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 372 FIFTY~NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 3504. 1906. dollars, and for the completion of the survey of said reservation, one thousand dollars. In ali; four thousand two hundred dollars. mu;¤d Wm That jurisdiction be, and hereby is conferred upon the Court of pecouq or oiqxm m Claims in Congressional case numbered twenty-two t iousand five hun- }i,§’,.t§,`{'f;{{':¤€j§’tfi,Z_f°r dred and twenty-four, on file in said court, entitled "The Sisseton and Wahpeton bands of Sioux Indians against the United States," to further receive testimony, hear, determine, and render final judgment in said cause, for balance, if any is found due said bands, with right of appeal as in other cases, for any annuities which would be due to vox. m,p. us. said bands of Indians under the treaty of July twenty-third, eighteen · hundred and fifty— one (Tenth Statutes at Large, page nine hundred and forty-nine), as if the Act of forfeiture of the annuities of said bands, v¤1.12,p.c¤2. approved February sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, had not been passed; and to ascertain and set off against the amount found to be due to said Indians if any all payments or other provisions of every name or nature made to or for said bands by the b nited States, or to or for any members thereof, since said Act of forfeiture was passed, which are properly chargeable against said unpaid annuities. °eg’,Q*j$l;‘{,*f‘*;*;,g§,g’” Upon the rendition of such judgment and in conformity therewith ` the Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed to determine which of said Indians now livin took lpart in said outbreak and to prepare a roll of the persons entitled to s are in said judgment by placing on said roll the names of all living members of the said bands residing in the United States at the time of the passage of this Act, excluding therefrom the names of those found to have participated in the outbreak; and he is directed to distribute the proceeds of such judgment, except as hereinafter provided, per capita to the persons borne on the said roll; and the court shall consider the evidence now on file in said cause in connection with such other evidence as may hereafter be addueed therein, and the said cause shall be advanced on the docket of the Court of Claims and of the Supreme Court of the United States if the same ·m°*¤°¥¤’*°°**~ shall be appealed; and the court shall iix and determine, after full Fearing, the amount that shall be deemed reasonable and just to be paid to the attorneys for said Indians for services rendered or to be rendered in said cause, and the court may consider all contracts or agyeements heretofore entered into by said Indians with attorneys w 0 have represented them in the matter of their claim, and the Sec— rotary of the Treasury is hereby directed to pa the said sum of n1oney to the said attorneys immediately upon the rendition of final judgment, out of the proceeds of said judgment if any, when an appropriation for the payment thereof is made by Congress. m:gl{$f*3g2f*** S‘°“* To enable the President to cause. under the provisions of the Act of vm. 2:,, pass. March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, entitled "An Act to divide a portion of the reservation of the Sioux Nation of Indians in Dakota into separate reservations and to secure the relinquishment of the Indian title to the remainder, and for other purposes," to be allotted the lands in said separate reservations as provided in said Act, mcluclingthe necessary resurveys, seven thousand five hundred dollars. {,*j,';*,j;’;t“[j>",,,m,n_ That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized imainx. and directed to allow Bertha D. Staley, administratrix of the estate of dames Staley, deceased,credit in the sum of four hundred and seventy— tive dollars and sixty-three cents in the settlement of the accounts of said James Staley. deceased, late superintendent Indian training school, _ _ Yankton Agency, South Dakota, and special disbursing agent. j',Q’;QQf}“,§',f,§Q",;}’L,_ _ That Yuhunhunzewin, Sisseton and Wahpeton allottee numbered lcrmem. eighthundred and sixtythree. to whom a trust patent has been issued containing restrictions upon alienation, may sell and convey any part of her allotment, but such conveyance shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, under such rules and regulations as he may_prescribe. and when so approved shall convey full title to the