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 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 1271, 1272. 1890. 659 Sec.  That the remainder of the grazing and timber lands in- S“¤'€Y#?:h'{*,°i¤t,§,*;{)gf_ eluded in the reservation as at present existing shall be surveyed into Eg tracts of six hundred and forty acres each, and the boundar lines of the reserved lands shall be run and properly marked. Uypon the completion of said surveys the said remainder of the grazing and t1mber lands shall be appraised in tracts of six hundred and forty acres each by a commission of three disinterested persons, to be a · Appraisement by pointed by the President, which commission shall also appraise agl °°“"’““**°”· ' xmprovements placed upon said tracts beforethe third day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and determine the ownership thereof. The said appraisements shall be subject to approval by the Secretary of the Interior. The said lands when surveyed and appraised shall be sold at the lproper land-office of the United States, sneer mas ythe register thereof, at plu lic sale, after due notice, to the highest bidder, at aprice not less t an the a raised value, and not less than one dollar and a quarter per acre. ggach purchaser at such sale shall pay the full purchase rice at time of purchase. Any person or r- sons having appraised' improvements upon any of said tracts shall have preference right toxpurchase the tract or tracts upon which said 1’¤r¤¤¤¤ Magruimprovements are ocat at the appraised value thereof. U on fail-  w W ure of any such person or persons to purchase a tract upon which his or their improvements are coated, said tract and improvements shall be sold at not less than the appraised value, and an amount equal to rqmem xm- xmthe appraised value of the improvements shall be paid to the owner P'°'°"“""*· or owners of such improvements. Sec. 4;. That the fimds arising from the sale of said reservation rumen or an w lands, after  the expenses of survey, appraisement, and sale, }’§£,,,"‘;"* °° °"°‘“° °’ and re-imbursing the Unite States for payment of lands and improve- ‘ ments, as provided in section two of tact, shall be placed in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of said Indians, and the same shall draw such rate of interest as is now or may be hereafter I¤wr¤¤¢~ pgovided by law, which income shall be annually expended for the nefit of said Indians, under the dll00h10D of the Secretaq of the Interior; Provided, That an amount not exceeding one-tent of the Prvvfwprincipal sum may be also expended for their benefit during any fiscal Use of principal year, 1f deemed necessary by the Secretary of the Interior. Sec. 5. That the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much oxggjgsfglwem f¤¤ thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same hereby is, appro- ` priated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of the expenses of the survey, appraisement, and sale of said lands, and for the appraisement 0 lan s, and improvements, and Ipayment of the same. _ _ Sec. 6. That a acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the pro- Reredvisions of this act are hereby repealed. Approved, October 1, 1890. CHAP. ,1272.-An act authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to ascertain October 1, 1890. d resulting to any person who had settled upon the Crow Creek and Winne- —··——·-·—·· ba ations in South Dakota between February twenty-seventl1, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and April seventeenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-Eve. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary {Brow creek me of the Interior shall designate a special agent of the Interior De-  ®"“’ partment who shall, as soon as practicable, under the direction of mgwmsw the Secret of the Interior, make inqmry and report to the Secre- f,'§,",;§’5,, ,ég§,,,_ tary of thsellrnterior uplon the claims for losses of a persons who in ood faith, between the twenty-seventh day of February, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and the seventeent day of April, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, settled upon and made claims under the