Special Clerks, etc. Leases, etc. "For special clerical force in the office of the United States Indian agent, Union Agency, and miscellaneous expenses in connection with entering of remittances received on account of payments of town lots and issuance of patents; "For clerical work and labor connected with the leasing of Creek and Cherokee lands for mineral and other purposes, and the leasing of lands of full-blood Indians 34 Stat., 145. under the act of April twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and six, and acts amendatory thereto; Sale of re Removing in truders. "For appraising, clerical work, and labor connected stricted lands. with the sale of restricted lands, 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; Removing alienation re 33 Stat., 204. "To enable the Secretary of the Interior to carry out strictions. the provisions of the act approved April twenty-first, 35 Stat., 312. nineteen hundred and four, and section one of the act of May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight, for the removal of restrictions upon the alienation of lands of allottees of the Five Civilized Tribes; Completing work of commission. Incidentals. Sales of tribal property, etc. Proviso. Balances available. District agents, etc. Chickasaw freedmen. ments. "For the completion of the work heretofore required by law to be done by the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes; "For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Oklahoma, and for pay of employees;" And for making sales of tribal property authorized by law and for other work incidental to closing up the affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes. In all, two hundred thousand dollars. Provided, That any unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made for such purposes are also hereby made available for this purpose. For salaries and expenses of district agents for the Five Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma and other employees connected with the work of such agents, ninety thousand dollars, ten thousand dollars of which shall be immediately available. That Chickasaw freedmen having remnant allotments Payment for due them of not exceeding fifty dollars in value shall remnant allot be paid twice the appraised value thereof in lieu of the amount necessary to complete their allotments, and the sum of twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated for such purpose: Provided, That there shall be deducted from the Deduction amount awarded the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations Choctaws and under section forty of the Act of July first, nineteen 32 Stat., 650. hundred and two (Thirty-second Statutes, six hundred and forty-one), in payment for allotments to Chickasaw freedmen, an amount equal to the sums paid such Chickasaw freedmen. Proviso. from award to Chickasaws. Legal expenses in suits on re For payment of costs, witness fees, charges in appeals, stricted lands. and other expenses incident to suits brought in the courts Use of repay of Oklahoma in the name and for the benefit of Indian allottees of the Five Civilized Tribes having restricted lands, to be available until expended, ten thousand dollars: Provided, That when any part of this appropriation Proviso. has been so used, and has been refunded and covered into ments. the Treasury, it shall be credited to said appropriation, and shall be available to be used again for the same purposes and in the same manner as originally provided herein, for a period not exceeding five years. For support of the tribal schools of Cherokee, Creek, 36 Stat., 282. Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole Nations, as provided Tribal schools. for by section ten of the act of April twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and six, seventy-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Choctaws. treaties. Annuities. Light horse 7 Stat., 213, 11 Stat., 614. 7 Stat., 212, For fulfilling treaties with Choctaws, Oklahoma: For permanent annuity (article two, treaty of November sixteenth, eighteen hundred and five, and article thirteen, treaty of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fiftyfive), three thousand dollars; for permanent annuity for support of light horsemen (article thirteen, treaty of October eighteenth, eighteen hundred and twenty, and article thirteen, treaty of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five), six hundred dollars; for permanent annuity for support of blacksmith (article six, Blacksmith. treaty of October eighteenth, eighteen hundred and 236. twenty, and article nine, treaty of January twentieth, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, and article thirteen, treaty of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fiftyfive), six hundred dollars; for permanent annuity for education (article two, treaty of January twentieth, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, and article thirteen, treaty of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fiftyfive), six thousand dollars; for permanent annuity foron and iron and steel (article nine, treaty of January twentieth, 7 Stat., 236. eighteen hundred and twenty-five, and article thirteen, treaty of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fiftyfive), three hundred and twenty dollars; in all, ten thousand five hundred and twenty dollars. Education. 7 Stat., 235. i1 Stat., 614. steel. 11 Stat., 614. Murphy. The Secretary of the Interior is directed to pay Arthur Arthur P. P. Murphy, out of the funds of the Muskogee (Creek) Payment from tribe of Indians, the sum of four thousand three hun- Creek funds to. dred and twenty dollars and eight cents, in full payment for amount due him as attorney for said tribe of Indians under contract dated January tenth, nineteen hundred and three, and approved by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and the Secretary of the Interior January thirteenth, nineteen hundred and three. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to pay, out of the funds of the Creek Nation on deposit in the Treasury of the United States, one-half of the cost of paving the streets surrounding the block occupied by the Creek national capitol in the town of Okmulgee, Oklahoma, the same to be immediately available on the submission of proof to him showing the entire cost of Okmulgee. Payment from Creek funds to. Proviso. Saint Agnes Academy. the improvement: Provided, That said Secretary shall be satisfied that the charges made for the paving are reasonable. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to Payment from from the funds of the Chickasaw Nation the sum of Chickasaw pay funds to. one thousand three hundred and sixty-eight dollars to the Saint Agnes Academy, of Ardmore, Oklahoma, balance due for board and tuition of Chickasaw children, for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three. Douglas H. Johnston. Chickasaw The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to Payment from pay, out of the funds of the Chickasaw Indians now on funds to. deposit in the Treasury of the United States, to Douglas H. Johnston, governor of said nation, the sum of three thousand dollars per annum from September first, nineteen hundred and six, to March first, nineteen hundred and ten. M. L. Mott. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to Creek fund to. pay from the funds of the Muskogee Nation one thousand five hundred dollars to M. L. Mott, balance due for services rendered as attorney of the Muskogee Nation under contract of March second, nineteen hundred and six. June 25, 1919. CHAP. 384.-An act making appropriations for sundry civil ex[H. R. 25552.] penses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, and for other purposes. [Public, No. 266.] 36 Stat., 703. dians. Be it enacted by the Senate and Пlouse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, namely: Seminole In- For the payment of all and any necessary expense inProtecting t- curred incident to any suits brought at the request of the tle of allottes. Secretary of the Interior, including the salary of an at36 Stat., 744. torney specially employed, to set aside illegal conveyances of title or protecting the possession of Seminole allottees to their allotted lands in the Seminole Nation, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, six thousand dollars. Conveyances of allotted lands. Expenses of Suits to set aside conveyances of allotted lands, Five Civilized Tribes: For the payment of necessary expenses suits to set incident to any suits brought at the request of the Sec$36 Stat., 748, retary of the Interior in the eastern judicial district of Proviso. Oklahoma, to be expended under the direction of the western Judi- Attorney General, fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That cial district. the sum of ten thousand dollars of the above amount, or aside. Oklahoma so much thereof as may be necessary, may be expended in the prosecution of cases in the western judicial district of Oklahoma, and not to exceed ten thousand dollars of said sum shall be available for the expenses of the United States on appeals to the Supreme Court of the United States. ** Approved, June 25, 1910. Appeals to Supreme Court. CHAP. 385.-An act making appropriations to supply deficiencies June 25, 1910. in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, [H. R. 26730.] and for other purposes. [Public, No. 267.] 36 Stat., 774. Choctaw and Chickasaw Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 36 Stat., 807. tives of the United States of America in Congress as- chickasaw Nasembled, That the following sums be, and are hereby, tions and appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury, not freedmen. otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, and for other purposes, namely: * * * * To pay the judgment of the Court of Claims in cause numbered twenty-three thousand one hundred and fifteen. The United States, complainant, against The Choctaw Nation and the Chickasaw Nation and the Chickasaw freedmen, defendants, certified to Congress in House Document Numbered Nine hundred and twenty of this session, after deductions not exceeding thirteen thousand dollars are made therein, as provided for by the terms thereof, six hundred and six thousand nine hundred and thirty-six dollars and eight cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary: Provided, That no contract or contracts heretofore or hereafter made affecting the tribal money and property of the said Indian tribes or nations Consent of shall be approved until further action by Congress. Proviso. Contracts with Indians. * Congress required before approval. CHAP. 403.-An act granting to Savanna Coal Company right to June 25, 1910. acquire additional acreage to its existing coal lease in the [H. R. 17560.] Choctaw Nation, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, and for other [Public, No. purposes. 285.] 36 Stat., 832. Choctaw coal lands, Oklaho Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior, under rules and regulations to be prescribed by him, shall grant to the ma Savanna Coal Company the right to add to its existing co. may lease coal lease, within the area of the segregated coal and additional asphalt lands, an additional acreage of two hundred acres of land adjoining said lease and described as fol Savanna Coal lands. Denison Coal Co. May quish part of lease. lows: North half of the northwest quarter of section sixteen; north half of the southeast quarter of the northwest quarter of section sixteen; north half of the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section sixteen; west half of the southeast quarter of section seventeen; all in township four north, range fourteen east of the Indian base and meridian. SEC. 2. That the Secretary of the Interior, be, and he relin is hereby, authorized to permit the Denison Coal ComChoctaw and pany to relinquish certain lands embraced in its existing Chickasaw coal Choctaw and Chickasaw coal lease which have been demonstrated to be not valuable for coal, as follows: The south half of the north half of section thirty-six, township one north, range nine east; and north half of section one, township one south, range nine east; and northwest quarter of section six, township one south, range ten east, seven hundred and twenty acres, more or less, and to include within the lease in lieu thereof the followlands in lieu. ing-described land, which is within the segregated coal area and unleased. The south half of the north half, and south half of section thirty-six, township one north, range nine east, and northeast quarter and north half of the southeast quarter and east half of the west half, and lots numbered two, three, and four of section thirty-one, township one north, range ten east, nine hundred and sixty acres, more or less. Additional June 25, 1910. [H. R. 24992.] [Public, No. 313.] 36 Stat., 855. Five Civilized Tribes. deeded to de Approved, June 25, 1910. CHAP. 431.-An act to provide for determining the heirs of deceased Indians, for the disposition and sale of allotments of deceased Indians, for the leasing of allotments, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SEC. 32. Where deeds to tribal lands in the Five CiviTitle to lands lized Tribes have been or may be issued, in pursuance of ceased Indians. any tribal agreement or act of Congress, to a person who 36 Stat., 863. had died, or who hereafter dies before the approval of such deed, the title to the land designated therein shall inure to and become vested in the heirs, devisees, or assigns of such deceased grantee as if the deed had issued to the deceased grantee during life. Provisions affecting not Osages, etc. SEC. 33. That the provisions of this act shall not apply to the Osage Indians, nor to the Five Civilized Tribes, in Oklahoma, except as provided in section thirty-two. Approved, June 25, 1910. |