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Chapter 290. 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-five, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 290.— 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-five, and for other purposes.August 15, 1894. *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-five, and fulfilling treaty stipulations with the various Indian tribes, namely:
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, at 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 agency at the Cherokee Agency, two hundred dollars; At the Cheyenne and Arapaho 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, South 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; At the Grand Ronde Agency, Oregon, one thousand two hundred dollars; At the Green Bay Agency, Wisconsin, one thousand eight hundred dollars; At Hoopa Valley Agency, California, one thousand two hundred dollars;
At the Kiowa Agency, Oklahoma Territory, one thousand eight hundred dollars; 287 At the Klamath Agency, Oregon, one thousand two hundred dollars:Indian agents—Continued. 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 five hundred dollars; At the New York Agency, New York, one thousand dollars; At the Nez Perces 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 Jiearilla Agency, New Mexico, one thousand five hundred dollars; At the Puyallup (consolidated) Agency, Washington, one thousand six 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 amt Fox Agency, Iowa, one thousand dollars; At the Sae 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, Orgeon, 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 live hundred dollars; At the Tulalip Agency, Washington, one thousand two hundred 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; 288 At the Western Shoshone Agency, Nevada, one thousand live hundred dollars;Indian agents—Continued.
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; At the Quapaw Agency, Indian Territory, one thousand four hundred dollars: *Provided*, That the foregoing appropriations shall not take effect nor*Proviso*. Not available for Army officers as agents. 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:Superintendents of schools may act as agents. *Provided, further*, 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 properly perform the duties of such agency.
And the superintendent upon whom such duties devolve shall give bond as other Indian agents; in all, eighty-six thousand six hundred dollars and hereafter the annual salaries of the several Indian agents shall be as Provided for in this Act. For the payment of necessary interpreters, to be distributed in theInterpreters. 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 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 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 repair of buildings at agencies, forty-four thousandAgency buildings. dollars, nineteenFort Shaw, Mont. thousand dollars to be used for Fort Shaw Reservation and Indian Industrial School, Montana.
For contingencies of the Indian service, including traveling andContingent expenses. 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 five special agents, at two thousand dollars per annum each, forty thousand dollars.
For the expenses of the commission of citizens, serving withoutCitizen commission. compensation, 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, to supervise the purchase of Indian supplies, four thousand dollars. 289 FULFILLING TREATY STIPULATIONS WITH AND SUPPORT OF INDIAN TRIBES.Fulfilling treaties. apaches, kiowas, and comanches.Apaches, Kiowas, and Comanches. For twenty-seventh of thirty installments, as provided to be expended under the tenth article of 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 Comauches, and under the third article of treaty of the same date with the Apaches, 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 arapahoes.Cheyennes and Arapahoes For twenty-seventh of thirty installments, as provided to be expended under the tenth article of treaty of October twenty-eighth, eighteenVol. 15, p. 590. hundred and sixty-seven, 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; 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 the support of a school or schools upon said reservation, during the pleasure of the President, in accordance with third article of treatyVol. 16, p. 720. of March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, four thousand dollars. chippewas, pillagers, and lake winnebagoshish hands.Chippewas, Villagers, and Lake Winnebagoshish bands.
For last of forty installments of annuity, in money, per third articleVol. 10, p. 1168 of treaty of February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, and third article of treaty of May seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-four,Vol. 13, p. 604. ten thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents; For last of forty installments of annuity, in goods, per same articles of same treaties, eight thousand dollars; For last of forty installments, for purpose of utility, per same articles of same treaties, four thousand dollars; in all, twenty-two thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents. chippewas in minnesota.Chippewas in 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. the Secretary of the Interior, to carry out the provisions of the same Act, namely, the purchase of material and employment of labor for the 290 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 Removal etc.commissioners and their expenses; and for removal of Indians and for their allotments, to be reimbursed to the United States out of the proceeds of sale of their lands, 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 said Act, to be reimbursed to the United States out of the proceeds of the sale of their lands, twenty-five thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars. chippewas of fond du lac.Chippewas of Fond du Lac. This amount to be expended under the direction of the Secretary ofTimber depredations. the Interior, for the benefit of the Fond du Lac Indians of the State of Minnesota, being the sum recovered by the United States in compromise of suits against certain parties for timber depredations upon the Fond du Lac Reservation in Minnesota, and which sum has been deposited in the United States Treasury as a miscellaneous receipt, four thousand three hundred dollars. choctaws.Choctaws.
For permanent annuity, per second article of treaty of NovemberPermanent annuities. sixteenth,Vol. 7, p. 99. Vol. 11, p. 614. eighteen hundred and five, and thirteenth article of treaty of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, three thousand dollars; For permanent annuity for support of light horsemen, per 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. of treaty of OctoberVol. 7, p. 236. eighteenth, eighteen hundred and twenty, ninth article, of treaty of January twentieth, eighteen hundred and twenty-fiveVol. 11, p. 614., 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. cœur d’alenes.Cœur d’Alenes.
For third of fifteen installments of eight thousand dollars each, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, under Vol. 26, p. 1028.the sixth article of agreement of March twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, ratified by Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, eight thousand dollars; 291 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. columbias and colvilles.Columbias and Colvilles.
For annuity for Chief Moses, as per agreement of July seventh,Chief Moses. eighteen hundredVol. 23, p. 79. 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. creeks.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. 700. 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 shopVol. 7, p. 287. Vol. 11, p. 700. and tools, per eighth article of treaty of January twenty-fourth, eighteen 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 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 provisions of third article of treaty of June fourteenth, eighteen hundredVol. 14, p. 787. 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 thirteenth of twenty-five installments,Vol. 22, p. 43. as provided in agreement with the Crows dated June twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty, to be used by the Secretary of the Interior in such manner as the President may direct, thirty thousand dollars; For twenty-sixth 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 coat, hat, pantaloons, flannel shirt, and woolen socks, as per ninth article of treaty of MayVol. 15, p. 651. seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty eight, six thousand dollars:
For twenty sixth 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-sixth of thirty installments, to supply three hundred and fifty boys and three hundred and fifty girls, under the ages named, 292 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, live thousand dollars;
For pay of a physician, per tenth article of same treaty, one thousandVol. 15, p. 652. two hundred dollars; For pay of carpenter, miller, engineer, farmer, and blacksmith, under tenth article of same treaty, three thousand three hundred dollars; For pay of second blacksmith, and iron and steel, as per eighthVol. 15, p. 651. article of same treaty, one thousand five hundred dollars; For 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. delawares.Delawares.
For this amount being the sum still invested in a Union PacificSale of bond. Railroad bond, and not sold for the benefit of the Delaware Indians, as Vol. 27, p. 618.required by the Indian Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, two hundred and fifty dollars: *Provided*, That said *Proviso*. Undivided interest.undivided interest in said bond shall become the property of the United States:Distribution. *Provided further*, That the proviso in the above Act restricting payment to George Bullett and his family and Lucy Zulkey and her family is hereby repealed. fort hall indians.Fort Hall Indians.
For sixth of twenty installments, as provided in agreement with saidVol. 25, p. 688. Indians, approved February twenty-third, eighteen bundled 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 agency.Blackfeet Agency Indians. For seventh of ten installments of one hundred and fifty thousand 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 Vol. 25, p. 114.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 Indians.
For seventh of ten installments of one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars each, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, tor the support and civilization of the Indians attached to the Vol. 25, p. 114.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 Indians. For seventh of ten installments of one hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars each, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, for the support and civilization of the Indians attached Vol. 25, p. 114.to the Fort Peck Agency, Montana, as per Act approved May first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, one hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars. indians at fort berthold agency.Fort Berthold Indians.
For fourth of ten installments of eighty thousand dollars each, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, as per Vol. 26, p. 1033.second article of agreement ratified by Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, eighty thousand dollars. 293 iowas.Iowas. For interest, in lien 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-four, at five per centum per annum, for educational or other beneficial purposes, under the direction of the President, per ninth article of treaty of May seventeenth,Vol. 10, p. 1071. eighteen hundred and fifty-four, two thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars. iowas in oklahoma.Iowas, Oklahoma.
For fourth 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: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby *Proviso*. Cash per capita.authorized to pay per capita in cash to the Iowa Indians in Oklahoma, the sum of twenty-four thousand dollars, appropriated by the Act ofVol. 26, p. 758. February thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, as a partial payment to them for certain lands in Oklahoma ceded to the United States, in lieu of expending the same for their benefit. 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 nineteen dollarsInterest. 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-live dollars and ninety-six cents;
This amount to enable the President of the United States to carryPayment to citizen Indiana, etc. Vol. 13, p. 624. out the provisions of the third article of the treaty made with the Kickapoo Indians, dated June twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, to be paid, as provided in said treaty and under such rules as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, to four Kickapoo Indians who have become citizens of the United States; also to pay the heirs or legal representatives of six deceased Kickapoos, the settlement of whose estates is desired, under the provisions of section two of the ActVol. 24, p. 219. of August fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, such sum as may be their proportion of the one hundred thousand dollars provided for said tribe for education and other beneficial purposes, per treaty ofVol. 10, p. 1079.
May eighteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, not exceeding three thousand three hundred and seventy-eight dollars and thirty cents; in all, six thousand eight hundred and twenty-four dollars and twenty-six cents. molels.Motels. 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. and 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. 294 northern cheyennes and arapahoes.Northern Cheyennes and Arapahoes. For subsistence and civilization, as per agreement with the SiouxSubsistence. 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-live thousand dollars;
For twenty-six of thirty installments, for purchase of clothing, as perClothing. Vol. 15, p. 657. sixth article of treaty of May tenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, including clothing for above Indians, seventeen thousand dollars: *Proviso*. Division.*Provided*, That the amount in this and 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. otoes and missourias.Otoes and Missouri as. For last of twelve installments, being the last series, in money or Vol. 10, p. 1039.otherwise, per fourth article of treaty of March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, five thousand dollars. pawners.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 Vol. 11, p. 729.second article of treaty of September twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, 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, and 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, as Vol. 11, p. 730.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 of treaty ofPermanent annuities. Vol. 7, p. 51. August third, seventeen hundred and ninety-five, three hundred and fifty-seven dollars and eighty cents;
For permanent annuity, in silver, per third article of treaty of 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 of 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 of treaty ofVol. 7, p. 317. September twentieth, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, seven hundred and fifteen dollars and sixty cents; 295 For permanent annuity, in specie, per second article of treaty of JulyVol. 7, p. 320. twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, and second article of treaty of September twentieth, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight,Vol. 7, p. 317. five thousand seven hundred and twenty-four dollars and seventy-seven cents;
For permanent provision for payment of money in lieu of tobacco, iron, and steel, per second article of treaty of September twentieth,Vol. 7, p. 318. eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, and tenth articles of treaties ofVol. 9, p. 855. June fifth and seventeenth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, one hundred and seven dollars and thirty-four cents; For permanent provision for three blacksmiths and assistants, and for iron and steel for shops, per third article of treaty of October sixteenth,Vol. 7, p. 296. eighteen hundred and twenty six, second article of treaty ofVol. 7, p. 318.
September twentieth, eighteen hundred and twenty eight, and second article of treaty of July twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred andVol. 7. p. 321. 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 five per centum, in conformity with provisions of article seven 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. pottawatomies of indiana and michigan.Pottawatomies, Indiana and Michigan.
For this amount due certain Pottawatomie Indians of Indiana andAnnuities due under Supreme Court judgment. 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 years ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three,*Post*, p. 450. June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, as ascertained by the judgment of the Supreme Court of the United States pronounced in the ease of the Pottawatomie Indians of Michigan and Indiana against the United States, on the seventeenth day of April, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and which annuities were not embraced in the judgment aforesaid, six thousand two hundred and forty-three dollars and ninety cents. citizen hand of pottawatomies.Citizen Band, Pottawatomies.
That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to pay to the Citizen Band of Pottawatomie Indians, or expend for their benefit, the sum of thirteen thousand nine hundred and eighty-one dollars and fifty-eight cents, now on the books of the Treasury, and being the unexpended balance of the appropriation to carry out the provisions of the agreement between the United States and said band of Indians, ratified and confirmed by Act of CongressVol. 20, p. 1016. approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one: *Provided*,*Proviso*.
Sales permitted by allottees. That any member of the Citizen Band of Pattawatomie Indians and of the Absentee Shawnee Indians of Oklahoma, to whom a trust patent has been issued under the provisions of the Act approved FebruaryVol. 24, p. 388. eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven (Twenty-fourth Statutes, three hundred and eighty-eight), and being over twenty-one years of age, may sell and convey any portion of the land covered by such patent in excess of eighty acres, the deed of conveyance to be subject to approval by the Secretary of the Interior under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, and that any Citizen Pottawatomie not residing upon his allotment, but being a legal resident of another State or Territory, may in like manner sell and convey all the land covered 296 by said patent, and that upon the approval of such deed by the Secretary of the Interior the title to the land thereby conveyed shall vest in the grantee therein named.
And the land sold and conveyed under the provisions of this Act shall, upon proper recording of the deeds Taxation:therefor, be subject to taxation as other lands in said Territory, but neither the lands covered by such patents not sold and conveyed under the provisions of this Act, nor any improvements made thereon, shall be subject to taxation in any manner by the Territorial or local authorities during the period in which said lands shall be held in trust by the United States. quapaws.Quapaws.
For education, during the pleasure of the President, per third article Vol. 7, p. 425.of treaty of May thirteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, one thousand dollars; For blacksmiths and assistants, and tools, iron, and steel for blacksmith shop, per same article and treaty, five hundred dollars; in all, one thousand live 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 centum,Interest. Vol. 7, p. 541. 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,Vol. 7, p. 596. *Proviso*. Physician, etc. per second article of treaty of October eleventh, eighteen hundred and forty-two, forty thousand dollars: *Proritled*, That the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars of ibis amount shall be used for the pay of a physician and for 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 Vol. 7, p. 541.second article of treaty of October twenty-first, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, seven thousand eight hundred and seventy dollars; For support of a school, per fifth article of treaty of March sixth,School. Vol. 12, p. 1173. eighteen hundred and sixty-one, two hundred dollars; in all, eight thousand and seventy dollars.
That the Secretary of the Interior be, and hereby is, authorized andAllotment to children in Kansas and Nebraska. directed to cause to be allotted, under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved February eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, Vol. 24, p. 388.entitled “ An Act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on various reservations, and to extend the protection of the laws of the United States and the Tenitones over the Indians, and for other purposes,” to each and every child born of a recognized member of the Sac and Fox of Missouri tribe of Indians since the completion of allotments to said tribe, eighty acres of land within the reservation of said tribe in the States of Kansas and Nebraska, and upon the Sale of lands remaining.completion thereof to offer for sale the remaining lands of the said reservation, at the proper land office, upon such terms, conditions, and *Proviso*.
Appraisement of lot in Nebraska.regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may determine: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Interior shall inquire into the correctness of the appraisement made under authority of an Act of Congress approved Vol. 19, p. 208.August fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, of lot eight of the southeast quarter of section nineteen, township one north, range seventeen east, Sac and Fox Reservation lands in the State of Nebraska; and if he shall be satisfied that said lot. was appraised at more than its 297 actual value, he may cause the same to be sold upon the same terms as the other lands are sold; *And provided further*, That before any saleConsent of Indiana. shall be made of said lands the consent of a majority of the male adults of said Indians shall first be obtained.
That the net proceeds arising from the sales of lands, as provided inProceeds. section one of this Act, shall be used for the benefit of said tribe or shall be paid to said Indians per capita, as the Secretary of the Interior may determine. The cost of the advertisement and sale of said lands shall be defrayed from the first proceeds arising therefrom. seminoles.Seminoles. For five per centum interest on two hundred and fifty thousand dollars,Interest. to be paid as an annuity, per eighth article of treaty of AugustVol. 11, p. 702. seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, twelve thousand five hundred dollars;
For five per centum interest on two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be paid as annuity (they having joined their brethren West), per eighth article of treaty of August seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, twelve thousand five hundred dollars; For interest on fifty thousand dollars, at the rate of five per centum per annum, to be paid annually, for the support of schools, as per third Vol. 14, p. 757.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 of 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 SeptembePermanent annuities. Vol. 7, p. 161.r twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and seventeen, five hundred dollars; For permanent annuity, in specie, per fourth article of treaty of SeptemberVol. 7, p. 179. 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 m the seventh article of the treaty of February twenty-third, eighteenVol. 15, p. 515. hundred and sixty-seven, one thousand six hundred and sixty dollars;
For permanent annuity, in specie, per fourth article of treaty of SeptemberVol. 7, p. 179. 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, perVol. 7, p. 352. fourth article of treaty of July twentieth, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and fifth article of treaty of February twenty-third, eighteen hundredVol. 15, p. 515. 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 February nineteenth,Permanent annuity. eighteen hundred and thirty-one, six thousand dollars;Vol. 4, p. 442. For interest, in lieu of investment, on seventy-five thousand dollars,Interest. Vol. 9, p. 35. at five per centum, per Act of June twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and forty-six, three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; 298 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. shawnees.Shawnees.
That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directedTransfer of annuities to Chickasawa. to place on the books of the Treasury Department, to the credit of the Cherokee Nation of Indians, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, being the value of annuities of the Shawnee Indians arising under Vol. 7, p. 51.their treaties of August third, seventeen hundred and ninety-five, and Vol. 10, p. 1053.May tenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, transferred to the Cherokees by an agreement between the said tribes, dated June seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, under the provisions of article sixteen of the treaty of July nineteenth, Vol. 14, p. 804.eighteen hundred and sixty-six, Apportionment.with the Cherokees, the said sum to be apportioned as follows, namely:
Cherokee national fund, fifty thousand dollars; Cherokee school fund, thirty-five thousand dollars; Cherokee orphan fund, fifteen thousand dollars; interest on these several sums at the rate of five per centum per annum from July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, to be Vol. 21, p. 70.paid under the provisions of the Act of April first, eighteen hundred and eighty. eastern shawnees.Eastern Shawnees. For permanent annuity, in specie, per fourth article of treaty ofPermanent annuity.
Vol. 7, p. 179. Vol. 15, p. 515. September 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 Vol. 7, p. 352. Vol. 15, p. 515.fourth article of treaty of July twentieth, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, 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.
This amount to be paid per capita to the Eastern Shawnees, under thePer capita. direction of the Secretary of the Interior, and now to their credit in the United States Treasury, being the residue of the sum due by the United Vol. 15, p. 514.States to said Indians for cession of lands under the third article of the treaty entered into by said band with the United States, proclaimed October fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, nine thousand and seventy-nine dollars and twelve cents. shoshones and bannocks.Shoshones and Bannocks.
Shoshones: For twenty-fifth 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 Vol. 15, p. 676.named, as per ninth article of treaty of July third, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, ten thousand dollars; For pay of physician, teacher, carpenter, miller, engineer, farmer, andPhysician, etc.
Vol. 15, p. 676. 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 per eighth article of the same treaty, one thousand dollars; Bannocks: For twenty-fifth 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 299 under the ages named, as per ninth article of the same treaty, fiveVol. 15, p. 676. thousand dollars;
For pay of a physician, teacher, carpenters miller, engineer, farmer,Physician, etc. and blacksmith, as per tenth article of treaty of July third, eighteenVol. 15, p. 676. 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, perPermanent annuity. Vol. 7, p. 46. sixth article of treaty of November seventeenth, 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-fifth of thirty installments, to purchase clothing for malesSupplies. over fourteen years of age; for flannel, hose, and calico and domestic 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; For twenty-fifth 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, as per tenth article of treaty of eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars;
For pay of five teachers, one physician, one carpenter, one miller, oneTeachers. engineer, two farmers, and one blacksmith, per thirteenth article ofVol. 15, p. 640. same treaty, ten thousand four hundred dollars; For pay of additional employees at the several agencies for the SiouxEmployees. in Nebraska and Dakota, twelve thousand five hundred dollars, eight hundred dollars of which shall be used for the employment of a second blacksmith at Cheyenne River Agency, South Dakota.
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, etc. as per agreement ratified by Act of Congress approved FebruaryVol. 19, p. 254. twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy seven, one million dollars: *Provided*, That a sum not to exceed twelve thousand dollars, or so much*Proviso*. Artesian wells. thereof as may be necessary, may be used in completing three artesian wells at Pine Ridge, Rosebud, and Standing Rock Agencies, this amount in addition to the sum appropriated for that purpose by Act of MarchVol. 27, p. 631. third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three: *Provided*, That the foregoing sum of one million dollars shall include transportation of supplies fromTransportation. the termination of railroad or steamboat transportation; and in this service Indians shall be employed whenever practicable: *And provided further*,Indian employment.
That the number of rations issued shall not exceed the numberLimit of rations. 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. For pay of second blacksmith, and furnishing iron, steel, and otherBlacksmith, etc. material, per eighth article of same treaty, one thousand two hundred dollars; For support and maintenance of day and industrial schools, includingSchools. erection and repairs of school buildings, in accordance with article seven of treaty of April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight,Vol. 15, p. 637. which article is continued in force for twenty years by section seventeenVol. 25, p. 894. of the Act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, eighty thousand dollars; in all. one million three hundred and ninety-five thousand six hundred dollars. 300 sioux, yankton tribe.Sioux, Yankton tribe.
For sixth of twenty installments, last series, to be paid to them or Vol. 11, p. 744.expended for their benefit, per fourth article of treaty of April nineteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, fifteen thousand dollars; For subsistence and civilization of two thousand Yankton Sioux,Subsistence, etc. heretoforeVol. 19, p. 287. provided for in appropriations under “Fulfilling treaty with Sioux of different tribes,” thirty-five thousand dollars; in all, fifty thousand dollars. sisseton and wahpeton indians.Siasetoua and Wahpetons.
For seventh 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 Vol. 26, p. 1037.twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, ratified by Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, eighteen thousand four hundred dollars. spokanes.Spokanes. For third of ten installments, to be expended under the direction ofRemoval to Cœur d’Alene Reservation, etc. the Secretary of the Interior, in the removal of the Spokane Indians to the Coeur 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 five of agreement with said Indians, dated March eighteenth, eighteen hundredVol. 27, p. 139. and eighty-seven, ratified by Act of Congress approved July thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, eight thousand dollars: *Proviso*.
Indians on other reservations.*Provided*, That any moneys heretofore or hereafter appropriated for the removal of said Spokane Indians to the Cœur d’Alene Reservation shall be extended to, or expended for, such members of the tribe who have removed or shall remove to the Colville, Spokane 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 second of ten installments of one hundred dollars each, to ChiefsPayment to chiefs. Louis, Paul Schulhault, Antarcham, and Enoch, as per article nine of said agreements, four hundred dollars; in ail, ten thousand four hundred dollars. confederated bands of utes.Confederated bands, Utes. For pay of two carpenters, two millers, two farmers, and two blacksmiths,Carpenters. as per tenthVol. 13, p. 675. article of treaty of October seventh, eighteen Vol. 15, p. 622.hundred and sixty three, and fifteenth article of treaty of March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, six thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars;
For pay of two teachers, as per same article of same treaty, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For purchase of iron and steel, and the necessary tools for blacksmith shop,Vol. 15, p. 621. per ninth article of same treaty, two hundred and twenty dollars; For twenty-sixth 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. beans, andVol. 15, p. 622. potatoes, or other necessary articles of food, as per twelfth article of same treaty, thirty thousand dollars; For pay of employees at the several Ute agencies, five thousand dollars;Employees. in all, seventy-three thousand seven hundred and forty dollars. 301 winnebagoes.WInnebagoes. For interest on eight hundred andInterest. four thousand nine hundred and nine dollars and seventeen cents, at live per centum per annum, per fourth article of treaty of November first, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven,Vol. 7, p. 545. and Joint Resolution of July seventeenth, eighteen hundred and Vol. 12, p. 628.sixty-two, and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed to expend said interest for the support, education, and civilization of said Indians, forty thousand two hundred and forty-five dollars and forty-five cents;
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 arid sixty-two dollars and forty-seven cents.
That the Secretary of the Interior be, and hereby is, authorized toOgden Land Company. Investigation directed. make a thorough investigation of the facts touching the so-called Ogden Land Company, its organization, when and by whom formed, its Continued existence or organization to this date, its capital stock, number of shares, amount or face value, where and by whom held, its liabilities and assets, and the original history of the alleged claim of said company to any of the lands of the Seneca Nation of Indians in the State of New York, and any and all evidences of title; and also the condition of said Indians, their progress in civilization and fitness for citizenship, their number and system of government, and the propriety of allotting their lands in severalty, and to make to Congress a full report with such suggestions and recommendations as he may deem proper in view of all the facts ascertained.
Whereas there is due the Wyandotte Indians from the GovernmentWyandottes. of the United States, as ascertained and reported by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs in Ids letter to the Secretary of the Interior of February seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, a balance of fifteen thousand six hundred and eighty-six dollars and eighty cents; and Whereas there are absentee Wyandotte Indians, who are poor and homeless, numbering between one hundred and fifty and two hundred persons, and for whom no provision has been made:
Therefore, the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized andPurchase of land for use of absentees. directed to purchase for said absentee Wyandotte Indians eighty acres of land per capita, or so much thereof as said sum of fifteen thousand six hundred and eighty-six dollars and eighty cents will purchase, at a sum not to exceed one dollar and fifty cents per acre; such lands to be purchased from the Quapaw Indians in the Indian Territory, or, if this be found impracticable, then such lands shall be purchased of other Indians in the Indian Territory, where the land maybe most conveniently and advantageously obtained.by the Secretary of the Interior; said lands to be taken in allotments, as provided for in the severaltyAllotments.
Vol. 24, p. 388. Act of Congress of February, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and amendments thereto. And the said sum of fifteen thousand six hundred*Post*, p. 908. and eighty-six dollars and eighty cents, so due to said Wyandotte Indians, is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of making the purchase of the lands herein and hereby provided for. MISCELLANEOUS SUPPORTS.Miscellaneous supports. For support and civilization of the Apaches.
Kiowas, Comanehes,Apaches, Kiowas. Comancbes, Wichitas, etc. Wichitas, and affiliated bands who have been collected upon the reservations set apart for their use and occupation, one hundred and ten thousand dollars. 302 For support and civilization of the Arapahoes and Cheyennes whoArapahoes and Cheyennes. 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,Chippewas, Lake Superior.
Wisconsin, to be expended for agricultural and educational purposes, pay of employees, including pay of physician, purchase of goods and provisions, and for such other purposes as may be deemed to the best interest of the Indians, seven thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars. For support and civilization of Chippewas of Red Lake and PembinaChippewas. Red Lake and Pembina. tribe of Chippewas, Minnesota, and for pay of employees, ten thousand dollars. For support and civilization of Chippewas on White Earth Reservation,Chippewas, White Minnesota:Earth Reservation.
To be expended in the care and 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 support and civilization of Turtle Mountain band of Chippewas,.Chippewas. Turtle Mountain band. North Dakota, including seeds, thirteen thousand dollars. For support and civilization of the confederated tribes and bands inConfederated bands, middle Oregon. middle Oregon, and pay of employees, six thousand dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Interior to purchase land for homesDiggers, California. for the Digger Indians, Central California, and for the erection of suitable houses thereon, and to aid them in agricultural pursuits, ten thousand dollars. For support and civilization of the D’Wamish and other allied tribesD’Wamish, etc., Washington. in the State of Washington, including pay of employees, seven thousand dollars. For support and civilization of Carlos’ band of Flathead Indians,Carlos’ band, Flat-heads, etc.
Montana, including pay of employees, twelve thousand dollars. For support and civilization of the Flatheads and other confederatedFlatheads, etc. tribes in Montana, including pay of employees, ten thousand dollars. For purchase of subsistence and other necessaries for the support ofHualapais, Arizona. the Hualapais Indians in Arizona, seven thousand five hundred dollars. For support and civilization of the Apache and other Indians inApaches, etc., Arizona and New Mexico. Arizona and New Mexico who have been or may be collected on reservations in New Mexico and Arizona, one hundred and eighty-five *Proviso*.
Sale of timber, Jicarilla Reservation.thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, under such rules and regulations as he may deem proper and necessary to protect the interests of the Indians and of the United States, to sell or otherwise dispose of a quantity of timber, not exceeding twenty thousand dollars in value, on the Jicarilla Apache Indian Reservation, the proceeds to be used by him in the purchase of sheep and goats for the benefit of the Indians belonging thereto as will best tend to promote their welfare and advance them in civilization.
For support, civilization, and instruction of the Shoshones and BannocksFort 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 Indians. and Sheepeaters, and other Indians of the Lemhi Agency, in Idaho, including pay of employees, thirteen thousand dollars. For support, civilization, and instruction of the Klamaths andKlamath Agency Indians.
Modocs, and other Indians of the Klamath Agency, in Oregon, including pay of employees, five thousand dollars. For support and civilization of the Kansas Indians, Indian Territory,Kansas. including agricultural assistance and pay of employees, two thousand five hundred dollars. For support and civilization of the Kickapoo Indians, Indian Territory,Kickapoos. five thousand dollars. For support and civilization of the Makahs, Washington, includingMakahs. pay of employees, four thousand dollars. 303 For support and civilization of the Modoc Indians now residingMotines, Indian Territory. within the Indian Territory, four thousand dollars.
For support and civilization of the Moqui Indians, including pay ofMoquis. employees, six thousand dollars. For support and civilization of the Navajo Indians, New MexicoNavios. Territory, including pay of employees, and purchase of fanning implements and seed, seven thousand five hundred dollars; For support and civilization of the Northern Cheyenne and ArapahoNorthern Cheyennes and Arapahoes. Indians on the Tongue River, in Montana, twenty-five thousand dollars. For the purchase of agricultural implements and support and civilizationNez Perces, Joseph’s bund. of Joseph’s band of Nez Perces Indians, ten thousand dollars.
For support and civilization of the Nez Perces Indians in Idaho,Nez Perces. including pay of physician, six-thousand five hundred dollars. For support and civilization of the Poncas, including pay of employees,Poncas. fifteen thousand dollars: *Provided*, That this amount be divided pro rata*Proviso*. Division. among all the members of said tribe in the Indian Territory and in South Dakota. For support and civilization of the Quinaielts and Quillehutes, 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 Seminóles in Florida,Seminoles, Florida. six thousand dollars, one-half of which sum shall be expended by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs 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, six thousand dollars.
For support and civilization of the S’Klallam Indians, Washington,S’Kiallams. including pay of employees, one thousand five hundred dollars. For support and civilization of the 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 Walias, Cayuses, and Umatillas. tribes, Oregon, including pay of employees, six thousand five hundred dollars. For support and civilization of Indians at the Mission Agency, California,Mission Agency Indiana. including pay of employees, ten thousand dollars.
For support and civilization of the Yakamas and other Indians atYakamas, etc. said agency, including pay of employees, ten thousand dollars. For the construction of a wagon road on the Hoopa Valley IndianHoopa Valley, California, road. Reservation in the State of California in accordance with the recommendation of Captain W. E, Dougherty, United States Army, acting Indian agent in charge of said Reservation, to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, dated November twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, three thousand five hundred and nine dollars.
The work on said road to be performed as far as practicable by Indians. To enable the Secretary of the Interior to remove and rebuild theBridge, Big Wind River, Wyoming. bridge across the Big Wind River on the Shoshone Indian Reservation, in the State of Wyoming, two thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. GENERAL INCIDENTAL EXPENSES OF THE INDIAN SERVICE.Incidental expenses. Arizona: For general incidental expenses of Indian service, includingArizona. traveling expenses of agents in Arizona, and for the support and civilization of Indians at the Colorado River, Pima, and Maricopa and Moquis Pueblo agencies, twelve thousand dollars; and pay of employees at same agencies, six thousand dollars; in all, eighteen thousand dollars. 304 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, Hoopa Valley, and Tule River agencies, fourteen thousand dollars; and pay of employees, including one carpenter (for Hoopa Valley Agency), at same agencies, nine thousand dollars; in all, twenty-three thousand dollars. Colorado: For general incidental expenses of the Indian service,Colorado. including traveling expenses of agents, one thousand five hundred 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 general incidental expenses of the Indian service inIdaho. Idaho, including traveling expenses of agents, eight hundred dollars.
Montana: For general incidental expenses of the Indian service,Montana. including traveling expenses of agents, three thousand 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, fourteen thousand dollars; and pay of employees at same agencies, five thousand dollars; in all, nineteen thousand dollars.
New Mexico: For general incidental expenses of the Indian service,New Mexico. including traveling expenses of agents in New Mexico and support and civilization of Indians at Pueblo Agency, three thousand five hundred dollars, and pay of employees at said agency, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, four thousand seven hundred dollars. Oregon: For general incidental expenses of the Indian service,Oregon. including traveling expenses of agents in Oregon and support and civilization of Indians at Grand Ronde and Siletz agencies, ten thousand dollars, and pay of employees at the same agencies, five thousand dollars; in all, fifteen 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, five thousand dollars, at least one-half of this amount shall be expended for Indian employees; in all, eight thousand dollars. Washington: For general incidental expenses of the Indian service,Washington. including traveling expenses of agents at seven agencies and the support and civilization of Indians at Colville and Puyallup agencies, and pay of employees, sixteen thousand dollars.
Wyoming: For general incidental expenses of the Indian service,Wyoming. including traveling expenses of agents, one thousand dollars. MISCELLANEOUS.Miscellaneous. For operating and repairing the flour mill at Pima Agency, Arizona,Mill, Pima Agency. Ariz. one thousand five hundred dollars. For pay of employees at substation, and saw and Hour mills at theFlathead Agency, Mont. Flathead Agency, Montana, and for purchase of machinery and necessary repairs, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For the erection of a Hour and saw mill at Shoshone Agency, Wyoming,Mill, Shoshone Agency, Ariz. and to purchase machinery therefor, five 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 305 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*, That whenever it shall be made to appear to the*Proviso*.
Leases permitted. 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 five years for farming or grazing purposes, or ten years for mining or business purposes: *Provided further*, That the surplus lands of any tribe may be leased for farming purposesLeases of surplus lands by tribes. by the council of such tribe under the same rules and regulations and for the same term of years as is now allowed in the ease of leases for grazing purposes.
That all persons who are in whole or in part of Indian blood orActions for allot merits alleged to be unlawfully denied. descent who are entitled to an allotment of land under any law of Congress, or who claim to be so entitled to land under any allotment Act or under any grant made by Congress, or who claim to have been unlawfully denied or excluded from any allotment or any parcel of land to which they claim to be lawfully entitled by virtue of any Act of Congress. may commence and prosecute or defend any action, suit, or proceeding in relation to their right thereto, in the proper circuit court of the United States.
And said circuit courts arc hereby given jurisdiction to try and determine any action, suit, or proceeding arising within their respective jurisdictions, in voicing the right of any person, in whole or in part of Indian blood or descent, to any allotment of land under any law or treaty. And the judgment or decree of any such court in favorJudgments. of any claimant to an allotment of land shall have the same effect, when properly certified to the Secretary of the Interior, as if such allotment had been allowed and approved by him; but this provision shall notLands excepted. apply to any lands now held by either of the Five Civilized Tribes nor to any of the lands within the Quapaw Indian Agency: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.
Appeal. the right of appeal shall be allowed to either party as in other cases. For the construction, purchase, and use of irrigating machinery andIrrigation. appliances on Indian reservations, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior and subject to his control, thirty thousand dollars. The Secretary of the Interior is directed to contract with responsibleFort Hall, Idaho. Irrigation. parties for the construction of irrigating canals and the purchase or securing of water supply on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation, in the State of Idaho, for the purpose of irrigating the lands of said Reservation: *Provided*, That the expense of constructing said canals and the*Proviso*.
Expenses. purchase or securing of water supply shall be paid out of moneys belonging to the said Fort Hall Indians now in the Treasury of the United States and subject to the disposal of the Secretary of the Interior for the benefit of said Indians. To enable the Secretary of the Interior to employ practical farmersPractical 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.
To enable the Secretary of the Interior to employ suitable personsMatrons to teach housekeeping. as matrons to teach Indian girls in housekeeping and other household duties, at a rate not to exceed sixty dollars per month, and for furnishing necessary equipments, five thousand dollars. For the service of not exceeding eight hundred and fifty privates, atIndian police. ten dollars per month each, and not exceeding seventy-five officers, at fifteen-dollars per month each, of Indian police, to be employed in 306 maintaining order and prohibiting illegal traffic in liquor on the several Indian reservations and within the Territory of Alaska, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, for the purchase of equipments and for the purchase of rations for policemen at nonration agencies, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
For compensation of judges of Indian courts, twelve thousand fiveJudged, Indian courts. hundred and forty dollars. For pure vaccine matter and vaccination of Indians, one thousandVaccination. dollars. Telegraphing and purchase of Indian supplies: To pay the expenseSupplies, telegraphing, etc. of purchasing goods and supplies for the Indian service and pay of necessary employes; advertising, at rates not exceeding regular commercial rates, inspection, and all other expenses connected therewith, including telegraphing, thirty-five thousand dollars.
For this amount, for necessary expenses of transportation of suchSupplies, transportation. goods, provisions, 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. For survey and subdivision of Indian reservations, and of lands toSurvey and allotting Indian reservations. be allotted to Indians, and to make allotments in severalty, to be expended by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, forty-five thousand dollars, of which Distribution.amount twenty thousand dollars shall be expended in South Dakota, and ten thousand dollars on the Colville reservation in the State of Washington.
For surveying lands in the Indian Territory, known as those of theSurveys, Indian Territory. Five Civilized Tribes, in conformity to the laws applicable to the public domain, five thousand dollars; and any unexpended balance of the Vol. 27, p. 645.sum of twenty-five thousand dollars appropriated by section fifteen of the Indian appropriations Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, is hereby made available and may be applied to the same purpose. To enable the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion, to negotiateNegotiations with Indians. through Indian inspectors of his Department with any Indians for the surrender of portions of their respective reservations, any agreement thus negotiated being subject to subsequent ratification by Congress, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For the purpose of conducting negotiations with the Shoshone andShoshones and Arap shoes. Negotiations for sale of lands, Wyoming. Arapaho Indians for the sale and relinquishment of certain portions of their reservation in the State of Wyoming to the United States, one thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Interior shall detail immediately one or more of the five Indian inspectors to make an agreement *Proviso*. Ratification.with said Indians: *Provided*, That any agreement entered into for said lands shall be ratified by Congress before it shall become binding.
That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and lie is hereby, authorizedJ. Kenneth White. Payment to. and directed to pay to J. Kenneth White the sum of one hundred and eighty-three dollars and thirty-three cents, for plans and tracings furnished by him of buildings for new Lower Brule Agency, South Dakota, under authority of the Secretary of the Interior, out of the Vol. 27, p. 633.appropriation of fifty thousand dollars appropriated by Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, “for removal of Lower Brule and consolidating with Crow Creek Agency in South Dakota, and for construction of agency buildings at some place on the Lower Brule Reservation, and to complete the Indian Industrial School at Chamberlain, South Dakota.
” To pay John Palmier for buildings and improvements at Pino RidgeJohn Palmier. Payment to. Agency, taken by the Indian Bureau under section one of the Act Vol. 25, p. 94.entitled “An Act to divide a portion of the reservation of the Sioux Nation of Indians in Dakota into separate reservations and to secure the relinquishment of the Indian title to the remainder,” approved April 307 thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-five dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Interior to carry out the provisions ofCrow Creek and Winnebago reservations. Payment of damages to settlers removed from. Vol. 26, p. 659. an Act of Congress approved October first, eighteen hundred and ninety, providing for the assessment of damages resulting to nine hundred and forty-four settlers who went upon the Crow Creek and Winnebago Indian Reservation in the now State of South Dakota, between the twenty-seventh day of February, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and the seventeenth day of April, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and who were afterwards removed therefrom by the Government, the sum of one hundred and sixteen thousand one hundred and nineteen dollars and nineteen cents, said sum being the amount found due after careful examination by the Secretary of the Interior and recommended by him for payment in pursuance of said Act of October first, eighteen hundred and ninety.
And the further sum ofAdditional claims three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated for the purpose of reimbursing, if found upon further examination to be entitled, such claimants in the list examined by the Secretary of the Interior as were held for further proof, or which were erroneously disallowed because of incorrect descriptions of the lands settled upon, thus making it appear that they were not upon lands affected by the executive order of February twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-five.
That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directedPine Ridge Agency, S. Dak. Payment for personal losses, tire at Ogalalla school. to reimburse, out of any unexpended balance of the appropriation for the support of the Indian schools for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, the persons employed by the Government at the Ogalalla Indian Hoarding School at Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota, who lost their personal property by the fire which destroyed the above school building on the eighth day of February, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, while said employees were engaged in saving the lives of the pupils: *Provided*, That claims presented*Provisos*.
Evidence. for adjudication under this authority shall be supported by sworn and competent evidence of the claimants as to the value of the property destroyed: *Provided*, That no more than one thousand fiveLimit. hundred dollars be expended for this purpose. For the purpose of continuing and completing the appraisal ofCherokee Nation. Appraising intruders property. Vol. 27, p. 643. improvements of intruders in the Cherokee Nation under the provisions of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, four thousand nine hundred and ninety-six dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay the Stockbridge andStock bridges and Munsees. Payment to. Munsee Indians in Wisconsin the amount received by the United States and covered into the Treasury, collected by the Government in certain suits for timber cut and removed from the reservation of said Indians, three thousand five hundred and fifty-seven dollars and sixteen cents. Said sum to be paid said Indians per capita. That the accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorizedBeefcows. and directed to settle and pay the claims of the following-named contractorsPayment of contractors claims. for beef cows delivered at the following-named agencies under contracts with the Indian Bureau during the fiscal years of eighteen hundred and ninety, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and eighteen hundred and ninety-two, being for suspensions or disallowances made on account of excess of number of cows limited by the words of the contracts, to wit:.
To F. G. Niedringhans, the sum of two thousand seven hundred andF. G. Niedringhaus. *Post*, p. 692. thirty-one dollars and thirty-four cents, for cows delivered at Fort Peck Agency in the spring of eighteen hundred and ninety-one; To Mathew II. Murphy, the sum of forty-eight dollars and seventy-threeMathew H. Murphy. cents, for excess of cows delivered at Tongue River Agency in the fall of eighteen hundred and ninety-one; And to Portas B. Weare, the sum of two thousand one hundred andPortus B.
Weare. 308 ninety-five dollars and eighteen cents for excess of cows delivered at Crow Agency in October and November, eighteen hundred and ninety-one: *Provided*, That the said amounts are found to be charged at the contract*Proviso*. Actual issue etc. price for beef cows; that they were actually received by the authorized officers of the United States and issued to the Indians:Funds. *And provided further*, That there are funds to the credit of the respective Indians from which said sums can be paid.
That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorizedEugene E. White. Payment to. to allow to Eugene E. White, of Prescott, Arkansas, late a special United States Indian agent, a credit of one hundred and sixty-five dollars on his two cash accounts, one for the quarter ending December thirty-first, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and the other tor the quarter ending March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and out of said amount to pay him the sum of sixty-nine dollars and forty-nine cents, which is hereby appropriated.
That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department be,James A Cooper. Credit in accounts. and they arc hereby, authorized to reexamine the accounts of James A. Cooper, late special agent of the Interior Department, upon the principles of equity and justice, and allow him such credits as he is entitled to and incurred by him under direct authority and orders of his superior officer, the Secretary of the Interior; and give him credit for the per diem due him while detained here in Washington under orders of the Interior Department.
To provide for the expenses of the five commissioners appointed toOld Settlers Cherokees. Commission for census. *Post*, p. 451. take a census of the Old Settlers Cherokees, five thousand dollars, 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. for support of schools.Support of schools. For support of Indian day and industrial schools and for other educationalDay and industrial. purposes not hereinafter provided for, including pay of draftsman to be employed in the office of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, one million dollars, of which amount the Secretary of the Interior may in his discretion use five thousand dollars for the education of Indians Erection and repair.
Horses, etc.in Alaska; for the erection and repair of school buildings on Indian reservations, forty thousand dollars; for the purchase of horses, cattle, sheep, goats, swine, and poultry, for schools,twenty thousand dollars; Transporting, etcfor collecting and transporting pupils to and from Indian schools and also for the transportation of Indian pupils from all the Indian schools, except Carlisle, 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-five thousand *Provisos*.
Limit per capita.dollars; in all, one million ninety-live thousand dollars: *Provided*, That not more than one hundred and sixty-seven dollars of this appropriation shall be expended for the annual support and education of any one pupil, except in such cases as in the judgment of the Secretary of the Interior a larger expenditure is absolutely necessary to prevent a serious impairment of the efficiency of the school, a full statement of the specific reasons for such additional expenditure to be made by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs in his annual report:Supervisors limited. *And provided further*, That no more than three supervisors of Indian schools shall be appointed or paid from this fund.
For support and education of two hundred and fifty Indian pupils atAlbuquerque, N. Mex. Albuquerque, New Mexico, at one hundred and sixty-seven dollars per annum for each pupil, forty-one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars: pay of superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars per annum; in all, forty-three thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. 309 For support and education of one hundred Indian pupils at Saint,Banning, Cal. Boldface’s Industrial School at Banning, California, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.
For the education and support of one hundred Indian children at theBluckfeet Agency. Holy Family Indian School at Blackfeet Agency, Montana, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. For support and education of eighty pupils at the Cherokee TrainingCherokee, N. C. School at Cherokee, North Carolina, at one hundred and sixty-seven dollars per annum each, thirteen thousand three hundred and sixty dollars; for pay of superintendent, one thousand two hundred dollars; for construction of school buildings, three thousand dollars; in all, seventeen thousand five hundred and sixty 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 Carlisle school, and for the repair of buildings, one hundred and five thousand dollars. For support and education of one hundred and twenty-five IndianCarson City, Nev. pupils at Carson City, Nevada, at one hundred and sixty-seven dollars per annum each, twenty thousand eight hundred and seventy five dollars; general repairs, three thousand dollars, and for pay of superintendent of said school, one thousand five hundred dollars per annum; in all, twenty-five thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For support and education of three, hundred and fifty Indian pupils,Chiloceo, Ind. Ter. Chiloceo, Indian Territory, one hundred and sixty-seven dollars per annum each, fifty-eight thousand four hundred and fifty dollars; general repairs, two thousand dollars; pay of superintendent of said school, one thousand five hundred dollars per annum; in all, sixty-one thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. For education and support of one hundred Chippewa boys and girlsSt. John’s University and St.
Benedict’ Academy, Minnesota. at Saint John’s University and at Saint Benedict’s Academy,in Stearns County, State of Minnesota, at one hundred and fifty dollars each per annum, and for the education and support of one hundred Indian pupils at Saint Patil’s Industrial School at Clontarf, in the State of Minnesota,Clontarf, Minn. thirty thousand 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 per annum each, twenty-five thousand and fifty dollars; for pay of superintendent of said school, one thousand five hundred dollars per annum; for pay of one assistant matron, six hundred dollars per annum; general repairs and erection of out houses, two thousand dollars, of which sum one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be used to procure a. permanent water supply for the school; in all, twenty-nine thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
For support and education of one hundred and fifty Indian pupilsFort Mojave, Ariz. at Fort Mojave, Arizona, at one hundred and sixty-seven dollars per annum each, twenty-five thousand and fifty dollars; for pay of superintendent of said school,one thousand five hundred dollars per annum; erection of tailor shop and purchase of tools and furniture for same, one thousand dollars; extension of dining room, five hundred dollars; in all, twenty-eight thousand and fifty dollars. For the repair of the church and building now owned by the UnitedSan Xavier, Aris.
States and used for school purposes on the San Xavier Reservation, in the Territory of Arizona, one thousand dollars. For support and education of two hundred and forty Indian pupilsFort Tutten, N. Dak. at Fort Totten, North Dakota, at one hundred and sixty-seven dollars per annum each, forty thousand and eighty dollars; pay of superintendent of said school, one thousand five hundred dollars per annum; erection of and general repairs to buildings, three thousand dollars; in all, forty-four thousand five hundred and eighty dollars.
For support and education of three hundred and fifty Indian pupilsGenoa, Nehr. at Genoa, Nebraska,atone bumbed and sixty-seven dollars per annum 310 each, fifty-eight thousand four hundred and fifty dollars; pay of superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars per annum; general repairs to buildings and sidewalks, two thousand dollars: in all, sixty-one thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. For support and education of one hundred and fifty Indian pupils,Grand Junction, Colo. at one hundred and sixty-seven dollars per annum each, at Grand Junction, Colorado, twenty-five thousand and fifty dollars; for pay of superintendent at the Indian school, one thousand five hundred dollars per annum; for general repairs, five hundred dollars; fencing, painting, six hundred and eighty-five dollars; cisterns, cesspools, and sewerage, five hundred dollars; in all, twenty-eight thousand two hundred and thirty five 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 live hundred Indian pupils at HaskellLawrence, Kana. Institute, Lawrence. Kansas, at one hundred and sixty-seven dollars per annum each, eighty-three thousand five hundred dollars; for pay of superintendent of said school, two thousand dollars per annum; for general repairs, one thousand live hundred dollars; in all, eighty-seven thousand dollars.
For support and education of two hundred Indian pupils at LincolnLincoln Institution, Philadelphia, Pa. Institution, Philadelphia, at one hundred and sixty-seven dollars per annum each, thirty-three thousand four hundred dollars. For support and education of one hundred and fifty Indian pupils atMount Pleasant, Mich. Mount Pleasant, Michigan, at one hundred and fifty dollars per annum each, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars; for pay of superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars, per annum: construction of buildings and general repairs, three thousand five hundred dollars; in all, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For support and education of one hundred Indian pupils at IndianPerris, Cal. industrial school near Perris, California, at one hundred and sixty-seven dollars per annum each, sixteen thousand seven hundred dollars; for pay of superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars per annum; barn, wagon shed, and tool shed combined, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; laundry and equipment thereof, five hundred dollars; erection and equipment of hospital building, two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, twenty-three thousand two hundred dollars.
For support and education of one hundred and thirty pupils at Phoenix,Phœnix. Ariz. Arizona, at one hundred and sixty-seven dollars per annum each, twenty one thousand seven hundred and ten dollars; pay of superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars per annum; erection of hospital, two thousand five hundred dollars; completion of waterworks and for sewerage, two thousand dollars; general repairs and minor improvements, two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, thirty thousand two hundred and ten dollars.
For support and education of one hundred and fifty Indian pupilsPierre, S, Dak. at Pierre, South Dakota, at one hundred and sixty-seven dollars per annum each, twenty-live thousand and fifty dollars; for pay of superintendent of said school, one thousand five hundred dollars per annum; erection of buildings and repairs, one thousand dollars; in all, twenty-seven thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. For support and education of sixty Indian pupils at Indian industrialPipestone, Minn. school at Pipestone, Minnesota, at one hundred and sixty-seven dollars per annum each, ten thousand and twenty dollars; for pay of superintendent, one thousand two hundred dollars per annum; for erection of buildings and general repairs, one thousand dollars; in all, twelve thousand two hundred and twenty dollars.
For support and education of three hundred Indian pupils at theJocko Reservation, Mont. Saint Ignatius Mission School, on the Jocko Reservation, in Montana, at one hundred and fifty dollars per annum each, forty-five thousand dollars. 311 For support and education of sixty Indian pupils at Saint Joseph’sRensselaer, Ind. Normal School at Rensselaer, Indiana, eight thousand three hundred and thirty dollars. For support of two hundred and fifty Indian pupils at Salem, Oregon,Salem, Oreg. at one hundred and sixty-seven dollars per annum each, forty-one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; for pay of the superintendent of said school, one thousand five hundred dollars per annum; repairs, two thousand dollars; in all, forty-five thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For support and education of one hundred and fifty Indian pupils atSanta Fe, N. Mex. Santa Fe, New Mexico, at one hundred and sixty-seven dollars per annum each, twenty-five thousand and fifty dollars; for pay of superintendent of said school, one thousand five hundred dollars per annum; for general repairs, five hundred dollars; water supply for irrigation and fire protection, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, twenty-eight thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. For support and education of one hundred and twenty-five Indian pupils at IndianShoshone Reservation, Wyo. industrial school at Shoshone Reservation, Wyoming, at one hundred and sixty-seven dollars per annum each, twenty thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars; for pay of superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars per annum; fencing, five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; in all, twenty-two thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For support and education of one hundred Indian pupils at IndianTomah, Wis. industrial school at Tomah, Wisconsin, at one hundred and sixty-seven dollars per annum each, sixteen thousand .seven hundred dollars; for pay of superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars per annum; general repairs and grading, one thousand dollars; in all, nineteen thousand two hundred dollars. For support and education of sixty Indian pupils at the Kate DrexelUmatilla Reservation, Oreg. Industrial School, on the Umatilla Indian Reservation, in Oregon, six thousand dollars.
For support and education of sixty Indian pupils at White’s ManualWhite’s Manual Labor Institute, Wabash, Ind. Taking lands in severalty not to exclude children. Labor Institute, of Wabash, Indiana, ten thousand and twenty dollars. That hereafter in the expenditure of money appropriated for any of the purposes of education of Indian children, those children of Indians who have taken or may hereafter take lands in severalty under any existing law shall not, by reason thereof, be excluded from the benefits of such appropriation.
That the expenditure of the money appropriated for school purposesCommissioner of Indian Affairs to direct 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: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby*Proviso*.
Investigation of contract schools. directed to inquire into and investigate the propriety of discontinuing contract schools, and whether, in his judgment, the same can be done without detriment to the education of the Indian children; and thatReport. he submit to Congress at the next session the result of such investigation, including an estimate of the additional cost, if any, of substituting Government schools for contract schools, together with such recommendations as he may deem proper.
Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized andFace value of certain bonds to be credited to Indians. directed to place upon the books of the Treasury to the credit of the several Indian tribes interested therein, the face value of certain nonpaying State bonds or stocks, including certain abstracted bonds described on pages one hundred and fifty-three and one hundred and fifty-four of Annual Estimates for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five (House Executive Document Numbered five.
Fifty-third Congress, second session), to draw interest at the rateInterest. Vol. 21, p. 70. of five per cent per annum, as provided by the Act of April one, 312 eighteen hundred and eighty; and thereupon said State bonds orDisposal of bonds. stocks shall become the property of the United States. For the payment of interest on said bonds for the fiscal year endingInterest on bonds. June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety four, seventy-eight thousand*Proviso*. W. B. Munson.
Claims against Chickasaw to be examined. three hundred and twenty dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed to make a thorough examination of the claim of W. B. Munson, of Denison, Texas, against the Chickasaw tribe of Indians for the amounts named in certain orders or drafts drawn by R. U. Saunders in favor of the First National Bank of Denison, Texas, dated December tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, and directed to Honorable Robert L. Boyd, auditor, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory, and by him accepted January sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, and to make a full report of the finding of the facts to Congress in December next.
Sec. 3. That no purchase of supplies for which appropriations arePurchase of supplies to be advertised. herein made, exceeding in the aggregate five hundred dollars in value, at any one time, shall be made without first giving at least three weeks’Exception, exigencies. public notice by advertisement, except in case of exigency, when, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, who shall make official record of the facts constituting the exigency and shall report the same to Congress at its next session, he may direct that purchases may be made in open market in amount not exceeding three thousand *Provisos*.
Irrigation.dollars at any one purchase: *Provided*, That funds herein and heretofore appropriated for construction of artesian wells, ditches and other works for irrigating may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Purchases from Indians.Interior, be expended in open market: *Provided further*, Purchases until contracts are executed.That purchase in open market shall as far as practicable, be made from Indians under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior: *And provided further*, That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized, for the period of thirty days after the approval of this Act, to purchase in open market supplies necessary for the Indian service, until contracts are executed and approved and contractors have had time to deliver supplies to the several agencies, to an amount not exceeding ten thousand dollars at any one time, a special report thereof to be made to Congress at its Leather, etc., manufacture by Indians.next session.
And the Secretary of the Interior may. when practicable, arrange for the manufacture by Indians upon the reservation, of shoes, clothing, leather, harness, and wagons. Sec. 4. That hereafter the Commissioner of Indian Affairs is authorizedAdvertisement before appropriations. to advertise in the spring of each year for bids, and enter into contracts, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, for goods and supplies for the Indian service required for the ensuing fiscal year, notwithstanding the fact that the appropriations for such fiscal year have not been made, and the contracts so made shall be on the basis of the appropriations for the preceding fiscal year and shall contain a clause that no deliveries shall be made under the same and no liability attach to the United States in consequence of such execution if Congress fails to make an appropriation for such contract for the fiscal year for which those supplies are required.
And the Secretary of the Interior, under the direction of the President, may use any surplus Diversion of surplus for subsistence.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 *Provisos*. Treaty funds.supply any subsistence deficiency that may occur: *Provided, however*, That funds appropriated to fulfill treaty obligations shall not be used: *And provided further*, That any diversions which shall be made under authorityReport. 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 the 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 Purchase of stock cattle, etc.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 313 Indians to become farmers, and in aiding such Indians as have taken allotments to build houses and other buildings for residence or improvementBuildings, etc. of such allotments, and shall report to Congress, at its next session thereafter, an account of his action under this provision.
Sec. 5. 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 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 he cause report to be made to Congress, at its next session thereafter, of his action under this provision.
Sec. 6. That whenever, after advertising for bids for supplies inRejection of bids. accordance with section 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 purchased in. open market, at prices not to exceed those of the lowest bidder, andPurchases in open market. 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. 7. That at any of the Indian reservations where there is. nowSale of property not used. on 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 for whom said property was purchased; and he shall make report of his action hereunder to the next session of Congress thereafter.
Sec. 8. That when in the judgment of the Secretary of the InteriorCommutation of rations, etc., to civilized. Indians. 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. 9, 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 the appropriation paid. Also the number of employees in the IndianIndian Bureau.
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. 10. That in the Indian service Indians shall be employed asEmployment of Indians as herders etc. herders, teamsters, and laborers, and where practicable in all other employments in connection with the agencies and the Indian service. And it. shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to enforce this provision.
Sec. 11. That no Indian child shall be sent from any Indian reservationConsent of parents required when children are sent to school in another State. 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 arc 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 314 shall send to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs his certificate that such consent has been voluntarily given before such child shall be Improper inducements forbidden.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. agreement with the yankton sioux or dakota indians, in south dakota. Sec. 12. The following agreement, made by J.C. Adams and John J. Agreement with Yankton Sioux, in South Dakota,ratified.Cole, commissioners on the part of the United States, with the chiefs, headmen, and other male adults of the Yankton tribe of Sioux or Dakota Indians upon the Yankton Reservation, in the State of South Dakota, on tire thirty-first day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and now on file in the Department of the Interior, and signed by said commissioners on behalf of the United States, and by Charles Martin, Edgar Lee, Charles Jones, Isaac Hepikigan, Stephen Cloud Elk, Edward Yellow Bird, Iron Lingthing, Eli Brockway, Alex Brnnot Francis Willard, Louis Shunk, Joseph Caje, Albion Hitika, John Selwyn, Charles Ree, Joseph Cook, Brigham Young.
William Highrock, Frank Felix, and Philip Ree, on behalf of the said Yankton tribe of Sioux Indians, is hereby accepted, ratified, and confirmed. ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT. Whereas J. C. Adams and John J. Cole, duly appointed commissionersCommissioners. on the part of the United States, did, on the thirty-first day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, conclude an agreement with the chiefs, headmen, and other male adults of the Yankton tribe of Sioux or Dacotah Indians upon the Yankton Reservation, in the State of South Dakota, which said agreement is as follows:
Whereas a clause in the act making appropriations for the currentVol. 27, p. 633. and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth (30th), eighteen bundled and ninety-three (1893), and for other purposes, approved July 13th, 1,892, authorizes the “Secretary of the Interior to negotiate with any Indians for the surrender of portions of their respective reservations, any agreement thus negotiated being subject to subsequent ratification by Congress;” and Whereas the Yankton tribe of Dacotah—now spelled Dakota and so spelled in this agreement—or Sioux Indians is willing to dispose of a portion of the land set apart and reserved to said tribe, by the first article of the treaty of April
(19th)nineteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight (1858), between said tribe and the United States, and situated in the State of South Dakota: Now, therefore, this agreement made and entered into in pursuance of the provisions of the act of Congress approved July thirteenth (13th), eighteen hundred and ninety-two (1892), at the Y’ankton Indian Agency, South Dakota, by J. C. Adams of Webster. S. D., John J. Cole of St. Louis, Mo., and I. W. French of the State of Neb., on the part of the United States, duly authorized and empowered thereto, and the chiefs, headmen, and other male adult members of said Yankton tribe of Indians, witnesseth: Article I. The Yankton tribe of Dakota or Sioux Indians hereby cede, sell,Unallotted lands ceded. relinquish, and convey to the United States all their claim, right, title, and interest in and to all the unallotted lands within the limits of the reservation set apart to said Indians as aforesaid. 315 Article II. In consideration for the lands ceded, sold, relinquished, and conveyedConsideration. to the United States as aforesaid, the United States stipulates and agrees to pay to the said Yankton tribe of Sioux Indians the sum of six hundred thousand dollars ($600,000), as hereinbefore provided for. Article III. Section 1. Sixty days after the ratification of this agreement byCash payment per capita. Congress, or at the time of the first interest payment, the United States shall pay to the said Yankton tribe of Sioux Indians, in lawful money of the United States, out of the principal sum stipulated in Article II, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), to be divided among the members of the tribe per capita. No interest shall be paid by the United States on this one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000). Section 2. The remainder of the purchase money or principal sumFond. stipulated in Article II, amounting to five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000), shall constitute a fund for the benefit of the said tribe, which shall be placed in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the said Yankton tribe of Sioux Indians, upon which the United States shall pay interest at the rate of five per centum .5) perInterest. annum from January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three (January 1st, 1893), the interest to be paid and used as hereinafter provided for. Article IV. The fund of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) of the principalPayment of fund. sum, placed to the credit of the Yankton tribe of Sioux Indians, as provided for in Article III, shall be payable at the pleasure of the United States after twenty-five years, in lawful money of the United States. But during the trust period of twenty-five years, if the necessities of the Indians shall require it, the United States may pay such part of the principal sum as the Secretary of the Interior may recommend, not exceeding $20,000 in any one year. At the payment of such sum it shall be deducted from the principal sum in the Treasury, and the United States shall thereafter pay interest on the remainder. Article V. Section 1. Out of the interest due to the Yankton tribe of SiouxDistribution of interest. Indians by the stipulations of Article III, the United States may set aside and use for the benefit of the tribe, in such manner as the Secretary of the Interior shall determine, as follows: For the care and maintenance of such orphans, and aged, infirm, or other helpless persons of the Yankton tribe of Sioux Indians, as may be unable to take care of themselves; for schools and educational purposes for the said tribe; and for courts of justice and other local institutions for the benefit of said tribe, such sum of money annually as may be necessary for these purposes, with the help of Congress herein stipulated, which sum shall not exceed six thousand dollars ($6,000) in any one year: *Provided*, That Congress shall appropriate, for the same purposes, and duringEqual amount to be appropriated. the same time, out of any money not belonging to the Yankton Indians, an amount equal to or greater than the sum set aside from the interest due to the Indians as above provided for. Section 2. When the Yankton tribe of Sioux Indians shall haveDistribution of fund when title of allottees is completed. received from the United States a complete title to their allotted lands, and shall have assumed all the duties and responsibilities of citizenship, so that the fund provided for in section 1 of this article is no longer needed for the purposes therein named, any balance on hand shall be disposed offer the benefit of the tribe as the Secretary of the Interior shall determine. 316 Article VI. After disposing of the sum provided for in Article V, the remainderPer capita distribution. of the interest due on the purchase money as stipulated in Article III shall be paid to the Yankton tribe of Sioux Indians semiannually, one-half on the thirtieth day of June and one-half on the thirty-first day of December of each year, in lawful money of the United States, and divided among them per capita. The first interest payment being made on June 30th, 1893, if this agreement shall have been ratified. Article VII. In addition to the stipulations in the preceding articles, upon theCoins to adult males. ratification of this agreement by Congress, the United States shall pay to the Yankton tribe of Sioux Indians as follows: To each person whose name is signed to this agreement and to each other male member of the tribe who is eighteen years old or older at the date of this agreement, twenty dollars ($20) in one double eagle, struck in the year 1892 as a memorial of this agreement. If coins of the date named are not in the Treasury coins of another date may be substituted therefor. The payment provided for in this article shall not apply upon the principle sum stipulated in Article If, nor upon the interest thereon stipulated in Article III, but shall be in addition thereto. Article VIII. Such part of the surplus lands hereby ceded and sold to the UnitedBuildings, etc. States, as may now be occupied by the United States for agency, schools, and other purposes, shall be reserved from sale to settlers until they are no longer required for such purposes. But all other lands included in this sale shall, immediately after the ratification of this agreement by Congress, be offered for sale through the proper land office, to be disposed of under the existing land laws of the United States, to actual and bona fide settlers only. Article IX. During the trust period of twenty-five years, such part of the landsLeases permitted. which have been allotted to members of the Yankton tribe of Indians in severalty, as the owner thereof can not cultivate or otherwise use advantageously, may be leased for one or more years at a time. But such leasing shall be subject to the approval of the Y’ankton Indian agent by and with the consent of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs; and provided that such leasing shall not in any case interfere with the cultivation of the allotted lands by the owner thereof to the full extent of the ability of such owner to improve and cultivate his holdings. The intent of this provision is to compel every owner of allotted lands to cultivate the same to the full extent of his ability to do so, before he shall have the privilege of leasing any part thereof, and then lie shall have the right to lease only such surplus of his holdings as he is wholly unable to cultivate or use advantageously. This provision shall apply alike to both sexes, and to all ages, parents acting for their children who are under their control, and the Yankton Indian agent acting for minor orphans who have no guardians. Article X. Any religious society, or other organization now occupying underLands for religious uses proper authority for religious or educational work among the Indians any of the land under this agreement ceded to the United States, shall 317 have the right for two years from the date of the ratification of this agreement within which to purchase the land so occupied at a valuation fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, which shall not be less than the average price paid to the Indians for these surplus lands. Article XI. If any member of the Yankton tribe of Sioux Indians shall withinLands of Indians dying without heirs. twenty-five years die without heirs, his or her property, real and personal, including allotted lands, shall be sold under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, and the proceeds thereof shall be added to the fund provided for in Article V for schools and other purposes. Article XII. No part of the principal or interest .stipulated to be paid to the Yankton Prior depredations not to be deducted.tribe of Sioux Indians, under the provisions of this agreement, shall be subject to the payment of debts, claims,judgments,or demands against said Indians for damages or depredations claimed to have been committed prior to the signing of this agreement. Article XIII. All persons who have been allotted lands on the reservation describedTribal rights. in this agreement and who are now recognized .as members of the Yankton tribe of Sioux Indians, including mixed-bloods, whether their white blood comes from the paternal or maternal side, and the children born to them, shall enjoy the undisturbed and peaceable possession of their allotted lands, and shall be entitled to all the rights and privileges of the tribe enjoyed by full-blood Indians. Article XIV. An allotments of lands in severalty to members of the YanktonAllotments to be confirmed. tribe of Sioux Indians, not yet confirmed by the Government, shall be confirmed as speedily as possible, correcting any errors in same, and Congress shall never pass any act alienating any part of these allotted lands from the Indians. Article XV. The claim of fifty one Yankton Sioux Indians, who were employedPayment of scouts. as scouts by General Alf. Sully in 1864, for additional compensation at the rate of two hundred and twenty-five dollars ($225) each, aggregating the sum of eleven thousand four hundred and seventy-five dollars ($11,475) is hereby recognized as just, and within ninety days
(90)after the ratification of this agreement by Congress the same shall be paid in lawful money of the United States to the said scouts or to their heirs. Article XVI. If the Government of the United States questions the ownership ofPipestone Reservation. the Pipestone Reservation by the Yankton Tribe of Sioux Indians, under the treaty of April 19th, 1858, including the fee to the land asTitle to be adjudicated. well as the right to work the quarries, the Secretary of the Interior shall as speedily as possible refer the matter to the Supreme Court of the United States, to be decided by that tribunal. And the United States shall furnish, without cost to the Yankton Indians, at least one competent attorney to represent the interests of the tribe before the court. 318 If the Secretary of the Interior shall not, within one year after the ratification of this agreement by Congress, refer the question of the ownership of the said Pipestone Reservation to the Supreme Court, as provided for above, such failure upon his part shall be construed as, and shall be, a waiver by the United States of all rights to the ownership of the said Pipestone Reservation, and the same shall thereafter be solely the property of the Yankton tribe of the Sioux Indians, including the fee to the land. Article XVII. No intoxicating liquors nor other intoxicants shall ever be sold orIntoxicants prohibited. given away upon any of the lands by this agreement ceded and sold to the United States, nor upon any other lands within or comprising the reservations of the Yankton Sioux or Dakota Indians as described in the treaty between the said Indians and the United States, dated April 19th. 1858, and as afterwards surveyed and set off to the said Indians. The penalty for the violation of this provision shall be such as Congress may prescribe in the act ratifying this agreement. Article XVIII. Nothing in this agreement shall be construed to abrogate the treatyFormer treaty in force. Vol. 11, p. 318. of April 19th, 1858, between the Yankton tribe of Sioux Indians and the United States. And after the signing of this agreement, and its ratification by Congress, all provisions of the said treaty of April 19th, 1858, shall be in full force and effect, the same as though this agreement had not been made, and the said Yankton Indians shall continue to receive their annuities under the said treaty of April 19th, 1858. Article XIX. When this agreement shall have been ratified by Congress, anCopy of ratified agreement. official copy of the act of ratification shall be engrossed, in copying ink, on paper of the size this agreement is written upon, and sent to the Yankton Indian agent to be copied by letter press in the “Agreement Book” of the Yankton Indians. Article XX. For the purpose of this agreement, all young men of the YanktonSigning agreement. tribe of Sioux Indians, eighteen years of age or older, shall be considered adults, and this agreement, when signed by a majority of the male adult members of the said tribe, shall be binding upon the Yankton tribe of Sioux Indians. It shall not, however, be binding upon the United States until ratified by the Congress of the United States, but shall as soon as so ratified become fully operative from its date. A refusal by Congress to ratify this agreement shall release the said Yankton Indians under it. In witness whereof, the said J. C. Adams, John J. Cole, and J. W. French, on the part of the United States, and the chiefs, headmen, and other adult male Indians, on the part of the said Yankton tribe of Sioux or Dakota—spelled also Dacotab—Indians, have hereunto set their hands and affixed their seals. Done at the Yankton Indian agency, Greenwood, South Dakota, this thirty-first day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-two (Dec. 31st, 1892). James C. Adams, [seal.] John J. Cole. [seal.] 319 The foregoing articles of agreement having been read in open council, and fully explained to us, we, the undersigned, chiefs, headmen, and other adult male members of the Yankton tribe of Sioux Indians, do hereby consent and agree to all the stipulations therein contained. Witness our hands and seals of date as above. Wicahaokdeun (William T. Selwyn), seal; and others: Therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theAgreement confirmed. United States of America in Congress assembled, That said agreement be, and the same hereby is, accepted, ratified, and confirmed. That for the purpose of carrying the provisions of this Act into effectAmount placed to credit of Indians. there is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of six hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of which amount the sum of five hundred thousand dollars shall be placed to the credit of said tribe in the Treasury of the United States, and shall bear interest at the rateInterest. of five per centum per annum from the first day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, said interest to be paid and distributed to said tribe as provided in articles live and six of said agreement. OfImmediately available. the amount herein appropriated one hundred thousand dollars shall be immediately available to be paid to said tribe, as provided in section one of article three of said agreement. There is also hereby appropriatedPresents to adults. the further sum of ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, which sum shall be immediately available, to be paid to the adult male members of said tribe, as provided in article seven of said agreement. There is also hereby appropriated the further sum ofPayments to scouts. eleven thousand four hundred and seventy-five dollars, which sum shall be immediately available, to be paid as provided in article fifteen of said agreement: *Provided*, That none of the money to be paid to said*Provisos*. Prior depredations. Indians under the terms of said agreement, nor any of the interest thereon, shall be subject to the payment of any claims, judgments, or demands against said Indians for damages or depredations claimed to have been committed prior to the signing of said agreement. That the lands by said agreement ceded, to the United States shall,Lands opened to homestead and town site settlement. upon proclamation by the President, be opened to settlement, and shall be subject to disposal only under the homestead and town-site laws of the United States, excepting the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections in each Congressional township, which shall be reserved for common-school purposes and be subject to the laws of the State of South Dakota: *Provided*, That each settler on said lands shall, in addition to *Proviso*. Additional payment by settlers.the fees provided by law, pay to the United States for the land so taken by him the sum of three dollars and seventy-five cents per acre, of which sum he shall pay fifty cents at the time of making his original entry and the balance before making final proof and receiving a certificate of final entry; but the rights of honorably discharged Union soldiers andSoldiers and sailors. R. S., secs. 2304, 2305, p. 422. sailors, as defined and described in sections twenty-three hundred and four and twenty-three hundred and five of the Revised Statutes of the United States, shall not be abridged except as to the sum to be paid as aforesaid. That the Secretary of the Interior, upon proper plats and descriptionPatents to interpreters. being furnished, is hereby authorized to issue patents to Charles Pieotte and Felix Brunot, and W. T. Selwyn, United States interpreters, for not to exceed one acre of land each, so as to embrace their houses near the agency buildings upon said reservation, but not to embrace any buildings owned by the Government, upon the payment by each of said persons of the sum of three dollars and seventy-five cents. That every person who shall sell or give away any intoxicating liquorsSale, etc., of intoxicants prohibited. or other intoxicants upon any of the lands by said agreement ceded, or upon any of the lands included in the Yankton Sionx Indian Reservation as created by the treaty of April nineteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, shall be punishable by imprisonment for not more than two years and by a fine of not more thanPunishment. three hundred dollars. 320 agreement with the yakima nation of indians in washington. Sec. 13. That the following agreement entered into by John Lane,Agreement with Yakimas in Washington ratified. special United States Indian agent, and Lewis T. Erwin, United States Indian agent, Yakima, duly appointed by the Secretary of the Interior in that behalf, of the one part, and the head chief, chiefs, headmen, and principal men of the .several tribes and bands composing the Yakima Nation of Indians, in the State of Washington, of the other part, bearing date the eighth day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and now on tile in the office of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, is hereby accepted, ratified, and confirmed. Whereas John Lane, special U. 8. Indian agent, and Lewis T. Erwin,Commissioners. U. S. Indian agent for the Yakima Indian Agency, duly appointed commissioners on the part of the United States, did, on the eighth day of January, 1894, conclude an agreement with the following tribes and bands of Indians, viz.: Yakimas, Palouses, Pisquouses, Wenatshapams, Klickitas, Klingnits, Kou was say ns, Li ay was, Shin pahs, Wish hams, Shy iks, Oehe chotes, Kali milt pahs, and Se ap cats, all constituting what is known as the Yakima Nation of Indians, by their chiefs, headmen, and principal men, embracing a majority of all male adult Indians belonging to the Yakima Nation of Indians aforesaid, which said agreement is as follows: Whereas a certain right of fishery was duly provided for in article ten of the treaty concluded with these Indians by the United States in the year 1855 and ratified by Congress on March 8, 1859, which said article reads as follows, to wit: " “Article 10. And provided, That there is also reserved and setVol. 12, p. 954. apart from the lands ceded by this treaty, for the use and benefit of the aforesaid Confederated Tribes and Bands, a tract of land not exceeding in quantity one township of six miles square, situated at the forks of the Pisquouse or Wenatshapam River, and known as the “Wenatshapam Fishery,” which said reservation shall be surveyed and marked out whenever the President may direct, and be subject to the same provisions and restrictions as other Indian reservations;” and " Whereas a certain tract of land was duly surveyed and set apart, in the year 1893, by the United States in fulfillment of the agreement, on the part of the United States, to be performed as set forth in said article It) of said treaty of 1855, as aforesaid, which said tract of land is known as the Wenatshapam Fishery, and is described as follows, to wit: " “And provided, That there is also reserved and set apart, from the lands ceded by this treaty, for the use and benefit of the aforesaid Confederated Tribes and Bands, a tract of land not exceeding in quantity one township of six miles square, situated at the forks of the Pisquouse or Wenatshapam River, and known as the “Wenatshapam Fishery,” which said reservation shall be surveyed and marked out whenever the President may direct, and be subject to the same provisions and restrictions as other Indian Reservations;” and " Whereas the said Indians have found the said right of fishery and the said fishery above described of little use or benefit to them, and are willing to dispose of the same to the United States, therefore, in order to carry out such purpose, it is hereby agreed as follows: Article I. The said Indians hereby cede and relinquish to the United StatesWenatshapam fishery right ceded. all their right, title, interest, claim, and demand of whatsoever name or nature of in, and to all their right of fishery, as set forth in article 10 of said treaty aforesaid, and also all their right, title, interest, claim, or demand of, in, and lo said land above described, or any corrected description thereof and known as the Wenatshapam fishery. 321 Article II. In consideration of the foregoing cession and relinquishment the Consideration.United States hereby agrees to pay or expend through their Indian Agent, Yakima Agency, twenty thousand dollars, which said sum is to be deposited in a United States depository for then use and benefit as soon as approved by Congress, and subject to their order, the Indians reserving the right to dispose of said money as they may decide in general council to be held by them and for that purpose. Alter the ratification of this agreement by Congress and the furtherOther lands to resident Indiana. consideration that the Indians known as the Wenatshapam Indians, residing on the Wenatchee River, State of Washington, shall have land allotted to them in severalty in the vicinity of where they now reside, or elsewhere, as they may select, in accordance with article 4 of the general allotment law. Article III. This agreement shall not be binding upon either party until ratifiedRatification. by Congress Dated and signed at Fort Simcoe, Yakima Agency, Washington, January 8, 1894. John Lane, [seal.] Special U. S. Indian Agent, Lewis T. Erwin, [seal.] U. S. Indian Agent, Yakima Commissioners. The foregoing article of agreement having been fully explained to us in open council we, the undersigned, chiefs, headmen, and principal men of the several tribes and bands composing the Yakima Nation of Indians in the State of Washington, do hereby consent and agree to all the stipulations therein contained. Witness our hands and seals at Yakima Agency, Washington, thisSigned. eighth day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-four. Joe 8twice, his x mark, seal; and others: Therefore. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theAgreement confirmed. United States of America in Congress assembled, That the said agreement be, and the same hereby is accepted, ratified, and confirmed. For the purpose of carrying this agreement and ratification intoAmount for Indians. effect, there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of twenty thousand dollars, to be paid to the Indian agent of the Yakima Indian Agency, to be expended by him as provided in the second article of said agreement, in such manner and in such sums as may be decided upon by the general council of the Yakima Nation of Indians, convened and held for that purpose. And the land so ceded and relinquished is hereby restored to the publicLands restored to public domain. *Provisos*. Allotments to Indians. domain, subject to the land laws of the United States: *Provided*, That the Indians, known as the Wenatshapam Indians, residing on the Wenatchee River, State of Washington, shall be allowed the privilege of taking allotments of land in severalty under the fourth section of the general allotment Act of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, andVol. 24, p. 383. amended ActVol. 26. p. 734. of eighteen hundred and ninety-one, as contemplated by the second article of said agreement: *And provided further*, That itPayment. shall be the duty of the Indian agent of the Yakima Indian Agency to see that the Wenatshapam and other Indians living on the Wenatchee River, State of Washington, shall receive and have paid to them their full and pro rata share of said moneys. 322 agreement with the cœur d’alene indians in idaho. Sec. 14. The following agreement entered into by John Lane, UnitedAgreement with tho Cœur d’Alenea in Idaho, ratified. States special Indian agent, on the part of the United States, duly appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, in that behalf, of the one part, and the Cœur d’Alene Indians, residing on the Cœur d’Alene Indian Reservation, in the State of Idaho, of the other part, bearing date the seventh day of February, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and which reads as follows, is hereby accepted, ratified, and confirmed: Article I. This agreement made on the 7th day of February, 1894, by John Lane,Northern boundary of reservation changed. U. S. special Indian agent, on the part of the United States, and the Cœur d’Alene Indians, residing on the Cœur d’Alene Reservation, in the State of Idaho, by their chiefs, headmen, and principal men, embracing a majority of all the male adult Indians occupying said reservation, pursuantVol. 27, p. 616. to an item in the act of Congress, making appropriations for current and contingent expenses, and fulfilling treaty stipulations with Indian tribes for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1894, as follows: “The Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed to negotiate with the Cœur d’Alene Indians for a change of .the northern line of their reservation so as to exclude therefrom a strip of land on which the town of Harrison and numerous settlers are located. “That the foregoing provision shall take effect and be in force, after it shall have been submitted to and agreed to by the Indians of said tribe, and approved by the Secretary of the Interior.” Witnesseth, that the said Indians, for the consideration hereinafterLands ceded. named, do hereby cede, grant, and relinquish to the United States all right, title, and claim which they now have or ever had of, in, and to all the land embraced within the following-described tract, now a part of their reservation, to wit: Beginning at a point on the north line of the reservation, on the east bank of the mouth of the Cœur d’Alene River, and running due south one mile, thence due east parallel with the north boundary line to the east boundary line, thence north on the east boundary line to the northeast corner of the reservation, thence west on the north boundary line to the point of beginning. Article II. And it is further agreed, in consideration of the above, that the UnitedCompensation. States will pay to the said Cœur d’Alene tribe of Indians the sum of fifteen thousand ($15,000) dollars, the same to be paid to the said Indians upon the completion of all the provisions of this agreement. Article III. It is further agreed that the payment of the money aforesaid shall be Distribution.made to the said tribe of Indians pro rata, or share and share alike, for each and every member of the said tribe as recognized by said tribe now living on said reservation. Article IV. The new boundary lines of the reservation, established by this agreement,New boundary. or such portions thereof as are not defined by natural objects, shall be surveyed and marked in a plain and substantial manner. The cost of such surveys are to be paid by the United States. 323 Article V. This agreement shall not be binding upon either party until ratifiedRatification. by Congress. Dated and signed at De Smet Mission, Idaho, this 7th day of February, 1894. John Lane, U. S. Special Indian Agent. Witness: Geo. F. Steele. The foregoing articles of agreement, having been fully explained to us in open council, we, the undersigned, chiefs, headmen, and principal men of the Cœur d’Alene tribe of Indians residing on the Cœur d’Alene Reservation, State of Idaho, do hereby consent and agree to all the stipulations therein contained. Witness our hands and seals at De Smet Mission, State of Idaho,Signed. this 7tb day of February, 1894. Andrew Sultice, his x mark, seal; and others. For the purpose of carrying out the terms of said agreement theAmount for Indians, pro rata. sum of fifteen thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the same to be made immediately available and to be paid the Indians of the Cœur d’Alene Reservation by the Secretary of the Interior, pro rata, or share and share alike, in accordance with the terms of said agreement. That for the purpose of segregating the ceded land from the diminishedSurvey for new boundary. Cœur d’Alene Indian Reservation, so much of the boundary line described in article one of the agreement that is not defined by a natural boundary shall be properly surveyed and permanently marked in a plain and substantial manner by prominent and durable monuments. That to provide for disposal of the lands acquired by the foregoingDisposal of lands. agreement the Secretary of the Interior shall cause the same to be properly surveyed, subdivided, and platted in accordance with existing law; and the Secretary of the Interior shall direct one of the inspectors of the Department of the Interior to appraise the value of the town site of Harrison and state the price per acre of each and every legal subdivision of the ceded tract. In case the total appraised value of all the lands exceeds or fallsAppraisement. short of fifteen thousand dollars and the cost of appraising the lands, the appraisement of the town site and the subdivisions shall be scaled in proportion to the appraised values to such price as will bring the total to the sum to be paid the Indians and the cost of the appraisement; and at the rates thus determined, in addition to the usual fees and charges, the lands will be disposed of under the homestead and town-site laws, preference being given to those persons who were actual bona fide settlers at the date of the agreement. February seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-four: *Provided*, That in no case shall the*Proviso*. Minimum price. price per acre fall below the minimum prescribed by law. agreement with the alsea and other indians on siletz reservation in oregon. Sec. 15. Whereas Reuben P. Boise, William H. Odell, and H. H.Agreement with Alsena, etc., for saleof lands. Siletz Reservation, Oreg., ratified. Harding, duly appointed commissioners on the part of the United States, did, on the thirty-first day of October, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, conclude an agreement with the chiefs, headmen, and other male adults of the Alsea and other bands of Indians residing upon the Siletz Reservation in the State of Oregon, which said agreement is as follows: This agreement made and entered into in pursuance of the provisions of the Act. of Congress approved July thirteen, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, at the Siletz Agency, Oregon, by Reuben Boise, William 324 H. Odell, and II. II. Harding, on the part of the United States, and the chiefs, headmen, and male adults of the Alsea and other bands of Indians located on said Siletz Reservation, witnesseth: Article I. The Indians located on said Siletz Reservation hereby cede, sell,Unallotted lands ceded. relinquish, and convey to the United States all their claim, right, title, and interest in and to all the unallotted lands within the limits of said reservation, except the five sections described in Article IV of this agreement. Article II. In consideration of the lands sold, ceded, relinquished, and conveyedConsideration. as aforesaid, the United States stipulates and agrees to pay to the Indians located on said Siletz Reservation the sum of one hundred and forty-two thousand and six hundred dollars ($142,600), in payments as follows, to wit: One hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) shall be deposited in theFund. Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Indians of the Siletz Reservation, in the State of Oregon, which shall bear interest at the rate of five
(5)per cent per annum, to be paid annually at the agency on said reservation on the first day of March of each and every year. The balance of said principal sum shall be paid as follows, to wit: Within three mouths after the approval of this agreement by CongressPayments to adults. there shall be paid to each Indian on said reservation, who shall be of age, to wit: Males of twenty-one years, and females of eighteen years or more, and all married persons, whether they shall be of age or not, the sum of seventy-five dollars ($75) each, and annually thereafter on each interest-paying day, there shall be paid a like sum of seventy-five dollars ($75) to each one who shall have become of age as aforesaid, or who shall have married, whether of age or not (who shall not have been paid seventy-five dollars) during the preceding year, the said sum of seventy-five dollars: and all of the money so held back by the United States to pay said delayed payments shall also draw interest at the rate of five per cent per annum; and the parents of all infants who are supporting the same shall receive annually all the interest money according to the share pro rata of each infant: Aged persons.*Provided, however*, That in case of all aged or infirm persons, who are incapable of taking care of themselves, the same due and payable to such may be used for the support and care of such persons, in such manner as the Secretary of the Interior may from time to time direct: Limitation.*And provided further*, That this agreement shall apply only to persons who shall be living and belonging on said reservation at the time of the ratification of the same by Congress. Article III. It is hereby further stipulated and agreed that as soon as the landsPayment of taxes, etc. which have been allotted to the Indians on said Siletz Indian Reservation shall become subject and liable to taxation by the State of Oregon, then the Secretary of the Interior may reserve a part of said interest money, so coming to said Indians, not exceeding one-third thereof for each year, and pay the same to the State and local authorities of the State of Oregon, in lieu of taxation upon the lands allotted to said Indians, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe or as may be prescribed by law, to secure to the Indians the full enjoyment of the protection of the laws of said State, and a just share of all benefits Road taxes.derived from said payment in lieu of taxes: *Provided*, That all road taxes, which by the laws of the State may be discharged by work, may be so discharged by the Indian owners of said allotted lands on the 325 roads in their respective vicinities: *And,provided further*, That CongressPayment of fund. may from time to time appropriate and provide to pay any part of said principal sum, so as aforesaid held in trust, as the condition and interests of said Indians may seem to require or justify; *And provided further*, In case said Indians or any portion thereof may desire to be furnishedSupplies, etc. with supplies instead of cash payments of interest or principal, then the Secretary of the Interior may issue such supplies at cost price in such reservation, at the agency therein, in lien of cash payments of interest, or any part of the principal sum, which may be from time to time appropriated by Congress: *And provided further*, That in case theDistribution to civilized Indians. Secretary of the Interior may at any time be satisfied that any of said Indians are fully competent and capable of managing and taking care of their full pro rata of said purchase money, and that it will be to their interests to receive the same, and that other portions of said Indians are not so capable and competent, then he shall recommend to Congress that sufficient amount of such principal sum so held in trust as provided in section 2 of this agreement shall be appropriated to pay the full pro rata of such competent and capable Indians of such principal fund, and when the same shall have been paid and receipted for personally by each Indian so paid, then such Indians shall have no further interest in said trust fund. Article IV. It is further stipulated and agreed that section nine
(9)in townshipSections reserved. nine
(9)south, range 11 west of the Willamette meridian, and the west, half of the west half of section five (5), and the east half
(1)of section six
(6)and the east half of the west half of section 6, township 10 south, range 10 west, W, M., and the south half of section 8 and the north half of section 17, and section sixteen
(16)in township 9 south, range 9, west of the Willamette meridian, and the east half of the northeast 4, and lot 3, sec. 20, and S. A and S. J of north half of sec. 21, town 8, range 10 west, W. M., are hereby reserved from sale, and that the timber on said live sections of land may be cut and manufactured by the Indians of said Siletz Reservation for their own use and for sale, under such rules as the Secretary of the Interior shall from time to time prescribe, regulating the cutting of timber, so as to secure an equality of benefits to the Indians, employment for them, and judicious aid to them in becoming self-supporting. Article V. It is further agreed that no part of said sum of money so agreed as Prior claims.aforesaid shall ever be applied to the payment of any claim against any of the Indians alleged to have occurred prior to the ratification of this agreement by Congress. Article VI. It is further stipulated and agreed that any religious society or otherLands for religious, etc., uses. organization not occupying under proper authority, for religious or educational work among the Indians, any of the lands in this agreement ceded, shall have the right for two years from the date of the ratification of this agreement within which to purchase the land so occupied at the rate of $2.50 per acre, the same to be conveyed to such society or organization by patent. Article VII. This agreement shall not take effect, and be in force until ratified byRatification. the Congress of the United States. 326 In witness whereof the said Reuben P. Boise, William II. Odell, and H. II, Harding, on the part of the United States, and the chiefs, head men, and other male adults of the Indians residing on said Siletz RESERVATION, have hereunto set their hands and affixed their seals. Done at the Siletz Agency, Oregon, this the 31st day of October, A. D. 1892. Reuben P. Boise, [l. s.] William Odell, [l. s.] H. H. Harding, [l. s.] United States Commissioners. Committee appointed at general council of Indians, October 29, 1892: Scott Lane. [l. s.]; and others: Therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theAgreement accepted, etc. United States of America in Congress assembled, That said agreement be, and the same hereby is, accepted, ratified, and confirmed. That for the purpose of carrying the provisions of this Act into effectAmount appropriated. there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred and forty-two thousand six hundred dollars, which sum of money shall be paid to the Indians in the manner and form prescribed by articles two and three of *Provisos*. Prior depredations claims.the agreement: *Provided*, That none of the money or interest thereon which is by the terms of said agreement to be paid to said Indians shall be, applied to the payment of any judgment that has been or may Vol. 26, p. 851.hereafter be rendered under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled “An Act to provide for the adjudication and payment of claims arising from Indian Entries.depredations.” The mineral lands shall be disposed of under the laws applicable thereto, and the balance of the land so ceded shall be disposed of until further provided by law under the town-site law and under the provisions of the homestead law: *Provided, however*, That Additional price for lands.each settler, under and in accordance with the provisions of said homestead laws shall, at the time of making his original entry, pay the sum of fifty cents per acre in addition to the fees now required by law, and at the time of making final proof shall pay the further sum of one dollar per acre, final proof to be made within five years from the date of entry, and three years’ actual residence on the land shall be established by such evidence as is now required in homestead proofs as a prerequisite to title or patent. That all of the money so held by the United States to pay the delayedInterest on delayed payments. payments shall draw interest at the rate of five per centum per annum after the passage of this Act. That immediately after the passage of this Act the Secretary of theOpening lands to settlement. Interior shall under such regulations as he may prescribe, open said lands to settlement after proclamation by the President and sixty days’ notice. Agreement with the Nez Perce Indians in Idaho. Sec. 16. Whereas Robert Schleicher, James F. Allen, and CyrusAgreement with Nez Perce Indians. Idaho, for cession of lands. Beede, duly appointed commissioners on the part of the United States, did on the first day of May, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, conclude an agreement with the principal men and other male adults of the Nez Perce tribe of Indians upon the Lapwai Reservation, in the State of Idaho, which said agreement is as follows: Whereas the President, under date of October thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and under the provisions of the Act of CongressVol. 24, p. 388. entitled “An Act to provide for the allotment of lands 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 eighth, eighteen hundred and 327 eighty-seven, authorized negotiations with the Nez Perce Indians in Idaho for the cession of their surplus lands; and Whereas the said Nez Perce Indians are willing to dispose of a portion of the tract of land in the State of Idaho reserved as a home for their use and occupation by the second article of the treaty between said Indians and the United States, concluded June ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three: Now, therefore, this agreement made and entered into in pursuance of the provisions of said Act of Congress approved February eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, at the Nez Perce Agency, by Robert Schleicher, James F. Allen, and Cyrus Beede, on the part of the United States, and the principal men and male adults of the Nez Perce tribe of Indians located on said Nez Perce Reservation, witnesseth: Article I. The said Nez Perce Indians hereby cede, sell, relinquish, and conveyLands ceded. to the United States all their claim, right, title, and interest in and to all the unallotted lands within the limits of said reservation, saving and excepting the following described tracts of lands, which are hereby retained by the said Indians, viz: In township thirty-four, range four west: Northeast quarter, north half and southeast of northwest quarter, northeast quarter of southwest quarter, north half and east half of southwest quarter, and the southeast quarter of southeast quarter, section thirteen, four hundred and forty acres. In township thirty-four, range three west: Sections ten, fifteen, thirty-six, one thousand nine hundred and twenty acres. In township thirty-three, range three west: Section one; northwest quarter of northeast quarter, north half of northwest quarter section twelve, seven hundred and sixty acres. In township thirty-five, range two west: South half of northeast quarter, northwest quarter, north half and southeast quarter of southwest quarter, southeast quarter section three; east half, east half of northwest quarter, southwest quarter section ten, section eleven; north half, north half of south half, section twenty-one; east half of north-east quarter, section twenty; sections twenty-two, twenty-seven, thirty-five, four thousand two hundred acres. In township thirty-four, range two west: North half, southwest quarter, north half and southwest quarter and west half of southeast quarter of southeast quarter, section thirteen; section fourteen; north half section twenty-three, west half of east half and west half of northeast quarter, northwest quarter, north half of southwest quarter, west half of east half and northwest quarter and east half of southwest quarter of southeast quarter, section twenty-four; section twenty-nine, two thousand seven hundred acres. In township thirty-three, range two west: West half and southeast quarter section six; sections sixteen, twenty-two, twenty-seven; north half and north half of south half section thirty-four, two thousand eight hundred and eighty acres. In township thirty-four, range one west: West half section two; sections three, four; north half and southwest quarter section eight; north half section nine; north half and north half of southwest quarter section eighteen; northwest quarter section seventeen, two thousand nine hundred and sixty acres. In township thirty-seven, range one east: Section twenty; section twenty-one, less south half of south half of southwest quarter of southeast quarter (ten acres), one thousand two hundred and seventy acres. In township thirty-six, range one east: South half of sections three, four; sections eleven, twelve, one thousand nine hundred and twenty acres. 328 In township thirty-six, range two east: Sections sixteen, seventeen,Land ceded—Continued. eighteen, twenty; all of section twenty-five west of boundary line of reservation; sections twenty-six. twenty-seven, four thousand two hundred and forty acres. In township thirty-five, range two east: North half of sections sixteen, seventeen, section twenty-seven; north half of section thirty-four, one thousand six hundred acres. In township thirty-four, range two east: East half and east half of west half of southeast quarter section twenty-four, one hundred acres. In township thirty-four, range three east: South half of sections nineteen, twenty; north half: north half of south half; southwest quarter and north half of southeast quarter of southwest quarter; north half of south half of southeast quarter section twenty-three; north half; north half and north half of southwest quarter and southeast quarter of southwest quarter; southeast quarter section twenty-four; north half and southeast quarter of northeast quarter; north half of northwest quarter section twenty-five; south half of northeast quarter of northeast quarter section twenty-six; section twenty-nine; northeast quarter of northeast quarter and south half section thirty; northwest quarter and north half of southwest quarter section thirty-one; northeast quarter; north half and southeast quarter of northwest quarter section thirty-two; northwest quarter; north half of southwest quarter, section thirty-three, three thousand seven hundred acres. In township thirty-three, range four east: South half of southeast quarter section eighteen; northeast quarter and fraction northeast of river in east half of northwest quarter section nineteen; fraction west of boundary Hue of reservation, in section twenty-two; west half and southeast quarter of section thirty-five, one thousand four hundred and forty acres. In township thirty-two, range four west: Fraction in west half of northeast quarter of southwest quarter; fraction in northwest quarter of southeast quarter section one; section two; south half of section six; west half and southeast quarter of northeast quarter of section nine, one thousand four hundred and ten acres. In township thirty-one, range four west: South half of northeast quarter; southeast quarter of northwest quarter; northeast quarter of southwest quarter; southeast quarter section seventeen; northwest quarter section twenty-one, four hundred and eighty acres. Total, thirty-two thousand and twenty acres. Article II. It is also stipulated and agreed that the place known as “the boom”Lands reserved. on the Clearwater River, near the mouth of Lapwai Creek, shall be excepted from this cession and reserved for the common use of the tribe, with full right of access thereto, and that the tract of land James Moses. Allotment.adjoining said boom, now occupied by James Moses, shall be allotted to him in such manner as not to interfere with such right. Also that there shall be reserved from said cession the land described as follows: “ Commencing at a point at the margin of Clearwater River, on the south side thereof, which is three hundred yards below where the middle thread of Lapwai Creek empties into said river; run thence up the margin of said Clearwater River at low-water mark, nine hundred yards to a point; run thence south two hundred and fifty yards to a point; thence southwesterly, in aline to the southeast corner of a stone building, partly finished as a church; thence west three hundred yards to a point; thence from said point northerly in a straight line to the point of beginning; and also the adjoining tract of land lying southerly of said tract, on the south end thereof; commencing at the said corner of said church, and at the point three hundred yards west thereof, and run a line from each of said points. One of said lines running on the 329 east side and the other on the west of said Lapwai Creek; along the foothills of each side of said creek; up the same sufficiently far so that a line being drawn east and west to intersect the aforesaid lines shall embrace within its boundaries, together with the first above-described tract of land, a sufficient quantity of land as to include and comprise six hundred and forty acres;” for which described tracts of land the United States stipulates and agrees to pay to William G, Langford, hisWilliam G. Langford. Purchase of land from. heirs or assigns, the sum of twenty thousand dollars, upon the execution by said Langford, bis heirs or assigns, of a release and relinquishment to the United States of all right, title, interest, or claim, either legal or equitable, in and to said tracts of land, derived by virtue of a quitclaim deed of February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, to the said William G. Langford, from Langdon S. Ward, treasurer of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, which release and relinquishment shall be satisfactory to t he Secretary of the Interior, and it is stipulated and agreed by said Nez Perce Indians that upon the execution and approval of such release and relinquishment the right of occupancy of said Indians in said described tracts shall terminate and cease and the complete title thereto immediately vest in the United States: *Provided*, That any member of the said NezAllotments to Indians. Perce tribe of Indians entitled to an allotment now occupying and having valuable improvements upon any of said lands not already occupied or improved by the United States may have the same allotted to him in such subdivisions as shall be prescribed and approved by the Secretary of the Interior, in lieu of an equal quantity of agricultural land allotted to him elsewhere; and for this purpose shall relinquish any patent that may have been issued to him before the title to said “Langford” tracts of land shall vest in the United States, and shall have a new patent issued to him of the form and legal effect prescribed by the fifth section of the act of February eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven (twenty-fourth Statutes, three hundred and eighty-eight), covering the new allotment and that portion of the former allotment not surrendered 11 is further agreed that five acres of said tract, upon which the Indian Presbyterian Church is located, as long as same shall remain a church, shall be patented to the trustees of said church; that the said five acres shall not include improvements made by the United States; the said five acres to be selected under the direction of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Article III. In consideration for the lands ceded, sold, relinquished, and conveyedConsideration. as aforesaid the United States stipulates and agrees to pay to the said Nez Perce Indians the sum of one million six hundred and twenty-six thousand two hundred and twenty-twoPer capita distribution. dollars, of which amount the sum of six hundred and twenty-six thousand two hundred and twenty-two dollars shall be paid to said Indians per capita as soon as practicable after the ratification of this agreement. The remainder of said sum of one million six hundred and twenty-six thousand two hundredFund. and twenty-two dollars shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the “Nes Perces Indians, of Idaho,” and shall bear interest at the rate of five per centum per annum, which principal and interest shall be paid to said Indians per capita as follows,Payments. to wit: At the expiration of one year from the date of the ratification of this agreement the sum of fifty thousand dollars, and semiannually thereafter the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars with the interest on the unexpended portion of the fund of one million dollars until the entire amount shall have been paid, and no part of the funds to be derived from the cession of lands by this agreement made shall be diverted or withheld from the disposition made by this article on account of any depredation or other act committed by any Nez Perce 330 Indian, prior to the execution of this agreement, but the same shall be actually paid to the Indians in cash, in the manner and at the times as herein stipulated. Article IV. It is further stipulated and agreed that the United States wall purchaseSaw mills, etc. for the use of said Nez Perce Indians two portable steam saw mills, at a cost not exceeding ten thousand dollars, and will provide for said Indians, for a period not exceeding two years, and at a cost not exceeding twenty-four hundred dollars, a competent surveyor, for the purpose of fully informing said Indians as to the correct locations of their allotments and the corners and lines thereof. Article V. It is further stipulated and agreed that the lands by this agreementOpening to settlement. ceded, shall not be opened for public settlement until trust patents for the allotted lands shall have been duly issued and recorded, and the first payment shall have been made to said Indians. Article VI. It is further stipulated and agreed that any religious society or otherLands for religious, etc., uses. organization now occupying under proper authority, for religious or educational work among the Indians, any of the lands ceded, shall have the right for two years from the date of the ratification of this agreement, within which to purchase the land so occupied, at the rate of three dollars per acre, the same to be conveyed to such society or organization by patent, in the usual form. Article VII. It is further stipulated and agreed that all allotments made to membersAllotments to deceased Indians to be confirmed. of the tribe who have died since the same were made, or may die before the ratification of this agreement, shall be confirmed, and trust patents issued in the names of such allottees, respectively. Article VIII. It is further stipulated and agreed that the first per capita payment,Payment of first per capita. provided for in Article VIII of this agreement, shall be made to those members of the Nez Perce tribe whose names appear on the schedule of allotments made by Special Agent Fletcher, and to such as may be born to them before the ratification of this agreement: *Provided*, That should it be found that any member of the tribe has been omitted from said schedule, such member shall share in the said payment, and shall be given an allotment, and each subsequent payment shall be made to those who receive the preceding payment and those born thereafter: *Provided*, That not more than one payment shall be made on account of a deceased member. Article IX. It is further agreed that the lands by this agreement ceded, those retained, and thoseIntoxicating liquors. allotted to the said Nez Perce Indians shall be subject, for a period of twenty-five years, to all the laws of the United States prohibiting the introduction of intoxicants into the Indian country, and that the Nez Perce Indian allottees, whether under the care of an Indian agent or not, shall, for a like period, be subject to all the laws of the United States prohibiting the sale or other disposition of intoxicants to Indians. 331 Article X. Representation having been made by the Indians in council thatClaims of certain scouts to be examined. several members of the Nez Perce tribe, to the number of about fifty, as per list hereto attached, served the United States under General O. O. Howard, in the late war with Joseph’s Band of said tribe, as scouts, couriers, and messengers, and that they have received no pay therefor; it is agreed that the United States, through its properly constituted authority, will carefully examine each of the cases herewith presented, and make such remuneration to each of said claimants as shall, upon such examination, be found to be due; not exceeding the sum of two dollars and fifty cents per day each, for the time actually engaged in such service; it being understood and agreed that the time of service of said claimants in no case exceeded sixty days. And it also having been made to appear that Abraham Brooks, a member of the Nez Perce tribe of Indians, was engaged in the service of the United States in the late war with Joseph’s Band of Nez Perces, and it also appearing that the said Abraham Brooks was wounded in said service, and that by reason thereof, he is now in failing health, and has been for several years; that he is now nearly blind inconsequence thereof; it is agreed that an investigation of all the facts in the case shall be made by the proper authorities of the United States, as early as practicable, and that it found substantially as herein represented, or if found worthy under the law in such eases provided, he shall be allowed and paid by the United States a pension adequate to the service and disability. Article XI. The existing provisions of all former treaties with said Nez PerceTreaties continued. Indians not inconsistent with the provisions of this agreement are hereby continued in full force and effect. Article XII. This agreement shall not. take effect and be in force until ratified byRatification. the Congress of the United States. In witness whereof the said Robert Schleicher, James F. Allen, and Cyrus Beede, on the part of the United States, and the principal men and other male adults of the Nez Perce tribe of Indians, have hereunto set their hands. Concluded at the Nez Perce Agency, this first day of May, anno domini eighteen hundred and ninety-three. Robert Schleicher, James F. Allen, Cyrus Beede. A. B. Lawyer: and others. Therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theAgreement confirmed. United States of America in Congress assembled. That the said agreement be, and the same hereby is, accepted, ratified, and confirmed That for the purpose of carrying the provisions of this Act intoAmount appropriated. effect there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one million six hundred and sixty eight thousand six hundred and twenty-two dollars, of whichDisposition. amount the sum of one million dollars shall be placed to the credit of “the Nez Perce Indians of Idaho” in the Treasury of the United States, and shall bear interest at the rate of five per centum per annum. Said sum of one million six hundred and sixty-eight thousand six hundred and twenty-two dollars, together with the interest on said sum of one million dollars, shall be paid to said Indians, or expended for their benefit, as provided in articles two, three, four, and eight of said 332 agreement: “out of which sum the Secretary of the Interior shall pay William G. Langford. Payment to heirs.to the heirs, administrator, or legal representatives of William G. Langford, deceased, the sum of twenty thousand dollars, upon a release and relinquishment to the United States by said heirs, administrator, or legal representatives of all right, title, interest, or claim, either legal or equitable, in and to the tract of land described in article two of said *Proviso*. Depredation claims.agreement as therein provided: *Provided*, That none of the money agreed to be paid said Indians, nor any of the interest thereon, shall be, or become, liable to the payment of any judgment or claim for depredations committed by said tribe or any member thereof before the date of said agreement. That immediately after the issuance and receipt by the Indians ofLands to be opened to settlement on issuing trust patents. trust patents for the allotted lands, as provided for in said agreement, the lands so ceded, sold, relinquished, and conveyed to the United States shall be opened to settlement by proclamation of the President, and shall be subject to disposal only under the homestead, town-site, stone and timber, and mining laws of the United 8bites, excepting the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections in each Congressional township, which shall be reserved for common-school purposes and be subject to *Proviso*. Additional payments for entries.the laws of Idaho: *Provided*, That each settler on said lands shall, before making final proof and receiving a certificate of entry, pay to the United States for the lands so taken by him, in addition to the fees provided by law, the sum of three dollars and seventy-five, cents per acre for agricultural lands, one-half of which shall be paid within three years from the date of original entry; and the sum of five dollars per acre for stone, timber, and mineral lands, subject to the regulations prescribed by existing laws; but the rights of honorably discharged Union soldiers and sailors, as defined and described in sections twenty-three hundred and four and twenty-three hundred and five of the Revised Statutes of the United States, shall not be abridged except as to the sum to be paid as aforesaid. That the Commissioner of Indian Affairs be, and he hereby is, authorizedSurveyor. to employ a competent surveyor for a period not exceeding two years, at a compensation not exceeding one thousand two hundred dollars per annum, for the purposes stipulated in article four of said agreement, and he is also authorized to purchase two portable sawmills, as provided in article, four. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to examineClaims of scouts to be examined. the claim of those Indians who served the United States under General O. O. Howard in the late war with Joseph’s band of said tribe as scouts, couriers, and messengers, referred to in article ten of said agreement, and also as to the claim of Abraham Brooks, mentioned in said article, and report his findings and recommendations to Congress. agreement with the yuma indians in california. Sec. 17. Whereas Washington J. Houston, John A. Gorman, andAgreement with Yuma Indians for cession of lands in California. Peter R, Brady, duly appointed commissioners on the part of the United States, did on the fourth day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, conclude an agreement with the principal men and other male adults of the Yuma Indians in the State of California, which said agreement is as follows: Articles of agreement made and entered into this 4th day of December, A. D. 1893, at Fort Yuma, on what is known as the Yuma Indian Reservation, in the county of San Diego, State of California, by Washington J. Houston, John A. Gorman, and Peter R. Brady, commissioners on the part of the United States appointed for the purpose, and the Yuma Indians. Article I. The said Yuma Indians, upon the conditions hereinafter expressed,Lands ceded. do hereby surrender and relinquish to the United States all their right, 333 title, claim, and interest in and to and over the following-described tract of country in San Diego County, Cal., established by executive order of January ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, which describes its boundaries as follows: “Beginning at a point in the middle of the channel of the ColoradoLocation. River, due east of the meander corner to sections nineteen and thirty, township fifteen south, range twenty-four east, San Barnardino meridian; thence west on the line between sections nineteen and thirty to the range line, between townships twenty-three and twenty-four east; thence continuing west on the section line to a point which, when surveyed, will be the corner to sections twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-six, and twenty-seven, in township fifteen south, range twenty-one east; thence south on the line between sections twenty-six and twenty-seven, in township fifteen south, range twenty-one east, and continuing south on the section lines to the intersection of the international boundary, being the corner to fractional sections thirty-four and thirty-five, in township sixteen south, range twenty-one east; thence easterly on the international boundary to the middle of the channel of the Colorado River; thence up said river, in the middle of the channel thereof, to the place of beginning, be, and the same is hereby, withdrawn from settlement and sale and set apart as a reservation for the Yuma and such other Indians as the Secretary of the Interior may see fit to settle thereon: *Provided, however*, That any tract or tracts included within the foregoing-described boundaries to which valid rights have attached under tire laws of the United States are hereby excluded out of the reservation hereby made. “It is also hereby ordered that the Fort Yuma military reservation be, and the same is hereby, transferred to the control of the Department of the Interior, to be used for Indian purposes in connection with the Indian reservation established by this order, said military Reservation having been abandoned by the War Department for military purposes.” Article II. Each and every member of said Yuma Indians shall be entitled toAllotments in severalty to Indians. select and locate upon said reservation and in adjoining sections five acres of land, which shall be allotted to such Indian in severalty. Each member of said band of Indians over the age of eighteen years shall be entitled to select his or her hind, and the father, or, if he be dead, the mother, shall select the land herein provided for for each of his or her children who may be under the age of eighteen years; and if both father and mother of the child under the age of eighteen years shall be dead, then the nearest of kin over the age of eighteen years shall select and locate Ins or her land; or if such persons shall be without kindred, as aforesaid, then the Commissioner of Indians Affairs, or some one by him authorized, shall select and locate the land of such child. Article III. That the allotments provided for in this agreement shall be made,Allotting. at the cost of the United States, by a special agent appointed by the Secretary of the Interior for the purpose, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may from time to time prescribe, and within sixty days after such special agent shall appear upon said reservation and give notice to the said Indians that he is ready to make such allotments; and if anyone entitled to an allotment hereunder shall fail to make his or her selection within said period of sixty days then such special agent shall proceed at once to make such selection for such person or persons, which shall have the same effect as if made by the person so entitled; and when all of said allotments are made and approved, then all of the residue of said reservation which maybe 334 subject to irrigation, except as hereinafter stated, shall be disposed of Disposal of lands remaining.as follows: The Secretary of the Interior shall cause the said lands to be regularly surveyed and to be subdivided into tracts of ten acres each, and shall cause the said lands to be appraised by a board of three appraisers, composed of an Indian inspector, a special Indian agent, and the agent in charge of the Yuma Indians, who shall appraise said lands, tracts, or subdivisions, and each of them, and report their proceedings to the Secretary of the Interior for his action thereon; and when the appraisement has been approved the Secretary of the Interior shall cause the said lands to be sold at public sale to the highest bidder for cash, at not less than the appraised value thereof, first having given at least sixty days’ public, notice of the time, place, and terms of sale, immediately prior to such sale, by publication in at least two newspapers of general circulation; and any lands or subdivisions remaining unsold may be reoffered for sale at any subsequent time in the same manner at the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, and if not sold at such second offering for want of bidders then the Secretary of the Interior may sell the same at private sale at not less than the appraised value. Article IV. That the money realized by the sale of the aforesaid lands shall beProceeds of sales. placed in the Treasury of the United States, to the credit of the said Yuma Indians, and the same, with interest thereof at five per centum per annum, shall be at all times subject to appropriation by Congress, or to application, by order of the President, for the payment of water rents, building of levees, irrigating ditches, laterals, the erection and repair of buildings, purchase of tools, farming implements and seeds, and for the education and civilization of said Yuma Indians. Article V. Upon the approval of the allotments provided for herein by the SecretaryTrust patents to allottees. of the Interior he shall cause patents to issue therefor in the name of the allottees, which patents shall be of the legal effect and declare that the United States does and will hold the land thus allotted for the period of twenty-five years in trust for the sole use and benefit of the Indian to whom such allotments shall have been made, or in case of bis or her decease, to his or her heirs or devisees, according to the laws of California, and that at the expiration of said period the United States will convey the same by patent to said Indian or his heirs or devisees, as aforesaid in fee, discharged of said trust and tree of all incumbrance whatsoever. And if any conveyance shall be made of the lands set apart andConveyances forbidden. allotted as herein provided, or any contract made touching the same before the expiration of the time above mentioned, such conveyance or contract shall be absolutely null and void. And during said period of twenty-live years these allotments and improvements thereon shall not be subject to taxation for any purpose, nor subject to be seized upon any execution or other legal process, and the law of descent and partition in force in California shall apply thereto. Article VI. All lands upon said reservation that can not be irrigated are to beLands open to settlement. open to settlement under the general land laws of the United States. Article VII. There shall be excepted from the operation of this agreement a tractIndian school reserved. of land, including the buildings, situate on the hill on the north side 335 of the Colorado River, formerly Fort Yuma, now used as an Indian school, so long as the same shall be used for religious, educational, and hospital purposes for said Indians, and a farther grant of land adjacent to the hill is hereby set aside as a farm for said school; the grant for the school site and the school farm not to exceed in all one-half section, or three hundred and twenty acres. Article VIII. This agreement shall be in force from and after its approval by theRatification. Congress of the United States. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals the day and year first above written. Washington J. Houston, [seal.] John A. Gorman, [seal.] Peter R. Brady, [seal.] Commissioners on the part of the United States. Bill Mojave, and others. Therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theAgreement confirmed. United States of America in Congress assembled, That the said agreement be, and the same hereby is, accepted, ratified, and confirmed. That for the purpose of making the allotments provided for in saidAppropriation for allotting. agreement, including the payment and expenses of the necessary special agent hereby authorized to be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, and for the necessary resurveys, there be, and hereby is, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two thousand dollar’s, or so much thereof as may be necessary. That for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the survey andExpenses of survey and sale. sale of the lands by said agreement relinquished and to be appraised and sold for the benefit of said Indians, the sum of three thousand dollars, or so much thereof-as may be necessary, be, and the same hereby is, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the same to be reimbursed to the United States out of the proceeds of the sale of said lands. That the right of way through the said Yuma. Indian Reservation isRight of way to Southern Pacific Railroad Company. hereby granted to the Southern Pacific Railroad Company for its line of railroad as at present constructed, of the same width, with the same rights and privileges, and subject to the limitations, restrictions, and conditions as were granted to the said company by the twenty-third section of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, entitled “An Act to incorporate the Texas Pacific Railroad. company,Vol. 16, p. 579. and to aid in the construction of its road, and for other purposes;” *Provided*, That said company shall, within ninety days from the passage*Proviso*. Map to be filed. of this Act, file with the Secretary of the Interior a map of said right of way, together with a relinquishment by said company of its right of way through said reservation as shown by maps of definite location approved January thirty-one, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed toSale of irrigable lands at auction. cause, all the lands ceded by said agreement which may be susceptible of irrigation, after said allotments have been made and approved, and said lands have been surveyed and appraised, and the appraisal approved, to be sold at public sale, by the officers of the land office in the district wherein said lands are situated, to the highest bidder for cash, at not less than the appraised value thereof, after first having given at least sixty days’ public notice of the time, place, and terms of sale immediately prior to such sale, by publication in at least two newspapers of general circulation, and any lands or subdivisions remaining unsold may be reoffered for sale at any subsequent time in the same 336 manner, at the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, and if not sold at such second offering for want of bidders, then the Secretary may Private sale.cause the same to be sold at private sale at not less than the appraised value. The money realized from the sale of said lands, after deducting the expenses of the sale of said lands, and the other money for which provision is made for the reimbursement of the United States, shall be Proceeds to credit, of Yuma Indians. Interest.placed in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of said Yuma Indians, and shall draw interest at the rate of five per centum per annum, and said principal and interest shall be, subject to appropriation by Congress, or to application by the President of the United States for the payment of water rents, the building of levees, irrigating ditches and laterals, the purchase of tools, farming implements, and *Proviso*. Prior depredation claims.seeds, and for the education and civilization of said Indians: *Provided, however*, That none of said money realized from the sale of said lands, or any of the interest thereon, shall be applied to the payment of any judgment that has been or may hereafter be rendered on claims for damages because of depredations committed by said Indians prior to the date of the agreement herein ratified. That all of the lands ceded by said agreement which are not susceptibleLands open under general laws. of irrigation shall become a part of the public domain, and shall be opened to settlement and sale by proclamation of the President of the United States, and be subject to disposal under the provisions of the general land laws. That the Colorado River Irrigating Company, which was granted aIrrigating canal. Construction. right of way for an irrigating canal through the said Yuma Indian Vol. 27, p. 456.Reservation by the Act of Congress approved February fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety three, shall be required to begin the construction of said canal through said reservation within three years from the date of the passage of this Act, otherwise the rights granted by the Act aforesaid shall be forfeited. That the Secretary of the Interior shall have authority from time toWater rents. time to fix the rate of water rents to be paid by the said Indians for all domestic, agricultural, and irrigation purposes, and in addition thereto each male adult Indian of the Yuma tribe shall be granted water for one acre of the land which shall be allotted to him, if he utilizes the same in growing crops, free of all rent charges during the period of ten years, to be computed from the date when said irrigation company begins the delivery of water on said reservation. Sec. 18. That the approval of Congress is hereby given to “An ActAct of Chickasaw Nation adopting negroes approved. to adopt the negroes of the Chickasaw Nation,” and so forth, passed by the legislature of the Chickasaw Nation and approved by the governor thereof January tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, particularly set forth in a letter from the Secretary of the Interior transmitting to Congress a copy of the aforesaid Act, contained in House Executive Document Numbered Two hundred and seven, Forty-second Congress, third session. Sec. 19. That the right of commutation is hereby extended to all bona fideCommutation by settlers in Oklahoma. homestead settlers on the lands in Oklahoma Territory opened to Vol. 27, p. 640.settlement under the provisions of the Act of Congress entitled “An Act making appropriations for current and contingent expenses and fulfilling treaty stipulations with Indian tribes for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four,”approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and the President’s proclamation in pursuance thereof, after fourteen months from the date of settlement upon the full payment for the lands at the prices provided in said Act. And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to issue toCherokee Nation. the Cherokee NationBonds to be issued for paying installments. or to its assigns evidences of indebtedness of the United States of America, bearing interest at the rate of four per centum per annum, payable annually on the fourth day of March of each year, in amounts of one thousand and ten thousand dollars, respectively, for the respective amounts of the second, third, fourth, and 337 fifth installments, maturing respectively on the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and amounting in the aggregate to six million six hundred and forty thousand dollars, as specified in said Act of March third,Vol. 27, p. 640. eighteen hundred and ninety-three; and this provision shall not he construed to extend the time nor to increase the amount of the liability of the Government as provided in section ten of the said Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three. Sec. 20. That the President of the United States is hereby authorizedUmcompaghre Indians, Utah. and directed to appoint a. commission of three persons to allot in severalty to the Uncompaghre Indians within their reservation, in theVol. 21, p. 200. Territory of Utah, agricultural and grazing lands according to the treaty of eighteen hundred and eighty, as follows: " “Allotments in severalty of said lands shall be made as follows:Allotments hi severalty. To each head of a family one-quarter of a section, with an additional quantity of grazing land not exceeding one-quarter of a section; to each single person over eighteen years of age, one-eighth of a section, with an additional quantity of grazing land not exceeding one-eighth of a section; to each orphan child under eighteen years of age, one-eighth of a section, with an additional quantity of grazing land not exceeding one-eighth of a section; to each other person under eighteen years of age, born prior to such allotment,one-eighth of a section, with a like quantity of grazing land: *Provided*, That, with the consent of said*Proviso*. Special Helvetians. commission, any adult Indian may select a less quantity of land, if more desirable on account of location: *And provided*, That the said Indians shall pay one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre for saidPayment. lands from the fund now in the United States Treasury realized from the sale of their lands in Colorado as provided by their contract with the Government. All necessary surveys, if any, to enable said commission to complete the allotments shall be made under the direction of the General Land Office. Said commissioners shall, as soon as practicable after their appointment, report to the Secretary of the Interior what portions of said reservation are unsuited or will not be required for allotments, and thereupon such portions so reported shall, by proclamation, be restored to the public domain and made subject to entry as hereinafter provided. " Sec. 21. That the remainder of the lands on said reservation, shall,Lands not allotted open to entry. upon the approval of the allotments by the Secretary of the Interior, be immediately open to entry under the homestead and mineral laws of the United States: *Provided*, That no person shall be entitled to*Proviso*. Mineral claims. locate more than two claims, neither to exceed ten acres, on any lands containing asphaltum, gilsonite, or like substances: *Provided*, ThatCommutation of agricultural entries. after three years actual and continuous residence upon agricultural lands from date of settlement the settler may, upon full payment of one dollar and fifty cents per acre, receive patent for the tract entered. If not commuted at the end of three years the settler shall pay at the time of making final proof the sum of one dollar and fifty cents per acre. Sec. 22. That said commission shall also negotiate and treat withUintah Reservation, Utah, negotiation for cession of lands. the Indians properly residing upon the Uintah Indian Reservation, in the Territory of Utah, for the relinquish meet to the Unite! States of the interest of said Indians in all lands within said reservation not. needed for allotment in severalty to said Indians, and if possible, procure the consent of such Indians to such relinquishment, and for the acceptance by said Indians of allotments in severalty of lands within said reservation, and said commissioners shall report any agreement made by them with said Indians, which agreement shall become operative only when ratified by Act of Congress. Sec. 23. That said commissioners shall receive six dollars per dayComissioners’ salaries, etc. each, and their actual and necessary traveling and incidental expenses 338 while on duty, and to be allowed a clerk, to be selected by them, whose compensation shall be fixed by said commissioners, subject to the *Proviso*. Coat limited.approval of the Secretary of the Interior: *Provided*, That the cost of executing the provisions of this Act shall not exceed the sum of sixteen thousand dollars, which sum is hereby appropriated for that purpose out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, August 15, 1894.
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