Support of Schools-continued. Brought forward The entire cost of any boarding-school building, including furni- The entire cost of any day-school building shall not exceed $600. vacations. The Secretary of the Interior shall report annually, on or before Chilocco Industrial School, Chilocco, Indian Territory (formerly Ar- For support of pupils, at $175 each per annum $715,000.00 $30,625 For purchase of materials, erection of shops, and necessary out-buildings, and for repairing same For pay of superintendent 2,000 1,500 34,125.00 Industrial schools in Alaska For support and education of Indian pupils of both sexes 20,000.00 $80,000 To be disbursed upon the basis of an allowance For annual allowance to Captain R. H. Pratt, in charge Indian industrial school at Salem, Oregon 1,000 81,000.00 200 Indian pupils, at $175 per annum each Pay of superintendent. Completion of school building, and necessary outbuildings, and repairs and fencing. 5,000 41,500.00 Brought forward Support of Schools: Indian school at Lawrence-continued. For purchase of materials, erection of shops, cottages, and out-buildings, and necessary repairs For the completion of building, and the purchase of additional grounds 33,400.00 Lincoln Institution, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania- Saint Ignatius Mission-school, on the Jocko reservation, Montana Ter- For support of 150 Indian pupils, at $150 each per annum For collecting and transportation of pupils to and from Indian schools, 22,000.00 50,100.00 28,000.00 $1,210,915.00 INTEREST ON TRUST-FUND STOCKS. For payment of interest on certain abstracted and non-paying state stocks belonging to the various Indian tribes, and held in trust by the Secretary of the Interior, for the year ending June 30, 1886-viz., Cherokee national fund Cherokee school fund Chickasaw national fund Choctaw general fund Delaware general fund Iowas Kaskaskias, Peorias, Weas, and Piankeshaws interest $26,060 No purchase of supplies, for which appropriations are made, exceeding in the aggregate $500 in value, are made without first giving at least three weeks' notice by advertisement, except in cases of exigency, when, in the discretion of the Secretary of the $94,940.00 | Interior, who makes official record of the facts constituting the exigency, and reports the same to Congress at its next session, he directs that purchases may be made in open market in amount not exceeding $3000. Funds appropriated for construction of ditches and other works for irrigating may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, be expended in open market. Purchases in open market may be made from Indians, under the direction of said Secretary, to an amount not exceeding $3000. The said Secretary, under the direction of the President, may use any surplus in any of the appropriations for the purchase of subsistence for the several Indian tribes, to an amount not exceeding $25,000 in the aggregate, to supply any subsistence deficiency that may occur; but funds appropriated to fulfil treaty obligations shall not be so used. Any such diversions are reported in detail, and the reasons therefor, to Congress, at its session next succeeding such diversion. The Secretary of the Interior, under the direction of the President, may use any sums appropriated for subsistence, and not absolutely necessary for that purpose, for the purchase of stock-cattle for the benefit of the tribe for which the appropriation was made, or for the assistance of such Indians to become farmers, and shall report to Congress thereanent. The several appropriations made for millers, blacksmiths, engineers, carpenters, physicians, and other persons, and for various articles provided for by treaty stipulation for the several Indian tribes, may be diverted to other uses for the benefit of the said tribes respectively, within the discretion of the President, and with the consent of said tribes, expressed in the usual manner, and the Secretary of the Interior causes report thereof to be made to Congress. CIVIL RIGHTS AND CITIZENSHIP. All persons within the jurisdiction | against them, neither party is allowed of the United States have the same right in every state and territory to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, give evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property as is enjoyed by white citizens, and are subject to like punishment, pains, penalties, taxes, licences, and exactions of every kind, and to no other. All citizens of the United States have the same right in every state and territory as is enjoyed by white citizens thereof to inhabit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property. In the courts of the United States no witness is excluded in an action on account of colour, or in any civil action because he is a party to or interested in the issue tried; but in actions by or against executors, administrators, or guardians, in which judgment may be rendered for or to testify against the other, or to any transaction with or statement by the testator, intestate, or ward, unless called to testify thereto by the opposite party or by the court. In all other respects the laws of the state in which the court is held are the rules of decision as to the competency of witnesses in the courts of the United States in trials at common law and in equity and admiralty. Such are the rights of all persons born in the United States, and not subject to any foreign Power, excluding Indians not taxed. Citizenship also embraces all children born or to be born out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United States whose fathers were or may be at the time of their birth citizens thereof, but the rights of citizenship do not descend to children whose fathers never resided in the United States. Any woman married to a citizen of the United States, who might herself be lawfully naturalised, is deemed a citizen. The 1999th and 2000th sections of the United States Revised Statutes (27th July 1868, chap. 249) enact that, whereas the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent right of all people, indispensable to the enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; and whereas in the recognition of this principle this Government has freely received emigrants from all nations and invested them with the rights of citizenship; and whereas it is claimed that such American citizens, with their descendants, are subjects of foreign states owing allegiance to the Governments thereof; and whereas it is necessary to the maintenance of public peace that this claim of foreign allegiance should be promptly and finally disavowed: therefore any declaration, instruction, opinion, order, or decision of any officer of the United States which denies, restricts, impairs, or questions the right of expatriation is declared inconsistent with the fundamental principles of the Republic. All naturalised citizens of the United States while in foreign countries are entitled to and shall receive from the Government the same protection of persons and property which is accorded to native-born citizens. When ever it is made known to the President that any citizen of the United States has been unjustly deprived of his liberty by or under the authority of any foreign Government, it is the duty of the President forthwith to demand of that Government the reasons of such imprisonment; and if it appears to be wrongful and in violation of the rights of American citizenship, the President shall forthwith demand the release of such citizen, and if the release so demanded is unreasonably delayed or refused, the President shall use such means, not amounting to acts of war, as he may think necessary and proper to obtain or effectuate the release; and all the facts and proceedings relative thereto shall be, as soon as practicable, communicated by the President to Congress. Every person who deserts the military or naval service of the United States, or who, being duly enrolled, departs the jurisdiction of the district in which he is enrolled, or goes beyond the limits of the United States with intent to avoid any draft into the military or naval service, lawfully ordered, is deemed to have voluntarily relinquished and forfeited his rights of citizenship, and is for ever incapable of holding any office of trust or profit under the United States, or of exercising any rights of citizens thereof. GENERAL LAND OFFICE. The Commissioner of the General Land Office is an officer in the Department of the Interior. By and with the advice and consent of the Senate, the President appoints a surveyorgeneral for each of the states and territories requiring one, at salaries of $2000, $2500, or $3000, according to their respective districts. Their offices are located as the President, in view of the public convenience, | may from time to time direct, except as specially provided by law. Every surveyor-general, while in the discharge of the duties of his office, resides in his particular district. Before entering on the duties of his office, he executes and delivers to the Secretary of the Interior a bond, with good and sufficient security, for the penal sum of $30,000, conditioned for the faithful disbursement, according to law, of all public money placed in his hands, and for the faithful performance of the duties of his office. The President is authorised, whenever he may deem it expedient, to require any surveyor-general to give a new bond and additional security, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior. The commission of every surveyor-general ceases and expires, unless sooner vacated by death, resignation, or removal from office, in four years from date. The Secretary of the Interior takes all the necessary measures for the completion of the surveys in the several surveying districts, at the earliest periods compatible with the purposes contemplated by law; and whenever the surveys and records of any district are completed, the surveyor-general thereof is required to deliver over to the secretary of state of the respective states including such surveys, or to such other officer as may be authorised to receive them, all the field-notes, maps, records, and other papers appertaining to land-titles within the same; and the office of surveyor-general in every such district thereafter ceases and is discontinued. In all cases where there is such turning over of papers to the state authorities, the same authority, powers, and duties in relation to the survey, resurvey, or subdivision of the lands therein, and all matters and things connected therewith, as previously exercised by the surveyor - general, are vested in and devolve upon the Commissioner of the General Land Office. Under this Commissioner's authority, any deputy-surveyor or other agent of the United States has free access to any of said papers for the purpose of taking extracts therefrom, or making copies thereof, without charge of any kind. But these papers are in no case turned over to the authorities of any state until such state has provided by law for the reception and safe keeping of them as public records, and for the allowance of free access to them by the United States authorities. Every surveyor-general, register, and receiver, is authorised, except where the President sees cause otherwise to determine, to continue in the uninterrupted discharge of his regular official duties after the day of expiration of his commission, and until a new commission is issued to him for the same office, or until a successor enters upon the duties of such office, and the existing official bond continues in operation so long. Every surveyor-general is authorised to engage a sufficient number of skilful surveyors as his deputies, and to swear them in; also to frame regulations for their direction, not inconsistent with law or the instructions of the General Land Office; and to remove them for negligence or misconduct in office. He has to cause to be surveyed, measured, and marked, without delay, all base and meridian lines through such points, and perpetuated by such monuments, and such other correction, parallels, and meridians as may be prescribed by law, or by instructions from the General Land Office, in respect to the public lands within his district to which the Indian title is extinguished. He has to cause to be surveyed all private land-claims within his district, after they have been confirmed by authority of Congress, so far as may be necessary to complete the survey of the public lands. He has to transmit to the register of the respective land offices within his district general and particular plats of all lands surveyed by him for each land district, and to forward copies of such plats to the Commissioner of the General Land Office. He has, so far as compatible with the desk duties of his office, to occasionally inspect the surveying operations while in progress in the field, sufficiently to satis |