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 FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Suss. III. C11. 188. 1895. 9]_ as heretofore given to the acts of surveyors-general: Provided further, I¤¤·•¤¤i¤¤¤¤¢1¤•¤¤- That all laws inconsistent with the provisions hereof are declared to be inoperative as respects such surveys. That jurisdiction upon the principles of law and equity be, and it is ;;;g;_¤_ggy;é, chu hereby, conferred upon the Court of Claims to hear and determine a taws m be mea m suit that may be instituted therein by Yvon Pike, Lilian Pike, and the C°“" °‘° °‘“"“°· ‘ legal representatives of Luther H. Pike, children and heirs at law of Albert Pike, deceased, late a citizen of the State of Arkansas, the Choctaw Nation of Indians for just compensation to them for and on account of services as attorney at law and otherwise rendered to and for said nation by the said Albert Pike in his lifetime, in and about the prosecution of the socalled ‘“net proceeds" claim of said nation against the United States and in other business, and to render such judgment or decree in said suit, upon the merits thereoi as the facts will warrant, and as shall be just and equitable, with right of appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States from said judgment or decree to either party to said suit. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to pay to Joel M. Bryan, for services rendered the North Carolina Cherokees residing in the Cherokee Nation west, in accordance with the proceedings of a council of said North Carolina Cherokees held at Tahlequah, in the Indian Territm·y, March twelfth, eighteen hundred _ and ninety-two, now on file with the accounting officers of the Treas- _ ury Department, the sum of three thousand dollars, out of any unexpended balance of the amount appropriated by the Act of March third, V°*· ”·P-m eighteen hundred and ninety-three, for the removal and subsistence of those members of the Eastern Band of Cherokees who have removed themselves, as well as those who may now or hereafter desire to remove themselves, to the Cherokee Nation in the Indian Territory. For payment of interest on certain abstracted and nonpaying State mggmt ¤¤ mnt stocks belonging to the various Indian tribes, and held in trust by the Secretary of the Interior, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, namely: From July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, to August fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, both inclusive, nine thousand eight hundred and seventy · dollars and forty-two cents. To provide for the expenses of the live commissioners appointed to om smim cme take a census of the Old Settler Cherokees, two thousand dollars, in "°§’_;,,,,,,,,,;,,,,,,,, to addition to the sum of five thousand dollars appropriated for such pur- ¤¤k¤ ¤·>¤¤¤¤- pose by Act of Congress approved August fifteenth, eighteen hundred ‘*""· ******8* and ninety-four, the same to be deducted from the amount awarded to said Indians by judgment of the Court of Claims, dated June sixth, egghteen hundred and ninety-three, and reimbursed to the United tates. To enable the Attorney-General to employ a special attorney for the Mi¤¤i¤¤1¤•11•¤•»0•|- Mission Indians of southern California, upon the recommendation of the A"”"'°" Secretary of the Interior, two thousand dollars, of which sum one thousand dollars shall be available for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-tive. That the homestead settlers on the Absentee Shawnee, Pottawatomie, gklsbve-_;:;, tu and Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indian lands in Oklahoma Territory be, g,,L'Z.°i°¤m., {Z cu: and they are hereby, granted an extension of one year within which to vim °¤*'*"· make the iirst payment provided for in section sixteen of the Act of Wl- ”·P·*°'*°· Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, ·*"‘°· l‘· °‘· entitled “An Act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and for other purposes,” and such payment may be made at any time within five years from the date of the entry of such lands. And that the like extension of one year on the first ti£=;*;¤g;•,fr;g¤];::;*; payment required to he made, when payable in installments, is hereby m, granted to all homestead settlers on and purchasers of all ceded Indian ‘