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 90 FIBTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 3. 1897. Seneca Nation is hereby ratified and confirmed as the same has been sanctioned and ratified by the said resolution of the said Seneca Nation. mfj"§jr°§0;f,gQ°f¤fj That hereafter not more than ten thousand dollars shall be paid IH pityses at agencies. any one year for salaries or compensation of employees regularly employed at any one agency, for its conduct and management, and the number and kind of employees at each agency shall be prescribed by Pr·»~q¤- the Secretary of the Interior and none other shall be employed: Pro- ,,,g,‘f"“°l‘d“°°° °‘°”` vided, That where_ two or more Indian agencies have been or may hereafter be consolidated, the expenditure of such consolidated agencies _ for regular employees shall not exceed fifteen thousand dollars: Pro- F¤¤¤v¤··* ·=¤Pl°>'•°¤- vidcdfurther, That salaries or compensation of agents, Indians, school employees of every description, and persons temporarily employed, iu case of emergency, to prevent loss of life and property, in the erection of buildings, the work of irrigation, and making other permanent improvements, shall not be construed as coming within the limitations fixed by the foregoing paragraphs. _r¤.mm_ nessus- The Secretary of the Interior may in his discretion, from year to "‘}§',§,,{,",jj‘,“‘§,’}"‘f,‘,,,,, year, under such regulations as he may prescribe, authorize the Indians timber- residing on any Indian reservation in the State of Minnesota, whether the same has been allotted in severalty or is still unallotted, to fell, cut, remove, sell or otherwise dispose of the dead timber, standing or fallen, _ on such reservation or any part thereof, for the sole benefit of such C1¤ivv¤w=¤· Indians; and he may also in like manner authorize the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota who have any interest or right in the proceeds derived from the sales of ceded Indian lands or the timber growing thereon, whereof the fee is still in the United States, to fell, cut, remove, sell or otherwise dispose of the_dead timber, standing or fallen, on such ceded land. But whenever there is reason to believe that such , dead timber in either casehas been killed, burned, girdled, or otherwise injured for the purpose of securing its sale under this Act, then in that . case such authority shall not be granted. °¥¤i1,¤>v¤¤¥- °*¤· where said Indian woman is at this time, or was at the time of her death, recognized by the tribe shall have the same rights and privileges to the property of the tribe to which the mother belongs, or belonged at the time of her death, by blood, as any other member of the tribe, and no prior Act of Congress shall beconstrned as to debar such child of such right. S:,,hM_·;:,·:_s£1gr_p To enable the Secretary of the Interior to adjust the account of wear):. J. Montgomery Smith, late a member of the Chippewa Indian Commis- PM- r- *7* sion, for his services and compensation for proper expenses in completing his work and closing his accounts in connection with said commission from the eleventh day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, when said commission was abolished, to the thirteenth day of July following, as if he had remained a member of said commission to the last-named date, and to pay the amount found due him thereon, five hundred and fifty-nine dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. plggighgygdxtégg- Sec. 2. That no purchase of supplies for which appropriations are I ‘herein made, exceeding in the aggregate five hundred dollars in value, at any one time, shall be made without first giving at least three weeks’ rxqeputn. public notice by advertisement, except in case of exigency, when, in E"'¥"”"’°“· the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, who shall make official record of the facts constituting the exigency and shall report the same to Congress at its next session, he may direct that purchases may be made in open market in amount not exceeding three thousand dollars {;_rg:g::•mmgmm_ at any one purchase: Provided, That funds herein and heretofore appro- ` priated for construction of artesiau wells, ditches, and other works for irrigating may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, be _rm-mms from In expended in open market: Provided further, That purchase in open •*¤*¤·· market shall, as far as practicable, be made from Indians, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior: Provided further, That the