Reimbursement. Proviso. Not appealed. Right to appeal. Audited claims. Claims certified by accounting officers. 18 Stat., 110. 23 Stat., 254. 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. None of the judgments contained in this Act shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired. AUDITED CLAIMS. SEC. 2. 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 five of the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen and other years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered Five hundred and sixty-seven, 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. 33 Stat., 31. For suppressing liquor traffic among Indians, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $454.01. For Indian schools, support, $13.54. For Indian school and agency buildings, $824. For industrial work and care of timber, $5.60. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $49,009.76. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $29,439.89. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, $1,011.22. For telegraphing and telephoning, Indian Service, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $5.27. For telegraphing and telephoning, Indian Service, $1.77. For expenses of Indian commissioners, nineteen hundred and fourteen, 18 cents. For contingencies, Indian Department, $1. For general expenses, Indian Service, $8.77. For support of Indians in Arizona and New Mexico, $174. For Indian school, Phoenix, Arizona, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $107.43. For Indian school, Truxton Canyon, Arizona, nineteen hundred and fourteen, 94 cents. For maintenance, irrigation system, Pima Indian lands, Arizona, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $17.84. For support of Indians in California, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $41.55. For maintenance and operation, Fort Hall irrigation system, Idaho, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $35.90. For Indian school, Kickapoo Reservation, Kansas, repairs and improvements, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $72.93. For Indian school, Genoa, Nebraska, 15 cents. For Indian school, Albuquerque, New Mexico, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $10.30. For Indian school, Fort Totten, North Dakota, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $6.46. For support of Cheyennes and Arapahoes, Oklahoma, $31.83. For Indian school, Chilocco, Oklahoma, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $20.98. For Indian school, Chilocco, Oklahoma, $92.68. For administration of affairs of Five Civilized Tribes, Oklahoma, $16. For Indian school, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, $20.32. For Indian school, Flandreau, South Dakota, repairs and improvements, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $133.02. For support of Sioux of different tribes, subsistence and civilization, South Dakota, $156.60. For support of Sioux, Yankton Tribe, South Dakota, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $13.65. For surveying and allotting Standing Rock Reservation, South Dakota and North Dakota (reimbursable), $162.88. For support of Indians of Colville and Puyallup Agencies and Joseph's Band of Nez Perces, Washington, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $138.96. For maintenance and operation, irrigation system, Yakima Reservation, Washington (reimbursable), nineteen hundred and fifteen, $104.32. For Indian school, Hayward, Wisconsin, repairs and improvements, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $10.08. For Indian school, Tomah, Wisconsin, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $20.78. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE THE AUDITOR FOR THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $969.96. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $80.73. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, 70 cents. For Indian school, Fort Bidwell, California, repairs and improvements, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $15.36. CHAP. 63.-An Act Conferring jurisdiction on the Court of Claims to hear, determine, and render judgment in claims of the Sisseton and Wahpeton bands of Sioux Indians against the United States. Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department. April 11, 1916. [S. 585.] 39 Stat., 47. Sisseton and WahpeClaims of, submitted to Court of Claims. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United ton Sioux Indians. States of America in Congress assembled, That all claims of whatsoever nature which the Sisseton and Wahpeton bands of Sioux Indians may have or claim to have against the United States shall be submitted to the Court of Claims, with the right to appeal to the Supreme Court of Provisos. the United States by either party, for the amount due or claimed to be due said bands from the United States under any treaties or laws of Congress; and jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon the Court of Claims to hear and determine all claims of said bands against the United States and also any legal or equitable defense, set-off, or counterclaim which the United States may have against said Sisseton and Wahpeton bands of Sioux Indians, and to enter judgment, and in determining the amount to be entered herein the court shall deduct from any sums found due said Sisseton and Wahpeton bands of Sioux Indians any and all gratuities paid said bands or individual memers thereof subsequent to March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-tbree: Provided, That in determining the amount to be entered herein the value of the land involved shall not exceed the value of such land on March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-thee. If any such question is submitted to said court it shall settle the rights, both legal and equitable, of said bands of Indians and the United States, notwithstanding lapse of time or statute of limitations. Such action in the Court of Claims shall be presented by a single petition, to be filed within one year after the passage of this Act, making the United States a party defendant which shall set forth all the facts on which the said bands of Indians base their claims for recovery; and the said petition may be verified by the agent or authorized attorney or attorneys of said bands, to be selected by said bands and employed under contract approved by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and the Secretary of the Interior, in accordance with the provisions of existing law, upon information or belief as to the existence of such facts, and no other Disposition of mon- statements or vertifications shall be necessary. Official letters, papers, reports, and public records, or certified copies thereof, may be used as evidence. Whatever moneys may be found due the Sisseton and Wahpeton bands of Indians under the provisions of this Act, less attorney's fees, shall be placed to their credit in the Treasury of the United States: Provided, That the compensation to be paid the attorney or attorneys for the claimant Indians shall be determined by the Secretary of the Interior, but in any event shall not be greater than the amount named in the approved contract: Provided further, That such compensation shall in no event exceed $15,000.1 Approved, April 11, 1916. eys found due. Attorneys' fees. Limit. April 11, 1916. (8.3391.] 39 Stat., 48. Public lands. relinquishing lands to CHAP. 65.-An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act for the relief of Indians occupying railroad lands in Arizona, New Mexico, or California," approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Time extended for States of America in Congress assembled, That all of the provisions of Indians in Arizona, an Act entitled "An Act for the relief of Indians occupying railroad New Mexico, and Cali-lands in Arizona, New Mexico, or California," approved March 37 Stat., 1007, vol. 3, fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, be, and the same are hereby, fornia. 560. Proviso. Total area. extended for a period of two years from and after the fourth day of March, nineteen hundred and sixteen: Provided, That there may be exchanged under the provisions of the Act named herein a total area not exceeding ten thousand acres in Arizona and twenty-five thousand acres in New Mexico. May 10, 1916. CHAP. 117.-An Act Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes. [H. R. 12207. 39 Stat., 66. tive, and judicial ap 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 are propriations. 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 seventeen, namely: OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY: Interior Department. Clerk to sign, under the Clerk to sign triba direction of the Secretary, in his name and for him, his approval of deeds, etc. 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, Indian Office. $3,500; chief clerk, $2,750; forester, $3,000; financial clerk, $2,250; chiefs of divisions-one $2,250, one $2,000; law clerk, $2,000; assistant chief of division, $2,000; expert accountant, $2,000; private secretary, $1,800; examiner of irrigation accounts, $1,800; draftsmen-one $1,400, one $1,200; 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 at $900 each, two at $720 each; messenger; four assistant messengers; four messenger boys, at $360 each; in all, $325,550. * * Approved, May 10, 1916. CHAP. 125.—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 thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen. May 18, 1916. (H. R. 10335.] 39 Stat., 123. Indian Department Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, appropriations. and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not 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 and salaries which are provided for herein for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, namely: severalty, etc. For the survey, resurvey, classification, and allotment of lands in Surveying, allotting severalty under the provisions of the Act of February eighth, eight-instat, 88, vol. 1, een hundred and eighty-seven (Twenty-fourth Statutes at Large, 33. page three hundred and eighty-eight), entitled "An Act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians," and under any other Act or Acts providing for the survey or allotment of Indian lands, $100,000, to be repaid proportionally out of any Indian moneys Repayment. held in trust or otherwise by the United States and available by law for such reimbursable purposes and to remain available until expended: Provided, That no part of said sum shall be used for the survey, resurvey, classification, or allotment of any land in severalty and Arizona restricted. on the public domain to any Indian, whether of the Navajo or other tribes, within the State of New Mexico and the State of Arizona, who was not residing upon the public domain prior to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen. Use in New Mexico 54 etc. Irrigation, drainage, pended. projects. 479. Reimbursable, etc. 38 Stat., 583; ante, 8. Provisos. Use restricted. For the construction, repair, and maintenance of ditches, reservoirs, Available until ex- and dams, purchase and use of irrigation tools and appliances, water rights, ditches, lands necessary for canals, pipe lines, and reservoirs for Indian reservations and allotments and for drainage and proInvestigating new tection of irrigable lands from damage by floods, or loss of water rights, including expenses of necessary surveys and investigations to determine the feasibility and estimated cost of new projects and power and reservoir sites on Indian reservations in accordance with 36 Stat., 858, vol. 3 the provisions of section thirteen of the Act of June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, $235,000, reimbursable as provided in the Act of August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and to remain available until expended: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended on any irrigation system or reclamation project for which specific appropriation is made in this Act or for which public funds are or may be available under any other Act of Irrigation inspectors. Congress; for pay of one chief inspector of irrigation, who shall be a skilled irrigation engineer, $4,000; one assistant inspector of irrigation, who shall be a skilled irrigation engineer, $2,500; for traveling and incidental expenses of two inspectors of irrigation, including sleeping-car fare and a per diem of $3 in lieu of subsistence when actually employed on duty in the field and away from designated headquarters, $3,200; in all, $244,700: Provided also, That not to of exceed seven superintendents of irrigation, six of whom shall be skilled irrigation engineers and one competent to pass upon water rights, and one field-cost accountant, may be employed. Superintendents irrigation. Suppressing traffic. liquor Beer, etc., included. R. S., secs. 2140, 2141, p. 373. 83. For the suppression of the traffic in intoxicating liquors among Indians, $150,000. The provisions of sections twenty-one hundred and forty and twenty-one hundred and forty-one of the Revised Statutes of the United States shall also apply to beer and other intoxicating liquors named in the Act of January thirtieth, eighteen 29 Stat., 506, vol. 1, hundred and ninety-seven (Twenty-ninth Statutes at Large, page five hundred and six), and the possession by a person of intoxicating liquors in the country where the introduction is prohibited by treaty or Federal statute shall be prima facie evidence of unlawful introduction.1 Relieving preventing etc. Provisos. pitals. etc. increased. distress, diseases, For the relief and care of destitute Indians not otherwise provided for, and for the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis, trachoma, smallpox, and other contagious and infectious diseases, including transportation of patients to and from hospitals and sanatoria, $350,000: Provided, That not to exceed $90,000 of said amount may Amount for new hos be expended in the construction and equipment of new hospitals at a unit cost of not exceeding $15,000: Provided further, That this General treatment, appropriation may be used also for general medical and surgical treatment of Indians, including the maintenance and operation of general hospitals, where no other funds are applicable or available Limit for hospitals for that purpose: And provided further, That the proviso in the Act 38 Stat., 584; ante, 9. of August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, page five hundred and eighty-four), which limits the cost of erection and equipment of hospitals authorized therein to $15,000 each, is hereby amended so as to approve the expenditure of additional sums for the purposes named not exceeding $2,500 in any one case: Provided, That the total expenditures for erection and equipment of said hospitals shall not exceed $100,000, the aggregate Allotment to speci- amount authorized for that purpose by the Act in question: And provided further, That out of the appropriation of $350,000 herein authorized, there shall be available for the maintenance of the sanatoria and hospitals hereinafter named, and for incidental and all other expenses for their proper conduct and management, including pay of employees, repairs, equipment, and improvements, not to exceed the Maximum. fied hospitals and sana- 1254 Fed., 917; 18 Fed. 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