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CHAP. 388.-An act making appropriations for the current and Aug. 24, 1912. contingent expenses of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, for ful- H. R. 20728.] filling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, and for [Public, No. other purposes, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nine- 335.] teen hundred and thirteen.

37 Stat., 518.

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and they are hereby, Indian Deappropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not propriations. otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of paying the current and contingent expenses of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, and in full compensation for all offices the salaries for which are provided for herein for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, namely:

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37 Stat., 531. Sales lands, etc.

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SEC. 18. For expenses of administration of the affairs Administra of the Five Civilized Tribes, Oklahoma, and the com- tion expenses. pensation of employees, two hundred thousand dollars. For payment of salaries of employees and other expenses of advertisement and sale in connection with the disposition of the unallotted lands and other tribal prop- Payment of erty belonging to any of the Five Civilized Tribes, to be paid from the proceeds of such sales when authorized by the Secretary of the Interior, as provided by the act 36 Stat., 1070. approved March third, nineteen hundred and eleven, not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars, reimbursable from proceeds of sale: Provided, That during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and Restriction thirteen, no moneys shall be expended from the tribal tures funds belonging to the Five Civilized Tribes without specific authorspecific appropriation by Congress, except as follows: Equalization of allotments, per capita and other payments authorized by law to individual members of the respective tribes, tribal and other Indian schools for the current fiscal year under existing law, salaries and contingent expenses of governors, chiefs, assistant chiefs, secretaries, interpreters and mining trustees of the tribes. for the current fiscal year, and attorneys for said tribes employed under contract approved by the President, under existing law, for the current fiscal year: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby Chickasaw authorized to continue the tribal schools of the Choctaw continued. and Chickasaw Nations for the current fiscal year.

ity.

Choctaw and

tribal schools

Collecting rents, etc.

For expenses incident to and in connection with collection of rents of unallotted lands and tribal buildings, such amount as may be necessary: Provided, That such expenditures shall not exceed in the aggregate ten per Limit. centum of the amount collected.

Proviso.

Chickasaw coal

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etc.

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tlers.

Sales, etc.

Choctaw and To enable the Secretary of the Interior to make the and asphalt appraisement and sale hereinafter provided, five thouAppraisement, sand dollars: Provided, That the houses and other valuable improvements, not including fencing and tillage, Improve-placed upon the segregated coal and asphalt lands in the ments by set- Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, in Oklahoma, by private individuals, while in actual possession of said land and prior to February nineteenth, nineteen hundred and twelve, and not purchased by the Indian Nations, shall be appraised independently of the surface of the land on which they are located and shall be sold with the land at public auction at not less than the combined appraised value of the improvements and the surface of the land upon which they are located. Said improvements shall be sold for cash and the appraisement and sale of the same shall be made under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, and ninety-five per centum of the amount realized from the sale of the improvements shall be paid over under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior to the owner of the improvements and the appropriation hereinbefore made for this purpose shall be reimbursed out of the five per centum retained from the sale of the Sale of re- said improvements: Provided, That any improvements maining after remaining unsold at the expiration of two years from the time when first offered for sale shall be sold under such regulations and terms of sale, independent of their appraised value, as the Secretary of the Interior may Removal by prescribe: Provided further, That persons owning improvements so appraised may remove the same at any time prior to the sale thereof, in which event the appraised value of the improvements and land shall be reduced by deducting the appraised value of the imby mining leg-provements so removed: Provided further, That this sees excepted. section shall not apply to improvements placed on said lands by coal and asphalt lessees for mining purposes, but improvements located on lands leased for mining purposes belonging to, or heretofore paid for by, the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations shall be appraised and the appraised value thereof shall be added to the apSales of s11- praised value of the land at the time of the sale: Proing cemeteries vided further, That where any cemetery now exists on and churches. the said segregated coal and asphalt lands, the surface

two years.

owners.

Improvements

face to exist

of the land within said cemetery, together with the land 37 Stat., 532. adjoining the same, where necessary, not exceeding twenty acres in the aggregate to any one cemetery, and where a church was in existence on said lands on February nineteenth, nineteen hundred and twelve, land not exceeding one acre for each church may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, be sold to the proper party, association, or corporation, under such terms, conditions, and regulations as he may prescribe, provided application to purchase the same for such purpose is made within sixty days from the date of the approval of this act.

Acceptance of

That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, Town lots. authorized, in his discretion, to accept payment to the payments full amount of the purchase money due, including inter- forfeited. est to date of payment, on any town lots originally sold as provided in agreements with any of the Five Civilized Tribes and declared forfeited by reason of nonpayment of amount due and not resold.

Payment

tribal funds.

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That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and Chickasaw3. directed to pay, out of any tribal funds of the Chickasaw complete per Nation, now standing to the credit of said nation in the capita, from Treasury of the United States, four thousand nine hundred and eighty-six dollars and seventy cents, to complete the forty dollars per capita payment to the citizens of the Chickasaw Nation, as provided for by section. seventy-two of the act of Congress approved July first, 32 Stat., 658. nineteen hundred and two, to be immediately available.

Choctaws.
Fulfilling

treaties.
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11 Stat., 614.
men.
7Stat., 213.

Annuities.

Light horse

11 Stat., 614.

7 Stat., 235,

11 Stat., 614.

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 fifty-five), 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 fifty-five), six thousand dollars; for permanent annuity Iron and for iron and steel (article nine, treaty of January twentieth, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, and article thirteen, treaty of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five), three hundred and twenty dollars; in all, ten thousand five hundred and twenty dollars.

The Secretary of the Interior is herebey authorized to pay, out of the funds of the Chickasaw Indians now on 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 March first, nineteen hundred and ten, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen.

Education.

7 Stat., 235.

11 Stat., 614.

steel.

7 Stat., 236. 11 Stat., 614.

Douglas H.

Johnston.
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For the construction of a sanitary sewer system in Platt NaPlatt National Park, Oklahoma, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars: Provided, That the said Provisos. sum shall be available whenever a like amount is appro- by Sulphur. priated and made available by the town of Sulphur, Oklahoma, for the same purpose: Provided further, That Construction.

Contribution

Payment of

whenever said appropriation is made by the town of Sulphur, Oklahoma, the entire amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of the total appropriation made by this act and the town of Sulphur, Oklahoma, shall be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior.

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Albert J. Lee. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized judgments and directed to satisfy of record the judgments rendered against Ind- in the district court of Oklahoma, for the eighth judicial

ans to.

Proviso.

Receipt required.

Tribal schools.

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Condition.

Choctaw and Chickasaw coal

lands.

district, on December fifteenth, nineteen hundred and eleven, in favor of Albert J. Lee and against Jack Postoak, in the sum of one thousand four hundred and fortyeight dollars, by the payment thereof out of any funds that may now or hereafter be to the credit of the heirs of Bessie Postoak; against King Isaacs and others, in the sum of one thousand four hundred and forty-nine dollars, by the payment thereof out of any funds that may now or hereafter be to the credit of the heirs of Roger Isaacs; against Thompson Peters, in the sun of one thousand four hundred and seventy-six dollars, by the payment thereof out of any funds that may now or hereafter be to the credit of the heirs of Sookie Peters; and against Zeno Huff, in the sum of seven hundred and thirty-two dollars, by the payment thereof out of any funds that may now or hereafter be to the credit of said Zeno Huff: Provided, That before such payments shall be made in full, said Albert J. Lee shall sign a receipt in full for all claims for services as herein specified and file the same with the Secretary of the Interior.

The sum of three hundred thousand dollars to be expended, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, under rules and regulations to be prescribed by him, in aid of the common schools in the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole Nations in Oklahoma during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen: Provided, That this appropriation shall not be subject to the limitation in section one of this act, limiting the expenditure of money to educate children of less than one-fourth Indian blood.

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That the Act of Congress approved February nineand asphalt teenth, nineteen hundred and twelve (Public Number Classification ninety-one), being "An act to provide for the sale of the to be completed surface of the coal and asphalt lands of the Choctaw and 37 Stat., 67. Chickasaw Nations, and for other purposes," be, and the

Dec. 1, 1912.

same is hereby, amended to provide that the classification and appraisement of such lands shall be completed not later than December first, nineteen hundred and twelve.

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CHAP. 152.-An act authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to lease to the operators of coal mines in Oklahoma additional acreage from the unleased segregated coal land of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations.

Mar. 4, 1913. [S. 3843.]

[Public, No. 437.]

37 Stat., 1007.

Oklahoma.
Choctaw and

lands.

lease addition

Proviso.

Contiguous

Confined to

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, may grant to the Chickasaw coal operator of any coal mine or mines in the State of Okla- Operators may homa the right to lease additional acreage from the un- al acreage. leased segregated coal land of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, in the State of Oklahoma, not to exceed in any case six hundred and forty acres of land: Provided, That the land sought to be leased adjoins and is con- lands. tiguous to the coal-mining property of the applicant in operation: And provided further, That the right to lease actual operasuch additional lands shall extend only to coal-mining tors. corporations, individual or individuals actually operating coal mines in said State in good faith, and in only such cases as may be found necessary for the successful administration of such mine: And provided further, That Duration and the lease or leases on such additional coal lands shall not be made for a longer period of time than existing leases of the respective applicants and shall not be made at a less rate of royalty than the rate of royalty paid on existing leases now in operation in said State of Oklahoma. Approved. March 4, 1913.

royalty.

CHAP. 4.-An act making appropriations for the current and con- June 30, 1913. [II. R. 1917.] tingent expenses of the Bureau of Indians Affairs, for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, and for other [Public, No. 4.] purposes, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen 38 Stat., 77. hundred and fourteen.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa

tives of the United States of America in Congress assem

bled, That the following sums be, and they are hereby, Indian Deappropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not propriations. otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of paying the current and contingent expenses of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, and in full compensation for all offices the salaries for which are provided for herein for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, namely:

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To enable the Secretary of the Interior to employ a Five Civilized chartered and certified accountant for the purpose of pre- Preparation paring, under the direction of said Secretary, a complete of complete s separate fiscal and financial history and statement of the etc., directed. affairs of each of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians, $10,000, or such part thereof as may be necessary.

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