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 FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 398. 1896. 343 immediately available; and the Commissioner of the General Land S“"°Y· Since is hereby directed to survey the lands embraced in said reservaions. For examination in the field of the survey of lands within the Ghey- Fi·=1d¤¤=¤¤i¤=¤ti•>¤· enne River and Rosebud Indian reservations in South Dakota. under ` the direction of the surveyor-general, including clerical work in the office of the surveyor-general, the sum of six thousand dollars. That the adult allottees of sections twenty-one and twenty-eight, in ,WY=¤¤d•>*¤¤R·=¤·=rv¤- township twentyseven north, of range twenty-four east, in the Wyan- f°¥§1£"i;yrr,l°ri;,t4,.,,,._ dotte Reservation, Indian Territory, may sell and convey the land allotted to them in said sections: Provided, That the land so conveyed FTW"- shall not exceed one-half of the land owned by each of them within Lum` the limits of the Quapaw Agency, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior. To enable the Secretary of the Interior to put down an artesian well ,j£°g‘*{;;·k RWM or wells at or near Lake Andes, on the Yankton Indianlieservation, Ai-umm Qmii. South Dakota, at such place or places as he may determine, for the purpose of supplying said Indians with water for domestic purposes, for stock, and for irrigation purposes, five thousand dollars. Surveying lands in the Indian Territory: For the completion of the {¤di¤¤ 'f¤rriwry· survey of the lands in the Indian Territory, two hundred thousand b""" dollars, "or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available: Provided, That the surveys herein authorized, or any part of Promo. them, in the Indian Territory shall be made under the supervision of l,,g,‘,§,l{°S{*,‘Q\?§yl" G°° the Director of the Geological Survey by such persons as may be employed by or under him for that purpose. And such surveys shall be executed under instructions to be issued by the Secretary of the Interior, and subdivisional surveys shall be executed under the rectangular system, as now provided by law : Provided further, That when Films 1>¤¤¤¤. vwany surveys shall have been so made and plats and held notes thereof prepared, they shall be approved and certified to by the Director of the Geological Survey, and two copies thereof shall be returned, one for nling in the Indian Office and one in the General Land Office; and such surveys, iield notes, and plats shall have the same legal force and edi-ect mime. as heretofore given to the acts of surveyors-general: Provided further, 1¤¤¤¤•H ¤¤rl¤w¤- That all laws inconsistent with the provisions hereof are hereby declared to be inoperative as respects such surveys: Provided further, That Boundary munhereafter, in the public land surveys of the Indian Territory, iron or '“°“"‘ stone posts shall be erected at each township corner, upon which shall be recorded the usual marks required to be placed on township corners, by the laws and regulations governing public land surveys; also., that similar monuments shall be established at the corners of the townships that have been already surveyed by the Geological Survey: And pro- oninimuea. vided further, That the entire cost and transportation of such monuments to the Indian Territory shall not exceed five thousand dollars, and the cost of the setting of the monuments in the areas already surveyed shall not exceed two thousand five hundred dollars: Provided rnjunu g .m·v¤y further, That hereafter it shall be unlawful for any person to destroy, *"""· °‘°·· '°"*’*"’°"· defaee, change, or remove to another place any section corner, quartersection corner, or meander post, on any Government line of survey, or to cut down any witness tree or any tree blazed to mark the line of a Government survey, or to deface, change, or remove any monument or bench mark of any Government survey. That any person who shall P°¤·l*¥· offend against any of the provisions of this paragraph shall be deemed guilty of a. misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof in any court shall be fined not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, or be imprisoned not more than one hundred days. All the fines accruing under this paragraph shall be paid into the Treasury, and the informer in each case of conviction shall be paid the sum of twenty-five dollars. In payment under direction of the Secretary of the Interior., to certain ]{§:,[{°“** *‘°**°*"*i°¤· Chippewa Indian allottees of the Isabella Reservation in Michigan, as raypeueasuonsu their interests may appear, being the sums recovered by the United §‘,f,,,f‘“"" d'?"" States as judgments against certain parties for timber depredations