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 JUDGMENTS IN INDIAN DEPREDATION CLAIMS.

For payment of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims in Indian depredation cases, certified to Congress at its present session in House Document Numbered Six hundred and seventy-one, and Senate Documents Numbered Two hundred and eighty-four, Two hundred and ninety-three, and Three hundred, one hundred and twenty-nine thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine dollars; said judgments to be paid after the deductions

required to be made under the provisions of section six of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled

"An Act to provide for the adjustment and payment of claims arising from Indian depredations," shall have been ascertained and duly certified by the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of the Treasury, which certification shall be made as soon as practicable after the passage of this Act, and such deductions shall be made according to the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, having due regard to the educational and other necessary requirements of the tribe or tribes affected; and the amounts paid shall be reimbursed

to the United States at such times and in such proportions as the Secretary of the Interior may decide to be for the interests of the Indian Service: Provided,

That no one of said judgments provided in this paragraph shall be paid until the Attorney-General shall have certified to the Secretary of the Treasury that there exists no grounds sufficient, in his opinion, to support a motion for a new trial or an appeal of said cause.

JUDGMENT, COURT OF PRIVATE LAND CLAIMS.

For payment of the judgment of the Court of Private Land Claims, entered December fourteenth, nineteen hundred and three, against the United States in the case of Jose Chaves y Gallegos and others versus The United States, Numbered Fifty-seven, Nicolas Durau de Chaves grant, as set forth in House Document Numbered Six hundred and eighty-two, this session, five hundred and thirteen dollars and sixty-two cents.

. 2. That for the payment of the following claims, certified to be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of the

Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section two of the Act

of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered six hundred and seventy reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows:

For payment to Western Union Telegraph Company, interest on settlements withheld under Act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, nine thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine dollars and fifty-two cents.

For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, fifty-one cents.

For fuel, lights, and water for public buildings, nine dollars and fifteen cents.