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 340 FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 393. 1896. cause a complete roll of citizenship of each of said nations to be made up from their records, and add thereto the names of citizens whose right: may be conferred under this Act, and said rolls shall be, and are hereby, made rolls of citizenship of said nations or tribes, subject, however, to the determination of the United States courts, as provided herein. · I>¤1>¤¤i¤ ·>f¤·¤-¤¤¤· The commission is hereby required to file the lists of members as they finally approve them with the Commissioner of Indian Alfairs to remain there for use as the final judgment of the duly constituted authorities. And said commission shall also make a. roll of freedmen entitled to citizen hip in said tribes and shall include their names in the lists of members to be liled with the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. F¤Pm°¤l°”°¤·°*°· And said commission is further authorized and directed to make a. full report 1:0 Congress of leases, tribal and individual, with the urea, amount and value of the property leased and the amount received therefor, and by whom and from whom said property is leased, and is further directed to make sm full and detailed report as to the excessive holdings of members of said tribes and others. G<>v¤r¤¤¤¤5¤¤ ¢¤ be It is hereby declared to be the duty of the United States to establish · "` Im""! a government in the Indian Territory which will rectify the many inequalities and discrimiuations uow existing in said Territory and aiford needful protection to the lives and property of all citizens and residents thereoll samem ma wu.- Sxssmmon un Wmrmmon Imnuns: That all the interest due the Interest to be pad uinetsy·six, is hereby appropriated to be paid at once in cash per capita, "°’°""‘ and hereafter all interest on the permanent iuud of said Indians, after deducting the amount expended for education, shall be paid in cash per ‘ capita on the tirst day of November of ouch year. s¤¤·¤··. zuwym. Smmcn Numon on Imzunsz That. the Secretary of the Interior be, B°’°"°"‘“‘°'°"‘ and he hereby is, authorized and directed to ascertain and report to Congress a detailed statement of all the leases made and entered imo by the Seneca Nation of Indians with all persons or corporations of all lands in the Allegany Indian Reservation in the State of New York, giving an itemized statement of each and every lease now in existence or force, with the date and terms of each lease und amount or amounts due on each lease. Ag} Pi¤·• AK°¤°>‘· For operating and repairing the Hour mill at Pima Agency, Arizona, ` one thousand Eve hundred dollars. Mmfhm ·*"°“°Y· For pay of employees at substation, and saw and ilour mills at the Flathead Agency, Montana, and for necessary repairs, three thuu and dollars. mff.*jd*;*jj;j° “""°’“"" For setting up and operating two portable steam smwmills on the mm. Nez Perce Indian Reservation, Idaho, including trn.nsp0rtu.tion of mill machinery from the agency to the mill sites, three thousand one hundred and thirty dollars. §*J,§§Q'”i§Q“g,·,,, For surveying the unsurveyed portions of ceded lands of the Nez Perce Indian Reservation, in the State of Idaho, ten thousand dollars, the same to be immediately available. ¢]}l»m·~¤g·éS To enable the President to amuse, under the provisions of the Act of ‘ ‘p'February eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled “Au Act to provide thr the allotment of lands in sevemlty to India.ns," such Indian reservations as in his judgment are advantageous for agricultuml and grazing purposes to be surveyed, or resnrveyed, for the purposes of said Act, and to complete the allotment of the same, including the necessary clerical work incident thereto in the held and in the ohiee of Indian Affairs, and delivery of trust patents, so Thr as allotments   shall have been selected under said Avt. thirty thousand dollars: Prof [gQ;"·b\ mm___s vided, That whenever it shall be made to appear to the Secretary of pm-mmm.the Interior that by reason of age, disabilinv, or inability. any allottee of Indian lands under this or former Acts of Congress can not personally and with benefit to himself ewmipy or improve his allotment or any part thereof the same may be leased in the discretion of the Secretary
 * ’°°°"“‘ Sisseton and Wahpebon Indians on March third, eighteen hundred and