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 F11·*rY-N1Nr1~1 comcnnss. sm. 11. ons. 2521-me. 1907. 1221 for that gaurpose; and the vendor shall have a lien on the rents and mn °¤ ’°¤”‘· profits o the land on which the improvements are located for the . purchase money remaining unpaid and shall have the right to enforce such lien in any court of competent jurisdiction: Igovided, That ,—’§’n!{j`j"'j,igh, to where citizens o the Cherokee Nation entitled toallotments have here- cnm. pm" tofore applied for lands on which intermarried white persons own implrovements, such citizens entitled to allotments shall have the prior rig t to purchase said improvements as herein provided. Approved, March 2, 1907. . .. ‘ ’ • March! . fo?. 2522. An Act To provide for the refunding of certain money, and so [H_Bj£°” [Public, No. 181.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rq2resmtat¢}vea of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be, and is hereby, c0*;},’g§g§,* {gwggg appropriated, out of any moneys in the lreasug not otherwise appro- Brothers m-swing priated, to the corporations hereinafter nam the amounts respec- °°EH‘,; mmm,] tively placed opposite their names, the said amounts having been ille- *°'•*¤¤° *¤°¤ '°· gallv assessed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue and collected y the collector of internal revenue for the twenty-third district of Pennsylvania in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and the same being seven an one-half per centum discount upon the amounts of fermented—liquor stamtps purchased b said corporations respectively, upon the twenty- ourth day of Jyul, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, such assessment and collection having been decided to be illegal by the Attorney-General of the United States, and his decision having been acquicsced in b the Treasury Department; To the Phoe- ·““°““"’· nix Brewing Compauy,`of Iiittsburg, one thousand five hundred and seventy-five dollars, and to the Ober Brothers Brewing Company, of Allegheny, two hundred and twenty-five dollars. Approved, March 2, 1907. CHAP. 2523.-An Act Providing for the allotment and distribution of Indian lggpg "“"‘ "“"’* S H R ¤·..1¤§;‘§; is? Be tt enacted by the enate and ouse of e esentatives of the Matted . States of America in Congress assembled, Cllliat the Secretary of the  Interior is hereb authorized, in his discretion, from time to time, to ggfgxpmitlgj lm"- designate any individual Indian belonging to any tribe O1' tribes whom " he may deem to be capable of managing is or her atfairs, and he may cause to be a portioned and allotte to any such Indian his or her pro rata share ofp any tribal or trust funds on deposit in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the tribe or tribes of which said Indian is a member, and the amount so apportioned and allotted shall be laced to the credit of such Indian upon the books of the Treasury, ami) the same shall thereupon be subject to the order of such Indian: _ Pwwirled, That no apportionment or allotment shall bemade to ¤·¤Y lxgtiigiiscn. Indian until such Indian has tirst made an application therefor: Provided further, That the Secretaries of the Interior and of the Treasury ,P,=Lr;==¤¤¢¤f¤¤i¤¤¤z are hereby directed to withhold from such apportionment and allot- °° ' ment a sufficient sum of the said Indian funds as may be necessary or required to pay any existing claims against said In ians that may be pending for settlement by judicial determination in the Court of Claims or in the Executive Departments of the Government, at time of such apportionment and allotment. Sec. 2. That the Secretar of the Interior is hereby authorized to ,€;'*{*g°¤{nd@°sujf°l* pay any Indian who is blindl, crippled, decrepit, or helpless from old" 0