Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $19,000. * Five Civilized Tribes. Expenses of suits to set aside allotments. Suits to set aside conveyances of allotted lands, Five Civilized Conveyances, Tribes: For the payment of necessary expenses incident to any suits brought at the request of the Secretary of the Interior in the eastern judicial district of Oklahoma, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, the unexpended balance of the appropriations heretofore made for this purpose is reappropriated and continued available for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen. Okla. Suits affecting title to Seminole allotted lands in Oklahoma: For Seminole allotments, the payment of necessary expense incident to any suits brought, Expenses of suits afincluding the salaries of attorneys specially employed to set aside fecting. illegal conveyances of Seminole allotments, to protect the possession of Seminole allottees in their allotted lands, or in the prosecution of any criminal proceedings based on frauds perpetrated upon Seminole allottees with respect to their allotted lands, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $15,000. CHAP. 224.-An Act To provide for the disposal of certain lands in the Fort August 3, 1914. [H. R. 4988.] 38 Stat., 681. Fort Berthold In dian Reservation, N. Dak. Disposal of reserved 36 Stat., 455, vol. 3, coal lands in. 462. Proviso. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the lands in the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, North Dakota, which on account of their containing coal were reserved from allotment and other disposition under the Act of June first, nineteen hundred and ten, entitled "An Act to authorize the survey and allotment of lands embraced within the limits of the Fort Berthold Indian 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," shall be subject to disposal under the provisions of said Act: Provided, That patents issued for such lands shall contain a reservation to the United States of any coal reservation. coal that such lands may contain, to be held in trust for the Indians belonging to and having tribal rights on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, but any entryman shall have the right at any time Right to disprove before making final proof of his entry, or at the time of making such classification. final proof, to a hearing for the purpose of disproving the classification as coal land of the land embraced in his entry, and if such land is shown not to be coal land a patent without reservation shall issue. SEC. 2. That the coal deposits in such lands shall be subject to disposal by the United States in accordance with the provisions of posits. of the coal-land laws in force at the time of such disposal, and the proceeds arising from the disposal of such coal deposits or from the leasing or working thereof shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States and shall be applied in the same manner as the proceeds derived from the disposition of the lands embraced in the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. Any person qualified to acquire coal Entry for prospect deposits or the right to mine and remove the coal under the laws of ing, etc. the United States shall have the right at all times to enter upon the lands selected, entered, or patented, as provided by this Act, for the purpose of prospecting for coal thereon, upon the approval by the Secretary of the Interior of a bond or undertaking to be filed with him as security for the payment of all damages to the crops and Disposal of coal de owners by miners. Damages to surface improvements on such lands by reason of such prospecting. Any person who has acquired from the United States the coal deposits in any such land, or the right to mine or remove the same, may reenter and occupy so much of the surface thereof as may be required for all purposes reasonably incident to the mining and removal of the coal therefrom, and mine and remove the coal, upon payment of the damages caused thereby to the owner thereof or upon giving a good and sufficient bond or undertaking in an action instituted in any competent court to ascertain and fix said damages: Provided, That the entryman or the owner under such limited patent shall have the right to mine coal for use upon the land for domestic purposes at any time prior to the disposal by the United States of the coal deposits.1 Proviso. Mining for domestic use. Commission to appraise unallotted coal lands. Classification, praisement, etc. Compensation. SEC. 3. That the President of the United States shall appoint a commission consisting of three persons to inspect, classify, appraise, and value all of the lands described in section one, of this Act that shall not have been allotted in severalty to said Indians, said commission to be constituted as follows: One of the commissioners shall be a person holding tribal relations with said Indians, one a representative of the Interior Department, and one a resident citizen of the State of North Dakota. That within twenty days after their appointment said commissioners shall meet and organize by the election of one of their number as chairman. The said commisapsioners shall then proceed to personally inspect and classify and appraise, in one-hundred-and-sixty-acre tracts, all of the remaining lands described in section one of this Act except section sixteen and section thirty-six under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. In making such classification and appraisement said lands shall, without regard to the coal they may contain, be divided into the following classes: First, agricultural land of the first class; second, agricultural land of the second class; third, grazing land; fourth, timberland. That said commissioners shall be paid a salary of not to exceed $10 per day each while actually employed in the inspection and classification of said lands and necessary expenses, exclusive of subsistence, to be approved by the Secretary of the Interior, such inspection and classification to be completed within six months from the date of the organization of said commission. Appropriation for ex penses. SEC. 4. That for the purpose of carrying into effect, the provisions of this Act the sum of $10,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, That the said appropriation Repayment from shall be reimbursed to the United States from the proceeds received from the sale of the lands described herein or from any money in the Treasury belonging to the Indians of Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, North Dakota. Proviso. proceeds. August 22, 1914. [H. R. 12463.] 38 Stat., 704. Quinsielt Indian Reservation, Wash. lighthouse uses in. Approved, August 3, 1914. CHAP. 269.-An Act To authorize the withdrawal of lands on the Quinaielt Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Lands set apart for States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to set aside not exceeding two hundred and six and seventy-five one-hundredths acres of land at or near Cape Elizabeth, on the Quinaielt Indian Reservation, in the State of Washington, for lighthouse purposes: Provided, That Payment to Indians. the Secretary of Commerce shall pay the Indians therefor, from the Provisos. 144 L. O. D., 384; 48 L. O. D., 449; 49 L. O. D., 354. appropriation for the general expenses of the Lighthouse Service for the fiscal year in which this reservation is made, such price for the lands set aside hereunder as may be agreed upon by the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Commerce: Provided further, That the funds thus derived shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Indians of the Quinaielt Reservation, and shall be subject to expenditure for their benefit in such manner as the Secretary of the Interior may deem for their best interests. Use of funds. Oil, gas, etc., lands SEC. 2. That there is hereby reserved for the use and benefit of the Indians of the Quinaielt Reservation in common all oil, gas, coal, reserved. or other minerals in the lands set aside hereunder for lighthouse purposes, and the right to prospect for and mine these commodities under such rules and regulations as may be agreed upon by the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Commerce. Approved, August 22, 1914. RESOLUTIONS OF THE SIXTY-THIRD CONGRESS, SECOND SES- Joint Resolution Extending time for completion of classification and appraisement of surface of segregated coal and asphalt lands of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations and of the improvements thereon, and making appropriation therefor. December 8, 1913. [H. J. Res. 155.] 38 Stat., 767. coal and asphalt Time extended for Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act of Congess Choctaw and Chickapproved February nineteenth, nineteen hundred and twelve (Thirty-lands, Oklahoma. seventh Statutes at Large, page sixty-seven), being "An Act to pro- completion of classifi vide for the sale of the surface of the segregated coal and asphalt lands cation, etc. of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, and for other purposes," be, 37 Stat., 67, vol. 3, 513. and the same is hereby, amended to provide that the classification and appraisement of the surface of said segregated lands as required Proriso. by said Act and the classification and appraisement of the improve- 37 Stat., 531, vol. 3,542 ments thereon as required by section eighteen of the Act of Congress approved August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve (Thirty seventh Statutes at Large, pages five hundred and eighteen to five hundred and thirty-one), shall be completed not later than sixty days from the date of approval of this resolution: Provided, That at the Completion of unexpiration of such time any classification, appraisement, or other finished work. work incident thereto remaining unfinished shall be completed by the Secretary of the Interior under rules and regulations to be prescribed by him, and the sum of $5,000, to be paid out of the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribal funds, is hereby appropriated for such purpose. Approved, December 8, 1913. Appropriation from tribal funds. Joint Resolution For the appointment of George Frederick Kunz as a member of the North American Indian Memorial Commission. August 21, 1914. [H. J. Res. 49.] 38 Stat., 777. George Frederick Appointed on North Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the vacancy in the Kunz. commission for the erection of a memorial to the North American American Indian MeIndian, caused by the death of Robert C. Ogden, shall be filled by morial Commission. the appointment of George Frederick Kunz, of New York. Approved, August 21, 1914. October 20, 1914. [H. J. Res. 362.] 38 Stat., 780. Five Civilized Tribes. Name substituted in enrollment of. Joint Resolution To correct an error in the enrollment of certain Indians enumerated in Senate Document Numbered Four hundred and seventy-eight, Sixtythird Congress, second session, enacted into law in the Indian appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to substitute the name of William C. Adams in place of Mitchell C. Adams, junior, in the list of Mississippi Choctaw Indians enumerated in Senate document Numbered Four hundred and seventy-eight, Sixty-third Congress, second session, which Indians so enumerated in said document 38 Stat., 600; ante, 25. were authorized to be enrolled on the respective rolls of the Five Civilized Tribes by section seventeen, paragraph nine, of the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, and for other purposes, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen," approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen. Approved, October 20, 1914. July 21, 1914. [H. R. 11006.] 38 Stat., 1374. Fort Bidwell Indian School, Cal. PRIVATE ACTS OF THE SIXTY-THIRD CONGRESS, SECOND SES- CHAP. 203.-An Act Authorizing the disposal of a portion of the Fort Bidwell Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Patents to occupants States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the of lands on. Provisos. Price. Improvements. July 28, 1914. [S. 785.] 38 Stat., 1375. Mississippi. in, Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be surveyed, appraised, and conveyed by patent to R. R. Baker, P. H. Trendt, Mary E. Manning, Mrs. Fred Schadler, S. S. Garrett, A. C. Lowell, and Harry Watson, of Fort Bidwell, the tracts of land in Modoc County, in the State of California, now a part of the Fort Bidwell Indian School (formerly the Fort Bidwell Military Reservation), being a part of section seventeen, township forty-six north, range sixteen east, Mount Diablo base and meridian, which are severally inclosed and actually occupied by the above-named parties, respectively, said tracts not to exceed in all two acres: Provided, That the cost and expense of surveying and appraising said lands shall be added proportionately to the appraised price thereof: Provided further, That the persons named shall pay the appraised price, including the cost of surveying and appraisement, to the proper district land office within ninety days from receipt of notice of such price, or their rights to make such purchase shall be forfeited: Provided further, That the value of the improvements placed on the land by the occupants shall not be included in the appraised price of the land. Approved, July 21, 1914. CHAP. 214.-An Act To relinquish, release, and quitclaim all right, title, and interest of the United States of America in and to certain lands in the State of Mississippi. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the United States of quitclaimed to present America hereby forever relinquishes, releases, and quitclaims all right, title, and interest in and to the northwest quarter of section thirty-six, township fourteen north, range five east, Choctaw meridian, situated in the State of Mississippi, now held under claim or owners. color of title by individual or private ownership or municipal ownership, which was reserved, retained, or set apart for James Gipson under and by vitrue of the treaty entered into between the United States of America and the Choctaw Nation of Indians on the twentyseventh day of September, anno Domini eighteen hundred and thirty: Provided, however, That nothing herein contained shall be construed Proviso. Title of James Gipto affect or dispose of any right, claim, or title, if any, which said son not affected. James Gipson or his heir or heirs and assigns may have in or to any of said land. States abandoned. SEC. 2. That the true intent of this Act is hereby declared to be only title of United to concede and abandon all right, title, and interest of the United States to those persons, estates, firms, or corporations who would be the true and lawful owners of said land under the laws of the State of Mississippi, including the laws of prescription, in the absence of said interest, title, and estate of the said United States. Approved, July 28, 1914. CHAP. 272.—An Act For the relief of May Stanley. 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 moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $3,000 to May Stanley, widow of Will H. Stanley, late superintendent of the Soboba Indian School, in California, who lost his life in the discharge of his duty; also to pay for medical and other necessary expenses, including funeral and administration expenses, incurred in connection with the death of said Will H. Stanley and the shooting of Selso Serrano, Indian policeman, $500, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Approved, August 22, 1914. PUBLIC ACTS OF THE SIXTY-THIRD CONGRESS, THIRD SESSION, CHAP. 7.-An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the adju- 38 Stat., 791. claims. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Indian depredation States of America in Congress assembled, That the first section of paragraph one of an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the adjudication and payment of claims arising from Indian depredations," amended, vol. 1, 58. approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: 26 Stat., 851, ants taken by Indians be adjudicated. fense. Alienage not a de- "First. That in all claims for property of citizens or inhabitants of Claims for property the United States, except the claims of Indians heretofore or now in of citizens or inhabittribal relations, taken or destroyed by Indians belonging to any to tribe in amity with and subject to the jurisdiction of the United States without just cause or provocation on the part of the owner or agent in charge, and not returned or paid for, and in all adjudications under said Act as now amended, the alienage of the claimant shall not be a defense to said claim: Provided, That the privileges of this Act shall not extend to any person whose property at the time of its taking was unlawfully within the Indian country: Provided further, That all cases heretofore filed under said Act of March third, Cases to be reineighteen hundred and ninety-one, and which have been dismissed by the court for want of proof of the citizenship of the claimant or alienage shall be reinstated and readjudicated in accordance with the pro Trespassers cluded. stated. |