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 998 FIFTIETI-I CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 412. 1889. Survey or mas for For survey and subdivision of Indian reservations and of lands to °‘u°tm°°ti°S°°°r°1ty‘ 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, ten thousand dollars. Surveying, em., me Surveying and allotting Indian reservations (reimbursable): °"°°i°°°‘ To enable the President to complete the work already undertaken v¤1.2·1,p.ss¤. and commenced under the third section 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 on the various reservations, and to extend the pfotection of the laws of the United States and the Territories over the Indians, and for other purposes, including the necessary clerical work incident thereto in the field and in the office of Indian Affairs and the delivery to the Indians entitled rruscpaeem. thereunder of the trust patents authorized under said act, ten thousand dollars, to be immediately available. ummm:. To enable the President to cause, under the provisions of the act . of February eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled V°'· “·*’· 8**- "An act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservations, and to extend the protection of the laws of the United States and the Territories over the Indians, and for other purposes," such Indian reservations as in his judgment are advantageous for agricultural and grazing pur oses 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. And no allotments shall be ordered or commenced u on any reservation unless the allotments upon such reservation so selldcted and the delivery of trust patents therein can be completed under this appropriation. or seeds, For this amount, to be expen ed under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior in aiding Indians who have taken land in sev- ‘ era ty, under the act of February eighth, eighteen hundred and Vol.24.p.tB8. eighty-seven, entitled "An act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservations, and to extend the protection of the laws of the United States and the Territories over the Indians, and for other ur oses," to establish themselves in homes thereon, to procure seeld, farming implements, and other things necessary, in addition to means a ready provided by law or treaty, for the commencement of farming, thirty thousand dollars. The amounts provided for in the three preceding paragraphs shall be repaid to the Treasury proportionately out of the proceeds of the sales of such lands, if any, as may be acquired from the Indians report. under the (provisions of the aforesaid act. And a report in detail of the expen itures made to December first next, under the appropriations provided by said paragraphs, shall be made to Congress at the commencement of the next session. mmm aepmmuu For continuing the investigation and examination of certain In- °"°’"“‘ dian-depredation claims, originally authorized, and in the manner tl1erein provided for, by the Indian appro riation acts approved Iglgyv-2. March t ird, eighteen hundred and eig ity-fi)ve, and March second, ‘ ’°‘ ‘ eigrhteen hundred and eighty-seven, twenty thousand dollars. wm River vniey. hat the sum of nine thousand three hundred and seventy-one dollars and fifty cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby mP¤y¤¤¢¤¤ ¤<> ¤¢¤¤¤r¤ appropriated to enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay the set- ' thers who in good faith made settlement in the Wind River Valley, Wyoming Territory, previous to the time when the said valley was included in the Wind River Indian Reservation, the value of their im rovements as heretofore found by appraisement by the pro er Indian agent under direction of the Secretary of the Interior: 15*0- viaed, That no payments shall be made to any one of said settlers until he shall nrst have finally removed from said reservation.