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Hearings.

and the reasons therefor, which shall be accompanied by the original proposals and all maps, plats, and statements which shall have come into his possession relating to the said proposed sites.

If, upon consideration of said report and accompanying papers, the Secretary of the Treasury shall deem further investigation Appointment of necessary, he may appoint a commission of not more than three persons, one of whom shall be an officer of the Treasury Department, which commission shall also examine the said proposed sites, and such others as the Secretary of the Treasury may designate, and grant such hearings in relation thereto as they shall deem necessary; and said commission shall, within thirty days after such examinaExamination and tion, make to the Secretary of the Treasury written report of their conclusion in the premises, accompanied by all statements, maps, plats, or documents taken by or submitted to them, in like manner as herein before provided in regard to the proceedings of said agent of Determination of lo- the Treasury Department; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall thereupon finally determine the location of the building to be erected.

report.

cation.

Compensation of commissioners.

Proviso.

The compensation of said commissioners shall be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, but the same shall not exceed six dollars per day and actual traveling expenses: Provided, however, That Treasury member. the member of said commission appointed from the Treasury Department shall be paid only his actual traveling expenses.

No expenditure until valid title, etc., pass.

Open space.

No money shall be used for the purpose mentioned until a valid. title to the site for said building shall be vested in the United States, nor until the State of Illinois shall have ceded to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over the same, during the time the United States shall be or remain the owner thereof, for all purposes except the administration of the criminal laws of said State and the service of civil process therein.

The building shall be unexposed to danger from fire by an open space of at least forty feet on each side, including streets and alleys. Approved, January 12, 1891.

January 13, 1891.

Detail of Army and

Navy officers to colleges, etc.

R.S.. sec. 1225, p. 216,

amended.

CHAP. 70.-An act to amend section twelve hundred and twenty-five of the Revised Statutes, concerning details of officers of the Army and Navy to educational institutions.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Section twelve hundred and twenty-five of the Revised Statutes, concerning details of officers of the Army and Navy to educational institutions, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to permit the President to detail, under the provisions of said act, not to exceed seventy-five officers of the Army of the United States; and the maximum number of officers of the Army and Navy to be detailed at any one time Vol. 25. pp. 491, 492, under the provisions of the act passed September twenty-sixth,

Limit increased.

amended.

Limit increased.
Proviso.

Details only where

military instruction.

Detail of engineer officers of the Navy.

Vol. 20, p. 322.

eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, amending said section twelve hundred and twenty-five of the Revised Statutes, is hereby increased to eighty-five: Provided, That no officer shall be detailed to or maintained at any of the educational institutions mentioned in said act where instruction and drill in military tactics is not given: Provided further, That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to prevent the detail of officers of the Engineer Corps of the Navy as professors in scientific schools or colleges as now provided by Act of Congress approved February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and seventynine, entitled "An act to promote a knowledge of steam-engineering and iron shipbuilding among the students of scientific schools or colleges in the United States."

Approved, January 13, 1891.

CHAP. 72.—An act for the erection of a public building at Sioux City, Iowa.

January 15, 1891.

Sioux City, Iowa.
Public building, etc.

Site.

Building.

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 purchase or acquire by condemnation a site for, and cause to be erected thereon, a suitable building with fire-proof vaults therein, for the accommodation of the United States district and circuit courts, post-office, custom-house, internal revenue office, and other Government offices, at the city of Sioux City, Iowa. The plans, Plans, estimates, etc. specifications, and full estimates for said building shall be previously made and approved according to law and shall not exceed, for the site and building complete, the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Limit of cost.

Proposals for the sale of land suitable for said site shall be invited Proposals to be adby public advertisement in one or more of the newspapers of said vertised for. city of largest circulation for at least twenty days prior to the date specified in said advertisement for the opening of said proposals. Proposals made in response to said advertisement shall be addressed Responses. and mailed to the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall then cause the said proposed sites, and such others as he may think proper to designate, to be examined in person by an agent of the Treasury Examination, etc. by Department, who shall make written report to said Secretary of the Treasury agent. results of said examination, and of his recommendation thereon, and the reasons therefor, which shall be accompanied by the original proposals and all maps, plats, and statements which shall have come into his possession relating to the said proposed sites.

If, upon consideration of said report and accompanying papers, the Secretary of the Treasury shall deem further investigation nec

Hearings.

Examination and re

essary, he may appoint a commission of not more than three persons, Appointment of comone of whom shall be an officer of the Treasury Department, which mission. commission shall also examine the said proposed sites, and such others as the Secretary of the Treasury may designate, and grant such hearings in relation thereto as they shall deem necessary; and said commission shall, within thirty days after such examination, make to the Secretary of the Treasury written report of their conclusion in the premises, accompanied by all statements, maps, plats, port. or documents taken by or submitted to them, in like manner as herein before provided in regard to the proceedings of said agent of the Treasury Department; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall thereupon finally determine the location of the building to be erected. The compensation of said commissioners shall be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, but the same shall not exceed six dollars per day and actual traveling expenses: Provided, however, That the member of said commission appointed from the Treasury Depart- Treasury member. ment shall be paid only his actual traveling expenses.

No money shall be used for the purpose mentioned until a valid title to the site for said building shall be vested in the United States, nor until the State of Iowa shall have ceded to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over the same, during the time the United States shall be or remain the owner thereof, for all purposes except the administration of the criminal laws of said State and the service of civil process therein.

The building shall be unexposed to danger from fire by an open space of at least forty feet on each side, including streets and alleys. Approved, January 15, 1891.

Determination of lo

cation. Compensation of com

missioners.

Proviso.

No expenditure until valid title, etc., pass.

Open space.

January 15, 1891.

Co.. N. Mex

authorized.

Description, etc.

CHAP. 73.-An act for the relief of the inhabitants of the town of Gallup, Bernalillo County, Territory of New Mexico.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Gallup, Bernalillo United States of America in Congress assembled, That the probate Entry of town-site judge of Bernalillo County, Territory of New Mexico, be, and is in trust for occupants hereby, authorized to enter in trust for the occupants and inhabitants of the town of Gallup, for town-site purposes, the southeast quarter of section sixteen, township fifteen north, of range eighteen west, of New Mexico principal meridian, subject to the provisions R.S., secs. 2387-2389, of sections twenty-three hundred and eighty-seven, twenty-three hundred and eighty-eight, and twenty-three hundred and eightynine of chapter eight of the Revised Statutes of the United States relating to town sites.

p. 437.

Indemnity school lands.

SEC. 2. That upon the passage of this act the Territory of New Mexico, through its proper officer, shall be, and is hereby, authorized to select as indemnity for said land, and in full satisfaction thereof, R. S., sec. 1946, p. 341. and for the purposes stated in section nineteen hundred and fortysix of the Revised Statutes, one quarter section of one hundred and sixty acres of public lands at any office in said Territory, said selections to be made according to legal subdivisions and contiguous. Approved, January 15, 1891.

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CHAP. 74.—An act to authorize the Treasurer of the United States to receive and keep on deposit funds of the Soldiers' Home in the District of Columbia.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Treasurer of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to receive and keep on deposit, subject to the checks or drafts of the treasurer of the Soldier's Home in the District of Columbia, all funds which may now be under the control of the said Treasurer of the Soldier's Home, or may hereafter be furnished him or in any manner come into his possession for use in defraying the current expenses of maintaining the said Soldiers' Home, and, upon the request of said treasurer of the Soldiers' Home, there shall be transferred, from funds to his credit with the United States Treasurer, and placed to his credit with the assistant treasurer of the United States in New York City, New York, such sums as he may require monthly or quarterly for payments on account of "out-door relief" to members of the said Soldiers' Home residing at a distance therefrom. Approved, January 16, 1891.

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CHAP. 76.-An act supplementary to an act entitled "An act to authorize the construction of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad in the District of Columbia."

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the construction, maintenance, and use for railway purposes of the turn-outs. and sidings of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company, now extending from its line between the Anacostia or Eastern Branch of the Potomac River and the Long Bridge, in the city of Washington, into the several squares of ground known and designated on the plat of the city of Washington as follows: Square seven hundred and thirty-seven; square seven hundred and thirty-nine; square six hundred and ninety-five; square northwest of square six hundred and ninety-five; square west of square six hundred and ninety-five; square north of square six hundred and ninety-seven; square east of square six hundred and forty-two; square north of square six

hundred and forty-two; square six hundred and forty-one; square five hundred and thirty-six; square four hundred and ninety-three; square south of square four hundred and sixty-three; square four hundred and sixty-four; square three hundred and eighty-six; square two hundred and sixty-seven; and square south of square two hundred and sixty-seven; is hereby authorized, but Congress may at any time revoke said authority, said tracks to be maintained in such manner as will least obstruct the public streets, avenues, or alleys on which said tracks are laid, and to be under the general supervision of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia.

Revocation.

Street obstruction.
Supervision.

District Commissioners to grant like

SEC. 2. That it sh be the duty of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and they are hereby authorized and empowered, facilities elsewhere. whenever they consider it a public benefit, to grant the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company permission to lay, maintain, and use side-tracks and sidings from the main line or lines of said railroad into any real estate in the said city abutting on the streets or avenues on which such line of such company is or may be situated, east of Four-and-a-half street and south of Virginia and Maryland avenues, which may be used or occupied for manufacturing, commercial, or other business purposes by parties desiring the use of such facilities. Such side-tracks or sidings shall be laid and maintained under the direction of said Commissioners, and in such manner as shall least obstruct the use of the public streets for ordinary Street obstruction. purposes: Provided, That the right to revoke the use of said side tracks or sidings is reserved to Congress.

Proviso.
Revocation.

Acquisition of land by company, for busi

ness.

Description, etc.

Side tracks.

SEC. 3. That the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company is hereby authorized and empowered to acquire, subject to the approval of said Commissioners, for the purposes of its business any one or more of the squares of ground in the city of Washington south of the line of the said railroad and north of L street and east of Delaware avenue and north of the Eastern Branch and east of Thirteenth street southeast, and any one or more squares, as shall be approved by the said Commissioners, abutting on the line of said railroad on Maryland and Virginia avenues, east of Four-and-a-half street and south of its main track on Virginia avenue, and west of Twelfth street southwest, and to extend, maintain, and use tracks from convenient points on the line of said railroad into the said property, and to cross such streets as may be necessary for that purpose, and Crossing streets. to construct thereon such facilities as may be necessary for its business as a common carrier, and approved by said Commissioners, and to maintain such facilities in connection therewith; such tracks, where they cross streets, to be laid and maintained under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and in such manner as shall least obstruct the use of said streets for ordinary purposes. The right to remove such tracks is hereby reserved to Congress. And in case said company shall be unable for any reason to acquire such properties or any portion thereof by purchase they may be acquired by said company in the manner provided by sections numbered from six hundred and forty-eight to six hundred and sixty-three, both inclusive, of the Revised Statutes, relating to the District of Columbia; but nothing herein contained shall authorize the condemnation of any church or school property or property of the United States: Provided, That nothing contained in this act, and no expenditure that may be made by said railroad company hereunder shall be held or construed to give said company any right retention. legal or equitable not now possessed to retain the passenger station of said company on Sixth street.

Minimum obstruc

Removal of tracks.

tion.

Condemnation pro

ceedings.

R. S. D. C., secs. 648

663, pp. 78, 79. Excepted property.

Proviso.

Sixth street station

SEC. 4. That Congress hereby reserves the right to alter, amend, Amendment, etc. or repeal this act.

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January 19, 1891.

Preamble.

vation, Dak., appropriations, etc.

able.

CHAP. 77.—An act to enable the Secretary of the Interior to carry out, in part, the provisions of "An act to divide a portion of the reservation of the Sioux Nation of Indians in Dakota into separate reservations and to secure the relinquishment of the Indian title to the remainder, and for other purposes," approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and making appropriations for the same and for other purposes.

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Whereas in accordance with section twenty-eight of the act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, entitled "An act to divide a portion of the reservation of the Sioux Nation of Indians in Dakota into separate reservations and to secure the relinquishment of the Indian title to the remainder, and for other purposes (public one hundred and forty-eight), the President of the United States has made known, by proclamation, that satisfactory proof has been presented to him that the consent of the different bands of the said Sioux Nation of Indians to the said act has been obtained in the manner and form required by the said twelfth article of the treaty of April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight: Therefore,

Be it enacted by te Senate and House of Representatives of the Sioux Indian Reser- United States of Ar rica in Congress assembled, That the following sums, or so much t ereof as may be necessary, be, and the same are hereby, appropriate 1, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherImmediately avail wise appropriated, to be immediately available to enable the Secretary of the Ierior to comply with and carry out certain provisions of the act of Congress approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine (public one hundred and forty-eight, Statutes twenty-five, page eight hundred and eighty-eight), and for other purposes:

Vol. 25, pp. 888-899.

Schools, etc.

Vol, 15, pp. 637, 638.

Vol. 25, pp. 894, 895.
Proviso.

For the erection of day and industrial schools, providing furniture and other necessary articles, and pay of teachers, in accordance with article seven of the treaty of April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, which said article of treaty is continued in force for twenty years by section seventeen of the above-mentioned act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine: Provided, Compulsory attend- That as fast as school facilities are furnished the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and required to compel all children between the ages of six and sixteen to attend the schools on the reservation at least nine months in the year, except such as may be attending school elsewhere, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

ance.

Schoolhouses.
Vol. 25, p. 896.

Payment for ponies

Rock and Cheyenne
River agencies.

Provisos.

For the erection of fifteen school buildings, provided for in_article twenty of the above-mentioned act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, fifteen thousand dollars.

To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay to such individual to Indians of Standing Indians of the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Agencies as he shall ascertain to have been deprived by the authority of the United States of ponies in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-six, at the. rate of forty dollars for each pony: Provided, That the sum paid to To be accepted in each individual Indian under this provision shall be taken and accepted by such Indian in full compensation for all loss sustained by such Indian in consequence of the taking from him of ponies as aforesaid: And provided further, That if any Indian entitled to such compensation shall have deceased the sum to which such Indian would be entitled shall be paid to his heirs at law, according to the laws of the State of Dakota, two hundred thousand dollars.

full.

Heirs at law.

Sioux Nation.

To enable the Secretary of the Interior to purchase for the Sioux Additional beef ra- Nation of Indians additional beef required for issue, the rations having been reduced on account of reduced appropriation for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, one hundred

tions.

Santee Sioux in Nebraska.

thousand dollars.

To enable the Secretary of the Interior to purchase lands for such Purchase of lieu of the Santee Sioux Indians in Nebraska as have been unable to severalty lands. take lands in severalty on their reservations in Nebraska by reason

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