Chapter 78. To authorize the payment of certain amounts for damages sustained by prairie fire on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, in South Dakota
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CHAP. 78.— An Act To authorize the payment of certain amounts for damages sustained by prairie fire on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, in South Dakota. February 17, 1920. [[H. R. 396](/us/bill/66/hr/396).] [[Private, No. 27](/us/pvtl/66/27).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Rosebud Indian Reservation, S. Dak. Payment for damage to parties from fire on. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the following-named corporation and persons, their legal representatives or heirs, the respective amounts as follows:
The Mission Farm Company, $1,835; Peter Volondra, $187.50; M. E. Robertson, $62.50; E. E. Bead, $187.50; James V. Satra, $75; Cash Rogers, $255; Ed Neiness, $87.50; Jacob Hempel, $22.50; Isiah Davis, $187.50; Alvin Hoffman, $50; Louis Bordeaux, $1,385; Charley Pavlik, $50; George W. Coleman, $875; W. S. Hatten, $200; Frank Rothleutner and George W. Coleman, $750; Hugh Coleman, $54.50; and Charles Kolkofen, $62.50 for damages caused to each of said parties by a certain fire set by the carelessness of the employees of the Government in the regular line of their duty and as incident thereto in the Indian Service on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, in South Dakota, and across the State line in Nebraska, on the 20th day of October, 1909.
Approved, February 17, 1920.