ennes. For support and civilization of the Arapahoes and Cheyennes who Arapahoesand Cheyhave been collected on the reservations set apart for their use and occupation, thirty-five thousand dollars. Superior. For support and civilization of the Chippewas of Lake Superior, Chippewas, Lake 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 dollars. Chippewas, Turtle For support and civilization of Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewas, Mountain Band. North Dakota, including seeds, thirteen thousand dollars. For support and civilization of the confederated tribes and bands in middle Oregon, and for pay of employees, four thousand dollars. To furnish such articles of food as, from time to time, the condition and necessities of the Crow Indians may require, fifteen thousand dollars. Confederated tribes, middle Oregon. Crows. D'Wamish, etc., For support and civilization of the D'Wamish and other allied tribes in Washington, including pay of employees, five thousand dollars. For support and civilization of Indians at Flathead Agency, Montana, Flatheads, etc. including pay of employees, nine thousand dollars. Apaches, etc., Arizona and New Mexico. For support and civilization of the Apache and other Indians in 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: Provided, That the unexpended balance for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five is hereby appropriated and made avail- ance available. .able for nineteen hundred and six. Proviso. bal Fort Belknap In For support and civilization of the Indians at Fort Belknap Agency, dirt Montana, including pay of employees, twenty thousand dollars. For support and civilization of the Shoshones and Bannocks and other Indians of the Fort Hall Reservation in Idaho, including pay of employees, twenty thousand dollars. Fort Hall Indians. Fort Berthold In For the support and civilization of Indians at Fort Berthold Agency, dis including pay of employees, twenty thousand dollars. For the construction of fence on said Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, to be immediately available, five thousand dollars: Provided, That so far as it can be done Indians of said reservation shall be exclusively employed in the construction of said fence. For support and civilization of the Indians at Fort Peck Agency, including pay of employees, fifty thousand dollars. For support, civilization, and instruction of the Shoshones, Bannocks, Sheepeaters, and other Indians of the Lemhi Agency, Idaho, including pay of employees, ten thousand dollars. Fence. Proviso. Indian labor. Fort Peck Indians, Lemhi Agency In dians. For support and civilization of the Klamaths, Modocs, and other Klamath Agency InIndians of the Klamath Agency, Oregon, including pay of employees, five thousand dollars. dians. For support and civilization of the Kansas Indians, Oklahoma Ter- Kansas. ritory, including agricultural assistance and pay of employees, two thousand dollars. For support and civilization of the Kickapoo Indians in Oklahoma Kickapoos. Territory, two thousand dollars. For the purchase of teams, farming implements, seeds, and other necessary articles for the Mexican Kickapoo Indians, known as the "Kicking Kickapoos," in Oklahoma Territory, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, three thousand dollars. For support and civilization of the Makahs, Washington, including pay of employees, two thousand dollars. For support and civilization of the Mission Indians in California, Mission Indians. including pay of exployees, five thousand dollars. VOL XXXIII, PT 1-67 Northern Indians, Cal. Investigation and report. Round Valley In dian Reservation, Cal. For support and civilization of the Northern Indians, California, ten thousand dollars. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to investigate through an inspector or otherwise existing conditions of the California Indians and to report to Congress at the next session some plan to improve the same. For fencing division line between the relinquished and diminished Division line fence. portions of the Round Valley Indian Reservation, California, two thousand five hundred dollars, to be reimbursed to the Treasury of the United States out of any money received from the sale of the said relinquished lands. Nez Perce, Joseph's Band. Pima Agency Indi ans. Poncas. Qui-nai-elts and Quil-leh-utes. Shoshones, Wyo. Shoshones, Nev. Absentee Shawnees. Sioux, Devils Lake. Walla Wallas, Cayuses, and Umatillas. Yakimas. Incidental expenses. Arizona. California. Colorado. Idaho. Indian Territory. Montana. Nevada. For purchase of agricultural implements, and support and civilization of Joseph's Band of Nez Perce Indians, one thousand dollars. For support and civilization of the Indians of Pima Agency, Arizona, forty thousand dollars, ten thousand dollars of which shall be made immediately available, to be expended for their benefit in such manner as the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion, may deem best. For support and civilization of the Ponca Indians, including pay of employees, ten thousand dollars. For support and civilization of the Qui-nai-elts and Quil-leh-utes, including pay of employees, one thousand dollars. For support and civilization of Shoshone Indians in Wyoming, fifteen thousand dollars. For support and civilization of the Indians of the Western Shoshone Agency, Nevada, including pay of employees, eight thousand dollars. For purchase of teams, farming implements, seeds, and other necessary articles for the Big Jim's Band of Absentee Shawnee Indians in Oklahoma Territory, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, two thousand dollars. For support and civilization of Sioux of Devils Lake, North Dakota, ten thousand dollars. For support and civilization of the Walla Walla, Cayuse, and Umatilla tribes, Oregon, including pay of employees, three thousand dollars. For support and civilization of Yakimas, and other Indians at said agency, including pay of employees, eight thousand dollars. GENERAL INCIDENTAL EXPENSES OF THE INDIAN ARIZONA: For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Arizona, including traveling expenses of agents, one thousand five hundred dollars. 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 Tule River agencies, four thousand dollars; and pay of employees at same agencies, eight thousand dollars; in all, twelve thousand dollars. COLORADO: For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Colorado, including traveling expenses of agents, five hundred dollars. IDAHO: For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Idaho, including traveling expenses of agents, five hundred dollars. INDIAN TERRITORY: For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in the Indian Territory, and for pay of employees, eighteen thousand dollars. MONTANA: For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Montana, including traveling expenses of agents and pay of employees, eight thousand five hundred dollars: 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, five thousand dollars; and pay of employees, including physician at the Walker River Reservation, at nine hundred dollars, four thousand nine hundred dollars; in all, nine thousand nine hundred dollars. NEW MEXICO: For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in New Mexico, including traveling expenses of agents, one thousand dollars. NORTH DAKOTA: For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in North Dakota, including traveling expenses of agents at three agencies, one thousand dollars. New Mexico. North Dakota OREGON: For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Oregon. Oregon, including traveling expenses of agents, and support and civilization of Indians of Grande Ronde and Siletz agencies, three thousand dollars; and pay of employees at the same agencies, three thousand dollars; in all, six thousand dollars. SOUTH DAKOTA: For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in South Dakota, including traveling expenses of agents at seven agencies, two thousand five hundred dollars. For clerical work and stationery in the office of the United States surveyor-general required on surveys within the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, three thousand two hundred dollars. South Dakota. Pine Ridge Indian fice. Utah. UTAH: For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Utah, including traveling expenses of agents, one thousand dollars. WASHINGTON: For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service Washington. in Washington, including traveling expenses of agents, and support and civilization of Indians at Colville and Puyallup agencies, and for pay of employees, twelve thousand dollars. WYOMING: For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Wyoming. Wyoming, including traveling expenses of agents, five hundred dollars. MISCELLANEOUS. Miscellaneous. Indian Territory. Vol. 30, p. 504. For clerical and incidental expenses of the United States inspector's Inspector's office. office, Indian Territory, in accordance with the provisions of section twenty-seven of the Act of June twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, entitled "An Act for the protection of the people of the Indian Territory, and for other purposes," ten thousand dollars. Confidential clerk For pay of confidential clerk in office of Commissioner of Indian to Commissioner. Affairs, at the rate of one hundred and fifty dollars per month, one thousand eight hundred dollars, to be immediately available. Five Civilized Survey, etc., of town sites. Vol. 30, p. 500. Provisos. To pay all expenses incident to completion of the survey, platting, Tribes. and appraisement of town sites in the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Cherokee Nations. Indian Territory, under the provisions of an Act of June twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and all Acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto, ten thousand dollars, the same to be immediately available: Provided, That the several town site commissions in the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Cherokee sions abolished. Nations shall, upon the completion of the appraisement of the town lots in their respective nations, be abolished by the Secretary of the Interior at such time as in his judgment it is considered proper; and all unfinished work of such commissions, the sale of town lots at public auctions, disposition of contests, the determination of the rights of claimants, and the closing up of all other minor matters appertaining thereto shall be performed by the Secretary of the Interior under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe: Provided further, That all unsold lots, the disposition of which is required by public auction, shall be offered for sale and disposed of from time to time by the Secretary of the Interior for the best obtainable price as will in his judgment best subserve the interests of the several tribes; and the various modified. provisions of law in conflict herewith are modified accordingly. Sale of unsold lots. Conflicting laws ers. Removal of intrud Union agency. penses. Civilized Tribes. etc. Removal of intruders, Five Civilized Tribes: For the purpose of removing intruders and placing allottees in unrestricted possession of their allotments, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, fifteen thousand dollars. For clerical work and labor connected with the sale and leasing of Creek and the leasing of Cherokee lands, fifteen thousand dollars. For special clerical force in the office of the United States Indian ex- Agent, Union Agency, and miscellaneous expenses in connection with entering of remittances received on account of payments of town lots and issuance of patents, and conveying same, six thousand dollars. Commission, Five For the completion of the work heretofore required by law to be Completing work of, done by the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes, and the provisions for investigations herein contained two hundred thousand dollars. Said appropriation to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, That the work of completing the upon Secretary of the unfinished business, if any, of the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes shall devolve upon the Secretary of the Interior, and that all the powers heretofore granted to the said Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes are hereby conferred upon the said Secretary on and after the first of July, nineteen hundred and five. Proviso. Powers conferred Interior. Leases of allotted lands, Indian Territory. Investigation of. Suits to cancel fraudulent leases. leases. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior to investigate,, or cause to be investigated, any lease of allotted land in the Indian Territory which he has reason to believe has been obtained by fraud, or in violation of the terms of existing agreements with any of the Five Civilized Tribes, and he shall in any such case where in his opinion the evidence warrants it refer the matter to the AttorneyGeneral for suit in the proper United States court to cancel the same, and in all cases where it may appear to the court that any lease was Cancellation of obtained by fraud, or in violation of such agreements, judgment shall be rendered canceling the same upon such terms and conditions as equity may prescribe, and it shall be allowable in cases where all parties in interest consent thereto to modify any lease and to continue the Leases approved by same as modified: Provided, No lease made by any administrator, United States court executor, guardian or curator which has been investigated by and has received the approval of the United States court having jurisdiction of the proceeding shall be subject to suit or proceeding by the Secretary of the Interior or Attorney-General: Provided further, No lease made by any administrator, executor, guardian, or curator shall be valid or enforcible without the approval of the court having jurisdiction of the proceeding. Proviso. Leases not valid. Allotments. Irrigation. Proviso. Skilled engineers. 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, forty thousand dollars. For construction of ditches and reservoirs, purchase and use of irrigating tools and appliances, and purchase of water rights on Indian reservations, in the discretion of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior and subject to his control, one hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars, of which twentyfive thousand dollars shall be made immediately available: Provided, That the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, may employ such superintendents of irrigation, who shall be skilled irrigation engineers, not to exceed four, as in his judgment may be necessary to secure the construction of ditches and other irrigation works in a substantial and workmanlike manner. Surveying and allot ting. Lands allotted individual Indians. to Oil leases in Osage Indian Territory For survey and subdivision of Indian reservations and of lands to 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-five thousand dollars. And the President is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to allot the lands of any tribes of Indians to the individual members thereof whenever, in his judgment, it is advantageous for such Indians that such allotments be made: Provided, That any allotments which may be made of Proviso. the Osage Reservation in Oklahoma Territory shall be made subject to Reservation. the terms and conditions of the lease herein authorized, the same being muminating Oil Coma renewal as to a part of the premises covered by a certain lease dated pany Renewal of lease to. March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, given by the Osage Nation of Indians to Edwin B. Foster and approved by the Secretary of the Interior and now owned by the Indian Territory Illuminating Oil Company under assignments approved by the Secretary of the Interior, which said lease and all subleases thereof duly executed on or before December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and four, or executed after that date based upon contracts made prior thereto, and which have been or shall be approved by the Secretary of the Interior, to the extent of six hundred and eighty thousand acres in the aggregate, are hereby extended for the period of ten years from the sixteenth day of March, nineteen hundred and six, with all the conditions of said origi nal lease except that from and after the sixteenth day of March, nineteen hundred and six, the royalty to be paid on gas shall be one hundred dollars per annum on each gas well, instead of fifty dollars as now provided in said lease, and except that the President of the United States termined by the Presshall determine the amount of royalty to be paid for oil. Said deter- Filing of determi mination shall be evidenced by filing with the Secretary of the Interior nation, copy to subon or before December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and five, such determination; and the Secretary of the Interior shall immediately mail to the Indian Territory Illuminating Oil Company and each sublessee a copy thereof. That there shall be created an Osage Townsite Commission consisting of three members, one of whom shall be the United States Indian Agent at the Osage Agency, one to be appointed by the Chief Executive of the Osage tribe and one by the Secretary of the Interior, who shall receive such compensation as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe to be paid out of the proceeds of the sale of the lots sold under this Act. That the Secretary of the Interior shall reserve from selection and allotment the south half of section four and the north half of section nine, township twenty-five north, range nine east, of the Indian meridian, including the town of Pawhuska, which, except the land occupied by the Indian school buildings, the agency reservoir, the Agent's office, the Council building and the residences of agency employees, and a twenty acre tract of land including the Pawhuska cemetery, shall be surveyed, appraised and laid off into lots, blocks, streets and alleys by said Townsite Commission, under rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, business lots to be twenty-five feet wide and residence lots fifty feet wide, and sold at public auction, after due advertisement, to the highest bidder by said Townsite Commission, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, and the proceeds of such sale shall be placed to the credit of the Osage tribe of Indians: Provided, That said lots shall be appraised at their real value exclusive of improvements thereon or adjacent thereto, and the improvements appraised separately: And provided further, That any person, church, school or other association in possession of any of said lots and having permanent improvements thereon, shall have a preference right to purchase the same at the appraised value, but in case the owner of the improvements refuses or Lease, etc., extended. Royalty on gas to be increased. ident. lessee. Osage Townsite Town site at Pawhuska. Survey, appraisal, and subdivision of. Lots sold at public auction. Proceeds credited to Osage Indians. Provisos. To be appraised at real value. Preference right of owner. Refusal to purchase. |