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 366 FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 3504. 1906. islation injurious to the Osage Indians for the sale of their lands in Kansas, and in procuring the enactment of other legislation favorable to said Indians for the sale of said lands. _ _ remum. That a petition may be filed by the executor or administrator of the estate of said Adair and Vann, respectively, in said court within_ forty days from the approval of this Act against the Osage _Nation of Indians, and service of said petition shall be had by delivering a copy thereof to the Secretary of the Interior and to the governor or principal chief of said nation, with a notice to answer within the time herein rescribed; and said answer shall be filed in said court within ninety days after the service of the petition. Jurisdicrivnofwurr- The court may receive and consider all papers, depositions, records, and documents heretofore filed either in said court or the Executive Departments of the Government, together with any other evidence offered by either party to the case, and shall render a judgment or decree against the Osage Nation of Indians for such amount, if any, as the court shall find legally or equitably due for the services of said Adair and Vann, either upon contract or upon a quantum meruit, provided said court shall determine that a plea of quantum meruit may be interposed and considered, not exceeding one hundred and eighty thou- Judgment. sand dollars. The court shall enter judgment for the total amount found to be due, if any, and shall specify therein the amounts apayable to any person or persons under any contract or assignment m e since ,_ September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and two, covering any portion of said claim. A“"“°°°*°°“”· Said cause shall be advanced on the calendar of said court. The amount for which judgment may be rendered by the Court of Claims, when paid to the parties named in said judgment, shall be received in full and final settlement of the claim for said services of said Adair gougigi M and Vann against said nation of I ndians: Provided, That the Osage tribe be, an are hereby, authorized to employ counsel, with the consent of the Secretary of the Interior, to represent them in said cause. ““d m“°“‘ That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized Pr·g;·;;=_¤;\f<~f ¢¤¤¤=+ and directed to pay, out of the funds of the Otoe and Missouri Indians, p° "` of Oklahoma Territory, the sum of one hundred and eighty-two dollars and fifty cents to the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad Com any for five tickets from Oklahoma City to Washington, District of Colum- V bia, furnished members of said tribe, the payment of which has been asked by the council of said tribe. };‘“’;°,j,‘jQ,Ay,'?;"*sQ§;,_ That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed i<=e¤¤<>0¤¤z¤·=·- to lpay to Lorenzo A. Bailey six thousand one hundred and fifty-tive dollars and twenty-two cents, out of any money in the Treasury of the United States belonging to the Osage Nation or tribe of Indians, for his retainer fee and his contingent fee in the Watson Stewart case, under his contract with said nation bearing date February twenty- uilgizymri by <1<>¤¤ ninth, nineteen hundred and four, and such further sum as the Court ’of Claims may hereafter determine to be a fair and reasonable fee to him under said contract. 2;’§,‘j§$ *f,$“§§;§;{t"Qi_ That the Indian appropriation Act of March third, nineteen hundred gms1d5y ¤¤¤·¤¤=¤. i¤— and one (Thirty-first Statutes, page one thousand and sixty-tive), be v5i,;i1, p.mc.=.. amended so as to read as follows: "'l` hat it shall be unlawful hereafter for the traders upon the Osage Indian Reservation to give credit to any individual Indian, head of a family, to an amount greater than seventy-five per centum of the next quarterly annuity to which such Indian will be entitled.” °'°""" OREGON. §‘,}{‘,‘,};§‘,§l‘@$‘},‘§Ygn_ For support and civilization of the Klamaths, Modocs, and other ¤i¤¤*- Indians of the Klamath Agency, Oregon, including pav of employees, tive thousand dollars. i