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 64 FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 140. 1892. lands hereby vacated to settlement and entry, and after the same have been surveyed, and when such allotments have been selected as afore- Titles lmluiu trust- said and approved by the Secretary of the Interior, the titles thereto shall be held in trust for the benent of the allottees, respectively, and afterwards conveyed in fee simple to the allottees or their heirs, as pro- V•>1-24»1>-388· vided in the act of Congress entitled “An act to provide for the allotment of land in severalty to Indians on the various reservations, and to extend the protection of the laws of the United States and Territories over the Indians, and for other purposes," approved February eighth, eighteen hundred and eightyseven, and an act in amendment and extension thereof, approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen V°‘· 2°·P·"‘· hundred and ninety-one, entitled “An act to amend and further extend the benefits of the act approved February eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled ‘ An act to provide for the allotment of land in severalty to Indians on the various reservations, and to extend the protection of the laws of the United States over the Indians, and tor I’"”"*°· other purposes:’” Provided, That such allotted lands shall be subject t0£¤*¤ of W*¤h*¤8· to the laws of eminent domain of the State of Washington, and shall, ' when conveyed in fee simple to the allottees or their heirs, be subject to taxation as other property in said State. R*ghf):Q(£*;'l*;_“,Q0;f Sec. 5. That all Indians residing in the lands hereby vacated and restored, shall have the right, if they so prefer. under the direction of the Indian agent, to occupy and reside upon such portions of the Colville Indian Reservation not hereby vacated as are not occupied by or in the ’ possession of any other Indian or Indians. mkgqwgiee for Te Sec. 6. That the land used and occupied for school purposes at what ° °° °°' is known as Tonasket school, on Bonaparte Creek, and the site of the sawmill, gristmill, and other mill property on said reservation, is hereby reserved from the operation of this act, unless other lands are se- P¤¤#•···- lected in lieu thereof: Provided, That such reserved lands shall not Lima. exceed in the aggregate two sections, and must be selected in legal subdivisions conformably to the public surveys, such selection to be made by the Indian agent of the Colville Agency, under the direction hI§g°g;§<i*;m*;fl¤°*°’ of the Secretary of the Interior and subject to his approval: Provided, ` however, That said Indians may, in lieu of said sites or either of them, select other lands of equal quantity, for such purposes, either on the vacated or unvacated portions of said reservation, the same to be designated inlegal subdivisions by said Indian agent, under the direction of and subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, in which case said iirst-designated tracts shall not be exempt from the operation of this act; such selection to be made and approved within six months after the survey of said lands and the proclamation of the President. m¢pg¤:x,;¤:1t;¤ty¤c{_g_* _ Sec. 7. That for thepurpose of making the allotments and selections sa. ’ m this act provided, including surveys of the lands provided to be vacated and restored to the public domain, thirty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appro- R¤¤¤¤»¤r¤¤¤»1¤- priated, which said sum shall be reimbursable from the proceeds of the _ lands when sold as hereinbefore provided. ogigjeje ***1** ¤°* M Sec. 8. That nothing herein contained shall be construed as recognizing title or ownership of said Indians to any part of the said Colville Reservation, whether that hereby restored to the public domain or that still reserved by the Government for their use and occupancy. Received by the President June 20, 1892. [Nora BY trim Dnrxnmmur or S·rArn.—The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.]