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 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 545. _1898. 59] MISCEELANEOUS. - Miw¤11¤¤¤¤¤¤- For alaries of four Commissioners appointed under Acts of Congress c£i°H’.'§`5°’ii¥i1tJ£ Fm approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and March $**;- 1*- second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, to negotiate with the Five °' 'p' ` Civilized Tribes in the Indian Territory, twenty thousand dollars: Pro- P"°"""”·. vided, That the number of said Commissioners is hereby lixed at four. s,§,‘;;Q’;;£ C°*¤¤** For expenses of Commissioners and necessary expenses of employees, ' iitteen thousand dollars, to be immediately available: And provided further, That three dollars per diem for expenses of a clerk detailed as special disbursing agent by Interior Department, while ou duty with _§31£¤¤*·;;rk•:¤;¤;g¤i¤s the Commission, shall be paid therefrom; fon clerical help, including g ’` secretary of the Commission and interpreters, six thousand six hundred dollars, and authority is hereby given for the payment of such interpreters as may have been employed and paid by said Commission during the iiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight; for contingent expenses of the Commission, one thousand eight hundred dollars; in all, forty-three thousand four hundred dollars. _ _ That said Commission shall continue to exercise all authority hereto- u.(.§}’§;I““”‘“°° °f "“‘ fore conferred on it by law. . Appeals shall be allowed from the United States courts in the Indian ,,;;}’g§;}§ Q{‘c_°’f;'gf,j Territory direct to the Supreme Court of the United States to either meme Court. ’ party, in all citizenship cases, and in all cases between either of the Five Civilized Tribes and the United States involving the constitutionality or validity of any legislation affecting citizenship, or the allotment of lands, in the Indian Territory, under the rules and regulations govern- _ ing appeals to said court in other cases: Provided, That appeals in cases *"°""’· decided prior to this Act must be perfected in one hundred and twenty p°'§}_§‘¥° °° P°"°°° *P· days from its passage; and in cases decided subsequent thereto, within ' sixty days from final judgment; but in no such case shall the work of ,,K‘,§{,'{,,,°,f°,,§;’,{'Q,,“{*,,{‘_ the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes be enjoined or suspended ew \ by any proceeding in, or order of, any court, or of any judge, until after · iinal judgment in the Supreme Court of the United States. In case of ,.,S,§,§’,,{{° °° °° "°` appeals, as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the Supreme Court to advance such cases on the docket and dispose of the same as early as sible. _ pogor operating and repairing the flour mill at Pima Agency, Arizona, A,;]?,}?' Pi""' “°"°"‘ one thousand five hundred dollars. _ For operating two portable steam sawmills on the Nez Percé Indian ,,,}},f{‘f;*;"_j° “°°°"°· Reservation, Idaho, and for necessary repairs to the same, three thousand dollars. _ For pay of physician, New York Agency, six hundred dollars. "°" Y°"‘ A¤°“°Y· To enable the President to cause, under the provisions of the Act of ,°3Q_j;*m;{<8 g;¤;__g1{; February eight, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled ·*An Act suv-. to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians," such °“‘**’·"“*’· Indian reservations as in his judgment are advantageous for agricultural and grazing purposes to be surveyed, or resurveyed, for the purposes of said Act, and to complete the allotment of the same, including the necessary clerical work incident thereto in the field and in the Oillce of Indian Affairs, and delivery of trust patents, so far as allotments shall have been selected under said Act, thirty thousand dollars. W _ _ _ For construction of ditches and reservoirs, purchase and use of irri- M °'k“°"""““°“* gating tools and appliances, and purchase of water rights on Indian reservations, in the di cretion of the Secretary of the Interior and P1 . subject to his control, forty thousand dollars: Provided, That the time E,‘{}’,‘,{:{,,, of H,,,,, for the completion of the canal, or any part thereof, authorized by an gnyiggvégégvgzgj Act entitled “An Act granting to the Columbia Irrigation Company a wan. right of way through the Yakima Indian Reservation, in Washingtou,” "°L ”·F”” be, and is hereby, extended two years from July twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he hereby is, directed, mfgygggigggfgeg through an Indian inspector, to cause an investigation to be made of ments embraced ni the kind, extent, character, and value of the improvements made by :,',,§‘,§§ §},f,°,f,,i’,§`,?,[‘{ certain white men, citizens of the United States, since eighteen hundred Wye