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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 29 STAT. · June 10, 1896 · Chapter 398

Chapter 398. Making appropriations for current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department and fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 398.— 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 June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and for other purposes. June 10, 1896. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums be,Indian Department appropriations. 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 in full compensation for all offices the salaries for which are specially provided for herein for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and fulfilling treaty stipulations for the various Indian tribes, namely:
PAY OF INDIAN AGENTS. For pay of fifty-six agents of Indian affairs at the following-namedPay of agents at agencies. agencies, at the rates respectively indicated, namely: At the Blackfeet Agency, Montana, one thousand eight hundred dollars; At the Cherokee School, North Carolina: Additional compensation to superintendent of said school for performing the duties heretofore required of the agent at the Cherokee Agency, two hundred dollars; At the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Agency, Oklahoma Territory, one thousand eight hundred dollars;
At the Cheyenne River Agency, South Dakota, one thousand seven hundred dollars; At the Colorado River Agency, Arizona, one thousand five hundred dollars; At the Colville Agency, Washington, one thousand five hundred dollars; 322 FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 398. 1896. Indian agents—Continued.At the Crow Creek Agency, South Dakota, one thousand six hundred dollars; At the Lower Brule Agency, South Dakota, one thousand four hundred dollars; At the Crow Agency, Montana, one thousand eight hundred dollars;
At the Devils Lake Agency, North Dakota, one thousand two hundred dollars; At the Flathead Agency, Montana, one thousand five hundred dollars; At the Fort Belknap Agency, Montana, one thousand five hundred dollars; At the Fort Berthold Agency, North Dakota, one thousand five hundred dollars; At the Fort Hall Agency, Idaho, one thousand five hundred dollars; At the Fort Peck Agency, Montana, one thousand eight hundred dollars; At the Green Bay Agency, Wisconsin, one thousand eight hundred dollars;
At the Hoopa Valley Agency, California, one thousand two hundred dollars; At the Kiowa Agency, Oklahoma Territory, one thousand eight hundred dollars; At the Klamath Agency, Oregon, one thousand two hundred dollars; At the La Pointe Agency, Wisconsin, one thousand eight hundred dollars; At the Lemhi Agency, Idaho, one thousand two hundred dollars; At the Mescalero Agency, New Mexico, one thousand six hundred dollars; At the Mission Tule River Agency, California, one thousand six hundred dollars;
At the Navajo Agency, New Mexico, one thousand eight hundred dollars; At the Neah Bay Agency, Washington, one thousand two hundred dollars; At the Nevada Agency, Nevada, one thousand 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 Jicarilla Agency, New Mexico, one thousand five hundred dollars; At the Quapaw Agency, Indian Territory, one thousand four hundred dollars;
At the Rosebud Agency, South Dakota, one thousand eight hundred dollars; At the Round Valley Agency, California, one thousand five hundred dollars; At the Sac and Fox Agency, Iowa, one thousand dollars; At the Sac and Fox Agency, Oklahoma Territory, one thousand two hundred dollars; At the San Carlos Agency, Arizona, one thousand eight hundred dollars; At the Sautee Agency, Nebraska, one thousand two hundred dollars; 323 At the Shoshone Agency, Wyoming, one thousand five hundredIndian agents—Continued. dollars;
At the Siletz Agency, Oregon, one thousand two hundred dollars; At the Sisseton Agency, South Dakota, one thousand five hundred dollars; At the Southern Ute Agency, at Navajo Springs, Colorado, one thousand four hundred dollars; At the Standing Rock Agency, North Dakota, one thousand eight hundred dollars; At the Tongue River Agency, Montana, one thousand five hundred dollars; 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; At the Western Shoshone Agency, Nevada, one thousand five hundred dollars; At the White Earth Agency, Minnesota, one thousand eight hundred dollars; At the Yakima Agency, Washington, one thousand eight hundred dollars; At the Yankton Agency, South Dakota, one thousand six hundred dollars; in all eighty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the foregoing*Provisos*.Not available for army officers as agents. appropriations shall not take effect nor become available in any ease for or during the time in which any officer of the Army of the United States shall be engaged in the performance of the duties of Indian agent at any of the agencies above named: *Provided further*,Superintendents of schools may act as agents.
That the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, may devolve the duties of any Indian agency upon the superintendent of the Indian training school located at such agency, whenever in his judgment such superintendent can properly perform the duties of such agency. And the superintendent uponBond. whom such duties devolve shall give bond as other Indian agents. For payment of necessary interpreters, to be distributed in the discretionInterpreters. of the Secretary of the Interior, twelve 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 hundredInspectors. dollars per annum each, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. For necessary traveling expenses of five Indian inspectors, includingTraveling, etc., inspectors. telegraphing and incidental expenses of inspection and investigation, including also expenses of going to and going from the seat of Government, and while remaining there under orders and direction of the Secretary of the Interior, for a period not to exceed twenty days, seven thousand dollars.
For pay of one superintendent of Indian schools, three thousandSuperintendent of schools. dollars. For necessary traveling expenses of one superintendent of IndianTraveling, etc., expenses. schools, including telegraphing and incidental expenses of inspection and investigation, one thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided*, That*Provisos*.Per diem. he shall be allowed three dollars per day for traveling expenses when actually on duty in the field, exclusive of cost of transportation and sleeping-car fare: *And provided further*, That he shall perform suchOther duties. other duties as may be imposed upon him by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior.
For buildings and repairs of buildings at agencies, thirty thousandAgency buildings. dollars. 324 Contingencies.For contingencies of the Indian service, including traveling and incidental expenses of Indian agents and of their offices, and of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs; also traveling and incidental expenses of five special agents, at three dollars per day when actually employed on duty in the field, exclusive of transportation and sleeping-car fare, in lieu of all other expenses now authorized by law; for pay of employees not otherwise provided for, and for pay of the five special agents, at two thousand dollars per annum each, forty thousand dollars.
Citizen commission.Vol. 16, p. 40.For expenses of the commission of citizens, serving without compensation, appointed by the President, under the provisions of the fourth section of the Act of April tenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, four thousand dollars. Practical farmers.To enable the Secretary of the Interior to employ practical farmers and practical stockmen in addition to the agency farmers now employed, at wages not exceeding sixty-five dollars each per month, to superintend and direct farming and stock raising among such Indians as are making effort for self-support, sixty five thousand dollars; and no person shall be employed as such farmer or stockman who has not been at least two years immediately previous to such employment practically engaged in the occupation of farming within the State or Territory where such agency is located, and where practicable competent Indians shall be given the preference.
Indian police.For services of officers, at fifteen dollars per month each, and privates, at ten dollars per month each, of Indian police, to be employed in maintaining order and prohibiting illegal traffic in liquor on the several Indian reservations, and within the Territory of Alaska, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, for the purchase of equipments, and for the purchase of rations for policemen at nonration agencies, one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars.
Judges, Indian courts.For compensation of judges of Indian courts, twelve thousand five hundred and forty dollars. Matrons to teach housekeeping.To enable the Secretary of the Interior to employ suitable persons as matrons to teach Indian girls in housekeeping and other household duties, at a rate not to exceed sixty dollars per month, and for furnishing necessary equipments, fifteen thousand dollars. Vaccination.For pure vaccine matter and vaccination of Indians, one thousand dollars.
Purchasing supplies.To pay the expense of purchasing goods and supplies for the Indian Service, and pay of necessary employees; advertising, at rates not exceeding regular commercial rates, inspection, and all other expenses connected therewith, including telegraphing, forty thousand dollars. Transporting supplies.For necessary expenses of transportation of such goods, provisions, and other articles for the various tribes of Indians provided tor by this Act, including pay and expenses of transportation agents and rent of warehouses, two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.
FULFILLING TREATY STIPULATIONS WITH, AND SUPPORT OF, INDIAN TRIBES. Fulfilling treaties. apaches, kiowas, and comanches. Apaches, Kiowas, and Comanches. Vol. 15, pp. 584, 590.For twenty-ninth of thirty installments, as provided to be expended under the tenth article, treaty of October twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, concluded at Medicine Lodge Greek, in Kansas, with the Kiowas and Comanches, and under the third article, 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. 325 cheyennes and arapahoes. Cheyennes and Arapahoes. For twenty-ninth of thirty installments, provided to be expended under the tenth article of treaty of October twenty-eighth, eighteenVol. 15, p. 596. hundred and sixty-seven, 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 fourth of ten installments of annuity, last series, to be paid to Chief Hole, in the Day, or his heirs, per third article of treaty ofVol. 9, p. 904.Vol. 16, p. 720.
August second, eighteen hundred and forty seven, and fifth article of treaty of March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, one thousand dollars; For support of a school or schools upon said reservation, during theSchool. pleasure of the President, in accordance with third article of treaty of March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, four thousand dollars; in all, five thousand dollars. choctaws. Choctaws. For permanent annuity, per second article of treaty of November sixteenth,Permanent annulties.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, and thirteenth article of treaty of June twenty-second, eighteen hundredVol. 11, p. 614. and fifty-five, six hundred dollars; For permanent annuity for support of blacksmith, per sixth article ofVol. 7, pp. 212, 236. treaty of October eighteenth, eighteen hundred and twenty, ninth article of treaty of January twentieth, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, and thirteenth article of treaty of June twenty-second, eighteen hundredVol. 11, p. 614. 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 conformity with the provisions contained in the ninth and thirteenth articlesVol. 7, p. 236.Vol. 11, p. 614. of treaty of January twentieth, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, and treaty of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, nineteen thousand five hundred and twelve dollars and eighty-nine cents; in all thirty thousand and thirty-two dollars and eighty-nine cents. chippewas of minnesota, reimbursable.
Advance interest to the Chippewa Indians in Minnesota, as requiredAdvance interest.Vol. 25, p. 645. by section seven of “An Act tor the relief and civilization of the Chip-326pewa 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, One commissioner to act instead of three.Vol. 25, p. 642.reimbursable, ninety thousand dollars. And the duties, imposed upon the three commissioners, appointed under the provisions of the Act of January fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, shall, from and after the passage of this Act, be performed by one commissioner to be designated by the Secretary of the Interior.
For civilization, etc.Vol. 25, p. 642.To enable the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, to carry out an Act entitled “An Act for the relief and civilization of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota,” approved January fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, namely, the purchase of material and employment of labor for the erection of houses for Indians; for the purchase of agricultural implements, stock, and seeds, breaking and fencing land; for payment of expenses of delegations of Chippewa Indians to visit the White Earth Reservation; for the erection and maintenance of day and industrial schools; for subsistence and for pay of employees; for pay of commissioners and their expenses; and for removal of Indians and for their allotments, to be reimbursed to the United States out of the proceeds of sale of their lands, seventy-five thousand dollars.
Surveys.For completing the necessary surveys within the Chippewa Indian Reservation in Minnesota, including expenses of examining and appraising pine lands, under the provisions of the Act approved January fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, to be reimbursed to the United States out of proceeds of the sale of their lands, fifty thousand dollars. cœur d’alenes. Cœur d’Alenes. For fifth of fifteen installments of eight thousand dollars each, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, under the sixth article of agreement of March twenty sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, ratified by Act of March third, eighteen hundred Vol. 26, p. 1028.and ninety-one, eight thousand dollars;
For pay of blacksmith, carpenter, and physician, and purchase of medicines, as per the eleventh article of said agreement, three thousand five hundred dollars; in all, eleven thousand five hundred dollars. columbias and colvilles. Columbias and Colvilles. Chief Moses.Vol. 23, p. 79.For annuity for Chief Moses, as per agreement of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, ratified by Act approved July fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, one thousand dollars; Employees.For employees as provided in said agreement, ratified by Act of July fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, six thousand dollars; in all, seven thousand dollars. creeks.
Creeks. Permanent annuities.Vol. 7. p. 36.Vol. 11, p. 790.For permanent annuity, in money, per fourth article of treaty of August seventh, seventeen hundred and ninety, and fifth article of treaty of August, seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, one thousand five hundred dollars; Vol. 7, p. 69.Vol. 11, p. 700.For permanent annuity, in money, per second article of treaty of June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and two, and fifth article of treaty of August seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, three thousand dollars;
Vol. 7, p. 287.Vol. 11, p. 700.For permanent annuity, in money, per fourth 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, twenty thousand dollars; Vol. 7. p. 287.Vol. 11, p. 700.For permanent annuity for blacksmith and assistant, and for shops 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; 327 For permanent annuity for iron and steel for shop, per same articles and treaties, two hundred and seventy dollars;
For permanent annuity for the pay of a wheelwright, per same articles of same treaties, six hundred dollars; For five 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 fifteenth of twenty-five installments, as provided in agreementVol. 22, p. 43. with the Crows, dated June twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty, to be used by the Secretary of the Interior in such a manner as the President may direct, thirty thousand dollars; For twenty-eighth 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 eighth 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-eighth of thirty installments, to supply three hundred and fifty boys and three hundred and fifty girls, under the ages named, such flannel and cotton goods as may be needed to make each a suit, as aforesaid, together with a pair of woolen hose for each, per same article, five thousand dollars;
For pay of physician, per tenth article of same treaty, one thousandVol. 15, p. 652. two hundred dollars; For pay of carpenter, miller, engineer, farmer, and blacksmith, as per tenth article of same treaty, three thousand three hundred dollars; For pay of second blacksmith, and iron and steel, as per eighthVol. 15, p. 651. article of same treaty, one thousand five hundred dollars; This amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to furnish such articles of food as from time to time the condition and necessities of the Indians may require, thirty thousand dollars; in all, eighty-one thousand dollars. fort hall indians.
Fort Hall Indians. For eighth of twenty installments, as provided in agreement with said Indians, approved February twenty-third, eighteen hundred andVol. 25, p. 688. 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 ninth 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 Blackfeet Agency, Montana, as per Act approved May first, eighteenVol. 25, p. 114. hundred and eighty eight, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. 328 indians at fort belknap agency.
Fort Belknap Indians. For ninth of ton installments of one hundred and fifteen 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 Vol. 25, p. 114.the Fort Belknap Agency, Montana, as per Act approved May first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. indians at fort peck agency. Fort Peck Indians. For ninth 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 to the Vol. 25, p. 114.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 sixth 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. iowas. Iowas. Interest.For interest in lieu of investment on fifty-seven thousand five hundred dollars, balance of one hundred and fifty-seven thousand five hundred dollars, to July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, at five per cent um per annum, for education or other beneficial purposes, under the direction Vol. 10, p. 1071.of the President, per ninth article of treaty of May seventeenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, two thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars. iowas in oklahoma.
Iowas, Oklahoma. For first of five installments, second series, to be paid per capita Vol. 26. p. 756.under the seventh article of agreement ratified by Act approved February thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, three thousand dollars. kansas. Kansas. Interest.For interest in lieu of investment on one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars, being the amount due the Kansas tribe of Indians, Vol. 9, p. 842.per second article of treaty of January fourteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, six thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. kickapoos in kansas.
Kickapoos. For interest on sixty-eight thousand nine hundred and nineteen dollars and twenty-four cents at five per centum per annum, for educational Vol. 10, p. 1079.and other beneficial purposes, per treaty of May eighteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty four, three thousand four hundred and forty-five dollars and ninety six cents. kickapoos in oklahoma. Kickapoos, Oklahoma. Civilization, etc.To enable the Secretary of the Interior to assist the Kickapoo Indians of Oklahoma Territory who have not accepted their allotments to make improvements upon said allotments as fast as accepted, and to purchase seed grain and subsistence for said Indians, five thousand dollars, Interest to be paid.to be immediately available.
The sum of money now in the Treasury of the United States belonging to said Indians shall be retained as a permanent fund, upon which the. Treasurer shall pay to said Indians annually interest at the rate of five per centum per annum from July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five. 329 molels. Molels. For pay of teachers and for manual labor schools, and for all necessarySchools. materials therefor, and for the subsistence of the pupils, per secondVol. 12. p. 981. article of treaty of December twenty-first, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, three thousand dollars. nez percés.
Nez Percés. For salaries of two matrons to take charge of the boarding schools,Schools, etc. two assistant teachers, one farmer, one carpenter, and two millers, perVol. 14, p. 650. fifth article of treaty of June ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, six thousand dollars. northern cheyennes and arapahoes. Northern Cheyennes and Arapahoes. For subsistence and civilization, as per agreement with the SiouxSubsistence, etc.Vol. 19, p. 256. Indians, approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy -seven, including subsistence and civilization of Northern Cheyennes removed from Pine Ridge Agency to Tongue River, Montana, eighty-five thousand dollars;
For twenty eighth of thirty installments, for purchase of clothing, asClothing.Vol. 15, p. 657. per sixth article treaty of May tenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, including clothing for above Indians, seventeen thousand dollars: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Division. That the amount in this and the preceding paragraph shall be expended pro rata, as near as may be, for the Northern Cheyennes and Arapahoes in Wyoming and on the Tongue River in Montana; For pay of physician, two teachers, two carpenters, one miller, two farmers, a blacksmith, and engineer, per seventh article of same treaty,Vol. 15, p. 658. nine thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and eleven 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 set apart by treaty of June second, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, for educational purposes, per Senate resolution of January ninth, eighteenVol. 7, p. 242. hundred and thirty-eight, three thousand four hundred and fifty-six dollars. pawnees. Pawnees. For perpetual annuity, at least one half of which is to be paid inAnnuity. goods and such articles as may be deemed necessary for them, per second article of treaty of September twenty-fourth, eighteen hundredVol. 11, p. 729. 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, 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 per fourth article of treaty of September twenty-fourth, eighteenVol. 11, p. 730. hundred and fifty-seven, five hundred dollars; in all, forty-seven thousand one hundred dollars. pottawatomies.
Pottawatomies. For permanent annuity, in silver, per fourth article treaty of AugustAnnuities.Vol. 7, p. 51. third, seventeen hundred and ninety-five, three hundred and fifty-seven dollars and eighty cents; For permanent annuity, in silver, per third article treaty of SeptemberVol. 7, p. 114. thirtieth, eighteen hundred and nine, one hundred and seventy-eight dollars and ninety cents; 330 Vol. 7. p. 185.For permanent annuity, in silver, per third article treaty of October second, eighteen hundred and eighteen, eight hundred and ninety-four dollars and fifty cents;
Vol. 7. p. 317.For permanent annuity, in money, per second article treaty of September twentieth, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, seven hundred and fifteen dollars and sixty cents; Vol. 7. p. 320.Vol. 7, p. 317.For permanent annuity, in specie, per second article treaty of July twenty ninth, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, and second article of treaty of September twentieth, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, five thousand seven hundred and twenty-four dollars and seventy-seven cents;
Vol. 7, p. 318.Vol. 9, p. 855.For permanent provision for payment of money in lieu of tobacco, iron, and steel, per second article of treaty of September twentieth, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, and tenth article of treaties of June fifth and seventeenth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, one hundred and seven dollars and thirty-four cents; Vol. 7. p. 296.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. 318.Vol. 7, p. 321.eighteen hundred and twenty-six; second article of treaty of September twentieth, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, and second article of treaty of July twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, one thousand and eight dollars and ninety-nine cents;
Vol. 7, p. 320.For permanent provision for fifty barrels of salt, per second article of treaty of July twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, one hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty-four cents; Interest.For interest on two hundred and thirty thousand and sixty-four dollars and twenty cents, at five per centum, in conformity with provisions Vol. 9, p. 854.of article seventh of treaties of June fifth and seventeenth, eighteen 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. Annuities.For the amount due certain Pottawatomie Indians of Indiana and Michigan, being their proportion (two thousand and eighty-one dollars and thirty cents) of the perpetual annuities (twenty two thousand three hundred dollars) due the Pottawatomie Nation under various treaties, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, as ascertained by the judgment of the Supreme Court of the United States pronounced in the case of the Pottawatomie Indians of Michigan and Indiana against the United States on the seventeenth day of April, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and which annuities were not embraced in the judgment aforesaid, two thousand and eighty-one dollars Final settlement.and thirty cents, making final settlement by capitalizing their proportion (two thousand and eighty-one dollars and thirty cents) of certain perpetual annuities, amounting to twenty-two thousand three hundred dollars as shown above, forty-one thousand six hundred and twenty-six dollars; in all, forty-three thousand seven hundred and seven dollars and thirty cents. quapaws.
Quapaws. Vol. 7, p. 425.For education, during the pleasure of the President, per third article of treaty of May thirteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, one thousand dollars; for blacksmith and assistants, and tools, iron, and steel for blacksmith shop, per same article and treaty, five hundred dollars; in all, one thousand five hundred dollars. Record of real estate to be at Miami, Ind. Ter.That all deeds and instruments of writing pertaining to real estate within the Quapaw Agency and the town of Miami, in the Indian Territory, shall be recorded at the said town of Miami by the clerk of the United States court in and for the northern district of the Indian Territory, or his duly appointed deputy, in a book or books kept for the purpose and sections six hundred and sixty-nine, six hundred and seventy,331 and six hundred and seventy-one of chapter twenty-seven of Mansfield’s Digest of the Laws of Arkansas covering deeds, mortgages, liens, and instruments of writing pertaining to real estate, are hereby extended over and put in force in said Quapaw Agency, Indian Territory.
ThatLeases permitted. the allottees of land within the limits of said Quapaw Agency are authorized to lease the same for a term not exceeding three years for farming purposes, or five years for mining or business purposes. 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, per second article of treaty of October eleventh, eighteen hundred and forty-two, forty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars of*Proviso*.Physician. this amount shall be used for the pay of a physician and for purchase of medicine; in all, fifty-one thousand dollars.
The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed toTransfer of funds to Sacs and Foxes, Iowa. transfer on the books of the Treasury Department, from the-fund of fifty-five thousand and fifty-eight, dollars and twenty-one cents, now held for the Sac and Fox tribe of Indians of the Mississippi, the sum of forty-two thousand eight hundred and ninety-three dollars and twenty-five cents to the credit of that portion of said tribe of Indians now residing in the State of Iowa; and the Secretary of the Interior is herebyAttorney. authorized and directed to pay to the attorneys employed by said Sac and Fox Indians residing in the State of Iowa, under contract approved by him for legal services rendered said Indians in the prosecution of their claim to said fund, from said sum hereby authorized and directed to be transferred, as soon as said transfer shall be made, the sum of four thousand two hundred and eighty-nine dollars and thirty two cents, or so much thereof as shall be necessary.
That the United States hereby accepts and assumes jurisdiction overJurisdiction over Indians, Tama County, Iowa. the Sac and Fox Indians of Tama County, in the State of Iowa, and of their lands in said State, as tendered to the United States by the act of the legislature, of said State passed on the sixteenth day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, subject to the limitations therein contained; and the United States Indian agent of the Sac and Fox Agency,Transfer of trust.
Iowa, and the governor of the State of Iowa, respectively, are hereby authorized to transfer by deed of conveyance, tor the use and benefit of said Indians, the legal title held by them in trust, respectively, and the trusteeship of the lands of the Sac and Fox Indians of Tama County, Iowa, to the Secretary of the Interior and his successors in office. sacs and foxes of the missouri. Sacs and Foxes of the Missouri. For interest on one hundred and fifty-seven thousand four hundredInterest.Vol. 7, p. 541. dollars, at five per centum, under the direction of the President, per 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. seminoles. Seminoles. For five per centum interest on two hundred and fifty thousand dollars,Interest.Vol. 11, p. 702. to be paid as annuity, per eighth article of treaty of August seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, twelve thousand five hundred dollars; For five per centum interest on two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be paid as annuity (they having joined their brethren west), per332 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 same treaty, one thousand dollars; in all, twenty-eight thousand five hundred dollars. senecas.
Senecas. Vol. 7, p. 161.For permanent annuity, in specie, per fourth article of treaty of September twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and seventeen, five hundred dollars; Vol. 7, p. 179.For permanent annuity, in specie, per fourth article of treaty of September seventeenth, eighteen hundred and eighteen, five hundred dollars; Vol. 7, p. 349.For permanent annuity, for blacksmith and miller, per fourth article of treaty of February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, to be annually paid to them as a national fund, to be expended by them for such articles and wants and improvements in agriculture as their chiefs (with the consent of their agent) may designate, as stipulated in Vol. 15, p. 515.the seventh article of treaty of February twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, one thousand six hundred and sixty dollars;
Vol. 7, p. 179.Vol. 15, p. 515.For permanent annuity, in specie, per fourth article of treaty of September seventeenth, eighteen hundred and eighteen, and fifth article of treaty of February twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, five hundred dollars; Vol. 7, p. 352.Vol. 15, p. 515.For blacksmith and assistants, shops and tools, iron and steel, per 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, three thousand six hundred and ninety dollars. senecas of new york.
Senecas of New York Annuity.Vol. 4. p. 442.For permanent annuity, in lieu of interest on stock, per Act of February nineteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, six thousand dollars. Interest.Vol. 9, p. 35.For interest, in lieu of investment, on seventy-five thousand dollars, at five per centum, per Act of June twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and forty six, three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; For interest, at five per centum, on forty-three thousand and fifty dollars, transferred from the Ontario Bank to the United States Treasury, per Act of June twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and forty-six, two thousand one hundred and fifty-two dollars and fifty cents; in all, eleven thousand nine hundred and two dollars and fifty cents. eastern shawnees.
Eastern Shawnees. Annuity.Vol. 7. p. 179.Vol. 15, p. 515.For permanent annuity, in specie, per fourth article of treaty of September seventeenth, eighteen hundred and eighteen, and fifth article of treaty of February twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, five hundred dollars; Vol. 7, p. 352.For blacksmith and assistant, shops and tools, iron and steel, per fourth article of treaty of July twentieth, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, Vol. 15, p. 515.and fifth article of treaty of February twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty seven, five hundred and thirty dollars; in all, one thousand and thirty dollars. shoshones and bannocks.
Shoehones and Bannocks. Shoshones.Supplies.Shoshones: For twenty-seventh of thirty installments, to purchase suits of clothing for males -over fourteen years of age; flannel, hose,333 calico, and domestics for females over the age of twelve .years, and such goods as may be needed to make suits for boys and girls under the ages named, as per ninth article of treaty of July third, eighteen hundredVol. 15, p. 676. and sixty-eight, ten thousand dollars; For pay of physician, teacher, carpenter, miller, engineer, farmer, 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, as per eighth article of same treaty, one thousand dollars; Bannocks: For twenty-seventh of thirty installments, to purchaseBannocks.Supplies. suits of clothing for males over fourteen years of age; flannel, hose, calico, and domestics for females over twelve years of age, and such flannel and cotton goods as may be needed to make suits for boys and girls under the ages named, as per ninth article of treaty of July third,Vol. 15, p. 676. eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, five thousand dollars;
For pay of physician, teacher, carpenter, miller, engineer, farmer, andPhysician, etc.Vol. 15, p. 675. blacksmith, as per tenth article of treaty of July third, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, five thousand dollars; in all, twenty-six thousand dollars. six nations of new york. Six Nations of New York. For permanent annuity, in clothing and other useful articles, perAnnuity.Vol 7. p. 46. sixth article of treaty of November eleventh, seventeen hundred and ninety-four, four thousand five hundred dollars. sioux of different tribes, including santee sioux of nebraska.
Sioux of different tribes. For twenty-seventh of thirty installments, to purchase clothing forClothing. males over fourteen years of age; for flannel, hose, and calico, and domestics required for females over twelve years of age, and for such flannel and cotton goods as may be needed to make suits for boys and girls, per tenth article of treaty of April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundredVol. 15. p. 638. and sixty-eight, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars; For twenty-seventh of thirty installments, to purchase such articlesAgricultural articles. as may be considered proper by the Secretary of the Interior, at twenty dollars per head, for persons engaged in agriculture, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the Secretary, in his discretion,*Provisos*.Money payments.Woolen, clothing. is authorized to pay said amount per head in money: *Provided further*, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior to cause the actual delivery of the woolen clothing herein contemplated and contemplated in prior Acts of Congress and treaties to the Sioux and Ponca Indians of Nebraska and North and South Dakota.
For pay of five teachers, one physician, one carpenter, one miller, oneTeachers, etc.Vol 15. p. 640. engineer, two farmers, and one blacksmith, per thirteenth article of same treaty, ten thousand four hundred dollars; For pay of additional employees at the several agencies for the SiouxEmployees. in Nebraska and Dakota, twenty thousand dollars; 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, asSubsistence.Vol. 10, p. 254. per agreement, ratified by Act of Congress approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, one million dollars: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Transportation.
That this sum shall include transportation of supplies from the termination of railroad or steamboat transportation; and in this serviceIndian employment. Indians shall have the preference in employment: *And provided further*, That the number of rations issued shall not exceed the number of Indians on each reservation, and any excess in the number ofLimit of rations. 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.334 material, per eighth article of same treaty, one thousand six hundred dollars; Schools.For support and maintenance of day and industrial schools, including purchase, erection, and repairs of school buildings, in accordance with Vol. 15, p. 637.article seven of the treaty of April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, which article is continued in force for twenty years by section Vol. 25, p. 894.seventeen of the Act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty nine, twenty-five thousand dollars; in all, one million three hundred *Proviso*.Allowance to Santees and Flandreans receiving money in lieu of allotments.and forty eight thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided*, That the provisions of section seventeen of the Act 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 relinquish ment of the Indian title to the remainder, and for other purposes,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty nine, shall be construed to extend and apply to each head of a family or single person over the age of eighteen years of the Flandreau band of Sioux Indians and of the Santee Sioux Vol. 25, p. 890.in Nebraska, who was entitled under section seven of said Act to take an allotment or not, at his or her option, and who accepted one dollar per acre in lieu of such allotment, and each head of a family or single person over the age of eighteen years shall be entitled to all the rights and benefits of said section seventeen, except that of taking an allotment, in the same manner as though he or she had taken an allotment thereunder.
Payment to Sioux and Poncas in lieu of personal property.Vol. 25, p. 895.The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to ascertain the number of Sioux and Ponca Indians in South Dakota and Nebraska who would not be benefited by the fulfillment of the proviso of section seventeen of an Act entitled “An Act to divide a portion of the reservation of the Great Sioux Nation of Indians in Dakota into separate reservations and secure the relinquishment of the Indian title to the remainder, and for other purposes,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, by the receipt from the United States of the articles of personal property therein mentioned and who desire to have the same converted into money, and in lieu of such articles of personal property, or any part thereof he may think proper, the Secretary of the Interior shall convert or commute the same, or so much thereof as he may think proper, into money, and pay the amount thereof to such Indians : and the payment under the provisions of this Act shall be held to be a liquidation of the obligation of the United States to said Indians under that portion of said section seventeen, so far as the articles of personal property therein named are concerned.
Allotment to Lower Brulés of Rosebud Reservation.That the Lower Brulé Indians who were living on the Rosebud Reservation, in South Dakota, south of White River, prior to the third day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety, are hereby allowed to return and select the allotments of land occupied by them prior to July third, eighteen hundred and ninety; and said lauds shall be surveyed and patented to said Indians under the provisions of the Acts of Congress in relation to the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians.
Selection.That such of the Lower Brulé Indians as desire to do so may take allotments of land on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, south of White Hiver, in South Dakota, the same as they might have done prior to Payment to Rosebud Indians from Lower Brulé funds.March , eighteen hundred and eighty-nine ; and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed to pay to the Bosebnd Indians the sum of one dollar per acre for all lands so taken and allotted, and the money to make such payment is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and charged against any funds belonging to said Lower Brulé Indians now in the Treasury of the United States. sioux, yankton tribe.
Sioux, Yankton tribe. For eighth 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; Subsistence.For subsistence and civilization of two thousand Yankton Sioux,335 heretofore provided for in appropriations under “Fulfilling treaty withVol 19, p. 287. Sioux of different tribes,” and so forth, thirty-five thousand dollars; in all, fifty thousand dollars. sisseton and wahpeton indians.
Sissetons and Wahpetons. For ninth 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 SeptemberVol, 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 fifth 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 Cœur d’Alene Reservation, in erecting suitable houses, in assisting them in breaking lands, in furnishing them with cattle, seeds, agricultural implements, saw and grist mills, threshing machines, mowers, clothing, and provisions; in taking care of the old, sick, and infirm; in affording educational facilities, and in any other manner tending to their civilization and self-support, as per article five of agreement with said Indians dated March eighteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven,Vol. 27, p. 139. ratified by Act of Congress approved July thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That any*Proviso*.Indians on other reservations. moneys heretofore or hereafter to be appropriated for the removal of said Spokane Indians to the Cœur d’Alene Reservation shall be 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 fourth of ten installments of one hundred dollars each, to ChiefsChiefs Louis and Enoch. Louis and Enoch, as per article nine of said agreement, two hundred dollars; in all, seven thousand two hundred dollars. confederated bands of utes. Utes. Confederated Bands. For pay of two carpenters, two millers, two farmers, and two blacksmiths,Carpenters, etc.Vol. 13, p. 675.Vol. 15. p. 622. as per tenth article of treaty of October seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and fifteenth article 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 blacksmithVol. 15, p. 621. shop, per ninth article of same treaty, two hundred and twenty dollars; For twenty-eighth of thirty installments, to be expended under theClothing, etc. direction of the Secretary of the Interior for clothing, blankets, and such other articles as he may deem proper and necessary, under eleventhVol. 15, p. 622. article of same treaty, thirty thousand dollars;
For annual amount for the purchase of beef, mutton, wheat, flour,Food.Vol. 15, p. 622. beans, and potatoes, or other necessary articles of food, as per twelfth article of same treaty, thirty thousand dollars; For pay of employees at the several Ute agencies, five thousand dollars;Employees. in all, seventy-three thousand seven hundred and forty dollars. southern utes in colorado. Southern Utes, Colorado. To carry out the provisions of the Act of February twentieth, eighteenIssue of rations.Vol, 28, p. 677. hundred and ninety-five, the Secretary of the Interior shall cause rations and supplies to be issued each month at Ignacio, La Plata County, Colorado, and at Arboles, Archuleta County, Colorado, to all336 Southern Ute Indians to whom lands have been allotted and who are Agency at Navajo Springs, Colo.residing on their allotments.
And the Secretary of the Interior shall establish an agency on the Southern Ute Indian Reservation, at Navajo Springs, in the county of Montezuma, Colorado, and shall cause rations and supplies to be issued each month or oftener at that point to all Southern Ute Indians who have not elected to take land in severalty, under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to disapprove the treatyheretotbremadewit.il the Southern Ute Indians to be removed to the Territory of Utah, and providing for settling them in severalty when they may so elect and are qualified, and to settle all those not electing to take lands in severalty on the west forty miles of the present reservation and in portions of New Mexico, and for other purposes, and to carry out the provisions of the treaty with said Indians June fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty,” approved February twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five.
Agency buildingsFor the erection of suitable agency buildings on said reservation at Navajo Springs, Montezuma County, Colorado, for the use of such Southern Ute Indians as have not elected to take allotments of laud in severalty, ten thousand dollars, to be immediately available, winnebagoes. Winnebagoes. Interest.For interest on eight hundred and four thousand nine hundred and nine dollars and seventeen cents, at five per centum per annum, per Vol. 7. p. 545.fourth article of treaty of November first, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, Vol. 12, p. 628.and Joint Resolution of July seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, forty thousand two hundred and forty-five dollars and forty-five cents; and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed to expend said interest for the support, education, and civilization of said Indians;
Vol. 16, p. 355.For interest on seventy-eight thousand three hundred and forty dollars and forty-one cents, at five per centum per annum, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, for the erection of houses, improvement of their allotments of land, purchase of stock, agricultural implements, seeds, and other beneficial objects, three thousand nine hundred and seventeen dollars and two cents; in all, forty-four thousand one hundred and sixty-two dollars and forty-seven cents.
Officer for per capita payments to Indians.That any sums of money hereafter to be paid per capita to individual Indians shall be paid to said Indians by an officer of the Government designated by the Secretary of the Interior. miscellaneous supports. Miscellaneous supports Apaches, Kiowas Comanches Wichitas, etc.For subsistence and civilization of the Apaches, Kiowas, Comanches, Wichitas, and affiliated bands who have been collected in the reservations set apart for their use and occupation, one hundred thousand dollars.
Arapahoes and Cheyennes.For subsistence and civilization of the Arapahoes and Cheyennes who have been collected on the reservations set apart for their use and occupation, ninety thousand dollars. Chippewas, Lake Superior.For support and civilization of the Chippewas of Lake Superior, Wisconsin, to be expended for agricultural and educational purposes, pay of employees, including pay of physician, at one thousand two hundred dollars, purchase of goods and provisions, and for such other purposes as may be deemed for the best interest of said Indians, seven thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars.
Chippewas, Red Lake and Pembina.For support and civilization of Chippewas of Red Lake and Pembina tribe of Chippewas, Minnesota, and for pay of employees, ten thousand dollars. Chippewas, White Earth Reservation.For support of the Otter-Tall, 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. 337 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 for pay of employees, six thousand dollars. For support and civilization of the D’Wamish and other allied tribesD’Wamish, etc., Washington. in Washington, including pay of employees, seven thousand dollars. For support and civilization of Carlos’s Band of Flatheads, Montana,Carlos’s Band, Flatheads, etc. including pay of employees, twelve thousand dollars.
For support and civilization of the Flatheads and other confederatedFlatheads, etc. tribes, Montana, including pay of employees, ten thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Interior to purchase subsistence andHualapais, Arizona. other necessaries for the support of the Hualpais 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 Arizona and New Mexico, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
For support, civilization, and instruction of the Shoshones and Bannocks,Fort Hall Indians. and other Indians of the Fort Hall Reservation, in Idaho, including pay of employees, twenty thousand dollars. For support, civilization, and instruction of the Shoshones, Bannocks,Lemhi Agency Indians. Sheepeaters, and other Indians of the Lemhi Agency, Idaho, including pay of employees, thirteen thousand dollars. For support, civilization, and instruction of the Klamaths, Modocs,K1amath Agency Indians. and other Indians of the Klamath Agency, Oregon, including pay of employees, five thousand dollars.
For support and civilization of the Kansas Indians, Oklahoma Territory,Kansas. including agricultural assistance and pay of employees, two thousand five hundred dollars. For support and civilization of the Kickapoo Indians in the IndianKickapoos. Territory, five thousand dollars. For support and civilization of the Makabs, Washington, includingMakaha. pay of employees, four thousand dollars. For support and civilization of Indians at the Mission Agency, California,Mission Agency Indians. including pay of employees, ten thousand dollars.
For support and civilization of the Modoc Indians now residingModocs, Indian Territory. within the Indian Territory, four thousand dollars. For purchase of agricultural implements, and support and civilizationNez Percés, Joseph’s Band. of Joseph’s Baud of Nez Percé Indians, seven thousand five hundred dollars. For support and civilization of Nez Bercé Indians in Idaho, includingNez Percés. pay of physician, five thousand dollars. For pay of physician at the New York Agency, six hundred dollars.New York Agency.
For support and civilization of the Ponca Indians, including pay ofPoncas. employees, fifteen thousand dollars: *Provided*, That this amount, after*Proviso*.Division. paying employees authorized by law, shall be expended per capita among all the members of said tribe in Oklahoma Territory, South Dakota, and in the State of Nebraska. For purchase of seed and grain and for subsistence for the PoncaPoncas, Nebraska. Indians in Nebraska, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, and for payment for such supplies heretofore purchased during the current fiscal year, five thousand dollars, to be immediately available.
For support and civilization of the Qui-nai-elts and Quil-leh-utes,Qui-nai-elts and Quil-leh-utes. Washington, including pay of employees, three thousand dollars. For support and civilization of Shoshone Indians in Wyoming,Shoshones, Wyoming. twenty thousand dollars. For support and civilization of Shoshone Indians in Nevada, includingShoshones, Nevada. pay of employees, ten thousand dollars. For support, civilization, and instruction of the Seminole Indians inScminolos, Florida.
Florida, six thousand dollars, one-half of which sum shall be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior in procuring permanent homes for said Indians. 338 Sioux, Devil’s Lake.For support and civilization of Sioux of Devils Lake, North Dakota, including pay of employees, and for the purchase of seeds, ten thousand dollars, of which sum four thousand dollars shall be immediately available. Medawakanton Sioux.For support and civilization of Sioux, Medawakanton Band, in Minnesota, five thousand dollars.
S’Kiallams.For support and civilization of the S’Kiallam Indians, Washington, including pay of employees, one thousand five hundred dollars. Tonkawas.For support and civilization of Tonkawa Indians, Oklahoma Territory, and for seeds and agricultural implements, four thousand dollars. Walla Wallas, Cayuses, and Umatillas.For support and civilization of the Walla Walla, Cayuse, and Umatilla tribes, Oregon, including pay of employees, five thousand dollars. Yakimas, etc.For support and civilization of the Yakimas and other Indians at said agency, including pay of employees, eight thousand dollars.
GENERAL INCIDENTAL EXPENSES OF THE INDIAN SERVICE. Incidental expenses. Arizona: Arizona.For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Arizona, including traveling expenses of agents, one thousand five hundred dollars. California: California.For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in California, including traveling expenses of agents, and support and civilization of Indians at the Round Valley, Hoopa Valley, and Tide River agencies, thirteen thousand dollars: and pay of employees at same agencies, eight thousand dollars: in all, twenty-one thousand dollars.
Colorado: Colorado.For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Colorado, including traveling expenses of agents, one thousand five hundred dollars. North Dakota: North Dakota.For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in North Dakota, including traveling expenses of agents at three agencies, one thousand five hundred dollars. South Dakota: South Dakota.For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in South Dakota, including traveling expenses of agents at seven agencies, three thousand five hundred dollars.
Idaho: Idaho.For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Idaho, including traveling expenses of agents, one thousand dollars. Montana: Montana.For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Montana, including traveling expenses of agents, two thousand five hundred dollars. Nevada: Nevada.For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Nevada, including traveling expenses of agents, and support and civilization of Indians located on the Piute, Walker River, and Pyramid Lake reservations, and Piutes on the Western Shoshone Reservation, twelve thousand dollars; and pay of employees, same agency four thousand dollars; in all, sixteen thousand dollars.
New Mexico: Now Mexico.For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service, in New Mexico, including traveling expenses of agents, one thousand five hundred dollars. Oregon: Oregon.For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Oregon, including traveling expenses of agents, and support and civilization of Indians of Grand Ronde and Siletz agencies, eight thousand dollars; and pay of employees at the same agencies, four thousand dollars; in all, twelve thousand dollars.
Utah: Utah.For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Utah, including traveling expenses of agents; support and civilization of Indians at Uintah Valley and Ouray agencies, three thousand dollars; and pay of employees at said agencies, four thousand dollars; in all, seven thousand dollars. Washington: Washington.For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Washington, including traveling expenses of agents at seven339 agencies, and support and civilization of Indians at Colville and Puyallup agencies, and for pay of employees, fourteen thousand dollars.
Wyoming: For general incidental expenses of the Indian ServiceWyoming. in Wyoming, including traveling expenses of agents, one thousand dollars. MISCELLANEOUS. To pay balance due the commission appointed under Act approvedCommission to negotiate for Indian lands.Vol. 25, p. 1005. March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, for per diem and expenses, as follows: Alfred M. Wilson, one thousand two hundred and forty-five dollars; Warren G. Sayre, one thousand two hundred and forty-five dollars;
David II. Jerome, one thousand two hundred and forty-five dollars, commissioners; and Charles S. King, secretary, seven hundred and two dollars; in all, four thousand four hundred and thirty-seven dollars. For salaries and expenses of the Commissioners appointed under ActsCommission to Five Civilized Tribes.VoL 27, p. 645; Vol. 28. p. 939.Authority continued. of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, to negotiate with the Five Civilized Tribes in the Indian Territory, the sum of forty thousand dollars, to be immediately available: and said commission is directed to continue the exercise of the authority already conferred upon them by law and endeavor to accomplish the objects heretofore prescribed to them and report from time to time to Congress.
That said commission is further authorized and directed to proceedApplications for citizenship. at once to hear and determine the application of all persons who may apply to them for citizenship in any of said nations, and after such hearing they shall determine the right of such applicant to be so admitted and enrolled: *Provided, however*, That such application shall be*Provisos*.Decisions, etc. made to such Commissioners within three months after the passage of this Act. The said commission shall decide all such applications within ninety days after the same shall be made.
That in determining all such applications said commission shall respect all laws of the several nations or tribes, not inconsistent with the laws of the United States, and all treaties with either of said nations or tribes, and shall give due force and effect to the rolls, usages, and customs of each of said nations or tribes: *And provided further*, That the rolls of citizenshipPresent tribal rolls confirmed. of the several tribes as now existing are hereby confirmed, and any person who shall claim to be entitled to be added to said rolls as a citizen of either of said tribes and whose right thereto has either been denied or not acted upon, or any citizen who may within three months from and after the passage of this Act desire such citizenship, may apply to the legally constituted court or committee designated by the several tribes for such citizenship, and such court or committee shall determine such application within thirty days from the date thereof.
In the performance of such duties said commission shall have powerPowers of commission. and authority to administer oaths, to issue process for and compel the attendance of witnesses, and to send for persons and papers, and all depositions and affidavits and other evidence in any form whatsoever heretofore taken where the witnesses giving said testimony are dead or now residing beyond the limits of said Territory, and to use every fair and reasonable means within their reach for the purpose of determining the rights of persons claiming such citizenship, or to protect any of said nations from fraud or wrong, and the rolls so prepared by them shall be hereafter held and considered to be the true and correct rolls of persons entitled to the rights of citizenship in said several tribes: *Provided*, That if the tribe, or any person, be aggrieved with the*Provisos*.Appeal. decision of the tribal authorities or the commission provided for in this Act, it or he may appeal from such decision to the United States district court: *Provided, however*, That the appeal shall be taken withinJudgment of court final. sixty days, and the judgment of the court shall be final.
That the said commission, after the expiration of six months, shallFinal roll of tribal citizenship.340 cause a complete roll of citizenship of each of said nations to be made up from their records, and add thereto the names of citizens whose right may be conferred under this Act, and said rolls shall be, and are hereby, made rolls of citizenship of said nations or tribes, subject, however, to the determination of the United States courts, as provided herein. Deposit of roll, etc.The commission is hereby required to tile the lists of members as they finally approve them with the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to remain there for use as the final judgment of the duly constituted authorities.
And said commission shall also make a roll of freedmen entitled to citizenship in said tribes and shall include their names in the lists of members to be tiled with the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Report on leases, etc.And said commission is further authorized and directed to make a full report to Congress of leases, tribal and individual, with the area, amount and value of the property leased and the amount received therefor, and by whom and from whom said property is leased, and is further directed to make a full and detailed report as to the excessive holdings of members of said tribes and others.
Government to be established in Indian Territory.It is hereby declared to be the duty of the United States to establish a government in the Indian Territory which will rectify the many inequalities and discriminations now existing in said Territory and afford needful protection to the fives and property of all citizens and residents thereof. Sisseton and Wahpeton Indians: Sissetons and Wahpetons.That all the interest due the Sisseton and Wahpeton Indians on March third, eighteen hundred and Interest to be paid per capita.ninety-six, is hereby appropriated to be paid at once in cash per capita, and hereafter all interest on the permanent fund of said Indians, after deducting the amount expended for education, shall be paid in cash per capita on the first day of November of each year.
Seneca Nation of Indians: Senecas, Now York.Report of leases by.That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to ascertain and report to Congress a detailed statement of all the leases made and entered into by the Seneca Nation of Indians with all persons or corporations of all lands in the Allegany Indian Reservation in the State of New York, giving an itemized statement of each and every lease now in existence or force, with the date and terms of each lease and amount or amounts due on each lease.
Mill, Fima Agency, Ariz.For operating and repairing the Hour mill at Pima Agency, Arizona, one thousand five hundred dollars. Flathead Agency, Mont.For pay of employees at substation, and saw and Hour mills at the Flathead Agency, Montana, and for necessary repairs, three thousand dollars. Nez Perce Reservation, Idaho.Mills.For setting up and operating two portable steam sawmills on the Nez Perce Indian Reservation, Idaho, including transportation of mill machinery from the agency to the mill sites, three thousand one hundred and thirty dollars.
Surveys.*Post*, p. 873.For surveying the unsurveyed portions of ceded lands of the Nez Perce Indian Reservation, in the State of Idaho, ten thousand dollars, the same to be immediately available. Allotments.Vol. 24, p. 888.To enable the President to cause, under the provisions of the Act of February eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled “An Act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians,” such Indian reservations as in his judgment are advantageous for agricultural and grazing purposes to be surveyed, or resurveyed, for the purposes of said Act, and to complete the allotment of the same, including the necessary clerical work incident thereto in the field and in the office of Indian Affairs, and delivery of trust patents, so far as allotments shall have been selected under said Act, thirty thousand dollars: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Leases by allottees permitted.That whenever it shall be made to appear to the Secretary of the Interior that by reason of age, disability, or inability, any allottee of Indian lands under this or former Acts of Congress cannot personally and with benefit to himself occupy or improve his allotment or any part thereof the same may be leased in the discretion of the Secretary341 upon such terms, regulations, and conditions as shall be prescribed by him, for a term not exceeding five years for farming or grazing purposes, or ten years for mining or business purposes.
The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed toE. Ashley.Reimbursement. reimburse, upon the presentation of proper evidence, out of any unexpended balance of the appropriation for the support of Sioux of different tribes, including Santee Sioux of Nebraska, for the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, the Rev. E. Ashley, of Cheyenne River Agency, South Dakota, for money expended by him in the employment of counsel to defend seven Indian policemen of said agency, charged with the crime of murder: *Provided*, That not more*Proviso*.Amount. than seven hundred dollars be used for this purpose.
That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directedFond du Lac Indians.Payment for supplies. to ascertain and determine the amounts due various merchants of Cloquet and Fond du Lac, Minnesota, from certain Fond du Lac Indians, not exceeding in the aggregate six thousand six hundred dollars, for supplies furnished to said Indians, at the request of the Indian farmer, during the years eighteen hundred anti eighty-eight and eighteen hundred and eighty nine, or upon orders approved by the Indian farmer drawn upon and accepted by certain contractors for the purchase of pine timber on lands allotted to or selected by said Indians or claimed by them, and to pay said merchants the amount found due them, or each of them, their proportion of said sum out of any money on band paid the United States by said contractors, or any of them, in settlement or satisfaction for pine timber cut upon such lands.
To pay the expense of the preparation of a digest, under the directionDigest of decisions, etc., Indian Affairs. of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, of the decisions of the courts and the Interior Department, and the opinions of the Attorney-General relating to Indian Affairs, three thousand dollars. For the construction, purchase, and use of irrigating tools and appliancesIrrigation.Purchase of tools, etc. on Indian reservations, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, and subject to his control, thirty thousand dollars, and of this amount not exceeding two thousand seven hundred dollars maybe used for the temporary employment of persons of practical experience in irrigationExperts. work at a compensation not to exceed seventy-five dollars per month each, and not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars for necessary traveling and incidental expenses of such persons.
For completing thePuyallup Indian Commission.Completing work.Vol. 27, p. 633. work of the Puyallup Indian Commission appointed under the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, to select and appraise such portions of the allotted lands within the Puyallup Indian Reservation,*Ante*, p. 23. Washington, as are not required for homes for the Indian allottees; and also that part of the agency tract exclusive of the burying ground not needed for school purposes, and for the purpose of defraying the expenses of said commission, four thousand dollars to be reimbursed to the United States out of the proceeds of the sale of the agency tract and allotted lands, as provided in said Act, to be immediately available, and said commission shall conclude its work and terminate on or before the first day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-six.
For survey and subdivision of Indian reservations, and of lands toSurveying and allotting. 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, twenty thousand dollars. For survey and subdivision of the Colville Indian Reservation in theColville Reservation, Wash.Surveying, etc. State of Washington, and of lands to be allotted to the Indians thereon, ten thousand dollars, to be immediately available and to be reimbursable from the proceeds of lands of said reservation when sold.
The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to appoint a commissionCommission to negotiate with Indians for cession of lands, etc. to consist of three persons, not more than two of whom shall be of the same political party, and not more than one of whom shall be resident of any one State, to negotiate with the following Indians, namely: With the Crow and Flathead Indians in the State of Montana for the cession of portions of their respective reservations; with the Northern Cheyenne and Crow Indians for the removal of said Northern342 Cheyenne Indians from their present reservation on the Rosebud River at Lame Deer Agency to the southern portion of the Crow Reservation; with the Indians residing on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation in the State of Idaho, and with the Indians residing upon the Uintah Reservation in the-State of Utah, for the surrender of any portion of their respective reservations, or for such modification of existing treaties as may be deemed desirable by said Indians and the Secretary of the Interior; and with the Yakima.
Indians in the State of Washington for the surrender of a portion of their reservation lands, and for such modification of existing treaties as may be deemed desirable by said Indians and the Secretary of the Interior, any agreement thus negotiated being subject to subsequent ratification by Congress; and for the expenses of such commission and negotiations hereunder the sum *Proviso*.Columbia Irrigation Company.Right of way extended.Vol. 28, p. 118.of ten thousand dollars is appropriated: *Provided*, That the time for the completion of the canal, or any part thereof, authorized by an Act entitled “An Act granting to the Columbia irrigation Company a right of way through the Yakima Indian Reservation, in Washington,” be, and is hereby, extended two years from July twenty fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six.
Homestead settlers’ payments extended one year.That the homestead settlers on all ceded Indian reservations be, and they are hereby, granted an extension of one year in which to make payments as now provided by law. Klamath Reservation, Oreg.Commission to locate boundary, etc.That the President of the United .States is hereby authorized to appoint a commission, to be composed of three persons, two of whom shall be practical surveyors, not more than two of whom shall be of the same political party, and not more than one of whom shall be a resident of any one State, whose duty it shall be to visit and thoroughly investigate and determine as to the correct location of the boundary lines of the Klamath Indian Reservation, in the State of Oregon, the location of said boundary lines to be according to the terms of the treaties heretofore made with said Indians establishing said reservation; and when the correct location of said treaty boundaries of said reservation shall have been so ascertained and determined, said commission shall ascertain and determine, as nearly as practicable, the number of acres, if any, of the land, the character thereof, and also the value thereof, in a state of nature, that have been excluded from said treaty reservation by the erroneous survey of its out boundaries, as now existing and as shown and reported to have been made in reports of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, submitted to the Senate by the Secretary of the Interior, and as set out in Senate Executive Documents Numbered One hundred and twenty-nine, Fifty-third Congress, second session, and Numbered Sixty-two, Fifty-third Congress, third session.
Report.And said commission shall make report of the facts ascertained and of their conclusions and recommendations upon the matters hereby committed to them to the Secretary of the Interior, who is hereby directed to report the facts; found and reported by said commission and their conclusions and recommendations in the matter, together with his recommendations thereon, to the next regular session of Congress for its action. Pay, etc., of commissioners.And each member of said commission shall be paid not to exceed the sum of ten dollars per day while necessarily engaged in the performance of the duties of said commission and actual expenses of travel and subsistence, the same to be audited and paid upon proper vouchers as other expenditures for the Indian Service are audited and paid.
And the sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for such purpose. Mission Indians, California.Attorney.To enable the Attorney General to employ a special attorney for the Mission Indians of southern California, upon the recommendation of the Secretary of the interior, one thousand dollars. Cheyenne River and Rosebud reservations.For the survey of lands in the Cheyenne River and Rosebud Indian reservations in South Dakota, the sum of thirty thousand dollars, to be343 immediately available: and the Commissioner of the General LandSurvey.
Office is hereby directed to survey the lands embraced in said reservations. For examination in the field of the survey of lands within the CheyenneField examination. River and Rosebud Indian reservations in South Dakota, under the direction of the surveyor-general, including clerical work in the office of the surveyor-general, the sum of six thousand dollars. That the adult allottees of sections twenty-one and twenty-eight, inWyandotte Reservation, Ind. Ter.Sales by allottees. township twenty-seven north, of range twenty-four east, in the Wyandotte Reservation, Indian Territory, may sell and convey the land allotted to them in said sections: *Provided*, That the land so conveyed*Proviso*.Limit. shall not exceed one-half of the land owned by each of them within the limits of the Quapaw Agency, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior.
To enable the Secretary of the Interior to put down an artesian wellYankton Reservation, S. Dak.Artesian well. or wells at or near Lake Andes, on the Yankton Indian Reservation, South Dakota, at such place or places as he may determine, for the purpose of supplying said Indians with water for domestic purposes, for stock, and for irrigation purposes, five thousand dollars. Surveying lands in the Indian Territory: For the completion of theIndian Territory.Survey. survey of the lands in the Indian Territory, two hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available: *Provided*, That the surveys herein authorized, or any part of*Proviso*.To be done by Geological Survey. them, in the Indian Territory shall be made under the supervision of the Director of the Geological Survey by such persons as may be employed by or under him for that purpose.
And such surveys shall be executed under instructions to be issued by the Secretary of the Interior, and subdivisional surveys shall be executed under the rectangular system, as now provided by law: *Provided further*, That whenFiling plats, etc. any surveys shall have been so made and plats and field notes thereof prepared, they shall be approved and certified to by the Director of the Geological Survey, and two copies thereof shall be returned, one for tiling in the Indian Office and one in the General Land Office; and such surveys, field notes, and plats shall have the same legal force and effectEffect.Inconsistent laws. as heretofore given to the acts of surveyors general: *Provided further*, That all laws inconsistent with the provisions hereof are hereby declared to be inoperative as respects such surveys: *Provided further*, ThatBoundary monuments. hereafter, in the public laud surveys of the Indian Territory, iron or stone posts shall be erected at each township corner, upon which shall be recorded the usual marks required to be placed on township corners by the laws and regulations governing public land surveys; also, that similar monuments shall be established at the corners of the townships that have been already surveyed by the Geological Survey: *And providedCost limited. further*, That the entire cost and transportation of such monuments to the Indian Territory shall not exceed five thousand dollars, and the cost of the setting of the monuments in the areas already surveyed shall not exceed two thousand five hundred dollars: *ProvidedInjuring survey posts, etc., forbidden. further*, That hereafter it shall be unlawful for any person to destroy, deface, change, or remove to another place any section corner, quarter section corner, or meander post, on any Government line of survey, or to cut down any witness tree or any tree blazed to mark the line of a Government survey, or to deface, change, or remove any monument or bench mark of any Government survey.
That any person, who shallPenalty. offend against any of the provisions of this paragraph shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof in any court shall be lined not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, or be imprisoned not more than one hundred days. All the fines accruing under this paragraph shall be paid into the Treasury, and the informer in each case of conviction shall be paid the sum of twenty-five dollars. In payment under direction of the Secretary of the Interior, to certainIsabella Reservation, Mich.Payment to allottees for timber depredations.
Chippewa Indian allottees of the Isabella Reservation in Michigan, as their interests may appear, being the sums recovered by the United States as judgments against certain parties for timber depredations344 committed within said reservation upon lands which have been allotted and patented to individual Indians, and covered into the Treasury of the United States, one thousand one hundred and twenty-one dollars and sixty-two cents. Miami Town Company.Sale of lands to, permitted.That any adult Peoria or Ottawa Indian, an allottee under any Act of Congress, may, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, sell and convey to the Miami Town Company, a company chartered under the laws of Kansas, forty acres of ground near Miami, Indian Territory, to be used exclusively for cemetery purposes and no other: *Proviso*.Limit.*Provided*, That forty acres shall not exceed half of his or her allotment.
N. J. Cramer.Payment to.To reimburse N. J. Cramer, of Yankton, South Dakota, amount paid by him to the United States as stumpage for four hundred cords of wood furnished to the Government at Fort Bennett, South Dakota, in eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, three hundred dollars. Josephine Lofland.Payment to.To pay Josephine Lofland, an Indian woman, formerly assistant matron at the Seneca, Shawnee and Wyandotte School, her heirs and representatives, such sum as the Secretary of the Interior shall ascertain will compensate her for loss sustained by reason of the burning of the school building in which she was employed, not exceeding the sum of two hundred dollars.
Sioux outbreak.Payment for property lost, etc.That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to ascertain and pay to Louis Mazawakinyena, Louis De Coteau, and James W. Lynd, of South Dakota, such sum as ho shall find justly due them for property lost and destroyed by the Sioux Indians on the Sioux Reservation during the outbreak in eighteen hundred and ninety. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act there is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum of money sufficient to carry out the provisions of this Act, not exceeding five hundred and fifty dollars.
Old Settler Cherokees.Payment for legal services to be withheld.That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, directed to withhold any further distribution and payment out of the money derived from thirty-five per centum of the judgment in favor of the Old Settler or Western Cherokee Indians against the United States, in the sum of eight hundred thousand three hundred and eighty-six dollars and thirty-one cents, set apart for the payment of expenses and for legal services justly and equitably payable on account of the prosecution of said claim, until otherwise authorized by law.
Absentee Wyandottes.To be located in Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations.Vol. 14, pp. 777, 778.The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to locate and establish certain Kansas Indians known as the Absentee Wyandotte Indians in the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, in accordance with the provisions of articles thirty, thirty-one and thirty-seven of the treaty made between the Government of the United States and the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations April twenty-eighth, anno Domini Payments.Vol. 28, p. 301.eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and the sum of fifteen thousand six hundred and eighty-six dollars and eighty cents, appropriated by Act of August fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, made for the purpose of buying homes for the said Absentee Wyandotte Indians, and Vol. 28, p. 908.the additional sum of six thousand dollars, appropriated by Act of March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, shall constitute a fund to be used by the Secretary of the Interior for the payment to the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, according to the provisions of article thirty-seven of the treaty of eighteen hundred and sixty-six herein referred to not less than eighty acres per capita for the said Absentee Wyandotte Indians, which said fund shall be paid to the national treasurers of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations in the proportions of three-fourths to the former and one-fourth to the latter, the tender of the same being equivalent to the payment thereof.
And the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to carry out and enforce the said articles thirty, thirty-one and thirty-seven of the treaty of eighteen hundred and sixty-six in such manner as may be necessary and sufficient for the purposes of this Act. Scott Campbell.Payment to son.That the Secretary of the Interior be and he hereby is, authorized and directed to pay to A. J. Campbell, the son of Scott Campbell,345 deceased, or his legal representatives, the sum of ten thousand dollars, as provided by the ninth article of the treaty of June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty eight, with the Medawakauton and WahpakootaVol. 12, p. 1040. bands of Dakota or Sioux Indians, and for which purpose the sum of ten thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and said sum shall be in full payment and satisfaction of all claims of the. said Campbell or his representatives for said money and lands and interest therein, and the receipt of said Campbell for said sum shall so specify.
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 architect and draftsman, to be employed in the office of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, one million two hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars, of which amount the Secretary of the Interior may, in his discretion, use five thousand dollars for the education of Indians inAlaska Indians.
Alaska. And it is hereby declared to be the settled policy of theNo appropriation for sectarian schools hereafter. Government to hereafter make no appropriation whatever for education in any sectarian school: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Interior*Provisos*.Contracts. may make contracts with contract, schools apportioning as near as may be the amount so contracted for among schools of various denominations for the education of Indian pupils during fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, but shall only make such contracts at places where nonsectarian schools can not be provided for such Indian children and to an amount not exceeding fifty per centum of the amount soReduction. used for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five: *Provided further*, That the foregoing shall not apply to public schools of anyPublic schools, etc., not included.
State, Territory, county, or city, or to schools herein or hereafter specifically provided for. For construction, purchase, lease, and repair of school buildings andBuildings and sites. purchase of school sites, one hundred and forty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That any unexpended balance of the amounts appropriated*Proviso*.Use of balances, for construction, etc. for the support of Indian day and industrial schools for the fiscal years eighteen hundred and ninety-five and eighteen hundred and ninety-six, not needed for that purpose, may be used in the construction, repair, and equipment of school buildings, and shall be available, during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety seven.
For purchase of horses, cattle, sheep, goats, swine, and so forth, forFarm animals. schools, fifteen thousand dollars. For the purpose of erecting, constructing, and completing suitableChamberlain, S. Dak.Buildings authorized. school buildings for an Indian industrial school at or near Chamberlain, in the State of South Dakota, which buildings arc to be constructed under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, upon plans and specifications to be approved by him, twenty-five thousand dollars; out of which sum the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized toSite. purchase not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres of land near Chamberlain, at a cost of not to exceed three thousand dollars, to be immediately available, upon which land said school shall be built.
For the purpose of erecting, constructing, and completing suitableRapid City, S. Dak.Buildings authorized. school buildings for an Indian industrial school at. or near Rapid City, in the State of S nth Dakota, which buildings are to be constructed under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, upon plans and specifications to be approval by him, twenty-five thousand dollars; out of which sum the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized toSite. purchase not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres of land near Rapid City, at a cost of not exceeding three thousand dollars, to be immediately available, upon which said buildings shall be built.
For the erection and completion of suitable buildings, including theTama County, Iowa.Buildings and site. necessary furniture of all kinds for the same, for an industrial boarding school at or near the reservation of the Sac and Fox Indians in Tama346 County, Iowa, and for the purchase of a suitable site for the same, thirty-five thousand dollars. Support of pupils.Albuquerque, N. Mex.For support and education of three hundred Indian pupils at Albuquerque, New Mexico, at one hundred and sixty-seven dollars per annum for each pupil, fifty thousand one hundred dollars: for pay of superintendent of said school, one thousand seven hundred dollars; for general repairs and improvements, one thousand five hundred dollars, and for water supply, two thousand dollars; in all, fifty-five thousand three hundred dollars.
Cherokee, N. C.For support of one hundred and fifty pupils at the training school at Cherokee, North Carolina, 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 three hundred dollars, and for general repairs and minor improvements, one thousand dollars, and for the completion of the new school building, including sewerage and plumbing, two thousand dollars; in all, twenty-nine thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
Carlisle, Pa.For support of Indian industrial school at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, at not exceeding one hundred and sixty-seven dollars for each pupil; and for transportation of pupils to and from said school, and for general repairs and improvements, one hundred and ten thousand six hundred Additional pay to superintendent.dollars; for additional to the salary of any military officer of Carlisle Indian School while acting as superintendent of said school, one thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and eleven thousand six-hundred dollars.
Carson City, Nev.For support and education of one hundred and twenty-five Indian pupils, at one hundred and sixty-seven dollars per annum each, at the Indian school at Carson City, Nevada, twenty thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars; for pay of superintendent at said school, one thousand three hundred dollars; for general repairs and improvements, one thousand dollars; in all, twenty-three thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars. Chilocco, Okla.For support of three hundred and fifty Indian pupils, at one hundred and sixty-seven dollars per annum each, at the Indian school at Chilocco, Oklahoma Territory, fifty-eight thousand four hundred and fifty dollars; for pay of superintendent at said school, one thousand eight hundred dollars; for general repairs and improvements, one thousand five hundred dollars; for erection of hospital, two thousand dollars; for sewerage and plumbing, two hundred and fifty dollars; in all, sixty-four thousand dollars.
Flandreau, S. Dak.For support and education of one hundred and fifty Indian pupils at Flandreau, South Dakota, at one hundred and sixty-seven dollars each per annum, twenty-five thousand and fifty dollars; for general repairs and improvements, one thousand dollars; for water supply, one thousand dollars; for pay of superintendent of said school, one thousand five hundred dollars; for erecting laundry and equipping same, two thousand dollars; in all, thirty thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.
Buildings.For the erection and completion of additional buildings, including furniture of all kinds for the same, at the Indian school at Flandreau, South Dakota, sons to increase the capacity of said school to three hundred pupils, fifty thousand dollars; for the purchase of shade and ornamental trees and shrubbery for planting on school grounds, three hundred dollars; in all, fifty thousand three hundred dollars. Joseph Schwarz.Payment for plans.For payment to Joseph Schwarz, of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, in full of all demands and claims upon the Government for making plans and estimates for an Indian school building at Flandreau, South Dakota, three hundred and fifty dollars.
E. H. Dow and Company.Plumbing.For payment to E. H. Dow and Company in full of all demands and claims upon the Government for plumbing and completing water system for said school, one thousand two hundred dollars. Fort Mojave, Ariz.For support and education of one hundred and fifty Indian pupils at the Indian school, Fort Mojave, Arizona, at one hundred and sixty-seven dollars per annum each, twenty-five thousand and fifty dollars;347 for pay of superintendent of said school, one thousand five hundred dollars; for general repairs and improvements, one thousand dollars; for erecting new buildings, two thousand dollars; in all, twenty-nine thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.
For support and education of two hundred and fifty Indian pupils, atFort Totten, N. Dak. one hundred and sixty-seven dollars per annum each, at Indian school, Fort Totten, North Dakota, forty-one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; for pay of superintendent at said school, one thousand six hundred dollars; for general repairs and improvements, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, forty-four thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. For support and education of three hundred Indian pupils at the IndianGenoa, Nebr. school, Genoa, Nebraska, at one hundred and sixty-seven dollars per annum each, fifty thousand one hundred dollars; for general repairs and improvements, three, thousand five hundred dollars; for steam heating plant, ten thousand dollars; for pay of superintendent of said school, one thousand seven hundred dollars; in all, sixty-five thousand three hundred dollars.
For support and education of one hundred and fifty Indian pupils atGrand Junction, Colo. the Indian school at Grand Junction, Colorado, at one hundred and sixty-seven dollars per annum each, twenty-five thousand and fifty dollars; for pay of superintendent at said school, one thousand five hundred dollars; for general repairs and improvements, one thousand dollars; in all, twenty-seven thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. For support and education of one hundred and twenty Indian pupilsHampton, Va. at the school at Hampton, Virginia, twenty thousand and forty dollars.
For support and education of two hundred Indian pupils at LincolnLincoln Institution, Philadelphia, Pa. Institution, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at one hundred and sixty-seven dollars per annum each, thirty-three thousand four hundred dollars. For support and education of five hundred Indian pupils at the IndianLawrence, Kans. school, Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas, at one hundred and sixty-seven dollars per annum each; for transportation of pupils to and from said school, and for general repairs and improvements, eighty-three thousand five hundred dollars; for pay of superintendent at said school, two thousand dollars; and for providing water supply, five thousand dollars; in all, ninety thousand five hundred dollars.
For support and education of one hundred and fifty Indian pupils at the IndianMount Pleasant, Mich. school, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, at one hundred and sixty-seven dollars each per annum, twenty-five thousand and fifty dollars; for pay of superintendent of said school, one thousand five hundred dollars; for general repairs and improvements, one thousand dollars; in all, twenty-seven thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. For the purpose of erecting additional buildings for the Mount PleasantBuildings.
Indian school at Mount Pleasant, Michigan, namely; For the erection of a girls’ dormitory and dining hall, thirty thousand dollars; for the erection of a schoolhouse, ten thousand dollars; in all, forty thousand dollars. For support and education of one hundred and fifty Indian pupils atPerris, Cal. the Indian school at Perris, California, at one hundred and sixty-seven dollars each per annum, twenty-five thousand and fifty dollars; for pay of superintendent of said school, one thousand five hundred dollars; for erection of additional buildings and general improvements, six thousand dollars; for general repairs and improvements, one thousand dollars; in all, thirty-three thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.
For support and education of two hundred and fifty Indian pupils atPhœnix. Ariz. the Indian school at Phœnix, Arizona, at one hundred and sixty-seven dollars per annum each, forty-one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; for pay of superintendent at said school, one thousand six hundred dollars; for general repairs and improvements, two thousand dollars; in all, forty-five thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. For support of Indian industrial school at Pierre, South Dakota, atPierre, S.
Dak. not to exceed one hundred and sixty-seven dollars per annum for each pupil, and for general repairs and improvements, twenty-seven thousand348 and fifty dollars; for pay of superintendent of said school, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, twenty-eight thousand five hundred *Proviso*.Written consent of parent to take pupil to another State.and fifty dollars: *Provided*, That hereafter no Indian child shall be taken from any school in any State or Territory to a school in any other State against its will or without the written consent of its parents.
Pipestone. Minn.For support and education of one hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school, Pipestone, Minnesota, at one hundred and sixty-seven dollars per annum each, sixteen thousand seven hundred dollars; for pay of superintendent at said school, one thousand two hundred dollars; for general repairs and improvements, twenty-five hundred dollars; in all, twenty thousand four hundred dollars. Salem, Oreg.For support and education of two hundred and fifty Indian pupils at the Indian school, Salem, Oregon, at one hundred and sixty-seven dollars per annum each, forty-one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; for pay of superintendent at said school, one thousand six hundred dollars; for general repairs and improvements, one thousand five hundred dollars; for providing water supply, two thousand dollars; in all, forty-six thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.
Santa Fe, N. Mex.For support and education of two hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school at Santa Fe, New Mexico, at one hundred and sixty seven dollars each per annum, thirty-three thousand four hundred dollars; for pay of superintendent at said school, one thousand six hundred dollars; for water supply for irrigation and fire protection, one thousand five hundred dollars; for general repairs and improvements, one thousand dollars; for erection of hospital, two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, forty thousand dollars.
Shoshone Reservation, Wyo.For support and education of one hundred and fifty Indian pupils at the Indian school, Shoshone Reservation, Wyoming, at one hundred and sixty-seven dollars per annum each, twenty-five thousand and fifty dollars; for pay of superintendent at said school, one thousand four hundred dollars; for general repairs and improvements, four thousand dollars; in all, thirty thousand four hundred and fifty dollars. Tomah, Wis.For support and education of one hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school, Tomah.
Wisconsin, at one hundred and sixty-seven dollars per annum each, sixteen thousand seven hundred dollars; for pay of superintendent at said school, one thousand four hundred dollars; for general repairs and improvements, one thousand dollars; in all, nineteen thousand one hundred dollars. Transportation, etc.For collecting and transportation of pupils to and from Indian schools, and also for the transportation of Indian pupils from all the Indian schools and placing of them, with the consent of their parents, under the care and control of such suitable, white families as may in all respects be qualified to give such 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 dollars.
Use of girls and boys as assistants.That the Commissioner of Indian Affairs shall employ Indian girls as assistant matrons and Indian boys as farmers and industrial teachers in all Indian schools when it is practicable to do so. Commissioner of Indian Affairs to direct expenditures.That the expenditure of the money appropriated for school purposes in this Act shall be at all times under the supervision and direction of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and in all respects in conformity with such conditions, rules, and regulations as to the conduct and methods of instruction and expenditure of money as may from time to time be prescribed by him, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior.
Sec. 2. Purchases of supplies to be advertised.That no purchase of supplies for which appropriations are 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 offi-349cial record of the facts constituting the exigency and shall report, the same to Congress at its next session, he may direct that purchases may be made in open market in amount not exceeding three thousand dollars at any one purchase: *Provided*, That funds herein and heretofore*Provisos*.Irrigation. appropriated for construction of artesian wells, ditches, and other works for irrigating may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, be expended in open market: *Provided further*, That purchase in openPurchases from Indians. market shall, as far as practicable, be made from Indians, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior: *Provided further*, That theManufactures by Indians.
Secretary of the Interior may, when practicable, arrange for the manufacture by Indians upon the reservation of shoes, clothing, leather, harness, and wagons. Sec. 3. That the Secretary of the Interior, under the direction of theDiversion of surplus for subsistence. President, may use any surplus that may remain in any of the said appropriations herein made for the purchase of subsistence for the several Indian tribes, to an amount not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars in the aggregate, to supply any subsistence deficiency that may occur: *Provided however*, That funds appropriated to fulfill treaty obligations*Provisos*.Treaty funds.Report. shall not be used: *And provided further*, That any diversions which shall be made under authority of this section shall be reported in detail, and the reason therefor, to Congress, at the session of Congress next succeeding such diversion.
Sec. 4. That when not required for the purpose for which appropriated,Transfer 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 tor 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: *Provided*, That so much of the appropriations*Proviso*.Amount for supplies immediately available. herein made as may be required to pay for goods and supplies, for expenses incident to their purchase, and for transportation of the same, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, shall be immediately available; but no such goods or supplies shall be distributed or delivered to any of said Indians prior to July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-six.
Sec. 5. That whenever, after advertising for bids for supplies inRejection of bids. accordance with sections two and three of this Act, those received for any article contain conditions detrimental to the interest of the Government, they may be rejected, and the articles specified in such bids purchased in open market, at prices not to exceed those of the lowestPurchases in open market. bidder, and not to exceed the market price of the same until such time as satisfactory bids can be obtained, for which immediate advertisement shall be made.
Sec. 6. That when in the judgment of the Secretary of the InteriorCommutation of rations, etc. 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. 7. 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 white350 or Indian, amount of compensation paid, and out of what item or fund Indian Bureau.of the appropriation paid.
Also the number of employees in the Indian Bureau in Washington, when employed, in what capacity employed, male or female, full name, amount of compensation paid and out of what fund paid, and under what law employed. AGREEMENT WITH THE INDIANS OF THE FORT BELKNAP INDIAN RESERVATION IN MONTANA. Sec. 8. Agreement with Fort Belknap Indians.Whereas William C. Pollock, George Bird Grinnell, and Walter M. Clements, commissioners on the part of the United States, did on the ninth day of October, anno Domini eighteen hundred and ninety-five, conclude an agreement with the Indians of the Fort Belknap Reservation in the State of Montana, which said agreement is in words and figures as follows (Senate Document Numbered One hundred and seventeen, Fifty-fourth Congress, first session), to wit:
Agreement concluded October ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five. with the Indians of the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana, by William C. Pollock, George Bird Grinnell, and Walter M. Clements, commissioners. Commissioners.This agreement, made and entered into this ninth day of October, anno Domini eighteen hundred and ninety-five, by and between William C. Pollock, George Bird Grinnell, and Walter M. Clements, commissioners on the part of the United States, and the undersigned Indians, residing upon and attached to the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in the State of Montana, the same, constituting a majority of the male adult Indians belonging upon said reservation, witnesseth that, Article I Lands relinquished.For and in consideration of the sum to be paid and the obligations assumed on the part of the United States, as hereinafter set forth, said Indians of the Fort Belknap Reservation hereby convey, relinquish, and release to the United States all their right. title, and interest in and to that portion of their present reservation, in the State of Montana, lying and being within the following-described lines, to wit:
Beginning at the 54-mile boundary monument, at a point about the middle of the crest of Mission Butte, and following a straight line, bearing (magnetic) north 17 degrees 30 minutes west, to the highest point on a limestone ridge on the south side of the north fork of People’s Creek, and running at right angles to the course of said creek at this point; thence in a straight line, bearing (magnetic) north 2 degrees 45 minutes west, to a rounded, timbered knob on the crest of the limestone reef on the north side of the north fork of People’s Creek, and parallel with its general course; thence easterly, following the crest of the last-mentioned limestone reef, north of the north fork of People’s Creek, to a low rounded hill on said limestone reef, where it dips down to the valley of Lodge Pole, or Red Mountain Creek; thence in a straight line, north 74 degrees east (magnetic) to the wooded limestone ridge known as Travois Butte, where a line drawn from the summit of Granite Butte (the peak south of the 61½ mile boundary monument) north 15 degrees east (magnetic) would intersect it; thence along said straight line to the southern boundary line of the present reservation; thence along said southern boundary line of the present reservation to the point of beginning.
Article II. Consideration.For and in consideration of the conveyance, cession, and relinquishment hereinbefore made, the United States hereby covenants and agrees to advance and expend during the period of four years, beginning from and after the expiration of the payments provided for in the351 agreement made between the parties hereto on the eleventh day of February, A. D. eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and ratified byVol. 25. p. 133. Congress on the first day of May, A.
D. eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, tinder the direction of the Secretary of the Interior for the Indians, the sum of three hundred and sixty thousand dollars. It is agreed that the said money shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States immediately upon the expiration of the payments under the said agreement of 1887, to bear interest at the rate of four per centum per annum, and there shall be expended the sum of ninety thousand dollars yearly, or so much thereof as may be necessary, as hereinafter provided.
It is provided that any surplus accumulated under and remaining at the expiration of payments under the agreement of 1887 shall also bear interest at the rate of four per centum per annum. Such sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary in any one year, shall be expended in the purchase of cows, bulls, and other live stock, goods, clothing, subsistence, agricultural implements; in providing employees, in the education of Indian children, in procuring medicine and medical attendance, in the care and support of the aged, sick, and infirm, and helpless orphans; in the erection and keeping in repair of such new agency and school buildings, mills, blacksmith, carpenter and wagon shops, as may be necessary; in assisting the Indians to build and keep in repair their houses, enclose and irrigate their farms, and in such other ways as may best promote their civilization and improvement.
Article III. It is agreed that in the employment of all agency and school employeesEmployment of Indians, etc. preference in all eases be given to Indians residing on the reservation, who are well qualified for such positions, and that all cattle issued to said Indians for stock-raising purposes, and their progeny, shall bear the brand of the Indian Department, and shall not be sold, exchanged, or slaughtered except by the consent of the agent in charge, until such time as this restriction shall be removed by the Commissioner of Indian A Hairs.
Article IV. In order to encourage habits of industry and to reward labor, it isDistribution of cattle, etc.: preferences. further understood and agreed that in the giving out or distribution of cattle or other stock, goods, clothing, subsistence, and agricultural implements, as provided in Article II, preference shall be given to Indians who endeavor by honest labor to support themselves, and especially to those who in good faith undertake the cultivation of the soil and engage in pastoral pursuits as a means of obtaining a livelihood, and the distribution of these benefits shall be made from time to time in such manlier as shall best promote the objects specified.
Article V. As the scarcity of water on this reservation renders the pursuit ofStock raising, etc. agriculture difficult and uncertain, and since the reservation is well adapted to stock raising, and it seems probable that the main reliance of these Indians for self-support is to be found in cattle raising, it is agreed that during the existence of this agreement no allotments of land in severalty shall be made to them, but that this whole reservation shall continue to be held by these Indians as a communal grazing tract, upon which their herds may feed undisturbed; and that after the expiration of this agreement the land shall continue to be so held until such time as a majority of the adult males of the tribes shall request in writing that allotment in severalty shall be made of their lands: *Provided*, That any member of the tribes may, with the approval of the agent in charge, fence in such area of land as he and the members of352 his family would be entitled to under the allotment act, and may file with the agent a description of such land and of the improvements that he has made on the same, and the tiling of such description shall give the said member of the tribes the right to take such land when allotments of the lands in severalty shall be made.
Article VI. Surveys, etc.So soon as this agreement shall have received the approval of Congress, the boundary lines described in Article I shall be surveyed, designated, and marked by monuments not more than one half mile apart. The expense of such survey shall be borne by the United States, but the unskilled laborers employed in the work shall be hired from among the Indians residing on this reservation. Such survey and the markings of the above-described boundary lines shall be done immediately—not later than ninety days after the approval of this agreement by Congress—and completed as speedily as possible, and the ceded portion of the reservation shall not be thrown open to occupancy by the whites until after the new boundaries of the reservation shall have been established and marked.
Article VII. Prior claims.It is further agreed and provided that none of the money realized from the sale of this land shall be applied to the payment of any judgment which has been or may hereafter be rendered upon any claim for damages because of depredations committed by said Indians prior to the date of this agreement. Article VIII. Former agreement continued.All of the provisions of the agreement between the parties hereto, made February 11, 1887, not in conflict with the provisions of this agreement, are hereby continued in full force and effect.
Article IX. Meaning of “Indian.”It is understood and declared that whenever the word Indian is used in this agreement it includes mixed bloods as well as full bloods. ARTICLE X. Ratification.This agreement shall not be binding upon either party until ratified by Congress. Dated and signed at the Fort Belknap Agency, Montana, on the ninth day of October, 1895. [seal.] William C. Pollock. [seal.] Geo. Bird Grinnell. Houga Dju shi na, his x mark, (Little Chief) and others. Fort Belknap Agency, Mont., October 9, 1895.
We, James Matt, Charles Buckman, Chas. Perry, and James Perry, do certify that the annexed and foregoing agreement by and between the United States and Indians residing upon and attached to the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in Montana was fully interpreted to said Indians and they made to understand the same; that after said interpretation the said Indians, whose names appear subscribed to said agreement, signed the same in our presence. We further certify that said Indians are members of said tribes and reside upon said reservation, set apart for said Indians in Montana, and that said subscribers are male adults over the age of 21 years. 353 Given under our hand at the Fort Belknap Agency this 9th day of October, 1895 Charles Perry.
Charlie Buckman. James Matt. James Perry. Fort Belknap Agency, Mont., October 9, 1895. I hereby certify that there are 181 male adult Assinniboine and 153 male adult Gros Ventre Indians, making a total of 334 male adult Indians residing on this reservation and drawing rations and annuities at this agency, as shown by the records of the agency office. Luke C. Hays, United States Indian Agent. Therefore, *Be if enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That said agreement be, andAgreement confirmed. the same is hereby, accepted, ratified, and confirmed.
That for the purpose of making the survey of the boundary linesSurvey of boundary. described in article one as provided for by article six of said agreement, there be, and hereby is, appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, the same to be immediately available. That upon the filing in the United States local land office for theLands open to mineral entry only. district in which the lands surrendered by article one of the foregoing agreement are situated, of the approved plat of survey authorized by this section, the lauds so surrendered shall be open to occupation, location, and purchase, under the provisions of the mineral-land laws only, subject to the several articles of the foregoing agreement: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Price.No occupancy prior to opening.
That said lands shall be sold at ten dollars per acre: *And provided further*, That the terms of this section shall not be construed to authorize the occupancy of said lands for mining purposes prior to the date of filing said approved plat of survey: *Provided, however*, That,Preference to discoverers of coal, etc. any person who in good faith prior to the passage of this Act had discovered and opened, or located, a mine of coal or other mineral, shall have a preference right of purchase for ninety days from and after the official filing in the local land office of the approved plat of survey provided for by this section.
AGREEMENT WITH THE INDIANS OF THE BLACKFEET INDIAN RESERVATION IN MONTANA. Sec. 9. Whereas William C. Pollock, George Bird Grinnell, andAgreement with Blackfeet Reservation Indians. Walter M. Clements, commissioners on the part of the United States, did on the twenty-sixth day of September, anno Domini eighteen hundred and ninety-five, conclude an agreement with the Indians of the Blackfeet Reservation, in the State of Montana, which said agreement is in words and figures as follows (Senate Document Numbered One hundred and eighteen, Fifty-fourth Congress, first session), to wit:
Agreement concluded September twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, with the Indians of the Blackfeet Reservation, in Montana, by William C. Pollock, George Bird Grinnell, and Walter M. Clements, commissioners. This agreement, made and entered into the twenty-sixth day of September,Commissioners. anno Domini eighteen hundred and ninety-five, by and between William C. Pollock, George Bird Grinnell, and Walter M. Clements, commissioners on the part of the United States, and the undersigned Indians, both full bloods and mixed bloods, residing upon and attached to the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, in the State of-Montana, the same constituting a majority of the male adult Indians belonging upon said reservation, both full bloods and mixed bloods, the latter’s rights to354 participate in all business proceedings of said tribe and to share in all the benefits accruing to said tribes from a sale of land or otherwise being hereby recognized as equal to the full bloods, witnesseth that:
Article I. Lands relinquished.For and in consideration of the sums to be paid and the obligations assumed upon the part of the United States, as hereinafter set forth, said Indians of the Blackfeet Reservation hereby convey, relinquish, and release to the United States all their right, title, and interest in and to that portion of their present reservation in the State of Montana lying and being west of the following-described line, to wit: Beginning at a point on the northern boundary of the reservation due north from the summit of Chief Mountain, and running thence south to said summit; thence in a straight line to the most northeasterly point of Flat Top Crag; thence to the most westerly of the mouths of Divide Creek; thence up said creek to a point where a line drawn from the said northeasterly point of Flat Top Crag to the summit of Divide Mountain intersects Divide Creek; thence to the summit of Divide Mountain; thence in a straight line to the western extremity of the lower Two Medicine Lake; thence in a straight line to a point on the southern line of the right of way of the Great Northern Railway Company four miles west of the western end of the railway bridge across the north fork of the Two Medicine River; thence in a straight line to the summit of Heart Butte, and thence due south to the southern line of the present reservation: *Provided*, That said Indians shall have, Reservations.and do hereby reserve to themselves, the right to go upon any portion of the lands hereby conveyed so long as the same shall remain public lands of the United States, and to cut and remove therefrom wood and timber for agency and school purposes, and for their personal uses for houses, fences, and all other domestic purposes: *And provided further*, Hunting and fishing.That the said Indians hereby reserve and retain the right to hunt upon said lands and to fish in the streams thereof so long as the same shall remain public lauds of the United States under and in accordance with the provisions of the game and fish laws of the State of Montana.
Article II. Consideration.For and in consideration of the conveyance, cession, and relinquishment hereinbefore made the United States hereby covenants and agrees to advance and expend during the period of ten years beginning from and after the expiration of the payments provided for in the agreement made between the parties hereto on the eleventh day of February, A, D. eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and ratified by Congress on the first day of May, A. D. Vol. 25, p. 133.eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior for the Indians, both full bloods and mixed bloods, now attached to and receiving rations and annuities at the Blackfeet Agency, and all who shall hereafter be declared by the tribes located upon said reservation, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, entitled to membership in those tribes, the sum of one million five hundred thousand (81,500,000.00) dollars.
Money payments.It is agreed that said money shall be paid as follows: The first year after the expiration of payments under the agreement of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven (1887), three hundred thousand (8300,000.00) dollars, one-half of which shall be deposited in the United States Treasury and bear interest at four per centum per annum, and one-half, or so much thereof as shall be necessary, shall be expended as hereinafter provided ; and annually thereafter for eight years the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand ($150,000.00) dollars: *Provided*, That any surplus accumulated under and remaining at the expiration of the agreement of 1887, and any surplus that may remain from any annual payment provided for herein, shall also be placed in the United States Treasury to the credit of said Indians, and shall bear interest at the355 rate of four per centum per annum.
Such sums, or so much thereof as maybe necessary in anyone year, shall be expended in the purchase of cows, bulls, and other live stock, goods, clothing, subsistence, agricultural implements, in providing employees, in the education of Indian children, in procuring medicine and medical attendance, in the care and support of the aged, sick, and infirm, and of helpless orphans, in the erection and keeping in repair of such new agency and school buildings, mills, blacksmith, carpenter, and wagon shops as may be necessary, in assisting the Indians to build and keep in repair their houses, inclose and irrigate their farms, and in such other ways as may best promote their civilization and improvement.
Article III. It is agreed that in the employment of all agency and school employeesEmployment of Indians, etc. preference in all eases be given to Indians residing on the reservation, who are well qualified for such positions; and that all cattle issued to said Indians for stock-raising purposes, and their progeny, shall bear the brand of the Indian Department, and shall not be sold, exchanged, or slaughtered, except by the consent of the agent in charge, until such time as this restriction shall be removed by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
Article IV. In order to encourage habits of industry and to reward labor, it isDistribution of cattle, etc.; preferences. further understood and agreed that, in the giving out or distribution of cattle or other stock, goods, clothing, subsistence, and agricultural implements, as provided in Article II, preference shall be given to Indians who endeavor by honest labor to support themselves, and especially to those who in good faith undertake the cultivation of the soil and engage in pastoral pursuits as a means of obtaining a livelihood, and the distribution of these benefits shall be made from time to time, in such manner as shall best promote the objects specified.
Article V. Since the situation of the Blackfeet Reservation renders it whollyStock raising, etc. unfit for agriculture, and since these Indians have shown within the past four years that they can successfully raise horned cattle, and there is every probability that they will become self supporting by attention to this industry, it is agreed that during the existence of this agreement no allotments of land in severalty shall be made to them, but that this whole reservation shall continue to be held by these Indians as a communal grazing tract upon which their herds may feed undisturbed; and that alter the expiration of this agreement the lands shall continue to be held until such time as a majority of the adult males of the tribe shall request in writing that allotment in severalty shall be made of their lands: *Provided*, That any member of the tribe may, with the approval of the agent in charge, fence in such area of land as he and the members of his family would be entitled to under the allotment act, and may file with the agent a description of such land and of the improvements that he has made on the same, and the filing of such description shall give the said members of the tribe the right to take such land when allotments of the land in severalty shall be made.
Article VI. So soon as this agreement shall have received the approval of CongressSurveys, etc. the boundary lines described in Article I shall be surveyed and designated by two engineers, one of whom shall be selected by the Indians and one by the Secretary of the Interior; the said boundaries shall at once be marked by monuments, not more than one-half mile apart; the points at the mouth of Divide Creek and the westernmost extremity of the lower Two Medicine Lake, after they have been356 marked, shall be fixed and remain unchanged, no matter what alterations may hereafter take place in the course of said creek, or in the level of said lake.
The expense of such survey shall be shared equally between the United States and the tribes occupying this reservation, but the unskilled laborers employed in the work shall be hired from among the Indians residing on this reservation. Such survey and the marking of the above-described boundary lines shall be begun immediately—not later than ninety days after the approval of this agreement by Congress—and completed as speedily us possible, and the ceded portion of the reservation shall not be thrown open to occupancy by the whites until after the new boundaries of the reservation shall have been established and marked.
Article VII. Rights of way.It is further agreed that whenever, in the opinion of the President, the public interests require the construction of railroads or other highways, telegraph or telephone lines, canals and irrigating ditches, through any portion of this reservation, right of way shall be and is hereby granted for such purposes, under such rules, regulations, limitations, and restrictions as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe; the compensation to be fixed by said Secretary and by him expended for the benefit of the Indians.
Article VIII. Prior claims.It is further agreed and provided that none of the money realized from the sale of this land shall be applied to the payment of any judgment which has been or may hereafter be rendered upon any claim for damages because of depredations committed by said Indians prior to the date of this agreement. Article IX. Former agreement continued.The provisions of Article VI of the agreement between the parties hereto, made February 11, 1887, are hereby continued in full force and effect, as are also all the provisions of said agreement not in conflict with the provisions of this agreement.
Article X. Meaning of “Indian.”It is understood and declared that wherever the word Indian is used in this agreement it includes mixed bloods as well as full bloods. Article XI. RatificationThis agreement shall not be binding upon either party until ratified by Congress. Dated and signed at Blackfeet Agency, Montana, on the twenty-sixth day of September, eighteen hundred and ninety-five (A. D. 1895). [seal.] William C. Pollock. [seal.] Geo. Bird Grinnell. [seal.] Walter M. Clements.
O nis tai po kah, his x mark (White Calf), and others. Witness: J. E. Webb. A. B. Hamilton. George Steell, United States Indian Agent. Blackfeet Indian Agency, September 28, 1895. I, J. W. Schultz, hereby certify that I wrote the names appearing upon the foregoing pages, the same being those that were signed by357 the parties by making their mark; that the same was clone by them freely and voluntarily, and the names appearing thereon are Indians, both full bloods and mixed bloods, belonging upon and attached to the Blackfeet Indian Reservation.
Given under my hand at the Blackfeet Agency this the 28th day of September, 1895. J. W. Schultz. Blackfeet Agency, Mont., September 28, 1895. We, Charles Simon, James Perrine, and Richard Sanderville, do certify that the annexed and foregoing agreement by and between the United States and Indians, both full bloods and mixed bloods, residing upon and attached to the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, in Montana, was fully interpreted to said Indians and they made to understand the same; that after said interpretation the said Indians whose names appear subscribed to said agreement signed the same in our presence.
We further certify that said Indians are members of said tribe and reside upon said reservation, set apart for said Indians in Montana, and that said subscribers are male adults over the age of 21 years. Given under our hands at the Blackfeet Indian Agency this 28th day of September, 1895. Charles Simon, Special Interpreter. James Perrine, Indian Interpreter. Richard Sanderville, United States Agency Interpreter. Blackfeet Agency, Mont., September 28, 1895. I, George Steell, United States Indian agent at Blackfeet Agency, Mont., hereby certify that the male adult population of the Indians belonging to the Blackfeet Reservation, both full bloods and mixed bloods, is 381.
This certificate is made upon my best knowledge, information, and belief, derived from the records of my office and fortified by all other sources of reliable information as to ages. Given under my hand at the Blackfeet Agency this 28th day of September, 1895. George Steell, United States Indian Agent. Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That said agreement be, andAgreement confirmed. the same is hereby, accepted, ratified, and confirmed.
That for the purpose of paying one-half of the expense of making theSurvey of boundary. survey of the boundary line described in article one, as provided by article six of said agreement, there be, and hereby is, appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, the same to be immediately available; and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to use so much of any appropriation heretofore or hereafter made for the benefit of the Indians of the Blackfeet Reservation as may be necessary to pay one-half of the expense of the survey of the said boundary line by the said article six of the agreement to be borne by the Indians.
That upon the filing in the United States local land office for the districtLands open to mineral entry only. in which the lands surrendered by article one of the foregoing agreement are situated, of the approved plat or survey authorized by this section, the lands so surrendered shall be opened to occupation, location, and purchase under the provisions of the mineral-land laws only, subject to the several articles of the foregoing agreement: *Provided*,*Provisos*.No occupancy prior to opening.
That the terms of this section shall not be construed to authorize occupancy of said lands for mining purposes prior to the date of358 Preference to discoverers of coal, etc.filing said approved plat of survey: *Provided, however*, That any person who in good faith prior to the passage of this Act had discovered and opened, or located, a mine of coal or other mineral, shall have a preference right of purchase for ninety days from and after the official filing in the local land office of the approved plat of survey provided for by this section.
AGREEMENT WITH THE INDIANS OF THE SAN CARLOS INDIAN RESERVATION IN ARIZONA. Sec. 10. Agreement with San Carina Reservat ion Indians.Whereas Province McCormick, United States Indian inspector, did, on the twenty-fifth day of February, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of Congress of March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five (Twenty-eighth Negotiation for cession of coal fields.Vol. 28, p. 894.Statutes at Large, page eight hundred and ninety-four), conclude an agreement with the Indians of the San Carlos Reservation, Arizona, for the cession and relinquishment to the United States of the lands of the reservation embracing the coal fields, which said agreement is in words and figures as follows (House Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty, Fifty-fourth Congress, first session), to wit:
This agreement, made on the-twenty fifth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, pursuant 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, 1896, as follows: “The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to negotiate with the Indians on the San Carlos Reservation, Arizona, through an inspector, for the cession or relinquishment to the United States of the lands embracing the coal fields, and that any agreement made shall be submitted to Congress for its action,” by Province McCormick, United States Indian inspector, on the part of the United States, and the Apache, Mohave, and Yuma Indians, residing on the San Carlos Indian Reservation, in the Territory of Arizona, by their chiefs, headmen, and members of said tribes, embracing a majority of all the male adult Indians occupying said reservation, witnesseth:
Article I. Lands ceded.That the said Indians do hereby cede, grant, and relinquish to the United States all right, title, and claim which they may have in and to all the land embraced within the following-described tract, now a part of the said San Carlos or White Mountain Indian Reservation, to wit: All the land lying south of a line, commencing at a point on the present eastern boundary of the said reservation, one mile south of Goodwin Spring; thence in a general direction west to the highest point on Mount Turnbull; thence in a westerly direction to a point on a line between the agency building proper and Stanley, or the Saddle butte, seven miles from said building in a southerly direction; thence in a westerly direction at longest possible tangents to the mouth of Hawk Canyon, not crossing said canyon; thence down the Gila River, following the south bank to a point where said Gila River crosses the present western boundary of the reservation.
Article II. Consideration.That in consideration of the lands ceded, relinquished, and conveyed, as aforesaid, the United States stipulates and agrees to place in the Treasury of the United States to the credit and for the sole benefit of the said Apache, Mohave, and Yuma Indians and to account therefor annually, to them through their agent, the net proceeds accruing from the disposal of such coal and mineral lands, lying within the ceded territory, under the laws applicable thereto; and that said money shall be paid to them in cash from time to time as the same shall become359 available, pro rata, share and share alike to each man, woman, and child of the tribes now living upon and entitled to the privileges of the said reservation: *Provided*, That none of the money credited to saidPrior claims barred.
Indians under this agreement 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 this agreement. Article III. That for the purpose of segregating the ceded land from the diminishedSurvey, etc. reservation the new boundary line described in article one of the agreement shall be properly surveyed and permanently marked in a plain and substantial manner by prominent and durable monuments; and that the cost of said survey shall be chargeable to and be paid out of the proceeds of said ceded lands.
Article IV. This agreement shall not take effect and be in force until ratified byRatification. the Congress of the United States. Dated and signed at San Carlos Agency, Arizona, on the twenty-fifth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six. Province McCormick, United States Indian Inspector. The foregoing articles of agreement having been fully explained to us in open council, we, the undersigned chiefs, headmen, and members of the several bauds of Apache, Mohave, and Yuma Indians, attached to and receiving rations at the San Carlos Agency, in the Territory of Arizona, do hereby consent and agree to all the stipulations therein contained.
Witness our hands and seals at San Carlos Agency, Arizona, this twenty-fifth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six. (Here follows six hundred and three signatures of the adult male Indians of the San Carlos Reservation.) Witness: Albert L. Myer, Capt. Eleventh Infantry, Acting Indian Agent. D. G. Cheesman, Agency Clerk. We hereby certify that the foregoing articles of agreement were carefully read and explained to the Indians, parties hereto, in open council, and were thoroughly understood by them before signing the same, and that the agreement was executed and signed by said Indians at the San Carlos Indian Agency, in Arizona Territory, on the twenty-fifth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six.
James Stevens, United States Special Interpreter. Constant Bread, United States Agency Interpreter, Apache. Mike Burns, United States Special Interpreter. Arthur Ducat, United States Agency Interpreter, Mohave. Witness: Albert L. Myer, Capt. Eleventh Infantry, Acting Indian Agent. D. G. Cheesman, Agency Clerk. 360 I certify that the records of this office show that the total number of males on this reservation over eighteen years of age, according to last census, was eleven hundred and thirteen, of whom thirty are scouts in the United States service and permanently absent, leaving ten hundred and eighty-three.
Albert L. Myer, Captain Eleventh Infantry, Acting Indian Agent. San Carlos Agency, Ariz., February 25, 1896. San Carlos Agency, Ariz. February 25, 1896. I certify that the records of this office show ten hundred and eighty-three male adult Indians over eighteen years of age now residing on this entire reservation, and that the foregoing agreement has been duly signed by a majority thereof. Province McCormick, United States Indian Inspector. Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Agreement confirmed.That said agreement be, and the same hereby is, accepted, ratified, and confirmed.
Survey of boundary.The Secretary of the Interior shall cause the said boundary line (estimated length forty-five miles), as described in article three of the agreement quoted and made a part of this Act, to be surveyed, marked, and established, by permanent and durable monuments of stone, the same to be set at each mile and half-mile point and at the angles formed on said line, and set, marked, and witnessed in conformity with instructions to be furnished by said Secretary of the Interior relating thereto; the compensation to be allowed for executing said survey not to exceed the sum of forty dollars per mile, including the monuments.
Appropriation.There is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one thousand eight hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to carry into effect the provisions of the preceding section, said amount to be immediately *Proviso*.Reimbursement.available: *Provided, however*, That from the proceeds of the sale of the lands ceded by said agreement there shall first be deducted an amount sufficient to reimburse the United States for the expenditure authorized by this section.
Lands open to mineral entry only.That upon the filing in the United States local land office for the district in which the lands surrendered by article one of the foregoing agreement are situated, of the approved plat or survey authorized by this section, the lands so surrendered shall be open to occupation, location, and purchase under the provisions of the mineral-land laws only, subject to the several articles of the foregoing agreement: *Provided*, *Provisos*.No occupancy prior to opening.That the terms of this section shall not be construed to authorize occupancy of said lands for mining purposes prior to the date of filing said approved plat of survey: *Provided, however*, That any person who Preference to discoverers of coal, etc.in good faith prior to the passage of this Act had discovered and opened, or located, a mine of coal or other mineral, shall have a preference right of purchase for ninety days from and after the official filing in the local land office of the approved plat of survey provided for by this section.
Benjamin J. Clardy.Patent to issue, Oklahoma lands.That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed to issue a patent in fee to Benjamin J. Clardy for all the land heretofore allotted to him in the Territory of Oklahoma, as a citizen Pottawatomie Indian, and all restrictions as to the sale, incumbrance, or taxation of said land is hereby removed. Approved, June 10, 1896.
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