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the right to connect or cross with its tracks the tracks and railroad of any other company or person owning or operating a railway in the said Choctaw Nation. In case of failure to make amicable settlement with any such corporation or person for such crossing, such compensation shall be determined in the same manner as herein before provided for determining the compensation for land and other property taken and damaged.

SEC. 6. That said railway company shall not charge the inhabitants of said nation a greater rate of freight than the rate authorized by the laws of the State of Arkansas for services or transportation of the same kind: Provided, That passenger rates on said railway shall not exceed three cents per mile. Congress hereby reserves the right to regulate the charges for freight and passengers on said railway and messages on said telegraph and telephone lines until a State government or governments shall exist in said nation within the limits of which said railway or a part thereof shall be located, and then such State government or governments shall be authorized to fix and regulate the cost of transportation of persons and freights within their respective limits of said railway; but Congress expressly reserves the right to fix and regulate at all times the cost of such transportation by said railway or said company whenever such transportation shall extend from one State into another or shall extend into more than one State: Prorided, however, That the rate of such transportation of passengers, local or interstate, shall not exceed the rate above expressed: And provided further, That said railway company shall carry the mail at such prices as Congress may by law provide; and until such rate is fixed by law the Postmaster-General may fix the rate of compensation.

Freight charges.

Provisos.

Passenger rates, etc.
Regulation, etc.

Limit.

Mails.

Additional to Choctaw Nation.

Provisos.

Appeal to Secretary

Award to be in lieu of compensation.

SEC. 7. That said railway company shall pay to the Secretary of the Interior, for the benefit of the Choctaw Nation, the sum of fifty dollars, in addition to the compensation provided for in this Act, for property taken and damages done to individual occupants by the construction of the railway, for each mile of railway that it may construct in said nation, said payments to be made in installments of five hundred dollars as each ten miles of road is graded: Provided, That if the general council of the Choctaw Nation, within four months after the filing of of the Interior. maps of definite location, as hereinafter set forth, dissents from the allowance hereinbefore provided for, and shall certify the same to the Secretary of the Interior, then all compensation to be paid to said nation under the provisions of this Act shall be determined as provided in section three for the determination of the compensation to be paid. to the individual occupant of lands, with the right of appeal to the courts upon the same terms, conditions, and requirements as therein provided: Provided further, That the amount awarded or adjudged to be paid by said railway company for said dissenting nation shall be in lieu of the compensation said nation would be entitled to receive under the foregoing provision. Said company shall also pay, so long as said Territory is owned and occupied by the Choctaw Indians, to the Secretary of the Interior the sum of fifteen dollars per annum for each mile of railway it shall construct in the said nation. The money paid to the Secretary of the Interior under the provisions of this Act shall be disbursed by him in accordance with the laws and treaties now in force within said nation: Provided, That Congress shall have the right, so long as said lands are occupied and possessed by said nation, to impose such additional taxes upon said railway as it may deem just and proper for the benefit of said nation, and any Territory or State hereafter formed through which said railway shall have been established may exercise the like power as to such part of said railway as may lie within its limits. Said railway company shall have the right to survey and locate its railway immediately after the passage of this Act.

SEC. 8. That said company shall cause maps showing the route of its located lines through said nation to be filed in the office of the Secre tary of the Interior, and also to be filed in the office of the principal chief of the said nation; and after the filing of said maps no claim for

Annual rental.

Taxes.

Surveys.

Maps.

Proviso.
Construction.

Employees may reside on right of way.

Construction.

Condition of accept

ance.

Proviso.

Violation to forfeit.

Record of mortgages.

Amendment, etc.

Not assignable prior to construction.

a subsequent settlement and improvement upon the right of way shown by said maps shall be valid as against said company: Provided, That a map showing the entire line of the road in the Indian Territory shall be filed with and approved by the Secretary of the Interior before the construction of the same shall be commenced.

SEC. 9. That the officers, servants, and employees of said company necessary to the construction and management of said railroad shall be allowed to reside, while so engaged, upon such right of way, but subject to the provisions of the Indian intercourse laws and such rules and regulations as may be established by the Secretary of the Interior in accordance with said intercourse laws.

SEC. 10. That said railway company shall build at least seventy-five miles of its railway in said nation within three years after the passage of this Act, or the rights herein granted shall be forfeited as to that portion not built; that said railway company shall construct and maintain continually all roads and highway crossings and necessary bridges over said railway wherever said roads and highways do now or may hereafter cross said railway's right of way or may be by the proper authorities laid out across the same.

SEC. 11. That the said Arkansas and Choctaw Railway Company shall accept this right of way upon the express condition, binding upon itself, its successors and assigns, that they will neither aid, advise, nor assist any effort looking toward the changing or extinguishing the present tenure of the Choctaw Indians in their land, and will not attempt to secure from the Choctaw Nation any further grant of land or its occupancy than is herein before provided: Provided, That any violation of the condition mentioned in this section shall operate as a forfeiture of all the rights and privileges of said railway company under this Act.

SEC. 12. That all mortgages, deeds of trust, and other conveyances executed by said railway company, conveying any portion of its railroad, telegraph and telephone lines, with its franchises, that may be constructed in said Choctaw Nation shall be recorded in the Department of the Interior, and the record thereof shall be evidence and notice of their execution and shall convey all rights and property of said company as therein expressed.

SEC. 13. That Congress may at any time amend, add to, alter, or repeal this Act.

SEC. 14. That the right of way herein and hereby granted shall not be assigned or transferred in any form whatever prior to the construction and completion of the road except as to mortgages or other liens that may be given or secured thereon to aid in the construction thereof. Received by the President, February 12, 1896.

[NOTE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE.-The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.]

February 26, 1896.

tion, S. Dak.

CHAP. 31.-An Act Granting leave of absence for one year to homestead settlers upon the Yankton Indian Reservation, in the State of South Dakota, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Yankton Reserva States of America in Congress assembled, That all settlers who made setHomestead settlers tlement under the homestead laws upon lands in the Yankton Indian granted leave of ab- Reservation, in the State of South Dakota, during the year eighteen

sence.

Proviso.

No credit for time lost.

hundred and ninety-five are hereby granted leave of absence from such homestead for one year from and after the date of this Act, and that by such absence such homestead settler shall not lose nor forfeit any right whatever: Provided, That the settler shall not receive credit upon the period of actual residence required by law for the time he is absent hereunder.

SEC. 2. That any such homestead settler may avail himself of the benefits of this Act by filing a notice with the local land office describing his land and date of settlement thereon, which notice shall be signed by the settler and attested by the register of the land office.

Notice.

Time for final proof,

etc., in South Dakota

SEC. 3. That the time for making final proof and payment for all lands located under the homestead laws of the United States upon any lands extended one year. of any former Indian reservation in the State of South Dakota, be, and the same is hereby, extended for the period of one year from the time proof and payment would become due under existing laws. Approved, February 26, 1896.

CHAP. 32.-An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act for the relief and civilization of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota."

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the fifth section of the Act of Congress passed January fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, providing for the relief and civilization of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota, be, and the same is, amended so far as the same relates to the White Earth and Red Lake reservations, and as to the other reservations mentioned in said Act whenever all the allotments of land in severalty shall have been made to the Indians of each reservation, respectively, therein provided, so as to read as follows:

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Sales of lands surveyed.

Advertisement.

"SEC. 5. That whenever, and as often as the survey, examination, and appraisal of one hundred thousand acres of said pine lands, or of a less quantity, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, have been made, the portion so surveyed, examined, and appraised shall be proclaimed as in market and offered for sale in the following manner: The Commissioner of the General Land Office, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, shall cause notices to be inserted once in each week, for four consecutive weeks, in one newspaper of general circulation published in Minneapolis, Saint Paul, Duluth, Stillwater, Taylors Falls, Fosston, Saint Cloud, Brainerd, Crookston, and Thief River Falls, Minnesota; Chicago, Illinois; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Detroit, Michigan; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Boston, Massachusetts, of the sale of said land at public auction to the highest bid- Auction sale. der for cash at the local land office of the district within which said lands are located, said notice to state the time and place and terms of such sale. At such sale said lands shall be offered in forty-acre parcels, except in case of fractions containing either more or less than forty acres, which shall be sold entire. In no event shall any parcel be sold for a less sum than its appraised value. The residue of such lands remaining unsold after such public offering shall thereafter be subject to private sale for cash at the appraised value of the same, upon appli- Private sale. cation at the local land office: Provided, That sections numbered sixteen and thirty-six in each township so surveyed shall not be sold until the claim of the State of Minnesota to the ownership of said sections as part of the school lands of said State, shall have been determined." Approved, February 26, 1896.

Proviso.
School sections.

CHAP. 33.—An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety- February 26, 1896. six, and for prior years, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United

States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, Urgent deficiencies and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury appropriations.

STAT L-VOL 29- -2

Public Printer.

H. L. Strawn.
Services.

Public printing and binding.

Department of Jus

tice.

Vol. 28, p. 960.

not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and for other objects hereinafter stated, namely:

OFFICE OF PUBLIC PRINTER.

To pay H. L. Strawn for services rendered by him as inspector of paper and material in the Government Printing Office from March seventeenth to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, five hundred and eighty-three dollars and thirty-three cents.

PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING.

For printing and binding, to be executed under the direction of the Public Printer, as follows:

For the Department of Justice, three thousand dollars. For the Geological Survey. United States Geological Survey, namely: For printing advance copies of papers on the economic resources of the United States, as provided in the sundry civil Act of March second, eighteen hundred and ninetyfive, four thousand dollars. For printing five hundred thousand copies Agricultural Re of Part two, of the Annual Report of the Secretary of Agriculture for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, as required by section seventythree of the Act entitled, "An Act providing for the public printing and binding and the distribution of public documents," approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, three hundred thousand dollars.

port.

Vol. 28, p. 612.

State Department.

International Bound

ican.
26, p. 1493.

port, etc.

STATE DEPARTMENT.

FOREIGN INTERCOURSE.

To enable the International Boundary Commission, appointed under ary Commission, Mex- the conventions of July twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, Vol. 22, p. 986; Vol. and February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, to complete the survey and re-marking of the boundary between the United States Preparation of re- and Mexico by the preparation of the manuscripts, including tables and results, for the joint report, together with a map of the survey covering a belt of territory two and one-half miles wide on the American side of the boundary, to be incorporated with a similar map of the Mexican territory prepared by the Mexican section of the Commission; also the preparation of the special reports of the American section, including astronomical and geodetic tables and results, and a geographical map, a work requiring the employment of expert draftsmen, a clerk, the rent of an office, and the expenses of the Commissioners, twenty thousand dollars.

Tokyo, Japan.

buildings.

For the purchase, subject to a ground rent of not exceeding two Purchase of legation hundred dollars per annum, from the Imperial Japanese Government of the present building and site occupied by the United States legation at Tokyo, sixteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

Transportation negro colonists.

Matt W. Ransom.
Salary as minister.

of For payment of cost of transportation furnished by certain railway companies in connection with the failure of the scheme for the colonization of negroes in Mexico, necessitating their return to their homes in Alabama, as reported to Congress at its present session by the President in House Document Numbered One hundred and sixty-nine, five thousand and eighty-seven dollars and nine cents.

The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to pay to Matt W. Ransom, out of the appropriation for "Salaries of ambassadors and ministers," eighteen hundred and ninety-six, the sum of two thousand eight hundred and six dollars and forty-eight cents, being the amount of the salary of the minister to Mexico from July first, to August twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, during which period he performed the duties of minister to Mexico and has received no compensation therefor.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to employ temporarily in the Treasury Department, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, not exceeding twenty-five expert money counters, at a rate not exceeding sixty dollars per month each, seven thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

For purchase of horses and wagons, for office and mail service, to be used only for official purposes, care and subsistence of horses, including shoeing, and of wagons, harness, and repairs of the same, one thousand dollars.

Treasury Department.

Expert money counters.

Horses and wagons.

Chicago, Ill. porary building."

Furniture, etc., tem

CUSTOM-HOUSE BUILDING, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS: The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to cause such furniture and records used by the Government officials in the custom-house building in Chicago, Illinois, as may be necessary, to be removed to rented quarters; and for necessary expenses of such removal, for altering and fitting old counters, screens, and cases, so that they may be utilized in the rooms to which they are to be transferred, and for any additional furniture that may be necessary, he is authorized to expend not exceeding three thousand five hundred dollars of the appropriation for furniture and repairs of furniture for public buildings made in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six. CONTINGENT EXPENSES, INDEPENDENT TREASURY: For contingent Contingent exexpenses under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and penses. fifty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States, for the collec- 719. tion, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, and for transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, one hundred thousand dollars.

Vol. 28, p. 930.

R. S., sec. 3653, p.

Proviso,

TRANSPORTATION OF SILVER COIN: For transportation of silver coin, Transporting silver including fractional silver coin, by registered mail or otherwise, forty- coin. five thousand dollars; and in expending this sum the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transport from the Treasury or subtreasuries, free of charge, silver coin when requested to do so: Prorided, That an equal amount in coin or currency shall have been deposited in the Treasury or such subtreasuries by the applicant or applicants. And the Secretary of the Treasury shall report to Congress the cost arising under this appropriation.

To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for transportation of silver coin, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, eleven thousand one hundred and forty-three dollars and five cents.

Deposit.

Recoinage of silver

coins.

World's Columbian Exposition.

RECOINAGE OF SILVER COINS: For recoinage of the uncurrent fractional silver coins in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. MEDALS AND DIPLOMAS, WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION: To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for medals and diplomas, Medals and diplo World's Columbian Exposition, provided by the Act of August fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, as amended by the sundry civil act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, twenty thousand six hundred dollars.

mas.
Vol. 27, pp. 389, 587.
Post, p. 466.

Bureau of awards.
Rent.

For payment of the rental of a building for the division of awards, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, occupied by said Bureau in the execution of the work of preparing the awards of the World's Columbian Exposition as authorized by the sundry civil act of March second, Vol. 28, p. 928. eighteen hundred and ninety-five, from April twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, at a rental of sixty dollars per month, eight hundred and sixty dollars. For the entire compensation of George R. Davis, Director-General of George R. Davis. the World's Columbian Exposition, in the work of preparing his final report, and for all sums expended or paid out by him upon such work, and for any sums due under agreements or contracts for assistants for such work, such sum to be in full for all claims therefor, eighteen thousand and six dollars and ten cents: Provided, That the original

Expenses.

Proviso.

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