in House Document Numbered 766, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows: CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. * Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department. Audited claims. Additional claims certified by accounting officers. 18 Stat., 110. 23 Stat., 254. For relieving distress and prevention, and so forth, of diseases among Indians, $21.32. For Indian schools, support, $109.97. For Indian school buildings, $62. For Indian school and agency buildings, $36.12. For Indian school transportation, $22.74. For industry among Indians, $37.14. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, $145.10. For telegraphing and telephoning, Indian Service, 1918, $111.49. For general expenses, Indian Service, $1.25. For inspectors, Indian Service, $2.20. For support of Indians in Arizona and New Mexico, $104.84. For Indian school, Fort Mojave, Arizona, 32 cents. For water supply, Navajo and Hopi Indians, Arizona (reimburs able), 1918 and 1919, $91.05. For Indian school, Greenville, California, 1918, $25.63. For support of Chippewas of the Mississippi, Minnesota, 1919, $15.83. For support of Indians, Blackfeet Agency, Montana, 1918 and 1919, $386.55. For Indian school, Carson City, Nevada, 1919, $48. For Indian school, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1919, 32 cents. For support of Pawnees, schools, Oklahoma, 1919, $48.92. For Indian school, Chilocco, Oklahoma, repairs and improvements, 1919, 39 cents. For support of Sioux of different tribes, subsistence and civilization, South Dakota, $52.55. For maintenance and operation, irrigation system, Yakima Reservation, Washington (reimbursable), 1919, $136.91. For support of Chippewas of Lake Superior, Wisconsin, 1919, $51.25. For Indian school, Tomah, Wisconsin, 1919, 41 cents. AUDITED CLAIMS. SEC. 4. That for the payment of the following claims, certified to be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section 5 of the Act of June 20, 1874, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1917 and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section 2 of the Act of July 7, 1884, as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered 286, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows: Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY AUDITOR FOR INTERIOR DEPARTMENT For Indian schools, support, $30.25. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, 1919, $129.10. For support of Chippewas of Lake Superior, Wisconsin, 1919, $31.04. Approved, June 5, 1920. FRIVATE ACTS OF THE SIXTY-SIXTH CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION, 1919-20. CHAP. 72.-An Act Restoring to Amy E. Hall her homestead rights and providing that on any homestead entry made by her she shall be given credit for all comp..ance with the law on her original homestead entry and for all payments made on same. February 11, 1920. [H. R. 8598.) 41 Stat., 1459. New homestead Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Amy E. Hall. Interior be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to permit entry allowed. Amy E. Hall, homestead entrywoman on lots twenty-three and twenty-four, and south half southwest quarter northwest quarter section seventeen; the south half southeast quarter northeast quarter, northeast quarter southeast quarter, and southwest quarter northeast quarter, section eighteen, township nine south, range ten west, in the former Siletz Indian Reservation, in the State of Oregon, whose homestead application was on January 3, 1914, placed of record in the office of the register and receiver of the United States land office at Portland, Oregon, to make a new homestead entry on any tract of land, not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres, open to entry under the homestead laws of the United States, which is not otherwise appropriated or reserved, and that she be given credit for all compliance with law on her original homestead entry and for all payments made upon the same, but expressly waiving the requirements as to cultivation under the Act of June 6, 1912 (Thirty-seventh Statutes, page one hundred and twenty-three), giving and granting unto the Secretary of the Interior full and complete authority to carry out the purposes and intent of this Act. Approved, February 11, 1920. Credit for prior pay ments. Cultivation require37 Stat., 124, vol. 3, ments waived. 523. CHAP. 78.-An Act To authorize the payment of certain amounts for damages sustained by prairie fire on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, in South Dakota. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the following-named corporation and persons, their legal representatives or heirs, the respective amounts as follows: The Mission Farm Company, $1,835; Peter Volondra, $187.50; M. E. Robertson, $62.50; E. E. Bead, $187.50; James V. Satra, $75; Cash Rogers, $255; Ed Neiness, $87.50; Jacob Hempel, $22.50; Isiah Davis, $187.50; Alvin Hoffman, $50; Louis Bordeaux, $1,385; Charley Pavlik, $50; George W. Coleman, $875; W. S. Hatten, $200; Frank Rothleutner and George W. Coleman, $750; Hugh Coleman, $54.50; and Charles Kolkofen, $62.50 for damages caused to each of said parties by a certain fire set by the carelessness of the employees of the Government in the regular line of their duty and as incident thereto in the Indian Service on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, in South Dakota, and across the State line in Nebraska, on the 20th day of October, 1909. Approved, February 17, 1920. February 17, 1920. [H. R. 683.] 41 Stat., 1460. Reimbursement to. CHAP. 79.-An Act For the relief of William E. Johnson. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United William E. Johnson. States of America in Congress assembled, That to reimburse William E. Johnson, former chief special officer and special disbursing agent, for the expenditure made by him under the direction of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs in the defense of Juan Cruz, a noncommissioned officer engaged in the suppression of the liquor traffic among Indians, for the payment of which no appropriation was available, there be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $1,839.95. Approved, February 17, 1920. April 15, 1920. [H. R. 6136.] 41 Stat., 1466. CHAP. 145.—An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to sell certain lands to school district aud twenty-one, of Fremont County, Wyoming. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Fremont County, United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary Sale of Shoshone In- of the Interior is hereby authorized to sell to school district numdians' lands to school bered twenty-one, of Fremont County, Wyoming, the west half, Wyo. district of April 29, 1920. (S. 2442.) 41 Stat., 1468. Presbyterian Church. ervation granted to. Description. southwest quarter, southwest quarter, southwest quarter, southeast quarter, section four, township one south, range one west of the Wind River meridian, containing one and one-quarter acres, the same being a part of the Shoshone Agency reserve on the Shoshone or Wind River Indian Reservation. Approved, April 15, 1920. CHAP. 164.-An Act Authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Interior to convey to the trustees of the Yankton Agency Presbyterian Church, by patent in fee, certain land within the Yankton Indian Reservation. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Yankton Agency United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of Lands in Indian res- the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to convey to the trustees of the Yankton Agency Presbyterian Church, by patent in fee, the following-described premises situate within the Yankton Indian Reservation, county of Charles Mix, State of South Dakota: Beginning at the northwest corner of lot nine, section. twenty-seven, township ninety-four north, range sixty-four west of fifth principal meridian; thence south, twenty-five degrees four minutes west, five and fifty hundredths chains, to the southwest corner of lot two, section thirty-four; thence north sixty-four degrees fiftysix minutes west, one and forty hundredths chains, more or less, to the east boundary of the Presbyterian Church and school reserve; thence north twenty-five degrees four minutes east, five and fifty hundredths chains, more or less, along the east boundary of the said Presbyterian Church and school reserve to the northeast corner thereof; thence south, sixty-four degrees fifty-six minutes east, one and fifty hundredths chains, more or less, to the place of beginning; containing seventy-seven hundredths acres, more or less; for the uses of said church upon the payment by said trustees to the Secretary of the Interior of the sum of $75, the value of said premises as heretofore found by due appraisal thereof. Payment. Approved, April 29, 1920. CHAP. 180.-An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to correct an error in an Indian allotment. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of correcting an error made in the allotment on the public domain of Domatil E. Lafournaise, an Indian of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, whereby the same is in conflict with the allotment of Jenoir Brien, a member of the same band, and to clear title to the land allotted to Jenoir Brien, the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to issue a patent in fee to lot five of the southeast quarter of section six, township one hundred and fifty-nine north, range one hundred and three west of the fifth principal meridian in North Dakota, in favor of Henry E. Thomas, holder of a deed to the allotment of Domatil E. Lafournaise (now Patnaude); said patent to issue upon the execution by Henry E. Thomas of a quitclaim deed in favor of E. L. Hugelen, purchaser of the allotment of Jenoir Brien, covering lot three of the same section allotted to Jenoir Brien and erroneously included in the allotment of Domatil E. Lafournaise. Approved, May 10, 1920. CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS OF THE SIXTY-SIXTH CONGRESS, INDIAN APPROPRIATION BILL. Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That in the enrollment of the bill (H. R. 11368) entitled "An Act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, and for other purposes, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921," the Clerk be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to dispose of the amendment of the Senate numbered 94 to said bill in manner and form as if the House had receded from its disagreement thereto and had agreed to the same. Passed, February 4, 1920. INDIAN APPROPRIATION BILL. Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That in the enrollment of the bill (H. R. 11368) entitled "An Act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, and for other purposes, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921," the Clerk be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to dispose of Senate amendments numbered 114 and 115 in manner and form as if the House had receded from its disagreement to said amendments and had agreed to the same. Passed, February 7, 1920. PUBLIC ACTS OF THE SIXTY-SIXTH CONGRESS, THIRD SESSION 1920-21. CHAP. 11.-An Act Providing additional time for the payment of purchase money under homestead entries of lands within the former Fort Assinniboine Military Reservation, in Montana. Fort Assinniboine Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any person who has Military Reservation, Mont. steaders on lands of Interest payments. Time extension for made homestead entry under the provisions of the Act of Congress payments by home approved February 11, 1915 (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, page 807), entitled "An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to survey the lands of the abandoned Fort Assinniboine Military Reservation and open the same to settlement," may obtain an extension of time for one year from the anniversary of the date of entry last preceding the passage of this Act within which to pay all of the installment then due or any part of any preceding installment, where payment has not yet been made and where an extension of time therefor is not authorized by any Act of Congress by paying interest at the rate of 5 per centum per annum on the sums to be extended from the maturity of the unpaid installments to the expiration of the period of extension, the interest to be paid to the receiver of the land office for the district in which the lands are situated, within such time as may be prescribed for that purpose by the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, That any installment which becomes Extension payments due within one year from the passage of this Act and for which an extension of time for payment is not otherwise authorized, may also be extended for a period of one year by paying interest thereon in Additional exten- advance at the said rate: Provided further, That any payment so extended may thereafter in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior be extended for a further period of one year in like manner: Commutation pay. And provided further, That if commutation proof is submitted, all the unpaid payments must be made at that time. Provisos. due within one year. sion. ments. Forfeiture of entry ments. SEC. 2. That the failure of any entryman to make any payment that on failure to make pay may be due, unless the same be extended, or to make any payment extended either under the provisions hereof or other Act of Congress, at or before the time to which such payment has been extended, shall forfeit the entry and the same shall be canceled, and any and all payments theretofore made shall be forfeited. Approved, January 6, 1921. February 6, 1921. [H. R. 6221.] 41 Stat., 1097. Osage Indians. Claims. 878. CHAP. 36.-An Act Conferring jurisdiction on the Court of Claims to hear, determine, and render judgment in the Osage civilization-fund claim of the Osage Nation of Indians against the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Claim for moneys States of America in Congress assembled, That the claim of the Osage due from sale of lands Tribe of Indians against the United States for moneys due, arising out submitted to Court of of the sale of Osage lands under the treaty of September 29, 1865, 14 Stat., 687, vol. 2, proclaimed January 21, 1867 (Fourteenth Statutes at Large, page 687), shall be submitted to the Court of Claims, with the right of appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States by either party, for the amount due or claimed to be due said tribe from the United States for the misappropriation of any of the funds of the said tribe, Jurisdiction con- or for the failure of the United States to pay the tribe any money due ferred. Provisos. Basis of damages. under said treaty; and jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon the Court of Claims to hear and determine, as right and justice may require, and as upon a full and fair arbitration, the claim of said tribe against the United States, notwithstanding lapse of time or statutes of limitation, and also any legal or equitable defense, set-off, or counterclaim, including gratuities, which the United States may have against said Osage Tribe, and to enter judgment thereon: Provided, That if it be found that the United States Government has wrongfully appropriated any part or parcel of the lands or the funds of said Osage Tribe of Indians, judgment for damages in respect thereto, if any, shall be confined to the value of the land, or the amount of funds, at the time of said appropriation, together with interest at the rate of 5 per centum per annum thereon to the date of the decree of the Court of Claims rendered in respect thereto, less any legal or |