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 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 206. 1888. 101 as herein specified, of the said separate sections of land and said tracts of one hundred and eighty-eight acres and seventy-nve acres, and the Secretary of the Interior shall within three months after the nling of such map designate the particular portions of said sections an of said tracts of and which the said railwa companies respectively may take and hold under the provisions oty this act for railway plurposes. And the said railway companies and each of them s all within three years after this act takes effect, construct, complete cofgggtgfggnrmgd and put in operation their said lines of road; and in case the said ‘ lines of road are not definitely located and maps of location filed within the periods hereinbefore provided, or in case the said lines of road are not constructed, completed and put in operation within the time herein provided, then, and in either case, the lands granted for right of wa, station grounds, or other railway purposes, as in this act providedl shall without any further act or ceremony, be declared by proclamation of the President forfeited, and shall, without entry or further action on the part of the United States, revert to the United States and be subject to entry under the other provisions of this act; and whenever such forfeiture occurs the Secretary of the Interior shall ascertain the fact and give due notice thereof to the local land officers, and thereu on the lands so forfeited shall be open to homestead entry under the provisions of this act. Sec. 17. That it is hereby enacted that the seventh article of the said §,%¥{<>;>,}*· m treaty of April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight,’ p` securing to said Indians the benefits of education, subject to such modifications as Congress shall deem most effective to secure to said Indians equivalent benents of such education, shall continue in force for twenty years from and after the time this act shall take effect; and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to purchase, from time to time, for the use of said Indians, such and fofgcdiigse ¤f <=¤#1• so many American breeding cows of good quality, not exceeding us` twenty-five thousand in number, and bulls of like quality, not exceeding one thousand in number, as in his judgment can be, under regulations furnished by him, cared for and preserved, with their increase, by said Indians: Provided, That each head of family or Pvwiwvsingle person over the age of eighteen years, who shall have or may hereafter take his or her allotment of land in severalty, shall be A“°°m°¤*°*°¤'·¤¤ provided with two milch cows, one pair of oxen, with yoke and chain, one plow, one wagon, one narrow, one hoe, one axe, and one pitchfork, all suitable to the work they may have to do, and also twenty dollars in cash. That for two years the necessary seed shall be provided to plant five acres of ground into different crops, if so much can be used, and provided that in the purchase of such seed preference shall be given to Indians who may have raised the same for sale, and so much money as shall be necessary for this purpose is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise ap- _ _ propriated; and in ad itiou thereto there shall be set apart, out pe·§g’1§L'L‘;¥;Q‘}fQu°Q ‘°" of any money in the Treasury not otherwise a propriated, the sum ` of one million of dollars, which said sum shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Sioux Nation of Indians as a permanent fund, the interest of which, at five per centum per annum, shall be appropriated, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, to the use of the Indians receiving rations and annuities upon the reservations created by this act, in proportion to the numbers that shall so receive rations and annuities at the time this act takes effect, as follows: One—half of said interest shall be so D¤*¤‘>¤**°¤· expended for the promotion of industrial and other suitable education among said Indians. and the other half thereof in such manner and for such purposes, including reasonable cash payments per capita as, in the judgment of said Secretary. shall. from time to time, most contribute to the advancement of said Indians in civilization and self·support: Promded, That after the Government has