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 FIBTYSEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. C11. 888. 1902. 259 Commission, shall be paid therefrom; for clerical help, including secretary of the Commission and interpreters (Act of March third, nineteen V¤1- 81.v-1¤'14- hundred and one, volume thirty-one, pa e one thousand and seventy- four, section one), ninety-three thousancg dollars; contin ent expenses of the Commission (same Act), two thousand dollars: §·"rmnZded_fu*r·- "°"""‘· Hwr, That this appropriation ma be used by said Commission in the “°“‘"°d “""*°‘“°"‘· prosecution of ahwork to be dbne by or under its direction as required by law; and said commissioners shall at once make an itemized statement to the Secretary of the Interior ,0f all their· expenditures up to January first, nineteen hundred and one, and annually there- _ a ter: And ovided further, That not to exceed ten thousand four I,,'§§,P',,P{‘,'fd‘Q’,Qfl“'k”‘“ hundred dolgrs of the above amount may be used in the temporary employment in the office of the Commissioner of Indian Adairs of three clerks, at the rate of one thousand six hundred dollars per annum; one clerk, at the rate of one thousand four hundred dollars, and one clerk at the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars, who shall be competent to examine records in dizputed citizenship cases and law contests growing out of the work o said Commission, and in the temporary employment in said office of three competent stenographers, atT e rate alqf one thousandddollars each per annum. S f o pay ex nses inci ent to the survey, latting, and a raise- B, “"° ·°*°··° *****5} ment of town difes in the Choctaw, Chickasaw}: Creek, and Chgrokee vi?] {man Tern_ nations, Indian Territory, as required by sections fifteen and twenty vc1?§i?0]i_I§*;?m’ 5°5’ nine of an Act entitled "An Act for the protection of the people of the Indian Territory, and fO1' other purposes," approved June twenty- eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and all Acts amendatory thereof or sup lemental thereto, fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That mtmeut of hereafter the Secretary of the Interior may, whenever the chief execu- commigsioueron mntive of the Choctaw or Chickasaw nations fails or refuses to appoint a {binge, dgfhan W town-site commissioner for any town, or to iill any vacancy caused by the neglect or refusal of the town—site commissione1·, appointed by the chief executive of the Choctaw or Chickasaw nations to qualify or act, in his discretion, appoint a commissioner to fill the vacancy thus _ _ created: Provided further, That the limits of such townsin the Chero— ,,,IQ,‘§f*,§}"{§{‘,,;j “““'·“ kee, Choctaw, and Chickasaw nations having a population of less than two hundred people, as in the judgment of the Secretary of the Interior should be established, shall be defined as early as practicable by the Secretary of the Interior in the same manner as provided for towns having over two hundred people under existing law, and the same shall not be subject to allotment. That the land so segregated and reserved from allotment shall be disposed of, in such manner as the Secretary of the Interior may direct, by a town-site commission, one member to be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior and one by the executive of the nation in which such land is located; proceeds arising from the disposition of such lands to be applied in like manner as the proceeds of other lands in town sites. For the purpose of removing intruders and placing allottees in unre- ,,§’i{‘f"“€ *”°'“d· stricted ession of their allotments, to be expended under the direction of gifs Secretary of the Interior and to be immediately available, fifteen thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars: Provided, lwwecaer, That it shall hereafter be unlawful to remove or g- { deport any rson from the Indian Territory who is in lawful posses- ww¤¤1¤eY°°°°°°”° sion of anylldts or parcels of land in any town or city in the Indian Territory which has been designated as a town site under existing laws and treaties, and no part of this appropriation shall be used for the deportation or removal of any suc person from Indian Territor : Provided, That the just and reasonab e share of each member of the b°»g1<;¢·e¤¤¤s w mm- Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Cherokee nations of Indians, in the ° °"u"°°°'“’°" lands belonging to the said tribes, which each member is entitled to hold in his possession until allotments are made, as provided in the