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 FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 3504. 1906. 36,5 That all restrictions as to sale and incumbmnce as to the lands here- m(*j;j,*;;$f,j,*;l;§]&{;j tofore allotted in Oklahoma to Frank Shincis and Josephine Barone, nee,eré.,¤11om€cs. absentee Shawnee allottees numbered twenty-nine and thirty-two, Emily Bertrand as to the northwest quarter of section fifteen, township six north of range one east, and the heirs of Gertrude E. Collister as to the south half of section fifteen, town six north of range one east of the Indian meridian in Oklahoma, are hereby removed. That any missionary society or religious organization now occupy- [Allotments for re ing, under proper authority, for religious or educational work among l¥3i€5$;€5€i.gli;ed_ the Indians, any of the lands in the Territory of Oklahoma heretofore ceded to the United States by the Indians theretofore occupying the same, and reserved to such societies or organizations for such religious uses on the schedules of allotments approved by the Secretary of the Interior, shall have the right for two years within which to make application for a tent therefor; and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized)iind directed, upon such application, to issue patents in fee to such religious societies or organizations, severally, for the lands so occupied, not to exceed one hundred and sixty acres to any one institution: Provided, That where such Indians, in their agree- Pr<{r·>#¢>· d. ment under which the lands were ceded and allotted, reserved to them- Paymwmlu mm' selves a reversionary interest in such lands, such religious society or organization shall pay therefor a fair valuation to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, not to be less than the price paid such Indians by the United States for the lands so ceded, `and the proceeds therefrom shall be placed to the credit of the tribes or bands by whom such lands were ceded. ' That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized, wI;*;$t;l{*;l;lH0g;g;;¤l¤ in his discretion, to issue fee—simple patents to the following parties ` for the lands heretofore allottedthem: Frank O. Jones, Sac and Fox allottee numbered ten, Per Mam Su or Comanche Jack, Comanche allottee numbered two thousand and twenty-five, Mary McCoy, Sac and Fox allottee, Isaac McCoy, Ottawa allottee, Minnie Plumb, Mississippi Sac allottee numbered five hundred and forty-six, Victoria Ezell (nee Bradley), Glen Bradley, Alexander B. Peltier, Lincoln Kennedy, John B. Bruno, Lucy A. Lourane, Zoe Rhodd, Nellie Finley, Eliza J. Neiswender, Davis Hardin, Daniel Chilsom, Amanda Nadeau (née Toupin), R. W. Dike, Doshia E. Phillips (nee Kennedy), Joseph Bertrand, Benjamin Bertrand, Dan. O’Brien, Philip Wickens, and William Frapp, Citizen Pottawatomie allottees numbered one hundred and eighty, one hundred and eighty-two, one hundred and thirteen, thirteen hundred and fifty-one, one hundred and twenty-one, two hundred and ten, one hundred and four, five hundred and sixty-three, seventeen, forty-one, seven hundred and two, ninety-eight. seven hundred and thirty-eight. three hundred and seventy-one. one hundred and forty. seven hundred and seventy-two, seven hundred and seventy- four, one hundred and nine, and five hundred and eighty-three, respectively; Albert M. Glardy, John B. Bergeron, Catherine Peltier, and Anthony Bourbonnais, junior, Citizen Pottawatomie allottees in Oklahoma numbered thirteen hundred and sixty-three, thirty-seven, and thirty-four. res ctively; Julia Lazelle and Phillip Wickens, Citizen Pottawatomie allbttees numbered one hundred and seventeen and live hundred and eighty-three, respectively; heir of Horace P. Jones, Kiowa allottee numbered two thousand three hundred and fifty-six; and the issuance of said patents shall operate as a removal of all restrictions as to the sale, incumbrance. or taxation of the lands so patented. That jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon the Court of Claims to ,m*f}‘{${j’{;;m§;, QQQQQ hear and determine the claim for services rendered by Clement N. Clunmncrservlqesro Vann and \‘Villiam P. Adair, late of thelndian Territory, to the Osage 2?5S;,§°t m wm nation of Indians, in defeating a treaty between the said nation and the United States. executed in eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, commonly known as the “' Drum Creek treaty,” and certain proposed leg-