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 658 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 1270, 1271. 1890. of promotion, and that for this purpose there be, and is hereby, authorized two additional surgeons in the Navy, to be known and designated as surgeons not in the line of promotion, but in all other respects to be entitled to the rank, pay, emoluments, and privileges of surgeons in the Navy of the United States. Approved, October 1, 1890. 0W0b6F IJ8W- CHAP. 12'I1.—A.u act to provide for the reduction of the Roimd Valley Indian P; Reservation, in the State of alifornia, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the mmymcxllmm United  of America in Congress assembled, That the President B°°°""'°“· of the United tates be, and he hereby 1S, authorized and directed to cause the agricultural lands in the Round Valley Indian Reservation, Post,p.1006. in the State of California, to be surveyed into ten-acre tracts, and to Agneunmmi mus allot the same in severalty to the Indians belonging thereon, under °,‘{§° “°'°" the provisions of the act of Congress a prove February eighth, °*· MP-W- eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled "An act to proviei for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reser- `vations, and to extend the protection of the laws of the United States mms. and the Territories over the Indians, and for other pugploses: “Provibtgmntnaes m he tu. ded, That he may cause said agricultural lands to e otted in such quantities and to such classes as he may deem expedient and for the best interests of said Indians: And vided {nvther, That a sufficient . mu-vsnou nn- quantity of said agricultural land)sm shall e reserved for agency, £'f,’,;_ “°1‘°°" "“’ school, and mission purposes. In addition to the allotments of agricultural lands to said Indians in severalty, there shall be reserved a Jams wd rimber reasonable amount of grazing and timber lands for their use, to be used b said Indians in common, or the President may at any time, in his discretion, cause the same to be allotted in severalty under the provisions of said act of February eighth, eighteen hundred and _ _ eighty-seven, in such quantities and to such classes as he may deem ,€c‘{‘f“"“'“‘°“ ”° °** expe ient. Said grazing and timber lands shall be selected by a commission of three disinterested persons to be selected by the President. ,.,g{,Y, °’“" Sec. 2. That said commission shall appraise the value of any and all tracts of agricultural lands within the Round Valley Indian Reservation, with the im rovements thereon, which have become the roperty of individualls by purchase from the State of California or rom persons eriving tit e rom said tate, an s a a so appraiset e i) cll f d S d h ll lh value of all im rovements made by (private persons or firms, before the third day ofp March, eighteen hun red and seventy-three, upon any V°‘·"·P·”* of the lands included in die reservation as established under the act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy- three, other than those actually disposed of by said State of California, and within the lands selected and retained for the Indians, un- Remn. der the provisions of this act, and shall report the same to the Secrsymem. retary o the Interior, who shall cause payment to be made for such appraised lands and the improvements thereon, and also for such improvements as may be located upon the lands selected for the Indians in common, or upon any of the unappraised agricultural lands within the reservation, as hereby establis ed, to the Iproper owners thereof, out of the money hereinafter appropriated. _ pon payment of the appraised value of such appraised lands and improvements, _'llitle to me in the or upon tender of payment, the tit e to said lands shall become vested L‘“"°" S*"°°· in the United States, and all persons to whom such payment or tender of payment shall be made, and all fpersons claiming through or under them, shall immediately remove rom the reservation as herein established, and upon failure to remove within a period of sixty days of com after said payment or tender of ayment, the m1 itary forces of the p.h”° u United States, if necessary, may be employed to effect their removal.