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 336 FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 290. 1804. manner, at the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, and if not sold at such second olfering for want of bidders, then the Secretary may mmm cause the same to be sold at private sale at not less than the appraised value. The money realized from the sale of said lands, after deducting the expenses of the sale of said lands, and the other money for which provision is made for the reimbursement of the United States, shall be 1>~¤¤¤•1¤w·=¤•·Ht·¤f placed in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of said Yuma Y`i:£:`Q°e¥°°` Indians, and shall draw interest at the rate of five per centum per annum, and said principal and interest shall be subject to appropriation by Congress, or to application by the President of the United States for the payment of water rents, the building of levees, irrigating ditches and laterals, the purchase of tools, farming implements, and mm. seeds, and for the education and civilization of said Indians: Provided,. GQ °*"'°°“°°“ however, That none of said money realized from the sale of said lands, or any of the interest thereon, shall be applied to the payment of any judgment that has been or may hereafter be rendered on claims for damgges because of depredations committed by said Indians prior to the ate of the agreement herein ratified. T·:¤£¤b$l:>¤ ¤¤·¤•=¤‘ That all of the lands ceded by said agreement which are not suscep- be opened to settlement and sale by proclamation of the President of tllie Unitedi Stags, and be subject to disposal under the provisions of t e genera an laws. g,¤·ie==i¤u0<>;¤¤l· That the Colorado River Irrigating Company, which was granted a °°"right of way for an irrigating canal through the said Yuma Indian vox. z1,p.4sc. Reservation by the Act of Congress approved February fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, shall be required to begin the construction of said canal through said reservation within three years from the ft: df the _(pa?s3geboffthfistA(ct, otherwise the rights granted by the caoresa.1 sa eoei. wmr mn. That the Secretary of the Interior shall have authority from time to time to_iix the rate of water rents to be paid by the said Indians for all domestic, agricultural, and irrigation purposes, and in addition thereto each male adult Indian of the Yuma tribe shall be granted water for one acre of the land which shall be allotted to him, if he utilizes the same in growing crops, free of all rent charges during the period of ten years, to  computed from the date when said irrigation company , begins the delivery of water on said reservation. Namvmgiw Sec. 18. That the approval of Congress is hereby given to **An Act F,. .,,m.q, to adopt the negroes ot the Chickasaw Nation/’and so forth, passed by the legislature of the Chickasaw Nation and approved by the governor thereof January tenth,eighteen hundred and seventy-three, particularly set forth in a letterfrom the Secretary of the Interior transmitting to Congress a copy ot the aforesaid Act, contained in House Executive 1Izolc3r;;re;1t(gumbered Two hundred and seven, Fortysecond Congress, commutation by wt Sec. 19. That the right of commutation is hereb extend u"' i" °u“b°'"°‘ fide homestead settlerg on the lands in Oklahomh Terdtstrytgpggdgdltz V°l·2"·P·“°· settlement under the prowsnons of the Act of Congress entitled *·An Act making appropriations for current and contingent expenses and fulfilling treaty stipulations with Indian tribes for the fiscal year end- gupe thirtieth, etaggteengiundredtalnd nin?;'-four," approved March 1 _, ig een un an ninety- ree, an the President’s ro l - mation in pursuance thereof, after fourteen months from the datg df getgleilrieipttnpon the full payment for the lands at the prices provided g332k; lggtjggéed And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to issue to rm paying umn. thepherokee Nation or to_1ts assigns evidences of indebtedness of the ¤°°*¤· United States of America, bearing interest at the rate of four per centum per annum, payable annually on the fourth day of March of each year, in amounts of one thousand and ten thousand dollars, respectively, for the respective amounts of the second, third, fourth, and
 * °" ‘ tible of irrigation shall become a part of the public domain, and shall