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 FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. III. CHS. 112, 113. 1895. 677 Treasury shall thereupon finally determine the location of the building to be erected. V The compensation of said commissioners shall be lixed by the Secre Comwnsnticn. tary of the Treasury, but the same shall not exceed six dollars per day and actualtravelin g expenses: Provided, however, That the member of P'•*¤*·>· said commission appointed from the Treasury Department shall be paid Tmmry m°mb°r' only his actual traveling expenses. So much of the appropriation herein made as may be necessary to Expenses. defray the expenses of advertising for proposals, actual traveling expenses of said agent, and the compensation and actual traveling expenses of said commissioners, and other expenses incident to the selection of the site, and for necessary survey thereof, shall be immediately available. So much of said appropriation ns may be necessary for the prepara· rnnum. tion of sketch plans, drawings, specifications, and detailed estimates for the building by the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department shall be available immediately upon the approval by the Secretary of the Treasury of such site. ' No money appropriated by this Act shall be available, except as Title, cm hereinbefore provided, until a valid title to the site for said building shall be vested in the United States, nor until the State of Maryland shall have ceded to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over the same during the time the United States shall be or remain the owner thereof for all purposes except the administration of the criminal laws of said State and the service of civil process therein. After the said site shall have been paid for, and the sketch plans and Construction. detailed estimates for the building shall have been prepared by the Supervising Architect and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of the Interior, and the Postmaster-General, the balance of said appropriation shall be available for the erection and completion of the building, including hreproof vaults, heating and ventilating apparatus, elevators, and approaches. B The building shall be uuexposed to danger from nre by an open 01·¤¤¤p•w space of at least forty feet on each side, including streets and alleys. Approved, February 20, 1895. CHAP. 113.-An Act To disapprove the treaty heretofore made with the Southern February ga, 18,5 Ute Indians to be removed to the Territory of Utah, and providing for settlmp them { down in severalty where they may so elect and are qualified, and to settle al those not electing to take lands in severalty on the west forty miles of present reservation and in portions of New Mexico, and for other purposes, and to curry out the provisions of the treaty with said Indians June fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America. in Congress assembled, That the "agreement made by m;¤:¤¢g¤¤i¤ Ure I¤· J. Montgomery Smith, Thomas S. Childs, and R. B. Weaver, commis- L.§;d,°§,’ ,0,,.,,.;,, Sioners on the part of the United States, with the Southern Ute Indians *°· ¤*·=· 0f Colorado, bearing date November thirteenth, eighteen hundred and V¤1·25,r-13¤- eighty-eight, be, and the same is hereby, annulled, and the treaty made with said Indians June fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, be car- V¤l»21.x>.1¤9- ried out as herein provided, and as further provided by general law for settling Indians in severalty. SBC. 2. That within six months after the passage of this Act the d,§,l:?"“°“" °° I “` Secretary of the Interior shall cause allotment of land, in severalty, to Pm_ ,,_89,_ be made to such of the Southern Ute Indians in Colorado as may elect and be considered by him qualified to take the same out of the agri— cultural lands embraced in their present reservation in Colorado, such allotments to be made in accordance with the provisions of the Act of Congress approved Junefifteenth, eighteen hundred andeighty, entitled Vol, 21, p. 1w. "An Act to accept and ratify the agreement submitted by the confederated bands of Ute Indians in Colorado for the sale of their reservation in said State, and for other purposes, and to make the necessary