Chapter 15. Granting certain lands for a cemetery to the Fort Bidwell People’s Church Association, of the town of Fort Bidwell, State of California, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 15.— An Act Granting certain lands for a cemetery to the Fort Bidwell People’s Church Association, of the town of Fort Bidwell, State of California, and for other purposes.January 27, 1913.[[H. R. 25878](/us/bill/62/hr/25878).][[Public, No. 352](/us/pl/62/352).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Fort Bidwell Indian School Reservation, Cal.Grant of lands for cemetery to Fort Bid-well People’s Church Association.
That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to transfer by patent to the Fort Bidwell People’s Church Association (undenominational, and duly incorporated under the laws of the State of California), of the town of Fort Bidwell, Modoc County, in the State of California, a tract of land in Modoc County, in the State of California, now a part of the Fort Bidwell Indian School Reservation (formerly the Fort Bidwell Military Reservation), lying in the north half of section seventeen, township forty-six north of range sixteen east, Mount Diablo base and meridian, said tract not to exceed ten and one-half acres in extent, and to be further and particularly described by the Secretary of the Interior after a survey thereof has been made; said ten and one-half acres to cover and include the sites of the present military, Indian, and civilian cemeteries and the proposed extensions for Indian, civilian, and lodge purposes, on condition that said *Proviso*.Interment of Indians.land shall be held in trust and used as and for a cemetery: *Provided *, That Indians having rights on said reservation shall have the right of interment in said cemetery without charge for the ground used for that purpose.
Trust patent.That said patent for said land shall be issued to the Fort Bidwell People’s Church Association, in trust for said town of Fort Bidwell, and for the Ancient Free and Accepted Masonic lodge and Independent Order of Odd Fellows lodge of said town, and for the interment of soldiers and Indians, as said cemetery is now actually platted and has been used for over thirty-five years for the purposes specified in this Act. Right of way.That a right of way sixty feet wide is hereby granted over said Fort Bidwell Indian School Reservation from the nearest public highway from the said town of Fort Bidwell to said cemetery plat, the location thereof to be subject to approval by the Secretary of the Interior.
Conveyances. That the Fort Bidwell People’s Church Association is hereby authorized and empowered to fully carry out the provisions of the trust hereby created by said patent by proper conveyances. Maintenance, etc.That said right of way shall be fenced on both sides with a good and substantial fence, and said cemetery plat shall be inclosed with a like fence, without any cost or expense therefor to the Government, and 653 all thereafter be maintained and cared for in a neat and orderly condition by the trustees and beneficiaries named in this Act, without any expense whatever to the United States.
Approved, January 27, 1913.