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 62 FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Cns. 139, 140. 1892. have been in the actual occupation and possession of said Indians, and which shall be sufficient in extent tomeet their just requirements ;" and Whereas said commissioners were authorized to appraise the value of the improvements belonging to any person to whom valid existmg rights had attached under the public-land laws of the United States, where such improvements were situated within the limits of any reservation selected by the commissioners, subject to the approval of the Secretary fthe Interior- and _ Wh)ereas it was further provided in said act that, in case any land should be selected to which any railroad company should be entitled to receive a patent, such railroad company should, upon releasing all claim and title thereto and on the approval of the President and Secretary of thehlnteriior, ble allowed to select an equal quantity of other land in ieu thereo · an Whereas no proiiision was made whereby lands claimed by private persons through titles derived or sought to be derived from railroad companies or other sources than the public-land laws could be so released and exchanged· and Whereas the commissioners appointed under said act havereported, among other things, that certain lands are°in the occupation of In- · dians and are needed for their use which certain persons have improved, and on which they have developed valuable water rights, expecting to obtain title from the railroad companies or to which they had obtained title from the State of California, and that said persons are willing to exchange said lands for other lands heretofore reserved for the use of the Mission Indians, but which lands are no lon ger needed for such purpose · and Whereas the report and recommendations of said commissioners have been approved by the Secretary of the Interior and the President, •‘ except so much thereof as re tes to the purchase of lands from and exchange of lands with- private individuals which is also approved srqlbject to the condition that Congress shall authorize the same :" erefore Be it eniwted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United c5¤¤=i¤¤ I¤·ii¤¤¤· States of America. in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the In- ' terior be, and he hereby_is, authorized and empowered to carry into effect the recommendations of the said Mission Indian commissioners icxqmgs of una. relating to the exchange of lands with private individuals, as the same ‘f‘;:§,jff by *’“"“‘° lies been appgovedh bylthel President, agccli to ca)use patents in the usual orm to issue or e an s recommen to e given to such individpals in exchaiinge fpr (lands and improvements released and relinquished or the use o the u ians. uéglparsgmgggor {ue Sec. 2. That the sum of Eve thousand dollars, or so much thereof as Sm,.,, may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to enable the Secretary of the Interior to purchase certain lands and improvements for the use and benelit of said Mission Indians, as approved by said Secretary and the President, and to be applied to such purposes in accordance with the sand report of said Mission Indian commissioners as the same has been » approved by the President. Approved, July 1, 1892. - .1 . . CHA.1=.14o.——A ctr ‘d r li1* · - - - -4**-1 ‘ **2 -- s.,.., i.. as Sm., ..*2 ?v..¤&.¥§3.Y.1, ?..¤?i‘rEr°02l°§F;‘1{*iI,?0.‘Z§3“" °“'“° "°‘““° “°“°"“ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United H :¥)l1\`;];$£lId.l5;'€r gis- dtateg of America in Congress assembled, That subject to the reserva- ,,pw;,_, ,0 _,e;,,_,m,,,_·· tions and allotment of lands in severalty to the individual members of the Indians of the Colville Reservation in the State of Washington herein provided for, all the following described tract or portion of said