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 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHS. 832, 833. 1901. 1085 purchased in open market, at prices not to exceed those of the lowest bidder, and not to exceed the market price of the same, until such time as satisfactory bids can be obtained, for which immediate advertisement Shall be made: Provided, That so much of the appropriations gmfgapmious im, herein made as may be required to pay for goods and supplies, for mndiiiaiiy avnunnie. expenses incident to their purchase, and for transportation of the same, for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, shall be immediately available, but no such goods or supplies shall ·be distributed or delivered to any of said Indians prior to July first, nineteen hundred and one. Sec. 8. That the Commissioner of Indian Affairs shall report annually €H*j§g}‘}géS ’dP°” 0* to Congress, specifically showing the number of employees at each ' agency, industrial and boarding School, which are supported in whole or in part out of the appropriations in this Act, giving name, when employed, in what capacity employed, male or female, whether white or Indian, amount of com(pensation paid, and out of what item or fund of the appropriation pai, and whether, in the opinion of such Commissioner, any of such employees are unnecessary. Sec. 9. That section five of "An Act to provide for the allotment of Ogfz R€S€’V¤°d°¤· lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservations, and to extend vni.24,p.as9. the protection of the laws of the United States and the Territories over the Indians, and for other purposes," approved February eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, be amended by addin thereto the following proviso: "Pr0vided farther, That whenever tIie Secretary f P¤t¤=¤¤·;ht¤ I¤di¤¤¤ of an intnnnn shall be nnanand that any of an Indians of an suan ..‘%”‘i°£§ .;$€?£§;§? Indian Reservation, in the State of Oregon, fully capable of managing °‘°· their own business affairs, and being of the age of twenty-one years or upward, shall, through inheritance or otherwise, become the owner of more than eighty acres of land upon said reservation, he shall cause patents to be issued to such Indian or Indians for all of such lands over and above the eighty acres thereof. Said patent or patents shall be issued for the least valuable portions of said lands, and the same shall be dischar ed of any trust and free of all charge, incumbrance, or restriction wiatsoever; and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby ·d¤‘4¤d’Y directedauthorized and directed to ascertain, as soon as shall be practicable, whether any of said Indians of the Siletz Reservation should receive patepts conveying in fee lands to them under the provisions of this Act. ’ Approved, March 3, 1901 CHAP. 833.-An Act Granting homesteaders on the abandoned Fort Fetterman March 3.1901. Military Reservation in Wyoming the right to purchase one quarter section of public ;" "—" land on said reservation as pasture or grazing land. ., Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re esentattves of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That each person who has _ F¤r¤Fetterm¤¤_Mi1- exercised the right of homestead entry on the abandoned Fort Fetter- W$i.R€"rV°"°”’ man reservation in the State of Wyoming shall, upon proper proof of puI§§,'$;*°‘;*_‘;§{,”,,;”§,§ Settlement and homestead upon land covered by Said entry, be entitled graziuelaud. to the right to purchase, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, at one dollar and twenty-five cents ger acre, not exceeding one quarter section of the public lands on said reservation as pasture or grazing land not otherwise disposed of: Provided, That land so purchased be unfitted for cultivation and homestead ent by reason of lack of water for irrigating purposes or otherwise: Arid, ovided further, That said purchase of pasture or __{;{;{giSQ§;u,md for grazing land shzdlyt not, with the land heretofore entered by the appli- nninqnnnn only. cant, exceed in the aggregate three hundred and twenty acres. "hmm °f °°"y‘ Approved, March 3, 1901.