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 FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 2285. 1907. . 1035 For pay of carpenter, miller, engineer, farmer, and blacksmith, as per tenth article of same treaty, three thousand six hundred dollars; For pay of second blacksmith, as per eighth article of same treaty, one thousand two hundred dollars; In all, six thousand dollars. Noirrunnu cunmnnns Arm Annanoms. (Treaty.) m§',gs*°[{jg¤ tggj hoes. ‘ For subsistence and civilization, as r agreement with the Sioux $'f,`fY{5$°,'§°§’,6?"" Indians approved February twenty-eigl1)t5h, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, including subsistence and civilization of Northern Chey- ennes removed from Pine Ridge Agency to Tongue River, Montana, ninety thousand dollars; For pay of physician, two teachers, two carpenters, one miller, two farmers, a blacksmith, and engineer, per seventh article of the treaty of May tenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, nine thousand dollars; In all, ninety-nine thousand dollars. For an irrigation system on the Tongue River Reservation, in Mon- ,,,.'5§,’{‘,§§'f m'" R" tana, forty thousand dollars. Irris¤¤<>¤- That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed t,£]1¤¤¤*=¢¤ B¤¤¤¤¤- to immediate] cause to be surveyed all of the lands embraced within sdmy ammo. the limits of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, in the State of Montana. That so soon as all the lands embraced within the said Blackfeet In- "“°““°“"‘· dian Reservation shall have been surveyed the Commissioner of Indian Affairs shall cause allotments of the same to be made under the piovisions of the allotment laws of the,United States to all persons having tribal rights or holdinlgiltribal relations and who may rightfully belong · on said reservation. at there shall be allotted to each member forty S°’°°°°““· acres of irrigable land and two hundred and eighty acres of additional land valuable only for grazing purposes; or, at the option of the allottee, the entire three hundred and twenty acres may be taken in land valuable only for grazing purposes, respectively, and for constructing irri ting systems to irrigate the aforesaid allotted lands, three hundredgithousand dollars, one hundred thousand dollars of which shall be immediagely available, the cost of said entire work to be _ reimbursed from he roceeds of the sale of the lands within said reservations: Prmddecg That the Indians, and the settlers on the sur- m;m(_€ to www plus land. in the order named, shall have a preference right for one ngms. A year from the date of the Presid<·nfs proclamation opening the reservation to settlement, to appropriate the waters of the reservation which shall be tiled on and appropriated under the laws of the State of Montana, by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs on behalf of the Indians taking irrigable allotments and by the settlers under the same law. At the expiration of the one year aforesaid the irrigation system con- mg1r>§;jg;>: of irris»— structed and to be constructed shall be operated un er the laws of the` State of Montana, and the title to such systems as may be constructed under this Act, until otherwise provided by law, shall be in the Secretary of the Interior in trust for the said Indians, and he may sue and _ be sued in matters relating thereto: And p’r·r»z·a`¢led further, That the d,§},‘,j,f’;‘,j_‘°" °‘ ditches and canals of such irrigation systems may be used, extended, or enlarged for the purpose of conveying water by any person,_association, or corporation under and Hp0H compliance with the provisions Apmmonmem 0, of the laws of the State of Montana: Awl provided farther, That erenvnsexpcnses when said irrigation systems are_in successfu operation the cost of operating the same shall be equitably apportioned, upon the lands irrigated, and, when the Indians have become self-supporting, to the annual charge shall be added an amount sufficient to pay back into the Treasury the cost of the work done in their behalf within thirty years, suitable deduction being made for the amounts received from the disposal of the lands within the reservation aforesaid: Promded,