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, four thousand dollars. 879 To enable the Secretary of the Interior to employ practical farmers,Practical farmers. and practical stockmen, in 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, seventy thousand dollars, and no person shall be employed as such farmer or stockman who has not been at least five years immediately previous to such employment practically engaged in the occupation of farming within the State or Territory where such agency is located, and where practicable competent Indians shall be given the preference.
For services of officers, at fifteen dollars per month each, and privates,Indian police. at ten 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, and for the purchase of equipments and rations for policemen at nonration agencies, one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars. For compensation of judges of Indian courts, twelve thousand fiveJudges Indian courts. hundred and forty dollars.
To enable, the Secretary of the Interior to employ suitable persons asMatrons to teach housekeeping. 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, ten thousand dollars. For pure vaccine matter and vaccination of Indians, one thousandVaccination. dollars. To pay the expense of purchasing goods and supplies for the IndianPurchasing supplies. Service, and pay of necessary employees; advertising, at rates not exceeding regular commercial rates, inspection, and all other expenses connected therewith, including telegraphing, thirty-five thousand dollars.
For necessary expenses of transportation of such goods, provisions,Transporting supplies. and other articles for the various tribes of Indians provided for by this Act, including pay and expenses of transportation agents and rent of warehouses, two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. FULFILLING TREATY STIPULATIONS WITH, AND SUPPORT OF, INDIAN TRIBES.Fulfilling treaties. apaches, kiowas, and comanchesApaches, Kiowas, and Comanches. For twenty-eighth of thirty installments, as provided to be expended under the tenth article, treaty of October twenty-first, eighteen hundredVol. 15, pp. 584, 590. and sixty-seven, concluded at Medicine Lodge Creek, in Kansas, with the Kiowas and Comanches, and under the third article, treaty of the same date, with the Apaches (permanent), thirty thousand dollars;
For purchase of clothing, as provided in the same treaties, eleven thousand dollars; For pay of carpenter, farmer, blacksmith, miller, and engineer, four thousand dollars; For pay of physician and two teachers, two thousand seven hundred dollars; in all, forty-seven thousand seven hundred dollars. cheyennes and arapahoesCheyennes and Arapahoes. For twenty-eighth of thirty installments, provided to be expended under the tenth article of treaty of October twenty-eighth, eighteenVol 15, p. 596. hundred and sixty-seven (permanent), twenty thousand dollars;
For purchase of clothing, as per same article, twelve thousand dollars; For pay of physician and teacher, as per thirteenth article of same treaty, two thousand dollars: 880 For pay of carpenter, farmer, blacksmith, miller, and engineer, as per same article, four thousand dollars; in all, thirty-eight thousand dollars. chickasaws.Chickasaws. For permanent annuity in goods, three thousand dollars. Vol. 1. p. 619. chippewas of the mississippi.Chippewas of the Mississippi. For first, second, and third often installments of annuity, last series, Vol. 9, p. 904.to be paid to Chief Hole in the Day, or his heirs, per third article of treaty of August second, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, and fifth Vol. 16, p. 720.article of treaty of March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, three thousand dollars.
For support of a school or schools upon said reservation, during theSchool pleasure of the President, in accordance with third article of treaty of March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, four thousand dollars. choctaws.Choctaws. For permanent annuity, per second article of treaty of NovemberPermanent annuities.Vol. 7, p. 99.Vol. 11, p. 614. 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 tor support of light horsemen, per thirteenthVol. 7, p. 213. article of treaty of October eighteenth, eighteen hundred and twenty, Vol. 11, p. 614.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 articleVol. 7, p. 212.Vol. 7, p. 236. of treaty of October eighteenth, eighteen hundred and twenty, ninth article of treaty of January twentieth, eighteen hundred and Vol. 11, p. 614.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 treatyVol. 7, p. 236.Vol. 11, p. 614. 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. For interest on three hundred and ninety thousand two hundred andInterest. fifty-seven dollars and ninety-two cents, at five per centum per annum, for education, support of the government, and other beneficial purposes, under the direction of the general council of the Choctaws, in Vol. 7, p. 236.conformity with the provisions contained in the ninth and thirteenth articles of treaty of January twentieth, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, Vol. 11, p. 614.and treaty of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, nineteen thousand five hundred and twelve dollars and eighty-nine cents; in all, thirty thousand and thirty-two dollars and eighty-nine cents. chippewas of minnesota, reimbursable.Chippewas of Minnesota.
This amount as advance interest to the Chippewa Indians in Minnesota,Advance interest.Vol. 25, p. 645. as required by section seven of “An Act for the relief and civilization 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 ofFor civilization, etc.Vol. 25, p. 642. 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 881 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 forRemoval, etc. their allotments, to be reimbursed to the United States out of the proceeds of sale of their lauds, fifty thousand dollars.
For completing the, necessary surveys within the Chippewa IndianSurveys. Reservation in Minnesota, including expenses of examining and appraising pine lands, under the provisions of the Act approved January fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, to be reimbursed to the United States out of proceeds of the sale of their lands, twenty-five thousand dollars. cœur d’alenes.Cœur d’Alenes. For fourth of fifteen installments of eight thousand dollars each, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, under the sixth article of agreement of March twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, ratified by Act of March third, eighteen hundredVol. 26, p. 1028. and ninety-one, eight thousand dollars;
For pay of blacksmith, carpenter, and physician, and purchase of medicines, as per the eleventh article of said agreement, three thousand, five hundred dollars; in all, eleven thousand five hundred dollars. columbia and colvilles.Columbias and Colvilles. For annuity for Chief Moses, as per agreement of July seventh, eighteenChief Moses.Vol. 23, p. 79. hundred and eighty three, ratified by Act approved July fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty four, one thousand dollars; For employees as provided in said agreement, ratified by Act of JulyEmployees. fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, six thousand dollars; in all, seven thousand dollars. cheeks.Creeks.
For permanent annuity, in money, per fourth article of treaty ofPermanent annuities.Vol. 7, p. 36.Vol. 11, p 700. August seventh, seventeen hundred and ninety, and fifth article of treaty of August seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, one thousand five hundred dollars: For permanent annuity, in money, per second article of treaty ofVol. 7, p. 69.Vol. 11, p. 700. June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and two, and fifth article of treaty of August seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, three thousand dollars;
For permanent annuity, in money, per fourth article of treaty ofVol. 7, p. 287.Vol. 11, p. 100. January twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, and fifth article of treaty of August seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, twenty thousand dollars; For permanent annuity for blacksmith and assistant, and for shops and tools, per eighth article of treaty of January twenty-fourth, eighteenVol. 7, p. 287.Vol. 11, p. 700. hundred and twenty-six, and fifth article of treaty of August seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, eight hundred and forty dollars;
For permanent annuity for iron and steel for shop, per same articles and treaties, two hundred and seventy dollars; For permanent annuity for the pay of a wheelwright, per same articles of same treaties, six hundred dollars; For live per centum interest on two hundred thousand dollars, forInterest.Vol. 11, p. 701. purposes of education, per sixth article of treaty of August seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, ten thousand dollars; For interest on two hundred and seventy-five thousand one hundred and sixty-eight dollars, at the rate of five per centum per annum, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, under 882 provisions of third article of treaty of June fourteenth, eighteen hundredVol. 14, p. 187. and sixty-six, thirteen thousand seven hundred and fifty-eight dollars and forty cents; in all, forty-nine thousand nine hundred and sixty-eight dollars and forty cents. crows.Crows.
For fourteenth of twenty-five installments, as provided in agreementVol. 22, p. 43. with the Crows, dated June twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty, to be used by the Secretary of the Interior in such a manner as the President may direct, thirty thousand dollars; For twenty-seventh of thirty installments, to supply male persons, six hundred in number, over fourteen years of age, with a suit of good substantial woolen clothing, consisting of a cost, hat, pantaloons, Vol. 15, p. 651.flannel shirt, and woolen socks, as per ninth article of treaty of May seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, six thousand dollars;
For twenty-seventh of thirty installments, to supply each female, seven hundred in number, over twelve years of age, with a flannel skirt, or the goods necessary to make the same, a pair of woolen hose, twelve yards of calico, and twelve yards of cotton domestic, as per same article, four thousand dollars; For twenty-seventh of thirty installments, to supply three hundred and fifty boys and three hundred and fifty girls, under the ages named, such flannel and cotton goods as may be needed to make each a suit, as aforesaid, together with a pair of woolen hose for each, per same article, five, thousand dollars;
For pay of physician, per tenth article of same treaty, one thousandVol. 15, p. 652. two hundred dollars; For pay of carpenter, miller, engineer, farmer, and blacksmith, as per tenth article of same treaty, three thousand three hundred dollars; For pay of second blacksmith, and iron and steel, as per eighth articleVol. 15, p. 651. of same treaty, one thousand five hundred dollars; This amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to furnish such articles of food as from time to time the condition and necessities of the Indians may require, thirty thousand dollars: in all, eighty-one thousand dollars, fort hall indians.Fort Hall Indians.
For seventh of twenty installments, as provided in agreement withVol 25, p, 688. said Indians, approved February 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. indians at blackfeet agencyBlackfeet Agency Indians. For eighth of ten installments of one hundred and fifty thousandVol. 25, 114. dollars each, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, for the support and civilization of the Indians attached to the Blackfeet Agency, Montana, as per Act approved May first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. indians at fort belknap agency.Fort Belknap Indiana.
For eighth of ten installments of one hundred and fifteen thousandVol. 25, p. 114. dollars each, to be expended under the. direction of the Secretary of the Interior, for the support and civilization of the Indians attached to the Fort Belknap Agency, Montana, as per Act approved May first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. indians at fort peck agency.Fort Peck Indiana. For eighth often installments of one hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars each, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the 883 Interior, for the support and civilization of the Indians attached to the Fort Peck Agency, Montana, as per Act approved May first, eighteenVol 25, p. 114. hundred and eighty-eight, one hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars. indians at fort berthold agency.Fort Berthold Indians For fifth of ten installments of eighty thousand dollars each, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, as per second article of agreement ratified by Act approved March third,Vol. 26, p. 1033. eighteen hundred and ninety-one, eighty thousand dollars. iowas.Iowas.
For interest in lieu of investment on fifty-seven thousand five hundredInterest. dollars, balance of one hundred and fifty-seven thousand five hundred dollars, to July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, at five per centum per annum, for education or other beneficial purposes, under the direction of the President, per ninth article of treaty of MayVol. 10, p. 1071. seventeenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, two thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars. iowas in oklahoma.Iowas, Oklahoma.
For last of five installments, first series, to be paid per capita under the seventh article of agreement ratified by Act approved FebruaryVol. 26. p. 756. thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, three thousand six hundred dollars. kansas.Kansas. For interest in lieu of investment on one hundred and thirty-fiveInterest. thousand dollars, being the amount due the Kansas tribe of Indians, per second article of treaty of January fourteenth, eighteen hundredVol. 9, p. 842. and forty-six, six thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. kickapoos.Kickapoos.
For interest on sixty-eight thousand nine hundred and nineteenInterest. dollars and twenty-four cents at five per centum per annum, for Educational and other beneficial purposes, per treaty of May eighteenth,Vol. 10, p. 1079. eighteen hundred and fifty-four, three thousand four hundred and forty-five dollars and ninety-six cents. molels.Molels. For pay of teachers and for manual-labor schools, and for all necessarySchools. materials therefor, and for the subsistence of the pupils, per second article of treaty of December twenty-first, eighteen hundred andVol 12, p. 981. fifty-five, three thousand dollars. nez perces.Nez Perces.
For salaries of two matrons to take charge of the boarding schools,Schools, etc. two assistant teachers, one farmer, one carpenter, and two millers, per fifth article of treaty of June ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three,Vol. 14, p. 650. six thousand dollars. northern cheyennes and arapahoes.Northern Cheyennes and Arapahoe. For subsistence and civilization, as per agreement with the SiouxSubsistence, etc.Vol. 19, p. 256. 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, seventy five thousand dollars; 884 For twenty-seventh of thirty installments, for purchase of clothing,ClothingVol. 15, p. 657. as per sixth article treaty of May tenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, including clothing for above Indians, seventeen thousand *Proviso*.Division.dollars: *Provided*, That the amount in this and the preceding paragraph shall be expended pro rata, as near as may be, for the Northern Cheyennes and Arapahoes in Wyoming and on the Tongue River in Montana;
For pay of physician, two teachers, two carpenters, one miller, two Vol 15, p. 658.farmers, a blacksmith, and engineer, per seventh article of same treaty, nine thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and one thousand dollars. osages.Osages. For interest on sixty-nine thousand one hundred and twenty dollars,Interest. at five per centum per annum, being value of fifty-four sections of land Vol. 7, p. 242.set apart by treaty of June second, eighteen hundred and twenty five, for educational purposes, per Senate resolution of January ninth, eighteen hundred and thirty eight, three thousand four hundred and fifty-six dollars. pawnees.Pawnees.
For perpetual annuity, at least one-half of which is to be paid in goodsAnnuity. and such articles as may be deemed necessary for them, per second Vol. 11, p.729.article of treaty of September‘twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven (permanent), thirty thousand dollars; For support of two manual-labor schools, per third article of same treaty, ten thousand dollars; For pay of two farmers, two blacksmiths, and two apprentices, one miller and apprentice, two teachers, one shoemaker, and one carpenter, 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, Vol. 11, p. 730.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. pottawatomies.Pottawatomies. For permanent annuity, in silver, per fourth article treaty of AugustAnnuities.Vol. 7, p. 51. third, seventeen hundred and ninety-five, three hundred and fifty-seven dollars and eighty cents;
For permanent annuity, in silver, per third article treaty of SeptemberVol. 7, p. 114 thirtieth, eighteen hundred and nine, one hundred and seventy-eight dollars and ninety cents; For permanent annuity, in silver, per third article treaty of OctoberVol 7. p. 185. second, eighteen hundred and eighteen, eight hundred and ninety-four dollars and fifty cents; ’ For permanent annuity, in money, per second article treaty of SeptemberVol. 7, p. 317. twentieth, eighteen hundred and twenty eight, seven hundred and fifteen dollars and sixty cents;
For permanent annuity, in specie, per second article treaty of JulyVol. 7. p. 320.Vol. 7, p. 317. 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,Vol. 7, p. 318.Vol. 9, p. 855. and steel, per second article of treaty of September twentieth, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, and tenth 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 Vol. 7, p. 296.Vol. 7, p. 318.for iron and steel for shops, per third article of treaty of October sixteenth, eighteen hundred and twenty-six; second article of treaty of 885 September twentieth, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, and secondVol. 7, p. 321. 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 articleVol. 7, p. 320. of treaty of July twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, one hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty-four cents;
For interest on two hundred and thirty thousand and sixty-four dollarsInterest. and twenty cents, at live per centum, in conformity with provisions of article seventh of treaties of June fifth and seventeenth, eighteenVol. 9, p. 854. hundred and forty-six, eleven thousand five hundred and three dollars and twenty-one cents; in all, twenty thousand six hundred and forty-seven dollars and sixty-five cents. This amount to be paid to the legal representatives of R. B. Kennedy,R. B.
Kennedy.Repayment. a citizen Pottawatomie, deceased, being excess of amount due for his allotment of lands in the Pottawatomie Reservation, Indian Territory, and paid by him to the United States, sixteen dollars and ninety two cents. pottawatomie of indiana and michigan.Pottawatomies. For this amount due certain Pottawatomie Indians of Indiana and Annuities.Michigan, being their proportion (two thousand and eighty one dollars and thirty cents) of the perpetual annuities (twenty two thousand three hundred dollars) due the Pottawatomie Nation under various treaties, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, as ascertained by the judgment of the Supreme Court of the United States pronounced in the case of the Pottawatomie Indians of Michigan and Indiana against the United*Ante*, p. 450.
States on the seventeenth day of April, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and which annuities were not embraced in the judgment aforesaid, two thousand and eighty-one dollars and thirty cents. And the Commissioner of Indian Affairs is directedLegal services. to withhold from distribution among the said Indians so much of any moneys due them by the United Slates as may be found justly and equitably due for legal services rendered, and to pay the same on account of the prosecution and recovery of the moneys aforesaid. quapaws.Quapaws.
For education, during the pleasure of the President, per third articleVol. 7, p. 425. 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. sacs and foxes of the mississippi.Sacs and Foxes of the Mississippi. For permanent annuity, in goods or otherwise, per third article ofAnnuity.Vol. 7, p. 85. treaty of November third, eighteen hundred and four, one thousand dollars; for interest on two hundred thousand dollars, at five per Interest.Vol. 7, p. 54.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*Proviso*.Physician. dollars of this amount shall be used for the pay of a physician and tor purchase of medicine; in all, fifty-one thousand dollars. sacs and foxes of the missouri.Sacs and Foxes of the Missouri.
For interest on one hundred and fifty-seven thousand four hundredInterest. dollars, at five per centum, under the direction of the President, per second article of treaty of October twenty-first, eighteen hundred andVol. 7, p. 541. thirty-seven (permanent), seven thousand eight hundred and seventy dollars; 886 For support of a school, per fifth article of treaty of March sixth,School. eighteen hundred and sixty-one, two hundred dollars; in all, eight Vol. 12, p. 1173.thousand and seventy dollars. seminoles.Seminoles.
For five per centum interest on two hundred and fifty thousandInterest dollars, toVol. 11, p. 702. 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 Vol. 14, p. 757.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; 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. senecas.Senecas.
For permanent annuity, in specie, per fourth article of treaty of SeptemberAnnuities. twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and seventeen, five Vol. 7, p. MLhundred dollars: For permanent annuity, in specie, per fourth article of treaty of SeptemberVol. 7, p. 170. seventeenth, eighteen hundred and eighteen, five hundred dollars; For permanent annuity, for blacksmith and miller, per fourth articleVol. 7, p. 349. of treaty of February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, to be annually paid to them as a national fund, to be expended by them for such articles and wants and improvements in agriculture as their chiefs (with the consent of their agent) may designate, as stipulated in Vol. 15, p. 515.the seventh article of treaty of February twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, one thousand six hundred and sixty dollars;
For permanent annuity, in specie, per fourth article of treaty ofVol 7, p. 179. September-seventeenth, eighteen hundred and eighteen, and fifth Vol. 15, p. 515.article of treaty of February twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, five hundred dollars; For blacksmith and assistants, shops and tools, iron and steel, perVol. 7, p. 752. fourth article of treaty of July twentieth, eighteen hundred and Vol. 15, p. 515.thirty-one, arid fifth article of treaty of February twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, five hundred and thirty dollars; in all, three thousand six hundred and ninety dollars senecas of new york.Senecas of New York.
For permanent annuity, in lieu of interest on stock, per Act of FebruaryAnnuity. nineteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, six thousand Vol. 4, p. 442.dollars; For interest, in lieu of investment, on seventy-five thousand dollars,Interest. at five per centum, per Act of Vol. p. 35.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. 887 That the Secretary of the Interior be and he is hereby authorized toOgden Land Company.Purchase of lands from.*Ante*, p. 31. negotiate with the Ogden Land Company for the purchase of the interests said company may possess, if any, in the Cattaraugus and Allegany Indian reservations in the State of New York.
He is also authorized to negotiate with the said Indians under suchNegotiations with Indians. rules and regulations as he may prescribe as to the terms upon which the said Indians will consent to the United States purchasing the interest of said company in said reservations, if such interest is found to exist, and the. Secretary of the Interior shall make a full report to CongressReport. of his proceedings under this provision. eastern shawnees.Eastern Shawnees. For permanent annuity, in specie, per fourth article of treaty of SeptemberAnnunity.Vol. 7, p. 170.Vol. 15, p. 515. seventeenth, eighteen hundred and eighteen, and fifth article of treaty of February twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, five hundred dollars;
For blacksmith and assistant, shops and tools, iron and steel, per fourth article of treaty of July twentieth, eighteen hundred and thirty-one,Vol. 7, p. 352.Vol. 15, p. 515. and fifth article of treaty of February twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, five hundred and thirty dollars; in all, one thousand and thirty dollars. shoshones and bannocks.Shoshones and Bannocks. Shoshones: For twenty-sixth of thirty installments, to purchase suitsShoshones.Supplies. of clothing for males over fourteen years of age; flannel, hose, calico, and domestics for females over the age of twelve years, and such goods as may be needed to make suits for boys and girls under the ages named, as per ninth article of treaty of July third, eighteen hundredVol. 15, p. 676. and sixty-eight, ten thousand dollars;
For pay of physician, teacher, carpenter, miller, engineer, farmer,Physician, etc.Vol. 15, p. 676. 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; Bannocks: For twenty-sixth of thirty installments, to purchase suitsBannocks.Supplies. of clothing for males over fourteen years of age; flannel, hose, calico, and domestics for females over twelve years of age, and such flannel and cotton goods as may be needed to make suits for boys and girls under the ages named, as per ninth article of treaty of July third,Vol. 15, p. 676. eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, five thousand dollars;
For pay of physician, teacher, carpenter, miller, engineer, farmer,Physician, etc.Vol. 15, p. 676. and blacksmith, as per tenth article of treaty of July third, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, five thousand dollars; in all, twenty-six thousand dollars. six nations of new york.Six Nations of New York. For permanent annuity, in clothing and other useful articles, per sixthAnnuity.Vol. 7, p. 46. article of treaty of November eleventh, seventeen hundred and ninety-four, four thousand five hundred dollars. sioux of different tribes, including santee sioux of nebraska.Sioux of different tribes.
For twenty-sixth of thirty installments, to purchase clothing for malesSupplies. over fourteen years of age; for flannel, hose, and calico, and domestics required for females over twelve years of age, and for such flannel and cotton goods as may be needed to make suits for boys and girls, per tenth article of treaty of April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred andVol. 15, p. 638. sixty-eight, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars; 888 For twenty-sixth of thirty installments, to purchase such articles as may be considered proper by the Secretary of the Interior, at twenty dollars per head, for persons engaged in agriculture, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars;
For pay of five teachers, one physician, one carpenter, one miller, oneTeachers, etc.Vol. 15, p. 640. engineer, two farmers, and one blacksmith, per thirteenth article of same treaty, ten thousand four hundred dollars; For pay of additional employees at the several agencies for the SiouxEmployees. in Nebraska, and Dakota, twenty thousand dollars, eight hundred dollars of which shall be used to employ an additional blacksmith at Cheyenne River Agency, and eight hundred dollars of which shall be used to employ a harness maker at said agency, and in the employment of such blacksmith and harness maker preference shall be given to Indians;
For industrial schools at the Santee Sioux and Crow Creek agencies,Industrial schools. six thousand dollars; For subsistence of the Sioux, and for purposes of their civilization,Subsistence.Vol. 10, p. 254. as per agreement, ratified by Act of Congress approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, one million dollars: *Provisos*.Transportation.Indian employment.Limit of rations.*Provided*, That this sum shall include transportation of supplies from the termination of railroad or steamboat transportation; and in this service Indians shall have the preference in employment: .Did *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 pay of a matron at the Santee Agency, five hundred dollars;Matron.Blacksmith, etc. For pay of second blacksmith, and furnishing iron, steel, and other material, per eighth article of same treaty, one thousand six hundred dollars; For support and maintenance of day and industrial schools, includingSchools purchase, erection, and repairs of school buildings, in accordance with Vol. 15, p. 637.article seven of the treaty of April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, which article is continued in force for twenty years by Vol. 25, p. 894.section seventeen of the Act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, seventy-five thousand dollars, five thousand dollars of which, or so much thereof as shall be necessary, maybe expended by Artesian wells.the Secretary of the Interior for the construction of an artesian well at the Indian school at the Cheyenne River Indian Agency, South Dakota, and five thousand dollars of which, or so much thereof as shall be necessary, may be expended by the Secretary of the Interior for the construction of an artesian well at the Indian school at Crow Creek Agency, South Dakota; in all. one million three hundred and ninety-eight thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensating the Indians of the Crow Creek Reservation for lossCrow Creek Indians.Compensation. sustained by those Indians in receiving less land per capita in their diminished reservation than is received by the Indians occupying other diminished reservations, the amount to be added to the share of the permanent fund of the said Crow Creek Indians and to draw interest at the rate of four per centum per annum, one hundred and eighty-seven thousand and thirty-nine dollars. sioux, yankton tribe.Sioux, Yankton tribe.
For seventh of twenty installments (last series), to be paid to them Vol. 11, p. 744.or expended for their benefit, per fourth article of treaty of April nineteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight (permanent), fifteen thousand dollars: For subsistence and civilization of two thousand Yankton Sioux,Subsistence.Vol. 19, p. 287. heretofore provided for in appropriations under “Fulfilling treaty with Sioux of different tribes,” and so forth, thirty-five thousand dollars; in all, fifty thousand dollars. 889 sisseton and wahpeton indians.Sisseton and Wahpetons.
For eighth of thirteen installments of eighteen thousand four hundred dollars each, to be paid per capita, as per third article of agreement with the Sisseton and Wahpeton Indians, dated September twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, ratified by Act of MarchVol. 26, p. 1037. third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, eighteen thousand four hundred dollars. That for the purpose of paying to the scouts and soldiers of the Sisseton,Payment to scouts, etc., Sioux outbreak, etc.
Wahpeton, Medawaukanton, and Wapakoota bands of Sioux Indians, who were enrolled and entered into the military service of the United States, and served in suppressing what is known as the Sioux outbreak of eighteen hundred and sixty-two, or who were enrolled and served in the armies of the United States in the war of the rebellion, and are now living and to the descendants and members of the families of such scouts and soldiers as are now dead, who were not parties to the agreement entered into between the United States and the Sisseton and Wahpeton bands of Dakota and Sioux Indians on the twelfth day ofVol. 26, p. 1036.
December, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, for the reason that they were not residents of the said Sisseton Reservation, and did reside elsewhere, their pro rata share of the amount found due said scouts and soldiers for annuities under the provisions of the fourth article of theVol. 10, p. 950. treaty of July twenty-third, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, which treaty was proclaimed on the twenty-fourth day of February, in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, and which annuities were to be paid to said Indians annually for the period of fifty years, commencing with the first day of July, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and have now been paid to the said scouts and soldiers and their descendants under the provision of the Act of Congress of March third,Vol. 26, p. 1038.Vol. 27, p. 624. eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, to July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, leaving to be paid to said Indians, eight installments of said annuitiesUnpaid installments. still unpaid, amounting in the aggregate to the Indians aforesaid and their descendants to the sum of forty-nine thousand and sixty-six dollars and sixty-four cents, for the annuities due the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and the first day of July, nineteen hundred, and the first day of July, nineteen hundred and one, and the first day of July, nineteen hundred and two; which sum of forty-nine thousand and sixty-six dollarsDistribution per capita. and sixty-four cents is hereby appropriated, out of the money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be paid in equal shares and per capita to said scouts and soldiers who are still living, who were not parties to the agreement aforesaid, and the share of any such scout or soldier should receive, if living, shall, in the event he is dead, be divided pro rata between his wife and children, who are not parties to said agreement; and the payrolls upon which payments have been made to said scouts and soldiers and their wives and children, under the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, shall be conclusive in all cases where the name of the scout or soldier, or of Ids widow or children appear upon said roll, except in cases where deaths have subsequently occurred, and except in cases where names have been carried upon said roll of Indians who are parties to the said agreement of the twelfth day of December, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and have received annuities thereunder, which mimes shall be dropped from said roll: *And Provided*, That the names of no children shall be enrolled who are*Proviso*.Adopted children to be dropped. not the natural children of such scout or soldier, and the names of any adopted children heretofore placed upon said roll shall be dropped therefrom. 890 And the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to add theAddition of names accidentally omitted. names of any scouts and soldiers of the aforesaid bauds who served as such in the armies of the United States between August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and January first, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, who have been by accident or otherwise previously omitted therefrom, and may add the names of the wife and children of such scout or soldier, if dead, and in extending the payments upon said rolls to individuals, make correct any errors that have heretofore been committed in the amounts paid to individual Indians whose names appear on said rolls, so that each scout or soldier enrolled, and the wife and children of each scout and soldier that is dead, who has been or shall be enrolled, shall receive an equal share of the annuities so restored and paid to said Indians in accordance with the true spirit of this Act, and the said preceding Acts of Congress, and the amount hereby appropriated shall be a full payment and settlement of all the annuities coming to said Indians upon said treaties of eighteen hundred and fifty-one, or any action of the Interior Department, or any Acts of Congress heretofore passed in relation thereto. spokanes.Spokanes.
For fourth of ten installments, to be expended, under the direction ofRemoval to Cœnr d’Alene Reservation, etc. the Secretary of the Interior, in the removal of the Spokane Indians to the Cœur d’Alene Reservation, in erecting suitable houses, in assisting them in breaking lands, in furnishing them with cattle, seeds, agricultural implements, saw and grist mills, threshing machines, mowers, clothing, and provisions; in taking care of the old, sick, and infirm; in affording educational facilities, and in any other manner tending to their civilization and self-support, as per article fifth of agreement with said Indians dated March eighteenth, eighteen hundred and Vol. 27, p. 139.*Proviso*.Indians on other reservations.eighty-seven, ratified by Act of Congress approved July thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That any moneys heretofore or hereafter to be appropriated for the removal of said Spokane Indians to the Cœur d’Alene Reservation shall be extended or expended to such members of the tribe who have removed or shall remove to the Colville or Jocko reservations;
For pay of a blacksmith and carpenter to do necessary work and toBlacksmith, etc. instruct the said Indians in those trades, one thousand dollars each, per sixth article of said agreement, two thousand dollars; For third of ten installments of one hundred dollars each, to ChiefsPay to chiefs. Louis, Paul Schulhault, Antarcham, and Enoch, as per article nine of said agreement, four hundred dollars; in all, seven thousand four hundred dollars. confederated bands of utes.Utes, Confederated bands.
For pay of two carpenters, two millers, two farmers, and two blacksmiths,Carpenters, etc.Vol. 13. p. 675.Vol. 15, p. 622. as per tenth article of treaty of October seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and fifteenth article 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 blacksmithVol. 15, p. 621. shop, per ninth article of same treaty, two hundred and twenty dollars;
For twenty-seventh of thirty installments, to be expended under theClothing, etc. direction of the Secretary of the Interior for clothing, blankets, and Vol. 15. p. 622.such other articles as he may deem proper and necessary, under eleventh article of same treaty, thirty thousand dollars; For annual amount for the purchase of beef, mutton, wheat, flour,Food.Vol. 15, p. 622. beans, and potatoes, or other necessary articles of food, as per twelfth article of same treaty, thirty thousand dollars; 891 For pay of employees at the several Ute agencies, five thousandEmployees. dollars; in all, seventy-three thousand seven hundred and forty dollars. winnebagoes.Winnebagoes.
For interest on eight hundred and four thousand nine hundred andInterest.Vol. 7, p. 545. nine dollars and seventeen cents, at five per centum per annum, per fourth article of treaty of November first, eighteen hundredVol. 12, p. 628. and thirty-seven, and Joint Resolution of July seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. 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;
For interest on seventy-eight thousand three hundred and forty dollarsVol. 16, p. 355. and forty-one cents, at five per centum per annum, to be expended 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; in all, forty-four thousand one hundred and sixty-two dollars and forty-seven cents. miscellaneous supports.Miscellaneous supports.
For subsistence and civilization of the Apaches, Kiowas, Comanebes, Apaches, Kiowas, Comanches, Wichitas, etc.Wichitas, and affiliated bands who have been collected in the reservations set apart for their use and occupation, one hundred and ten thousand dollars. For subsistence and civilization of the Arapahoes and CheyennesArapahoes and Cheyennes. who have been collected on the reservations set apart for their use and occupation, ninety thousand dollars. For support and civilization of the Chippewas of Lake Superior, Wisconsin,Chippewas, Lake Superior. to be expended for agricultural and educational purposes, pay of employees, including pay of physician, at twelve hundred dollars, purchase of goods and provisions, and for such other purposes as may be deemed for the best interests of said Indians, seven thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars.
For support and civilization of Chippewas of lied Lake and PembinaChippewas, Red Lake and Pembina. tribe of Chippewas, Minnesota, and for pay of employees, ten thousand dollars. For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to beChippewas, White Earth Reservation. expended, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, in the care mid support of the Otter-Tail, Pillager, Pembina, and Mississippi Chippewa Indians, on the White Earth Reservation, in Minnesota, to . assist them in their agricultural operations, and for pay of physician, not to exceed one thousand two hundred dollars, ten thousand dollars.
For the support and civilization of Turtle Mountain band of ChippewaChippewas, Turtle Mountain Band. Indians in North Dakota, including seeds, eighteen thousand dollars, of which amount live thousand dollars shall be immediately available for the purchase of food for the immediate relief of the members of said band, as the chief and council thereof may recognize to belong to said band, who shall be the sole beneficiaries thereof. For support and civilization of the confederated tribes and bands inConfederated bands, middle Oregon. middle Oregon, and for pay of employees, six thousand dollars.
For support and civilization of the D’Wamish and other allied tribesD’Wamish, etc., Washington. in Washington, including pay of employees, seven thousand dollars. For support and civilization of Carlos’s band of Flatheads, Montana,Carlos’s Band, Flatbeads, etc. including pay of employees, twelve thousand dollars. For support and civilization of the Flatheads and other confederatedFlatheads, etc. tribes, Montana, including pay of employees, ten thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Interior to purchase subsistence andHualpais.
Ariz. other necessaries for the support of the Hualpais in Arizona, seven thousand five hundred dollars. 892 For support, and civilization of the Indians in Arizona and NewApaches etc., Arizona and New Mexico. Mexico who have been or may be collected on reservations in Arizona and New Mexico, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, of which sum twenty-five thousand dollars shall be immediately available. For support, civilization, and instruction of the Shoshones and Bannocks,Fort Hall Indians. and other Indians of the Fort Hall Reservation, in Idaho, including pay of employees, ten thousand dollars.
For support, civilization, and instruction of the Shoshones, Bannocks, Lemhi Agency Indiana.Sheepeaters, and other Indians of the Lemhi Agency, Idaho, including pay of employees, thirteen thousand dollars. For support, civilization, and instruction of the Klamaths, Modocs,Klamath Agency Indiana. and other Indians of the Klamath Agency, Oregon, including pay of employees, live thousand dollars. For support and civilization of the Kansas Indians, Indian Territory,Kanans. including agricultural assistance and pay of employees, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For support and civilization of the Kickapoo Indians in the IndianKickapoos. Territory, live thousand, dollars. For support and civilization of the Makahs, Washington, includingMakaha. pay of employees, four thousand dollars. For support and civilization of Indians at the Mission Agency, California,Mission Agency Indians. including pay of employees, ten thousand dollars. For support and civilization of the Modoc Indians now residingModocs, Indian Territory. within the Indian Territory, four thousand dollars.
For purchase of agricultural implements, and support and civilizationNez Pereas, Joseph’s Band. of Joseph’s band of Nez Perce Indians, ten thousand dollars. For support and civilization of Nez Perce Indians in Idaho, includingNez Perces. pay of physician, six thousand five hundred dollars. For additional subsistence and civilization of the Northern CheyenneNorthern Cheyenne and Arapahoe. and Arapahoe Indians on the Tongue River in Montana, twenty-five thousand dollars. For support and civilization of the Ponca Indians, including pay ofPoncas.*Proviso*.Division. employees, fifteen thousand dollars: *Provided*, That this amount, after paying employees authorized by law, shall be divided per capita among all the members of said tribe in the Indian Territory, South Dakota, and in the State of Nebraska.
For support and civilization of the Qninai-clts and Quil lehutes, Washington,Quinaielts and Quillehutes. including pay of employees, three thousand dollars. For support and civilization of Shoshone Indians in Wyoming, fifteenShoshones, Wyoming. thousand dollars. For support and civilization of Shoshone Indians in Nevada, includingShoshones, Nevada. pay of employees, ten thousand dollars. For support, civilization, and instruction of the Seminole Indians inSeminles, Florida. Florida, six thousand dollars, one-half of which sum may be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior in procuring permanent homes for said Indians.
For support and civilization of Sioux of Devils Lake, North Dakota,Sioux, Devils Lake. including pay of employees, and for the purchase of seeds, twelve thousand dollars, of which sum seven thousand dollars shall be immediately available. For temporary support and civilization of Sioux, MedawakantonMedawakanton Sioux. Band, in Minnesota, five thousand dollars, to be immediately available. For support and civilization of the S’Klallam Indians, Washington,S’Klallams. including pay of employees, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For support and civilization of Tonkawa Indians, Indian Territory,Tonkawas. and for seeds and agricultural implements, four thousand dollars. For support and civilization of the Walla Walla, Cayuse, and UmatillaWalla Wallas, Cayuses, and Umatilla. tribes, Oregon, including pay of employees, six thousand five hundred dollars. For support and civilization of the Yakimas and other Indians atYakimas, etc. said agency, including pay of employees, ten thousand dollars. 893 GENERAL INCIDENTAL EXPENSES OF THE INDIAN SERVICE.Incidental expenses.
Arizona: For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service,Arizona. including traveling expenses of agents in Arizona, one thousand five hundred dollars. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed toJohn L. Bullis.Reimbursement. reimburse out of any unexpended balance of the appropriation for the support and civilization of the Indians in Arizona and New Mexico for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, Captain John L. Bullis, for expenditures made by him from his own private funds for the Indian service while acting United States Indian agent at San Carlos Agency, Arizona, upon the presentation of proper vouchers, to the amount of one thousand four hundred and thirty-seven dollars and fifty-nine cents.
California: For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service,California. including traveling expenses of agents, in California, and support and civilization of Indians at the Round Valley, Uoopa Valley, and Tale River agencies, thirteen thousand dollars; and pay of employees at same agencies, eight thousand dollars; in all, twenty-one thousand dollars. Colorado: For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service,Colorado. including traveling expenses of agents, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
North Dakota: For general incidental expenses of the Indian service,North Dakota. including traveling expenses of agents, at three agencies in North Dakota, one thousand five hundred dollars. South Dakota: For general incidental expenses of the Indian service,South Dakota. including traveling expenses of agents, at seven agencies in South Dakota, two thousand five hundred dollars. Idaho: For genera! incidental expenses of the Indian Service, includingIdaho. traveling expenses of agents, in Idaho, eight hundred dollars.
Montana: For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service,Montana. including traveling expenses of agents, two thousand five hundred dollars. Nevada: For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service,Nevada. including traveling expenses of agents, in Nevada, and support and civilization of Indians located on the Piute, Walker River, and Pyramid Lake reservations, and Piutes on the Western Shoshone Reservation, twelve thousand dollars; and pay of employees, same agency, four thousand dollars: in all, sixteen thousand dollars.
New Mexico: For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service,New Mexico. including traveling expenses of agents, one thousand dollars. To reimburse S. M. Cart late superintendent, of the Santa Fe IndianS M. Cart.Payment to. school for the sum paid by him for clerk hire, sixteen days at two dollars and seventy-eight cents per day, forty-four dollars and forty-eight cents. Oregon: For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service,Oregon. including traveling expenses of agents, in Oregon, and support and civilization of Indians of Grand Ronde and Siletz agencies, eight thousand dollars, and pay of employees at the same agencies, four thousand dollars; in all, twelve thousand dollars.
Utah: For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service, includingUtah. traveling expenses of agents, in Utah; support and civilization of Indians at Uintah Valley and Ouray agencies, three thousand dollars, and pay of employees at said agencies, four thousand dollars; in all, seven thousand dollars. Washington: For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service, includingWashington. traveling expenses of agents at seven agencies, and support and civilization of Indians at Colville and Puyallup agencies, and for pay of employees, fourteen thousand dollars.
Wyoming: For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service,Wyoming. including traveling expenses of agents, one thousand dollars. 894 MISCELLANEOUS.Miscellaneous. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay the Creek Nation aCreeks.Payment to. portion of the fund now held by the United States in accordance with Vol. 25, p. 759.the provisions of the Act of Congress entitled “An Act to ratify and confirm an agreement with the Muscogee Nation of Indians in the Indian Territory, and for other purposes,” approved March first, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, two hundred thousand dollars, and the same shall be paid in silver coin, or such other lawful money of the United States as the Creek Nation shall desire, to be immediately available.
The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed toStockbridge Indians.Per capita.Vol. 27, p. 745. pay to such of the Stockbridge Indians? per capita, as he shall find entitled under the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, to be enrolled and to participate in the distribution one-half of the trust fund now to their credit in the United States Treasury, and heretofore appropriated, when the allotment to their lands shall have been completed. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to negotiate with theSan Carlos Reservation, Ariz.Negotiation for coal lands.
Indians on the San Carlos Reservation, Arizona, through an inspector, for the cession or relinquishment to the United States of the lands embracing the coal fields, and that any agreement made shall be submitted to Congress for its action. To pay the necessary expenses of securing the consent to removal bySouthern Utes, Colo.Removal.*Ante*. p. 077. the Southern Ute Indians and the necessary expenses of removing said Indians, in accordance with the provisions of the law recently passed for their removal, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
For the payment of the first installment due on the fourth day ofCherokees.Payment of first installment Cherokee Outlet purchase.Vol. 27, p. 641.*Proviso*. March eighteen hundred and ninety-five to the Cherokee Nation, under the provisions of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, for the purchase of the “Cherokee Outlet,” the sum of one million six hundred and sixty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That said sum Retention.shall be held subject to the payment of the Delaware and Shawnee Indians and the Cherokee Freedmen as provided by the tenth section of said Act to be available immediately after March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five.
That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed,Pottawatomies, Ind. and Mich.Census. to detail or employ an Indian inspector to take a census of the Pottawatomie Indians of Indiana and Michigan who are entitled to a certain sum of money appropriated by Congress to satisfy a judgment of the *Ante*, p. 450.Court of Claims in favor of said Indians. And for the purpose of making the payment to the Pottawatomie Indians, of Indiana and Michigan, of the one hundred and four thousand six hundred and twenty-six dollars appropriated by the last Congress to satisfy a judgment of the Court of Claims, there is hereby appropriated the sum of one thousand dollars.
For continuing the work of the Puyallup Indian Commission appointedPuyallup Indian Reservation.Commission to appraise, etc.Vol. 27, p. 633. under the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, (Twenty-sixth Statutes, six hundred and twelve), to select and appraise such portions of the allotted lauds within the Puyallup Indian Reservation, Washington, as are not required for homes for the Indian allottees; and also that part of the agency tract exclusive of the burying ground not needed for school purposes, and for the purpose of defraying the expenses of said Commission the sum of fourteen thousand dollars to be reimbursed to the United States out of the proceeds of the sale of the agency tract and allotted lands, as provided in said Act, to be immediately available.
Whereas David H. Jerome, Alfred M. Wilson, and Warren G. Sayre,Agreement with Wichitas, etc., Oklahoma. duly appointed commissioners on the part of the United States, did, on the fourth day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, conclude an 895 agreement with the Wichita and affiliated bands of Indians in Oklahoma Territory, formerly a part of the Indian Territory, which said agreement is as follows: " “Articles of agreement made and entered into at Anadarko, in the Indian Territory, on the 4th day of June, A.
D. 1891, by and between David H. Jerome, Alfred M. Wilson, and Warren G. Sayre, commissioners on the part of the United States, and the Wichita and affiliated bands of Indians in the Indian Territory. “Article I. “The said Wichita and affiliated bands of Indians in the IndianLands ceded. Territory hereby cede, convey, transfer, relinquish, forever and absolutely, without any reservation whatever, all their claim, title and interest of every kind and character in and to the lands embraced in the following-described tract of country in the Indian Territory, to wit:
“Commencing at a point in the middle of the main channel of the Washita River, where the ninety-eighth meridian of west longitude crosses the same, thence up the middle of the main channel of said river to the line of 98° 40′ west longitude, thence on said line of 98° 40′ due north to the middle of the channel of the main Canadian River, thence down the middle of said main Canadian River to where it crosses the ninety-eighth meridian, thence due south to the place of beginning.
“Article II. “In consideration of the cession recited in the foregoing article, theAllotment of lands to Indians. United States agrees that out of said tract of country there shall be allotted to each and every member of said Wichita and affiliated bands of Indians in the Indian Territory native and adopted, one hundred and sixty acres of land, in the manner and form as follows: “Said tract of country shall be, by the United States, classified into grazing and grain-growing land, and when so classified each of said Indians shall be required to take at least one-half in area of his or her allotment in grazing land, subject to the foregoing and other restrictions hereinafter recited.
Each and every member of said Wichita and affiliated bands of Indians in the Indian Territory over the age of eighteen years shall have the right to select for himself or herself one hundred and sixty acres of land, to be held and owned in severalty, but to conform to legal surveys in boundary as nearly as practicable; and that the father, or if be be dead the mother (if members of said tribe or bands of Indians), shall have the right to select a like amount of land, under the same restrictions, for each of his or her children under the age of eighteen years; and that the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, or some one appointed by him for the purpose, shall select a like amount of land, under the same restrictions, for each orphan child belonging to said tribe or bands of Indians under the age of eighteen years.
“It is hereby further expressly agreed that no person shall have the right to make his or her selection of land in any part of said tract of country that is now used or occupied, or that has been or may hereafter be set apart for military, agency, school, school farm, religious, town site, or other public uses, or in sections sixteen
(16)and thirty-six
(36)in each Congressional township, except, in cases where any member of said Wichita and affiliated bands of Indians has heretofore made improvements upon and now occupies and uses a part of said sections sixteen
(16)and thirty-six (36), such Indian may make his or her selection, according to the legal subdivisions, so as to include his or her improvements. It is further agreed that wherever in said tract ’ of country any one of said Indians has made improvements and now uses and occupies the land embracing such improvements, such Indian 896 shall have the undisputed right to make his or her selection, to conform to legal subdivisions, however, so as to include such improvements without reference to the classification of land hereinbefore recited. “Article III. “All allotments hereunder shall be selected within ninety days fromSelection of lands. the ratification of this agreement by Congress of the United States; provided, the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion, may extend the time for making such selection; and should any Indian entitled to allotments hereunder fail or refuse to make his or her selection of land in such time, then the. allotting agent in charge of the work of making such allotments shall, within the next thirty
(30)days after said time, make allotments to such Indians, which shall have the same force and . effect as if the selections were made by the Indians themselves. “Article IV. “When said allotments of land shall have been selected and takenTitles to be held in trust. as aforesaid, and approved by the Secretary of the Interior, the titles thereto shall be held in trust for the allottees, respectively, fora, period of twenty-five
(25)years, in the manner and to the extent provided for Vol. 24, p. 389.in the act of Congress entitled “An act to provide for the allotment of land in severalty to Indians on the various reservations, and to extend the protection of the laws of the United States and the Territories over the Indians, and for other purposes.” Approved February 8, 1887. And at the expiration of twenty-five
(25)years the title thereto shall be conveyed in fee simple to the allottees, or their heirs, free from all incumbrances. “Article V. “In addition to the allotments above provided for, and the otherCash payment. benefits to be received under the preceding articles, said Wichita and affiliated bands of Indians claim and insist that further compensation, in money, should be made to them by the United States, for their possessory right in and to the lands above described in excess of so much thereof as may be required for their said allotments. Therefore it is further agreed that the question as to what sum of money, if any, shall be paid to said Indians for such surplus lands shall be submitted to the Congress of the United States, the decision of Congress thereon to be final and binding upon said Indians; provided, if any sum of money shall be allowed by Congress for surplus lands, it shall be subject to a reduction for each allotment of land that may be taken in excess of one thousand and sixty (1,000) at that price per acre, if any,that maybe allowed by Congress. “Article VI. “It is further agreed that there shall be reserved to said Indians theClaims not impaired. right to prefer against the United States any and every claim that they may believe they have the right to prefer, save and except any claim to the tract of country described in the first article, of this agreement. “Article VII. “It is hereby further agreed that wherever, in this reservation, anyLands for religions, etc., uses. religious society or other organization is now occupying any portion of said reservation for Religious or educational work among the Indians the land so occupied may be allotted and confirmed to such society or organization; not, however, to exceed one hundred and sixty
(100)acres of land to any one society or organization, so long as the same shall be so occupied and used, and such land shall not be subject to 897 homestead entry. That whenever said lands are abandoned tor school purposes the same shall revert to said Indian Tribes and be disposed of for their benefit. “Article VIII. “This agreement shall have effect whenever it shall be ratified byRatifications. the Congress of the United States. “In witness whereof, the said commissioners on the part of the United States have hereunto set their hands, and the undersigned members of the said Wichita and affiliated bands of Indians have set their hands, the day and year first above written.” " That said agreement be, and the same hereby is, accepted, ratified,Agreement confirmed. and confirmed as herein provided. The compensation to be allowed in full for all Indian claims to thesePrice per acre. lands which may be sustained by said court in the scrip hereinafter Provided for shall not exceed one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre for so much of said land as will not be required for allotment to the Indians as provided in the foregoing agreement, subject to such reduction as may be found necessary under article five of said agreement: *Provided*, That no part of said sum shall be paid except as hereinafter*Proviso*.Payment. provided. That for the purpose of making the allotments provided for in saidAllotment expenses. agreement, including the pay and expenses of the necessary special agent or agents hereby authorized to be appointed by the President for the purpose and the necessary resurveys, there be, and hereby is, appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. That whenever any of the lands acquired by this agreement shall,Disposal of lands. by operation of law or proclamation of the President of the United States, be open to settlement, they shall be disposed of under the general provisions of the homestead and town-site laws of the United States: *Provided*, That in addition to the land office fees prescribed byProvisos.Fees. statute for such entries the entry man shall pay one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre for the land entered at the time of submitting his final proof: *And provided further*, That in all homestead entries whereHomestead entries. the entry man has resided upon and improved the land entered in good faith for the period of fourteen mouths he may commute his entry to cash upon the payment of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre: *And provided further*, That the rights of honorably discharged UnionSoldiers, etc. soldiers and sailors of the late civil war, as defined and described in sections twenty-three hundred and four and twenty-three hundred and[R. S., secs. 2304, 2305, p. 422](/us/rs/t/s2304/2305/p422). five of the Revised Statutes, shall not be abridged: *And provided further*, That any qualified entry man having lands adjoining the landsAdjoining lands. herein ceded, whose original entry embraced less than one hundred and sixty acres, may take sufficient land from said reservation to make his homestead entry not to exceed one hundred and sixty acres in all, said land to be taken upon the same conditions as are required of other entry men: *Provided*, That said lands shall be opened to settlementOpening. within one year after said allotments are made to the Indians. That sections sixteen and thirty-six, thirteen and thirty-three, of theEducational lands. lands hereby acquired, in each township, shall not be subject to entry, but shall be reserved, sections sixteen and thirty-six for the use of the common schools, and sections thirteen and thirty-three for university, agricultural college, normal schools, and public buildings of the Territory and future State of Oklahoma; and in case either of said sections or parts thereof is lost to said Territory by reason of allotment under this Actor otherwise the governor thereof is hereby authorized to locate other lands not occupied in quantity equal to the loss: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Payment for. the United States shall pay the Indians for said reserved sections the same price as is paid for the lands not reserved. 898 That as fast as the lands opened for settlement under this Act areReceipts to await suit. sold, the money received from such sales shall be deposited in the Treasury subject to the judgment of the court in the suit herein provided for, less such amount, not to exceed fifteen thousand dollars, as the Secretary of the Interior may find due Luther II. Pike, deceased, late delegate of said Indians, in accordance with his agreement with said Indians, to be retained in the Treasury to the credit and subject *Proviso*.Title.to the drafts of the legal representative of said Luther II. Pike: *Provided*, That no part of said money shall be paid to said Indians until the question of title to the same is fully settled. That as the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations claim to have some right,Court of Claims to hear claim of Choctaws and Chickasaws. title, and interest in and to the lands ceded by the foregoing agreement, winch claim is controverted by the United States, jurisdiction be, and is hereby, conferred upon the Court of Claims to hear and determine the said claim of the Choctaws and Chickasaws and to render judgment thereon, it being the intention of this Act to allow said Court of Claims jurisdiction, so that the rights, legal and equitable, of the United States, and the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations, and the Wichita and affiliated bands of Indians in the premises, shall be fully considered and determined, and to try and determine all questions that may arise on behalf of either party in the hearing of said claim; and the Attorney-General is hereby directed to appear in behalf of the Government of the United States, and either of the parties to said action shall have the right of appeal to the Supreme Court of the *Proviso*.Appeal.United States: *Provided*, That such appeal shall be taken within sixty days after the rendition of the judgment objected to, and that the said Right not conceded.courts shall give such causes precedence: *And provided further*, That nothing in this Act shall be accepted or construed as a confession that the United States admit that the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations have any claim to or interest in said lands or any part thereof. That said action shall be presented by a single petition making theProceedings. United States and the Wichita and affiliated bands of Indians parties defendant and shall set forth all the facts on which the said Choctaw and Chickasaw nations claim title to said land; and said petition may be verified by the authorized delegates, agents, or attorney of said nations upon information and belief as to the existence of such facts, *Provisos*.Time limit.and no other statement or verification shall be necessary. *Provided*, That if said Choctaw and Chickasaw nations do not bring their action within ninety days from the approval of this Act their claim shall be Notice to Wichitas, etc., of suit.forever barred: *And provided further*, That, it shall be the duty of the Attorney-General of the United States, within ten days after the filing of said petition, to give notice to said Wichitas and affiliated bands through the agents, delegates, attorneys, or other representatives of said bands that said bands are made defendants in said suit, of the purpose of said suit, that they are required to make answer to said petition, and that Congress has, in accordance with article five of said agreement adopted this method of determining their compensation, if any. And the answer of the Wichitas and affiliated bands shall state the facts on which they rely for compensation, and may be verified by their agents, delegates, attorneys, or other representatives upon their information and belief as to the existence of such facts, and no other Answer of Wichitas etc.statement or verification shall be necessary: *And provided also*, That said Wichitas and affiliated bands shall file their answer in said suit within sixty days after they shall receive from the Attorney-General of the United States the notice herein provided for unless further time is granted by the court, and in the event of failure to answer they may be barred from all claim in the premises aforesaid. The said Court of Claims shall receive and consider as evidence inEvidence to be received. the suit everything which shall be deemed by said court necessary to aid it in determining the questions presented, and tending to shed light on the claim, rights, and equities of the parties litigant, and issue rules on any department of the Government therefor if necessary. 899 It is hereby further provided that said Choctaw and ChickasawChoctaws and Chick Maws may negotiate with Commission. nations may, at any time before the rendition of final judgment in said case by the Court of Claims, negotiate with the Commissioners appointed under section sixteen of the Act of Congress approved the third dayVol. 27, p. 645. of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-three (Twenty-seventh Statutes, page six hundred and forty-five), or with any successor or successors in said Commission for the settlement of the said matters involved in saidSettlement. suit, and move the suspension of such action until such negotiation shall be accepted or rejected by Congress; such settlement, however, to be made with the concurrence of the Secretary of the Interior and Attorney-General of the United States. That the laws relating to the mineral lands of the United States areMineral laws. hereby extended over the lands ceded by the foregoing agreement. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directedSettlers on Crow Creek and Winnebago reservations.Payment for removals. to reimburse, out of any unexpended balance of the appropriation of three thousand dollars for reimbursing certain settlers on the Crow Creek and Winnebago Indian reservations in South Dakota whose claims “were held for further proof,” and so forth, made by the Indian appropriation Act approved August fifteenth, eighteen hundred and*Ante*, p. 307. ninety-four, and out of the further sum of three thousand dollars which is hereby appropriated for the purpose, those settlers upon said reservations between the dates indicated in said Act whose claims have not heretofore been investigated under the provisions of the Act of CongressVol. 26, p. 659. approved October first, eighteen hundred and ninety, authorizing the ascertainment of the losses of such settlers, for the actual and necessary losses which he finds upon investigation they have sustained as a result of such settlement: *Provided*, That the claims of such settlers, with*Provisos*.Filing claims. accompanying proofs, shall be filed in the Department of the Interior within six months from the date of the approval of this Act: *Provided*,Suit on disallowed claims. That any claimant whose claim has heretofore been wholly disallowed by the Interior Department may within six months after the passage of this Act, bring suit upon the same, in the Court of Claims, and the time of removal from the reservation by said claimant shall be no bar to said suit. The Interior Department shall transfer all the papers filed in anyTransfer of evidence. such claim to the Court of Claims to be used as evidence therein, and the rights and equities of such claimant to damages sustained by reason of removal from such lands shall be by the Court fully considered and determined: *Provided, however*, That if the Court shall find that*Proviso*.Conditions. any such claimant arbitrarily disobeyed, or neglected without good reason to obey, the order of removal, his claim shall be disallowed. That the accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorizedBeef contractors and directed to settle and pay the claims of the following named contractors for beef cows, delivered at the following-named agencies, under contracts with the Indian Bureau during the fiscal year of eighteen hundred and ninety-one, being for suspension or disallowance, made on account of excess of number of cows, limited by the words of the contract, to wit: To Waller Brothers, one thousand one hundred and thirty-threeWaller Brothers.Payment to. dollars and seventy-three cents for cows delivered at Rosebud and Pine Ridge agencies in June of eighteen hundred and ninety-one. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to use tenSisseton, S. Dak.Relief of. thousand dollars of any unexpended balance of the amount appropriated under the Act of August nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety,Vol. 26, p. 352.Vol. 27, p. 137. or the Act of July thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, for relief of destitute Indians, to relieve the immediate necessities and distress of the Sisseton Indians in South Dakota, as far as the Secretary may find such expenditure necessary. That any State or Territory entitled to indemnity school lands orSelection of school lands on reservations opened. entitled to select lands for educational purposes under existing law may select such lands within the boundaries of any Indian reservation in such State or Territory from the surplus lands thereof, purchased by 900 the United States after allotments have been made to the Indians of such reservation, and prior to the opening of such reservation to settlement. For operating and repairing the Hour mill at Pima Agency, Arizona,Mill, Tima Agency, Ariz. one thousand five hundred dollars. For pay of employees at substation, and saw and flour mills at theFlathead Agency, Mont. Flathead Agency, Montana, three thousand dollars. To enable the President to cause, under the provisions of the Act ofAllotments.Vol. 24, p. 388. 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, thirty thousand dollars: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Leases permitted by allottees.That whenever it shall be made to appear to the Secretary of the Interior that by reason of age, disability or inability, any allottee of Indian lands under this or former Acts of Congress can not personally and with benefit to himself occupy or improve his allotment or any part thereof the same may be leased upon such terms, regulations, and conditions as shall be prescribed by the Secretary for a term not exceeding live years for farming or grazing purposes, or ten years for mining or business purposes. The proper accounting officers of the Secretary of the Treasury areLouisa Beveridge.Payment to. hereby authorized to pay to Louisa Beveridge the sum of one hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty cents for board of a delegate of the Ottawa tribe of Indians. For the construction, purchase, and use of irrigating machinery andIrrigation, etc. appliances on Indian reservations, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, and subject to his control, thirty thousand dollars. For survey and subdivision of Indian reservations, and of lands to beSurveying and allotting. 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, twenty thousand dollars. For surveying the Indian reservations in South Dakota, twentySurveying reservations, Dak. thousand dollars, to be immediately available. To enable the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion, to negotiateFort Belknap Indians.Negotiations for lands. with the Belknap Indians for the surrender of certain portions of their reservation, situated in the north central portion of the State of Blackfeet Indians.Negotiations for lands.Montana, and the Blackfeet Indians for the surrender of certain portions of their reservation, situated in the northwestern part of the Commission.State of Montana, three thousand five hundred dollars; and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to appoint a commission to negotiate with the said Belknap and Blackfeet Indians for the ceding of said portions of their respective reservations, any agreement thus negotiated being subject to action by Congress. For the survey of the lands in the Indian Territory, two hundredIndian Territory.Survey.*Proviso*.Work may be done by Geological Survey. thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary to be immediately available: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Interior may, in his discretion, direct that the surveys herein authorized, or any part of them, in the Indian Territory, shall be made under the supervision of the Director of the Geological Survey, by such persons as may be employed by or under him for that purpose. And such surveys shall be executed under instructions to be issued by the Secretary of the Interior, and subdivisional surveys shall be executed under the Filing plats, etc.rectangular system, as now provided by law: *Provided further*, That when any surveys shall have been so made and plats and field notes thereof prepared, they shall be approved and certified to by the Director of the Geological Survey, and two copies thereof shall be returned, one for filing in the Indian Office and one in the General Land Office; and such Effect.surveys, field notes, and plats shall have the same legal force and effect 901 as heretofore given to the acts of surveyors-general: *Provided further*,Inconsistent laws. That all laws inconsistent with the provisions hereof are declared to be inoperative as respects such surveys. That jurisdiction upon the principles of law and equity be, and it isAlbert Pike.Claim against Choctaws to be tried in Court of Claims. hereby, conferred upon the Court of Claims to hear and determine a suit that may be instituted therein by Yvon Pike, Lilian Pike, and the legal representatives of Luther H. Pike, children and heirs at law of Albert Pike, deceased, late a citizen of the State of Arkansas, against the Choctaw Nation of Indians for just compensation to them for and on account of services as attorney at law and otherwise rendered to and for said nation by the said Albert Pike in his lifetime, in and about the prosecution of the so-called “net proceeds” claim of said nation against the United States and in other business, and to render such judgment or decree in said suit, upon the merits thereof, as the facts will warrant, and as shall be just and equitable, with right of appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States from said judgment or decree to either party to said suit. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directedJoel M. Bryan.Services. to pay to Joel M. Bryan, for services rendered the North Carolina Cherokees residing in the Cherokee Nation west, in accordance with the proceedings of a council of said North Carolina Cherokees held at Tahlequah, in the Indian Territory, March twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, now on file with the accounting officers of the Treasury Department, the sum of three thousand dollars, out of any unexpended balance of the amount appropriated by the Act of March third,Vol. 27, p. 630. eighteen hundred and ninety-three, for the removal and subsistence of those members of the Eastern Band of Cherokees who have removed themselves, as well as those who may now or hereafter desire to remove themselves, to the Cherokee Nation in the Indian Territory. For payment of interest on certain abstracted and nonpaying StateInterest on trust funds. stocks belonging to the various Indian tribes, and held in trust by the Secretary of the Interior, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five,namely: From July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, to August fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, both inclusive, nine thousand eight hundred and seventy dollars and forty-two cents. To provide for the expenses of the five commissioners appointed toOld Settlers Cherokees.Commissioners to take census.*Ante*, p. 308. take a census of the Old Settler Cherokees, two thousand dollars, in addition to the sum of five thousand dollars appropriated for such purpose by Act of Congress approved August fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, the same to be deducted from the amount awarded to said Indians by judgment of the. Court of Claims, dated June sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and reimbursed to the United States. To enable the Attorney-General to employ a special attorney for theMission Indians, Cal.Attorney. Mission Indians of southern California, upon the recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior, two thousand dollars, of which sum one thousand dollars shall be available for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five. That the homestead settlers on the Absentee Shawnee, Pottawatomie,Oklahoma.Homestead settlers granted time to complete entries.Vol. 26, p. 1026.*Ante*, p. 3. and Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indian lands in Oklahoma Territory be, and they are hereby, granted an extension of one year within which to make the first payment provided for in section sixteen of the Act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled “A n Act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and for other purposes,” and such payment may be made at any time within five years from the date of the entry of such lands. And that the like extension of one year on the firstExtended to reservations in North Dakota etc. payment required to be made, when payable in installments, is hereby granted to all homestead settlers on and purchasers of all ceded Indian 902 reservations in the States of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Montana, and Idaho. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and hereby is, authorized andIowas Kansas and Nebraska.Negotiations for lands for, from Otoea and Missourias. directed to negotiate with the Otoe and Missouria tribe of Indians, located in the Territory of Oklahoma, and, if practicable, to purchase from the said tribe a sufficient quantity of their surplus lands to allot to members of the Iowa tribe of Indians, in Kansas and Nebraska, as *Proviso*.Other lands may be taken.hereinafter set forth: *Provided*, That in case the Secretary of the Interior deems best tor the interests of the said Iowa tribe he is hereby authorized to allot to the said Iowa Indians lands that have been, or may hereafter be, ceded to the United States by the Comanche, Kiowa, and Apache, or the Wichita tribes of Indians, located in the Territory of Oklahoma. The lands so secured to be allotted in tracts of eighty acres of farmingAllotments. land to each person who has not already received an allotment of land who was recognized as a member on May first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, of the Iowa tribe of Indians, in Kansas and Nebraska, and to children born to members of the tribe since the former allotment, and to such other persons of Iowa blood who may be admitted to membership by authority of the said Iowa tribe, with the approval of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, previous to the completion of the allotments hereinbefore provided for; said allotments to be made under the provisions of the Act of Congress providing for the Vol. 26, p. 794.allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservations, approved February eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven. The cost of the lands hereby authorized to be purchased from thePayments. Otoe and Missouria tribe of Indians, or the lands owned by the United States that are allotted as aforesaid, shall be paid to the said Otoe and Missouria tribe or reimbursed to the United States from funds due the said Iowa tribe of Indians now held in trust by the United States, payment of said sum to be under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior: *Provided*, That a majority of the male adult members of the said Iowa tribe of Indians shall first agree to the provisions hereof. That with the consent of the Otoe and Missouria tribe of Indians, toCivilization, etc. be obtained in such a manner as the Secretary of the Interior may direct, said Secretary is authorized to expend any of the principal sum derived from the sale of their lands in Kansas and Nebraska, not to exceed thirty thousand dollars, the same to be expended per capita, in his discretion, in the election of houses and other necessary farm buildings on their individual allotments, in the purchase of seed, farm implements, and domestic animals, and in settling them upon their lands, *Provisos*.Cash payments.and in preparing them to begin agricultural life: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Interior may, in Ids discretion, pay to any of said Indians, whom he may consider capable of judiciously expending their Expenses of delegates.money, their per capita share of such sum in cash: *Provided further*, the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to pay the five Indian delegates of said tribes now in Washington two hundred and fifty dollars each out of this appropriation to cover their board and traveling expenses in coming to and returning from Washington, to be immediately available. That that part of the Act of Congress approved February twenty-eighth,Sacs and Foxes of the Missouri.Restriction on allotments to, repealed. eighteen hundred and ninety-one, amending an Act providing for the allotment of land in severalty to Indians on various reservations, and Vol. 26, p. 796.so forth, approved February eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, which reads as follows, to wit: “*And provided further*, That no allotment of land shall be made or annuities of money paid to any of the Sac and Fox of the Missouri Indians who were not enrolled as Members of said tribe on January first, eighteen hundred and ninety; but this shall not be held to impair or otherwise affect the rights or equities of any person whose claim to membership in said tribe is now pending and being investigated,” be, and the same is hereby, repealed. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed toCherokee Outlet. 903 suspend action under the provisions of the Act of Congress approvedRemoval of intruders postponed.Vol. 27, p. 641. March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three (twenty-seventh Statutes, six hundred and forty-one), ratifying the agreement with the Cherokee Nation of December nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, as to the actual removal from the Cherokee country of persons designated by the authorities as intruders, until the appraisal of the value of the improvements of such persons shall have been completed and approved by the Secretary of the Interior and submitted by him to Congress and the removal of such intruders shall not be made earlier than January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-six: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Rent to be paid for improvements not surrendered. whenever any intruder shall have been paid or tendered the appraised value of his improvements, if he does not immediately surrender possession of the same to the authorities of the Cherokee Nation he shall pay rent therefor at the rate usual in the country, but this provision shall not be construed to extend the time for the removal of intruders according to the foregoing agreement beyond the first day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-six. That, the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, directed toSacs and Foxes of Mississippi.Claim for annuities to be examined. examine the claim of the Sac and Fox Indians of Mississippi, now residing in the State of Iowa, as set forth in their memorial presented to Congress (Senate Miscellaneous Document Numbered Forty-eight, Fifty-third Congress, third session), for the payment of annuities and other sums from the tribal funds of said Sac and Fox Indians of Mississippi and any and all claims of that portion of the tribe residing in Iowa, and to ascertain whether, under any treaties or Acts of Congress, any amount is justly due them as a portion of said tribe from those of said tribe now in Oklahoma by reason of any unequal distribution of tribal annuities, hind funds, or funds from other sources, and if so, how much, giving full opportunity to all parties in interest to be heard, and to report his conclusions to Congress at the next assembling thereof. To pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated,Miami Indians of Indiana.Repayment for funds taken. to the Indiana Miami Indians residing in the State of Indiana or elsewhere, the sum of forty-eight thousand five hundred and twenty-eight dollars and thirty-eight cents, which said sum of money was by the United States taken from their tribal funds against their protest, and in violation of the treaty of eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and paid to other persons not entitled to it; which facts have been found and determined by the Court of Claims, in Congressional case numbered nine thousand two hundred and fifty-five, and reported to Congress, which sum shall be immediately available: *Provided, however*, That*Provisos*.Payment of Attorney’s fees. before the payment of any part of said sum to said Indians there shall be deducted and paid to the attorney of record in the Court of Claims, employed by said Indians under an agreement heretofore approved by the Secretary of the Interior and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, the sum so approved by the Secretary and Commissioner, not exceeding ten per centum of said amount: *And provided further’*, That said sumSpecial agent to make payment. shall be paid to the Indians entitled to receive the same by a special agent appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, and shall be distributed to said Indians under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. That section twenty-one hundred and thirty-nine of the RevisedMiami, Ind. T.Sale of liquors forbidden.Vol. 27, p. 260. Statutes of the United States, as amended by the Act of July twenty-third, eighteen hundred and ninety-two (Twenty-seven Statutes, two hundred and sixty), be, and the same is hereby, extended over and made applicable to the town and town site of Miami in the Indian Territory; and the United States courts of said Territory shall have full jurisdiction thereof. support of schools.Support of schools. For support of Indian day and industrial schools, and for other educationalDay and industrial purposes, including the purchase, lease, repair, and construction of school buildings, including the expenses of advertising for bids 904 for the erection of such buildings not hereinafter provided for, including pay of draftsman at one thousand five hundred dollars per annum, to be employed in the office of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, one million one hundred and sixty-four thousand three hundred and fifty dollars, of which amount the Secretary of the Interior may, in his Alaska Indians.*Provisos*.Contracts.Reduction, etc.discretion, use five thousand dollars for the education of Indians in Alaska: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the interior shall make contracts, but only with present contract schools, for the education of Indian pupils during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, to an extent not exceeding eighty per centum of the amount so used for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and the Government shall, as early as practicable, make provision for the Public schools not included.education of Indian children in Government schools: *Provided*, That the foregoing shall not apply to public schools of any State, Territory, county,or city,or to schools herein or hereafter specifically provided for; For purchase of horses, cattle, sheep, goats, swine, and so forth, forCattle, etc. schools, twenty thousand dollars; in all, one million one hundred and eighty-four thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. For support and education of three hundred Indian pupils at Albuquerque,Albuquerque, N. Mex. New Mexico, at one hundred and sixty-seven dollars per annum for each pupil, fifty thousand one hundred dollars; for pay of superintendent of said school, one thousand five hundred dollars; for general repairs and improvements, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, fifty-three thousand one hundred dollars. For support of one hundred and thirty-five pupils at the trainingCherokee, N. C. school at Cherokee, North Carolina, at one hundred and sixty-seven dollars per annum each, twenty-two thousand five hundred and forty-five dollars, and pay of superintendent of said school, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, twenty-three thousand seven hundred and forty-five dollars. For support of Indian industrial school at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, atCarlisle. Pa. not exceeding one hundred and sixty-seven dollars for each pupil, for transportation of pupils to and from said school, for general repairs and improvements, one hundred and two thousand dollars. For support and education of one hundred and twenty five IndianCarson City. Nev. pupils, at one hundred and sixty-seven dollars per annum each, at the Indian school at Carson City, Nevada, twenty thousand eight hundred and seventy five dollars; for pay of superintendent at said school, one thousand two hundred dollars; for general repairs and improvements, one thousand dollars; in all, twenty-three thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars. For support of three hundred and fifty Indian pupils, at one hundredChilocco, Ind. T. and sixty-seven dollars per annum each, at the Indian school at Chilocco, Indian Territory, fifty-eight thousand four hundred and fifty dollars: for pay of superintendent at said school, one thousand five hundred dollars; for general repairs and improvements, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, sixty-one thousand four hundred and fifty dollars. For support and education of one hundred and fifty Indian pupils atFlandreau, S. Dak. Flandreau, South Dakota, at one hundred and sixty-seven dollars each per annum, twenty-five thousand and fifty dollars; for general repairs, and improvements, one thousand dollars; for water supply, one thousand dollars; for pay of superintendent of said school, one thousand five hundred dollars; completing sewerage and plumbing, one thousand dollars; in all, twenty-nine thousand five hundred and fifty dollars: *Proviso*.Continuance of pupils.*Provided*, That any pupil who has been in attendance at said school during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, shall be permitted to continue at said school during the fiscal years eighteen hundred and ninety-five and eighteen hundred and ninety-six. For support and education of one hundred and fifty Indian pupils atFort Mojave. Ariz. the Indian school, Fort Mojave. Arizona, at one hundred and sixty-seven dollars per annum each, twenty-five thousand and fifty dollars; 905 for pay of superintendent of said school, one thousand five hundred dollars; for general repairs and improvements, one thousand dollars; in all, twenty-seven thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. That any unexpended balance of the amount appropriated for buildings and repairs of buildingsFort Shaw, Mont.Balance for seeds, etc.*Ante*, p. 38. for Fort Shaw Reservation and Indian Industrial School, Montana, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, not needed for that purpose, may be used for purchase of seed, agricultural implements, irrigation, and for water and sewer system for said school, and shall be available during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six. For support and education of two hundred and forty Indian pupils,Fort Totten, N. Dak. at one hundred and sixty-seven dollars per annum each, at Indian school, Fort Totten, North Dakota, forty thousand and eighty dollars; for pay of superintendent at said school, one thousand five hundred dollars; for general repairs and improvements, one thousand dollars; in all, forty-two thousand five hundred and eighty dollars. For support and education of three hundred Indian pupils at theGenoa, Nebr. Indian school, Genoa, Nebraska, at one hundred and sixty-seven dollars per annum each, fifty thousand one hundred dollars; for general repairs and improvements, one thousand dollars; for pay of superintendent of said school, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, fifty-two thousand six hundred dollars. For support and education of one hundred and fifty Indian pupils atGrand Junction, Colo. the Indian school at Grand J unction, Colorado, at one hundred and sixty-seven dollars per annum each, twenty-five thousand and fifty dollars; for pay of superintendent at said school, one thousand five hundred dollars; for general repairs and improvements, one thousand dollars; for erection of hospital, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, twenty-nine thousand and fifty dollars. For support and education of one hundred and twenty Indian pupilsHampton, Va. at the school at Hampton, Virginia, twenty thousand and forty dollars. For support and education of two hundred Indian pupils at LincolnLincoln Institution, Philadelphia, Fa. Institution, Philadelphia, at one hundred and sixty-seven dollars per annum each, thirty three thousand four hundred dollars. For support and education of five hundred Indian pupils at theLawrence, Kane. Indian school, Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas, at one hundred and sixty-seven dollars per annum each, eighty-three thousand five hundred dollars; for pay of superintendent at said school, one thousand eight hundred dollars: for general repairs and improvements, one thousand dollars; in all, eighty-six thousand three hundred dollars. For support and education of one hundred and fifty Indian pupils atMount Pleasant, Mich. the Indian school, Blount Pleasant, Michigan, at one hundred and sixty-seven dollars each per annum, twenty-five thousand and fifty dollars; for pay of superintendent of said school, one thousand live hundred dollars; for general repairs and improvements, two thousand dollars; in all, twenty-nine thousand and fifty dollars. For support and education of one hundred Indians pupils at thePerris, Cal. Indian school at Perris, California, at one hundred and sixty-seven dollars each per annum, sixteen thousand seven hundred dollars; for pay of superintendent of said school, one thousand two hundred dollars; for election of additional buildings and genera) improvements, five thousand dollars; in all, twenty-two thousand nine hundred dollars. For support and education of two hundred and fifty Indian pupils atPhoenix, Ariz. the Indian school at Phoenix, Arizona, atone hundred and sixty seven dollars per annum each, forty-one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; for pay of superintendent at said school, one thousand five hundred dollars; for general repairs and improvements, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, forty-four thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. For support and education of one hundred and fifty Indian pupils atPierre, S. Dak. the Indian school, Pierre, South Dakota, at one hundred and sixty-seven dollars each per annum, twenty five thousand and fifty dollars; 906 for pay of superintendent of said school, one thousand five hundred dollars; for general repairs and improvements, one thousand dollars; in all, twenty-seven thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. For support, and education of seventy-five Indian pupils at the IndianPipestone, Minn. school, Pipestone, Minnesota, at one hundred and sixty-seven dollars per annum each, twelve thousand five hundred and twenty-five dollars; for pay of superintendent at said school, one thousand two hundred dollars; for general repairs and improvements, five hundred dollars; in all, fourteen thousand two hundred and twenty five dollars. For support and education of two hundred and fifty Indian pupilsSalem, Oreg. at the Indian school, Salem, Oregon, at one hundred and sixty-seven dollars per annum each, forty-one, thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; for pay of superintendent at said school, one thousand five hundred dollars; for general repairs and improvements, one thousand dollars; in all, forty-four thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For support and education of one hundred and fifty Indian pupilsSanta Fe, N. Mex. at the Indian school at Santa Fe, New Mexico, at one hundred and sixty-seven dollars each per annum, twenty-five thousand and fifty dollars; for pay of superintendent at said school, one thousand five hundred dollars; for water supply for irrigation and fire protection, one thousand five hundred dollars; for general repairs and improvements, one thousand dollars; in all, twenty-nine thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. For support and education of one hundred and fifty Indian pupilsShoshone Reservation, Wyo. at the Indian school, Shoshone Reservation, Wyoming, at one hundred and sixty-seven dollars per annum each, twenty-five thousand and fifty dollars; for pay of superintendent at said school, one thousand five hundred dollars; for general repairs and improvements, one thousand dollars; in all, twenty-seven thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. For support and education of one hundred IndianTomah, Wis. pupils at the Indian school, Tomah, Wisconsin, at one hundred and sixty-seven dollars per annum each, sixteen thousand seven hundred dollars; for pay of superintendent at said school, one thousand two hundred dollars; for general repairs and improvements, one thousand dollars; in all, eighteen thousand nine hundred dollars. That the Commissioner of Indian Affairs shall employ Indian girlsGirls and boys to be used assistants. as assistant matrons and Indian boys as farmers and industrial teachers in all Indian schools when it is practicable to do so. For collecting and transportation of pupils to and from IndianTransportation, etc. 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 pupils moral, industrial, and Educational training, under arrangements in which their proper care, support,and education shall be in exchange for their labor, thirty thousand dollars, of which amount the sum of eight thousand dollars shall be immediately available. That hereafter no Indian child shall be sent from any Indian ReservationConsent of parent to send child out of State, etc. to a school beyond the State or Territory in which said Reservation is situated without the voluntary consent of the father or mother of such child if either of them are living, and if neither of them are living without the voluntary consent of the next of kin of such child. Such consent shall be made before the agent of the reservation, and he shall send to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs bis certificate that such consent has been voluntarily given before such child shall be removed from such reservation. And it shall be unlawful for any Indian agent or other employee of the Government to induce, or seek to induce, by withholding rations or by other improper means, the parents or next of kin of any Indian to consent to the removal of any Indian child beyond the limits of any reservation. 907 That the allotments of land made to the Quapaw Indians, in theQuapaw Indians.Allotments confirmed. Indian Territory, in pursuance of an act of the Quapaw National Council, approved March twenty-third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, be and the same are hereby ratified and confirmed, subject to revision, correction and approval by the Secretary of the Interior: *Provided, however*, That any allottee who may be dissatisfied with his*Provisos.*Revision. allotment shall have all the rights to contest the same provided for in said Act of the Quapaw National Council subject to revision, correction, and approval by the Secretary of the Interior. And the SecretaryPatents. of the Interior is hereby authorized to issue patents to said allottees in accordance therewith: *Provided*, That said allotments shallInalienable for twenty-five years. be inalienable for a period of twenty-five years from and after the date of said patents: *And provided further*, That the surplus lands on saidSurplus lands. reservation, if any, may be allotted from time to time, by said tribe to its members, under the above entitled act. That the expenditure of the money appropriated for school purposesCommissioner of Indian Affairs to direct school expenditures. in this Act 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 from time to time be prescribed by him, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior. Sec. 2. That no purchase of supplies for which appropriations arePurchases of supplies to be advertised. herein made, exceeding in the aggregate five hundred dollars in value, at anyone time,shall be made without first giving at least three weeks’ public notice by advertisement, except in case of exigency, when, in theException, exigencies. 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 funds herein and heretofore appropriated*Provisos*.Irrigation. for construction of artesian wells, ditches, and other works for irrigating may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, be expended in open market: *Provided further*, That purchase in open market shall,Purchases from Indians. as far as practicable, be made from Indians, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of theManufactures by Indiana. Interior may, when practicable, arrange for the manufacture by Indians upon the reservation of shoes, clothing, leather, harness, and wagons. Sec. 3. That the Secretary of the Interior, under the direction of theDiversion of surplus for subsistence. President, may use any surplus that may remain in any of the said appropriations herein made for the purchase of subsistence for the several Indian tribes, to an amount not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars in the aggregate, to supply any subsistence deficiency that may occur: *Provided, however*, That funds appropriated to fulfill treaty obligations*Provisos*.Treaty funds.Report. shall not be used: *And provided further*, That any diversions which shall be made under authority of this section shall be reported in detail, and the reason therefor, to Congress, at the session of Congress next succeeding such diversion: *And provided further*, That thePurchase of stock cattle, etc. Secretary of the Interior, under the direction of the President, may use any sums appropriated in this Act for subsistence, and not absolutely necessary for that purpose, for the purchase of stock cattle for the benefit of the tribe for which such appropriation is made, or for the assistance of such Indians to become farmers, and in aiding such Indians as have taken allotments to build houses and other buildings for residence or improvement of such allotments, and shall report to Congress, at its next session thereafter, an account of his action under this provision. Sec. 4. That when not required for the purpose for which appropriatedTransfer of funds for employees. the funds herein provided for the pay of specified employees at any agency may be used by the Secretary of the Interior for the pay of other employees at such agency, but no deficiency shall be thereby created; and, when necessary, specified employees may be detailed for other service when not required for the duty for which they were 908 engaged; and that the several appropriations herein made for millers, blacksmiths, engineers, carpenters, physicians, and other persons, and for various articles provided for by treaty stipulation for the several Indian tribes, may be diverted to other uses for the benefit of said tribes, respectively, within the discretion of the President, and with the consent of said tribes, expressed in the usual manner; and that because report to be made to Congress, at its next session thereafter, of his Proviso.Amount for supplies immediately available.action under this provision: *Provided*, That so much of the appropriations herein made as may be required to pay for goods and supplies, for expenses incident to their purchase, and for transportation of the same, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, shall be immediately available; but no such goods or supplies shall be distributed or delivered to any of said Indians prior to July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five. Sec. 5. That whenever, after advertising for bids for supplies inRejection of bids. accordance with sections two and three of this Act, those received for any article contain conditions detrimental to the interest of the Government, they may be rejected, and the articles specified in such bids Purchases in open market.purchased in open market, at prices not to exceed those of the lowest bidder, and not to exceed the market price of the same until such time as satisfactory bids can be obtained, for which immediate advertisement shall be made. Sec. 6. That at any of the Indian reservations where there is now onSale of property not used. hand Government property not required for the use and benefit of the Indians at said reservation the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to move such property to other Indian reservations where it may be required, or to sell it and apply the proceeds of same in the purchase of such articles as may be needed for the use of the Indians tor whom said property was purchased; and he shall make report of his action hereunder to the next session of Congress thereafter. Sec. 7. That when in the judgment of the Secretary of the InteriorCommutation of rations. any Indian tribe, or part thereof, who are receiving rations and clothing and other supplies under this Act, are sufficiently advanced in civilization to purchase such rations and clothing and other supplies judiciously, they may commute the same and pay the value thereof in money per capita to such tribe or part thereof, the manner of such payment to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior. Sec. 8. That the Commissioner of Indian Affairs shall report annuallyReport of employees to be made annually. to Congress, .specifically showing the number of employees at each agency, industrial, and boarding school, which are supported in whole or in part out of the appropriations in this Act, giving name, when employed, in what capacity employed, male or female, whether white or Indian, amount of compensation paid, and out of what item or fund of Indian Bureau.the appropriation paid. Also the number of employees in the Indian Bureau in Washington, when employed, in what capacity employed, male or female, full name, amount of compensation paid and out of what fund paid, and under what law employed. Sec. 9. That the sum of six thousand dollars is hereby appropriatedWyandottes.Purchase of lands for absentees. out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, or so much thereof as may be necessary, said amount to be an additional sum *Ante*, p. 301.to that appropriated by Act of Congress approved August fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, made for the purpose of purchasing lands for the absentee Wyandotte Indians and said Act of Congress is hereby amended to provide that should such lands be purchased of Conditions.either of the civilized tribes of Indians the lands so purchased shall not be taken in severalty until such time as the lands belonging to the Indians from which the purchase is made shall be taken in severalty, and no person shall be deprived of the benefits of this Act and the Act of August fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, above referred to, by reason of having been born of an Indian woman who *Proviso.*Acceptance to be in full.has married a white man: *Provided*, That said absentee Wyandotte Indians accept the above amount in full payment of all demands against 909 the Government The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorizedSpecial agent. to employ R. H. Armstrong, of Wyandotte County, Kansas, the Attorney of the absentee Wyandotte Indians, as a special agent for the purchase of the lands as provided for in the Act of Congress above referred to, and for other work necessary in the premises, and to pay the said attorney what may be deemed fair and equitable, not exceeding the sum of six hundred dollars. Sec. 10. That with the consent of a majority of the chiefs, headmen,Pottawatomies and Kickapoos.Sale of lands in Kansas in trust for. and male adults of the Pottawatomie tribe of Indians and the Kickapoo tribe of Indians in the State of Kansas, expressed in open council by each tribe, the Secretary of the Interior be, and he hereby is, authorized to cause to be sold, in trust for said Indians, the surplus or unallotted lands of the reservations of the Pottawatomie tribe of Indians of Jackson County, Kansas, and the Kickapoo tribe of Indians in Brown County, Kansas. The said lands shall be appraised, in tracts of eightyAppraisal acres each, by three competent commissioners, one of whom shall be selected by the Indians, and the other two shall be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior: *Provided*, That either tribe may consent to*Proviso*.Selection of Commissioner. the sale of its own lands and select a commissioner without the consent of the other, and when tine tribe does consent to such sale the Secretary of the Interior shall proceed to sell the surplus lands of such tribe. That after the appraisement of said lands the Secretary of the InteriorPublic sale. shall be, and hereby is authorized to offer the same, through the United States public land office at Topeka, Kansas, at public sale to the highest bidder: *Provided*, That no portion of such land shall be sold at less*Provisos*.Minimum price, etc. than the appraised value thereof, and in no ease for less than six dollars per acre, and to none except persons over twenty-one years of age and to such as purchase the same for actual occupation and settlement, and who have made and subscribed on oath, before the register of said land office, and filed the same with said officer of the land office, at Topeka, Kansas, that, it is his good-faith intention to settle upon and occupy the land which he seeks to purchase, and improve the same for a home: and, except in case of death of the purchaser, unless said party shall have executed his declared intention by making improvements and being in actual occupation of said land, by actual residence thereon, at the time for making the second payment, he shall forfeit the payment already made, and the land shall be subject to resale as hereinafter provided. Each purchaser of said lands at such sale shall be entitled to purchase one hundred and sixty acres of land, and no more, except in cases where a tract contains a fractional excess over one hundred and sixty acres: *Provided*, That any Indian twenty-one years of agePurchases by Indiana. may purchase not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres without the requirements as to settlement upon the lands. All purchasers shall pay one-fourth of the purchase price at the time said land is bid off,Payments. one-fourth in one year, one-fourth in two years, and one-fourth in three years, with interest on the deferred payments at the rate of six per centum per annum, and such sums when paid shall be placed in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the respective tribes of Indians, and draw interest at the rate of five per centum per annum, which interest shall be paid annually to said tribes, respectively, per capita, in cash. No patents shall issue until all payments shall havePatents to be retained until payment in full. been made; and on failure of any purchaser to make payment as required by this section he shall forfeit the lands purchased, and the same shall be subject to entry and sale, at the appraised value thereof, or shall be again offered at public sale, as the Secretary of the Interior may determine. That there shall be exempted from the provisions of this section theSchool lands exempt from sale. lands upon which the two boarding, or industrial, schools are located m these reservations, not exceeding six hundred and forty acres for each school, the amount to be determined and designated, after the tribe shall have assented, by the Secretary of the Interior. 910 That for the purpose of carrying this section into effect the sum ofExpenses reimbursable. one thousand five hundred 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, which sum shall be reimbursed to the United States out of the proceeds of the first sales of lands made under the provisions hereof, each tribe to be charged only with the expenses attending the sale of its own lands. That before any of the surplus lands belonging to the Kickapoo tribeAllotment to children. of Indians shall be sold under the provisions of this section there shall be allotted by the Secretary of the Interior eighty acres to each of the children of said tribe residing on or adjacent to said reservation who *Proviso*.Action on this section.have not heretofore received any lands: *Provided*, That this section may be adopted or rejected separate and apart from the other provisions of this Act, by the said Kickapoo tribe. Sec. 11. That in all payments or disbursements of money to IndiansSpecial agent to make payments. individually the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to detail an officer from his Department or appoint a special agent to make or to superintend and inspect such payment; and when Compensation.made by special agent the Secretary shall fix a reasonable compensation for the services of such special agent and pay it out of the money to be disbursed. In all eases the agent making such payment shall Bond.give bond to the United States in double the amount to be disbursed, with good and sufficient security, to be approved by the Secretary, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties. All such payments to be made under such rules and regulations as the Secretary may prescribe. Approved, March 2, 1895.
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