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 344 FIFTY—FOURTH CONGRESS. SEss. I. Ch. 398. 1896. committed within said reservation upon lands which have been allotted and patented to individual Indians, and covered into the Treasury of the United States, one thousand one hundred and twenty-one dollars and sixty-two cents. ' Miami Tow Cem- That any adult Peoria or Ottawa Indian, an allottee under any Act P°sihb¤:1»¤a¤m,p¤r. of Congress, may, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, ¤¤i“°•*- sell and convey to the Miami Town Company, a company chartered under the laws of Kansas, forty acres of ground near Miami, Indian _ Territory, to be used exclusively for cemetery purposes and no other: EQ2?"' Provided, That forty acres shall not exceed half of his or her allotment. 1:..1. emma:. To reimburse N. J. Cramer, of Yankton, South Dakota, amount paid P"Y“‘°""°· by him to the United States as stumpage for four hundred cords of wood furnished to the Government at Fort Bennett, South Dakota, in eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, three hundred dollars. Josephine Lollnud. To pay `Josephiue Lofland, an Indian woman, formerly assistant P‘Y‘“°“* °°· matron at the Seneca, Shawnee and Wyandotte School, her heirs and · representatives, such sum as the Secretary of the Interior shall ascertain will compensate her for loss sustained by reason of the burning of the school building in which she was employed, not exceeding the sum of two hundred dollars. §;>`§`fg;:bgl{**bmp_ That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized artylost, ew. and directed to ascertain and pay to Louis Mazawakinyena, Louis De Coteau, and James W. Lynd, of South Dakota, such sum as he shall find justly due them for property lost and destroyed by the Sioux Indians on the Sioux Reservation during the outbreak in eighteen hundred and ninety. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act there is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum of money sufficient to carry out the provisions of this Act, not exceeding five hundred and fifty dollars. kg? Sem" c*>°¤>- That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, directed to wlggment rm- regu withhold any further distribution and payment out of the money derived md_°°* °° "° '" "‘ from thirty-five per centum of the judgment in favor of the Old Settler or Western Cherokee Indians against the United States, in the sum of eight hundred thousand three hundred and eighty-six dollars and thirty- one cents, set apart for the payment of expenses and for legal services justly and equitably payable on account of the prosecution of said claim, until otherwise authorized by law. d°{t;f°"‘°° “'F“”‘ The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to '1‘obelocstedinChoc— locate and establish certain Kansas Indians known as the Absentee §,]{,0;',§f* °“‘°k°”" Wyandotte Indians in the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, in accord— \’<»1.14.pi»-7Y7»77¤- ance with the provisions of articles thirty, thirty-one and thirty-seven of the treaty made between the Government of the United States and _ the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations April twenty-eighth, anno Domini $‘§{_'!j§‘}f§3.,,_ eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and the sum of fifteen thousand six hundred and eightysix dollars and eighty cents, appropriated by Act of August fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, made for the g purpose of buying homes for the said Absentee Wyandotte Indians, and "’*·2”·"*°"“‘ the additional sum of six thousand dollars, appropriated by Act of March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, shall constitute a fund to be used by the Secretary of the Interior for the payment to the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, according to the provisions of article thirtyseven of the treaty of eighteen hundred and sixty-six herein referred to not less than eighty acres per capita for the said Absentee Wyanelotte Indians. which said fund shall be paid to the national treasurers of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations in the proportions of three-fourths to the thrmer and one-fourth to the latter, the tender of the same being equivalent to the payment thereof. And the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to carry out and enforce the said articles thirty, thirty-one and thirty-seven of the treaty of eighteen hundred and sixty-six in such manner as may be necessary and sufficient for the purposes of this Act. That the Secretary of the Interior be. and he hereby is. authorized ' and directed to pay to A. J. Campbell, the son of Scott Pampbell,