Due acknowledgment for valuable suggestions and assistance is made to the former chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, Hon. J. W. Harreld; the present chairman, Senator Lynn J. Frazier; the chairman of the House Indian Committee, Hon. Scott Leavitt; and Senator Robert M. La Follette, jr. Also to W. T. Ward, Nelson A. Mason, Miss Mae Finotti, Wm. O. Skeels, and C. W. Mills, clerks of the Senate and House Committees on Indian Affairs; Charles H. Miller, assistant to editor of laws of Congress; John G. Carter, who collaborated with the compiler on the article entitled "Doctrine of Indian Right of Occupancy and Possession of Land;" Ansel Wold, clerk of the Joint Congressional Printing Committee; and Guy E. Ives, printing clerk of the Senate; also to the officials of the Departments of Justice and the Interior, and especially to the Indian Office.

As this volume of the Compilation is probably the last the compiler will undertake to prepare for Congress, if Volume IV becomes as serviceable to Congress, the courts, the Government Departments, and the public as have the preceding three volumes, he will feel repaid for the time and labor devoted to its preparation. CHARLES J. KAPPLER,

Compiler.

WASHINGTON, D. C., December 3, 1928.

PART I.

LAWS RELATING TO INDIAN AFFAIRS.

PUBLIC ACTS OF THE SIXTY-THIRD CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION, 1914. CHAP. 46.-An Act To provide for drainage of Indian allotments of the Five

Civilized Tribes.

March 27, 1914. [H. R. 13091.] 38 Stat., 310.

Five Civilized

ments against lands of

Provisos.
Review of assess

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever a drainage Tribes, Oklahoma. district is organized in any county in the Five Civilized Tribes of the Drainage assessState of Oklahoma, under the laws of that State, for the purpose of allottees, may be paid draining the lands within such district, the Secretary of the Interior from tribal funds. is authorized, in his discretion, to pay from the funds or moneys arising from any source under his control or under the control of the United States, and which would be pro rated to such allottee, the assessment for drainage purposes against any Indian allottee or upon the lands of any allottee who is not subject to taxation or whose lands are exempt from taxation or from assessment for taxation under the treaties or agreements with the tribe to which such allottee may belong, or under any Act of Congress; and such amount so paid out shall be charged against such allottee's pro rata share of any funds to his credit under the control of the Secretary of the Interior or the United States: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior, before paying out such funds, shall designate some person with a knowledge ment, etc. of the subject of drainage, to review the schedules of assessment against each tract of land and to review the land assessed to ascertain whether such Indian allottee, or his lands not subject to taxation, have been assessed more than their pro rata share as compared with other lands located in said district similarly situated and deriving like benefits. And if such Indian lands have been assessed justly when compared with other assessments, then, in that event, said funds shall be paid to the proper county in which such drainage district may be organized, or, in the option of the Secretary of the Interior, to the construction company or bondholder shown to be entitled to the funds arising from such assessment: Provided further, That in any event such assessment on any Indian allotment shall not exceed $15 per acre, and no such assessment shall be made unless the Indian allottee affected, or his legal guardian, shall consent thereto: And provided further, That nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to deprive any allottee of any right which he might otherwise have individually to apply to the courts for the purpose of having his rights adjudicated.

Approved, March 27, 1914.

Payments.

Maximum.

Consent of allottee.

Legal rights not impaired.

CHAP. 52.-An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen and for prior years, and for other purposes.

April 6, 1914. [H. R. 13612.] 38 Stat., 312.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriations.

Urgent deficiencies

1

Judgments, Indian depredation claims.

58.

Payment.

Deductions.

appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen and for prior years, and for other purposes, namely:

*

JUDGMENTS IN INDIAN DEPREDATION CLAIMS.

For payment of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims in Indian depredation cases, certified to Congress in House Document Numbered Six hundred and fifteen, and Senate Document Numbered Four hundred and forty-two, at its present session, $13,350; said 26 Stat., 851, vol. 1, p. judgments to be paid after the deductions required to be made under the provisions of section six of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled "An Act to provide for the adjustment and payment of claims arising from Indian depredations," shall have been ascertained and duly certified by the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of the Treasury, which certification shall be made as soon as practicable after the passage of this Act, and such deductions shall be made according to the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, having due regard to the educational and other necessary requirements of the tribe or tribes affected; and the amounts paid shall be reimbursed to the United States at such times and in such proportions as the Secretary of the Interior may decide to be for the interests of the Indian Service: Provided, That no one of said judgments provided in this paragraph shall be paid until the Attorney General shall have certified to the Secretary of the Treasury that there exists no grounds sufficient, in his opinion, to support a motion for a new trial or an appeal of said cause.

Reimbursements.

Proviso.
Not appealed.

Right to appeal.

None of the judgments contained in this Act shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired.

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Claims allowed by CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. Auditor for Interior

Department.

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For relieving distress, and prevention, and so forth, of distress among Indians, $1.88.

For Indian school buildings, $10.

For Indian school transportation, $40.64.

For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $79,792.56.

For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen hundred and twelve, $520.53.

For telegraphing and telephoning, Indian Service, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $353.32.

For telegraphing and telephoning, Indian Service, nineteen hundred and twelve, $24.78.

For telegraphing, transportation, and so forth, Indian supplies, $8.07.

For pay of Indian police, $20.

For pay of judges, Indian courts, $134.05.

For water supply, Nomadic Papago Indians, Arizona, $500.

For support of Indians in California, $12.

For incidentals in California, including support and civilization, $29.50.

For irrigation system, Milk River, Fort Belknap Reservation (reimbursable), $58.78.

For surveying Fort Belknap Reservation, Montana, $154.18.

For surveying, and so forth, Blackfeet Reservation, Montana (reimbursable), $140.91.

For surveying and allotting Flathead Reservation, Montana (reimbursable), $402.92.

For Indian school, Albuquerque, New Mexico, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $20.89.

For Indian school, Carson, Nevada, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $33.45.

For Indian school, Wahpeton, North Dakota, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $565.50.

For Indian schools, Five Civilized Tribes, $3.27.

For support of Sioux of different tribes, subsistence and civilization, South Dakota, $9.68.

CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.

For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $47,345.04.

For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen hundred and twelve, $221.13.

For telegraphing and telephoning, Indian Service, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $12.58.

For telegraphing and telephoning, Indian Service, nineteen hundred and twelve, $4.59.

For telegraphing, transportation, and so forth, Indian supplies, $101.73.

For irrigation, San Carlos Reservation, Arizona, $395.14.

For administration of affairs of Five Civilized Tribes, Oklahoma, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $69.38.

For support of Sioux of different tribes, subsistence and civilization, South Dakota, $3.63.

For indemnity to certain Chickasaw Indians for losses, treaty June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, $14,050.

CHAP. 102.-An Act For the relief of settlers on the Fort Berthold, Cheyenne
River, Standing Rock, Rosebud, and Pine Ridge Indian Reservations, in the
States of North and South Dakota.

Public lands.

Opened Sioux reser

vations, North and

Time extended for

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 is hereby authorized to extend for a period of one year the South Dakota. time for the payment of any annual installment due, or hereafter to payments by entrybecome due, on the purchase price for lands sold under the Act of men on. 36 Stat., 458, vol. 3, Congress approved June first, nineteen hundred and ten, entitled 462. "An Act to authorize the survey and allotment of lands embraced within the limits of the Fort Berthold Reservation, in the State of North Dakota, and the sale and disposition of a portion of the surplus lands after allotment, and making appropriation and provision to carry the same into effect," the Act of Congress approved May 36 Stat., 442, vol. 3, twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and ten, entitled, "An Act to authorize the sale and disposition of the surplus and unallotted lands in Bennett County, in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, in the State of South Dakota, and making appropriation to carry the same into effect," and the Act approved May thirtieth, nineteen hundred 36 Stat., 450, vol. 3, and ten, entitled "An Act to authorize the sale and disposition of a

455.

459.

Provisos.

ment, etc.

Conditions.

portion of the surplus and unallotted lands in Mellette and Washabaugh Counties, in the Rosebud Indian Reservation, in the State of South Dakota, and making appropriation and provision to carry the same into effect," and any payment so extended may annually thereafter be extended for a period of one year in the same manner: Provided, That the last payment and all other payments must be Time for last pay made within a period not exceeding one year after the last payment becomes due, by the terms of the Act under which the entry was made: Provided further, That any and all payments must be made when due, unless the entryman applies for an extension and pays interest for one year, in advance, at five per centum per annum upon the amount due as herein provided, and patent shall be withheld until full and final payment of the purchase price is made in accordForfeiture for non- ance with the provisions hereof: And provided further, That failure to make any payment that may be due, unless the same be extended, or to make any extended payment at or before the time to which such payment has been extended, as herein provided, shall forfeit the entry and the same shall be canceled, and any and all payments theretofore made shall be forfeited.

payment.

Cheyenne River and

vations, South

Extension of time

SEC. 2. That the provisions of the Act of April thirteenth, nineteen Standing Rock reserresed hundred and twelve, entitled "An Act extending the time of payment North Dakota. to certain homesteaders on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation, for payments to in- in the State of South Dakota, and on the Standing Rock Indian Res37 Stat., 84, vol. 3, ervation, in the States of South Dakota and North Dakota," shall apply to all homestead entries for lands in said reservations, heretofore or hereafter made, in the same manner it applies, by its terms, to entries made before its passage.

clude all entries.

517.

July 16, 1914. [H. R. 15279.]

38 Stat., 454.

tive. and judicial appropriations.

Approved, May 28, 1914.

CHAP. 141.-An Act Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Legislative, execu States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely:

Interior Department.

Secretary.

Clerk to sign tribal deeds.

Indian Office.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY: Clerk to sign, under the direction of the Secretary, in his name and for him, his approval of all tribal deeds to allottees and deeds for town lots made and executed according to law for any of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians in the Indian Territory, $1,200.

INDIAN OFFICE: Commissioner, $5,000; assistant commissioner, $3,500; second assistant commissioner who shall also perform the duties of chief clerk, $2,750; financial clerk, $2,250; chiefs of divisions one $2,250, one $2,000; law clerk, $2,000; assistant chief of division, $2,000; private secretary, $1,800; clerks-twenty of class four, thirty-one of class three, thirty-eight of class two, two at $1,500 each, sixty-eight of class one, including one stenographer, thirty-two at $1,000 each, including one stenographer; thirty-four clerks at $900 each; messenger; four assistant messengers; four messenger boys, at $360 each; expert accountant, $2,000; forester, $3,600; draftsman,