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 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 503. 1888. 239 be detailed from the employees of his Department such assistants and AS¤“*¤~¤*¤- shall furnish such facilities as shall be necessary to carry out the foregoing provisions respecting said Indian schools. _ Sec. 9. That for payment to the Choctaw Nation, two million eight PaYm°g‘” of Wig; hundred and fifty-eight thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight duitii¤`i¤ ight gr dollars and sixty-two cents, the said sum being the amount of the °h°"““" N‘“i°“‘ judgxnent rendered in favor of said nation, by the Court of Claims, on the fifteenth day of December, anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty-six, on a mandate issued by the Supreme Court, at the October term of said court, together with such further sum as may be necessary to pay the interest on said judgment, at five per centum per annum, from the date of the presentation of the transcript of said judgment to the Secretary of the Treasury for payment, as provided in section one thousand and ninety of the Revised Statutes, to the R·S··“°·*°"°·P·”°°- date of this act. The appropriation hereby made shall be a permanent and continuing appropriation, not subject to lapse, or to be covered into the Treasury; and said sum, together with the interest thereon, shall be paid from time to time, and in such sums as requisition or re uisitions, therefor shall be made, by the proper authorities of the Clhoctaw Nation, to the National Treasurer of said Nation, or to such other person or persons as shall be named in said requisitions therefor, in accordance with article twelve of the treaty between V0!- IL P- 614· the United States and the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, concluded June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five: Provided, That P'°"'*‘°- no interest shall be pai? on this appropriation after the passage of this mmcegmwx °° act, but the amount herein appropriated to be immediately available, ' and to be in full satisfaction of all claims against the United States arising under article twelve of said treaty. Sec. 10. That at day or industrial schools sustained wholly or in _ 31;*519 mnybetnughs part by appropriations contained in this act, and at which schools m '°”1°"g"°g°‘ church organizations are assisting in the educational work, the christian bible may be taught in the native language of the Indians, if in the jud ment of the persons in charge of the schools it may be deemed condgucive to the moral welfare and instruction of the pupils ‘ m§uchSCb(ii)lSiI th `d  b 1 I1 th t rt' f h t A ¤`s¤ ¤ ¤ f 12:0.11. nt' o erwise rovie awa a o iono wa ¤* m¤ 0 is known as the Blackfootplndian Rgservation in Montana Terri- Eixhtwtrtnmuhg tory, lyin west of the one hundred and eighth meridian, ceded to M‘j{‘,§‘},§f“,,_,,,,_ the United States under an agreement with the several bands of Indians occupying the same, (which said agreement was ratified by act of Congress approved May first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight), is hereby attached to an made a part of the county of Choteau, in said Territory, and, until otherwise provided by law, all that portion of said reservation ceded under said agreement and lying east of the one hundred and eighth meridian, Montana, is hereby attached to and made part of the county of Dawson, in said Territory. The laws of the Territor of Montana now in force in the counties of Dawson and Choteau shall extend over and be in force in the portions of territory added to said counties, respectively. _ _ Sec. 12. That section second of an act entitled "An act providing Reiggigdgg tg¤l;¤•=i1}g for allotment of lands in severalty to the Indians residing upon the at agency. s° Umatilla Reservation, in the State of Oregon, and granting patents "° · 2"·· P· 8**-* therefor, and for other purposes," approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-five be, and the same is hereby; amended so as to provide that the lands described in said section s all be sold at the agency on said reservation, in Umatilla County, State of Oregon, instead of the proper land-office of the United States, as provided in and by said section, such sales in all other respects to be made in the manner as prescribed in said act. Approved, June 29, 1888.