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 FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. 1. Cris. 2573, 2574. 1906. 209 deeds, mortgagzs, and other ll1St·1'llll\BHtS in writing as are authorized by the law of klahoma Territory affecting property within said reservation. And the deputy clerk of the district court located at the h,§§§f"“"' "‘ P""" town of Pawhuska, on the said reservation, shall be ex officio register ` of deeds. As compensation for services the said recorder is hereby C0¤¤¤l>°¤¤¤¤·*i··¤¤· authorized to retain the fees legally collected by hi111 for the recording of deeds and other instruments, up to and including the sum of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum, and the fees collected by him shall be the same as are charged for like service in other recording districts in said Territory. Said recorder shall make monthly reports Reports_ to the Secretary of the Interior of the fees collected by him, and said Secretary is hereby authorized to use such part of said fees as may be - needed for the purchase of records, hooks, supplies, and expenses of said office. If the receipts of said office exceed the said sum of one nispissi of smpius thousand eight hundred dollars, the said excess shall be turned into ‘°°*‘· the Treasury of the United States. This Act shall not be construed to in any way obligate the Government to ay the said recorder any deficiency below the sum of one thousand eight hundred dollars yearly. Snr. 2. That all deeds, pa rs, and other instruments recorded by sam or recording said recorder in the Osage lgiition shall have the same effect, legally d°°°S‘°"" or otherwise, as if recorded in the recording office of any rerrularly organized county in the Oklahoma Territory: Provided, That this Act muse. _ shall become inoperative when the Osage Reservation shall become an T°"”l““"°“‘ organized county of Oklahoma, and all records shall be turned over to the proper county officer whenever such county is organized. Approved, June 4, 1906. CHAP. 2574.-—An Act Permitting the building of a dam across the Mississippi June 4, 1906. River in the county of Morrison, State of Minnesota. · [H- R- 177584 Be it mwzedby the sam mz Hmayeepmmtatzta Ofzzw United "’“"“°‘ ”°‘“’“" States of ririterica in Omzgreas assernbted, That the consent of Congress ggi¤;g§i;id{:i;g{&l_r is hereby granted to The Pike Rapids Power Company, a Minnesota e.,...,`;..,- Ly 4, corporation, its successors or assigns, to construct and maintain across 'j,{,f,;,·,yl;},,,}f,f"'*“°“ the Mississippi River a dam, canal, and works necessary incident 1·¤•¢,p.n2w. thereto for water power and supiply puizposes at any point between section twenty, township one hun red an twenty-eiglht north, range twenty-nine west, and section seventeen, in towns ip thirty-nine, range thirty-two, in Morrison County, Minnesota: Prov•[dw], That the £{;g*&;& 0, WM m plans for the construction of said dam and nppurtenant works ¤ppmvep1•¤s, em. shall be submitted to and approved by the Chief of Engineers and the Secretarv of War before the commencement of the construction of the same: And ]1rm·[ded _/‘iu·thm·, That the said The °**¤"¤°*· Pike Rapids Power Company, its successors or assigns, shall not deviate from such plans after such approval, either before or after the com iletion of said structures, unless the modifications of such plans shali have previously been submitted to and received the approval of the Chief of Engineers and of the Secretary of \\;ar: An jpaqutgd _ fiwt/tw-, That there shall be placed and maintained in_connection with S*¤¤¤=¤W¤¥· said dem a sluiceway so arranged as to permit logs, timber, and lumber to pass around, through, and over said dam without unreasonable de-luv or hindrance, and without toll or charges: And p1·0z·2dedfu7·t}zer, That the dam shall be so constructed that the G0v_ernment of the Lock. United States may at any time construct in connectiomtherewith a suitable lock for navigation.(purp0ses, and may at any time, without compensation, control the said dam so far as shall be necessary for the purposes of navigation, but shall not destroy the water power developed by said dam and structures to any greater extent than may be necessarv to provide proper facilities for navigation. and that the Secretary von. xxxiv, rr 1--I4