Sioux, Devil's Lake. Medawakanton Sioux. S'Klallams. Tonkawas. Walla Wallas, Cayuses, and Umatillas. Yakimas, etc. Incidental expenses. Arizona. California. Colorado. North Dakota. South Dakota. Idaho. Montana. Nevada. New Mexico. Oregon. Utah. Washington. For support and civilization of Sioux of Devils Lake, North Dakota, including pay of employees, and for the purchase of seeds, ten thou sand dollars, of which sum four thousand dollars shall be immediately available. For support and civilization of Sioux, Medawakanton Band, in Minnesota, five thousand dollars. For support and civilization of the S'Klallam Indians, Washington, including pay of employees, one thousand five hundred dollars. For support and civilization of Tonkawa Indians, Oklahoma Territory, and for seeds and agricultural implements, four thousand dollars. For support and civilization of the Walla Walla, Cayuse, and Umatilla tribes, Oregon, including pay of employees, five thousand dollars. For support and civilization of the Yakimas and other Indians at said agency, including pay of employees, eight thousand dollars. GENERAL INCIDENTAL EXPENSES OF THE INDIAN ARIZONA: For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Arizona, including traveling expenses of agents, one thousand five hundred dollars. CALIFORNIA: For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in California, including traveling expenses of agents, and support and civilization of Indians at the Round Valley, Hoopa Valley, and Tule River agencies, thirteen thousand dollars; and pay of employees at same agencies, eight thousand dollars; in all, twenty-one thousand dollars. COLORADO: For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Colorado, including traveling expenses of agents, one thousand five hundred dollars. NORTH DAKOTA: For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in North Dakota, including traveling expenses of agents at three agencies, one thousand five hundred dollars. SOUTH DAKOTA: For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in South Dakota, including traveling expenses of agents at seven agencies, three thousand five hundred dollars. IDAHO: For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Idaho, including traveling expenses of agents, one thousand dollars. MONTANA: For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Montana, including traveling expenses of agents, two thousand five hundred dollars. NEVADA: For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Nevada, including traveling expenses of agents, and support and civ ilization of Indians located on the Piute, Walker River, and Pyramid Lake reservations, and Piutes on the Western Shoshone Reservation, twelve thousand dollars; and pay of employees, same agency, four thou sand dollars; in all, sixteen thousand dollars. NEW MEXICO: For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in New Mexico, including traveling expenses of agents, one thousand five hundred dollars. OREGON: For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Oregon, including traveling expenses of agents, and support and civilization of Indians of Grand Ronde and Siletz agencies, eight thousand dollars; and pay of employees at the same agencies, four thousand dollars; in all, twelve thousand dollars. UTAH: For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Utah, including traveling expenses of agents; support and civilization of Indians at Uintah Valley and Ouray agencies, three thousand dol lars; and pay of employees at said agencies, four thousand dollars; in all, seven thousand dollars. WASHINGTON: For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Washington, including traveling expenses of agents at seven agencies, and support and civilization of Indians at Colville and Puy- MISCELLANEOUS. Commission to nego Vol. 25, p. 1005. To pay balance due the commission appointed under Act approved tiate for Indian lands. March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, for per diem and expenses, as follows: Alfred M. Wilson, one thousand two hundred and forty-five dollars; Warren G. Sayre, one thousand two hundred and forty-five dollars; David H. Jerome, one thousand two hundred and forty-five dollars, commissioners; and Charles S. King, secretary, seven hundred and two dollars; in all, four thousand four hundred and thirty-seven dollars. Commission to Five civilized Tribes. Vol. 27, p. 645; Vol. 28. p. 939. Authority contin ued. izenship. Provisos. For salaries and expenses of the Commissioners appointed under Acts of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, to negotiate with the Five Civilized Tribes in the Indian Territory, the sum of forty thousand dollars, to be immediately available; and said commission is directed to continue the exercise of the authority already conferred upon them by law and endeavor to accomplish the objects heretofore prescribed to them and report from time to time to Congress. That said commission is further authorized and directed to proceed, Applications for cit at once to hear and determine the application of all persons who may apply to them for citizenship in any of said nations, and after such hearing they shall determine the right of such applicant to be so admitted and enrolled: Provided, however, That such application shall be made to such Commissioners within three months after the passage of this Act. The said commission shall decide all such applications within ninety days after the same shall be made. That in determining all such applications said commission shall respect all laws of the several nations or tribes, not inconsistent with the laws of the United States, and all treaties with either of said nations or tribes, and shall give due force and effect to the rolls, usages, and customs of each of said nations or tribes: And provided, further, That the rolls of citizenship Present tribal rolls of the several tribes as now existing are hereby confirmed, and any person who shall claim to be entitled to be added to said rolls as a citizen of either of said tribes and whose right thereto has either been denied or not acted upon, or any citizen who may within three months from and after the passage of this Act desire such citizenship, may apply to the legally constituted court or committee designated by the several tribes for such citizenship, and such court or committee shall determine such application within thirty days from the date thereof. In the performance of such duties said commission shall have power and authority to administer oaths, to issue process for and compel the attendance of witnesses, and to send for persons and papers, and all depositions and affidavits and other evidence in any form whatsoever heretofore taken where the witnesses giving said testimony are dead or now residing beyond the limits of said Territory, and to use every fair and reasonable means within their reach for the purpose of determining the rights of persons claiming such citizenship, or to protect any of said nations from fraud or wrong, and the rolls so prepared by them shall be hereafter held and considered to be the true and correct rolls of persons entitled to the rights of citizenship in said several tribes: Provided, That if the tribe, or any person, be aggrieved with the decision of the tribal authorities or the commission provided for in this Act, it or he may appeal from such decision to the United States district court: Provided, however, That the appeal shall be taken within sixty days, and the judgment of the court shall be final. That the said commission, after the expiration of six months, shall 54-1-23 confirmed. Powers of commission. Provisos. Judgment of court final. Final roll of tribal citizenship. Deposit of roll, etc. cause a complete roll of citizenship of each of said nations to be made up from their records, and add thereto the names of citizens whose right may be conferred under this Act, and said rolls shall be, and are hereby, made rolls of citizenship of said nations or tribes, subject, however, to the determination of the United States courts, as provided herein. The commission is hereby required to file the lists of members as they finally approve them with the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to remain there for use as the final judgment of the duly constituted authorities. And said commission shall also make a roll of freedmen entitled to citizenship in said tribes and shall include their names in the lists of members to be filed with the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Report on leases, etc. And said commission is further authorized and directed to make a full report to Congress of leases, tribal and individual, with the area, amount and value of the property leased and the amount received therefor, and by whom and from whom said property is leased, and is further directed to make a full and detailed report as to the excessive holdings of members of said tribes and others. Government to be established in Indian Territory. Sissetons and Wahpetons. It is hereby declared to be the duty of the United States to establish a government in the Indian Territory which will rectify the many inequalities and discriminations now existing in said Territory and afford needful protection to the lives and property of all citizens and residents thereof. SISSETON AND WAHPETON INDIANS: That all the interest due the Sisseton and Wahpeton Indians on March third, eighteen hundred and Interest to be paid ninety-six, is hereby appropriated to be paid at once in cash per capita, and hereafter all interest on the permanent fund of said Indians, after deducting the amount expended for education, shall be paid in cash per capita on the first day of November of each year. per capita. Senecas, New York. SENECA NATION OF INDIANS: That the Secretary of the Interior be, Report of leases by and he hereby is, authorized and directed to ascertain and report to Congress a detailed statement of all the leases made and entered into by the Seneca Nation of Indians with all persons or corporations of all lands in the Allegany Indian Reservation in the State of New York, giving an itemized statement of each and every lease now in existence or force, with the date and terms of each lease and amount or amounts due on each lease. Mill, Pima Agency, Ariz. Flathead Mont. Agency, Nez Perce Reserva tion. Idaho. Mills. Surveys. Allotments. For operating and repairing the flour mill at Pima Agency, Arizona, one thousand five hundred dollars. For pay of employees at substation, and saw and flour mills at the Flathead Agency, Montana, and for necessary repairs, three thousand dollars. For setting up and operating two portable steam sawmills on the Nez Perce Indian Reservation, Idaho, including transportation of mill machinery from the agency to the mill sites, three thousand one hundred and thirty dollars. For surveying the unsurveyed portions of ceded lands of the Nez Perce Indian Reservation, in the State of Idaho, ten thousand dollars, the same to be immediately available. To enable the President to cause, under the provisions of the Act of February eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled "An Act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians," such Indian reservations as in his judgment are advantageous for agricultural and grazing purposes to be surveyed, or resurveyed, for the purposes of said Act, and to complete the allotment of the same, including the necessary clerical work incident thereto in the field and in the office of Indian Affairs, and delivery of trust patents, so far as allotments shall have been selected under said Act, thirty thousand dollars: ProLeases by allottees rided, That whenever it shall be made to appear to the Secretary of the Interior that by reason of age, disability, or inability, any allottee of Indian lands under this or former Acts of Congress can not person ally and with benefit to himself occupy or improve his allotment or any part thereof the same may be leased in the discretion of the Secretary Proviso. permitted. upon such terms, regulations, and conditions as shall be prescribed by him, for a term not exceeding five years for farming or grazing purposes, or ten years for mining or business purposes. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to reimburse, upon the presentation of proper evidence, out of any unexpended balance of the appropriation for the support of Sioux of different tribes, including Santee Sioux of Nebraska, for the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, the Rev. E. Ashley, of Cheyenne River Agency, South Dakota, for money expended by him in the employment of counsel to defend seven Indian policemen of said agency, charged with the crime of murder: Provided, That not more than seven hundred dollars be used for this purpose. E. Ashley. Proviso. Fond du Lac Indi ans. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to ascertain and determine the amounts due various merchants of Payment for sup plies. Cloquet and Fond du Lac, Minnesota, from certain Fond du Lac Indians, not exceeding in the aggregate six thousand six hundred dollars, for supplies furnished to said Indians, at the request of the Indian farmer, during the years eighteen hundred and eighty-eight and eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, or upon orders approved by the Indian farmer drawn upon and accepted by certain contractors for the purchase of pine timber on lands allotted to or selected by said Indians or claimed by them, and to pay said merchants the amount found due them, or each of them, their proportion of said sum out of any money on hand paid the United States by said contractors, or any of them, in settlement or satisfaction for pine timber cut upon such lands. To pay the expense of the preparation of a digest, under the direction of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, of the decisions of the courts and the Interior Department, and the opinions of the Attorney-General relating to Indian Affairs, three thousand dollars. Digest of decisions, etc., Indian Affairs. Purchase of tools, Commission. For the construction, purchase, and use of irrigating tools and appli- Irrigation. ances on Indian reservations, in the discretion of the Secretary of the etc. Interior, and subject to his control, thirty thousand dollars, and of this amount not exceeding two thousand seven hundred dollars may be used for the temporary employment of persons of practical experience in irriga- Experts. tion work at a compensation not to exceed seventy-five dollars per month each, and not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars for necessary traveling and incidental expenses of such persons. For completing the Puyallup Indian work of the Puyallup Indian Commission appointed under the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, to select and appraise such portions of the allotted lands within the Puyallup Indian Reservation, Washington, as are not required for homes for the Indian allottees; and also that part of the agency tract exclusive of the burying ground not needed for school purposes, and for the purpose of defraying the expenses of said commission, four thousand dollars to be reimbursed to the United States out of the proceeds of the sale of the agency tract and allotted lands, as provided in said Act, to be immediately available, and said commission shall conclude its work and terminate on or before the first day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-six. For survey and subdivision of Indian reservations, and of lands to be allotted to Indians, and to make allotments in severalty, to be expended by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, twenty thousand dollars. For survey and subdivision of the Colville Indian Reservation in the State of Washington, and of lands to be allotted to the Indians thereon, ten thousand dollars, to be immediately available and to be reimbursa ble from the proceeds of lands of said reservation when sold. Surveying and allot ting. Colville Reservation, Wash. Surveying, etc. Commission to nego tiate with Indians for The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to appoint a commission to consist of three persons, not more than two of whom shall cession of lands, etc. be of the same political party, and not more than one of whom shall be resident of any one State, to negotiate with the following Indians, namely: With the Crow and Flathead Indians in the State of Montana for the cession of portions of their respective reservations; with the Northern Cheyenne and Crow Indians for the removal of said Northern Cheyenne Indians from their present reservation on the Rosebud River at Lame Deer Agency to the southern portion of the Crow Reservation; with the Indians residing on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation in the State of Idaho, and with the Indians residing upon the Uintah Reservation in the State of Utah, for the surrender of any portion of their respective reservations, or for such modification of existing treaties as may be deemed desirable by said Indians and the Secretary of the Interior; and with the Yakima Indians in the State of Washington for the surrender of a portion of their reservation lands, and for such modification of existing treaties as may be deemed desirable by said Indians and the Secretary of the Interior, any agreement thus negotiated being subject to subsequent ratification by Congress; and for the expenses of such commission and negotiations hereunder the sum of ten thousand dollars is appropriated: Provided, That the time for the completion of the canal, or any part thereof, authorized by an Act Right of way ex entitled "An Act granting to the Columbia Irrigation Company a right of way through the Yakima Indian Reservation, in Washington," be, and is hereby, extended two years from July twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six. Proviso. Columbia Irrigation Company. tended. Vol. 28, p. 118. Homestead settlers' payments extended one year. Klamath tion, Oreg. Reserva Commission to locate boundary, etc. Report. Pay, etc., of commis. sioners. Mission Indians, Cheyenne River and That the homestead settlers on all ceded Indian reservations be, and they are hereby, granted an extension of one year in which to make payments as now provided by law, That the President of the United States is hereby authorized to appoint a commission, to be composed of three persons, two of whom shall be practical surveyors, not more than two of whom shall be of the same political party, and not more than one of whom shall be a resident of any one State, whose duty it shall be to visit and thoroughly investigate and determine as to the correct location of the boundary lines of the Klamath Indian Reservation, in the State of Oregon, the location of said boundary lines to be according to the terms of the treaties heretofore made with said Indians establishing said reservation; and when the correct location of said treaty boundaries of said reservation shall have been so ascertained and determined, said commission shall ascertain and determine, as nearly as practicable, the number of acres, if any, of the land, the character thereof, and also the value thereof, in a state of nature, that have been excluded from said treaty reservation by the erroneous survey of its out boundaries, as now existing and as shown and reported to have been made in reports of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, submitted to the Senate by the Secretary of the Interior, and as set out in Senate Executive Documents Numbered One hundred and twenty-nine, Fifty-third Congress, second session, and Numbered Sixty-two, Fifty-third Congress, third session. And said commission shall make report of the facts ascertained and of their conclusions and recommendations upon the matters hereby committed to them to the Secretary of the Interior, who is hereby directed to report the facts found and reported by said commission and their conclusions and recommendations in the matter, together with his recommendations thereon, to the next regular session of Congress for its action. And each member of said commission shall be paid not to exceed the sum of ten dollars per day while necessarily engaged in the performance of the duties of said commission and actual expenses of travel and subsistence, the same to be audited and paid upon proper vouchers as other expenditures for the Indian Service are audited and paid. And the sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for such purpose. To enable the Attorney General to employ a special attorney for the Mission Indians of southern California, upon the recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior, one thousand dollars. For the survey of lands in the Cheyenne River and Rosebud Indian Rosebud reservations. reservations in South Dakota, the sum of thirty thousand dollars, to be |