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 462* SIXTIETH_ CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 218. 1908. child belong-in to or holding tribal relations in said Cheyenne River and Standing Sock reservations who have not heretofore received the · allotments to which the are entitled under provisions of existing Survw- laws: Hovidedfurtbcr, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be surveyed all the lands embraced within said reservations, and to cause an examination to be - com nuns reserved- made of the lands by experts of the Geological Survey, and if there be found any lands bearin coal, the said Secretary is hereby authorized to reserve them from ahotment or disposition until further action by m151st:] of ggldigg Congress: Providedfurther, That the rights of honorably discharged mu °” Union soldiers and sailors of the late civil and Spanish wars or Philip- P@··'°°·"°‘·“"’”· ine insurrection, as defined and described in sections twenty-three .V¤ll 81. 1>- 847- hundred and four and twenty-three hundred and five of the devised. _ Statutes, as amendedgry (libc Act of March first, nineteen hundred and one shall not be abri e . Pri, ¤¤ gw by **1* Sho, 3. That the prhre of said lands entered as homesteads under ` the provisions of this Act shall be fixed by apmisement as herein arf_';;, °°¤¤“¤*°”*‘ provided. The President of the United States s appoint two com- ` missions, one for each reservation, each commission to consist of three umm 1-sons to inspect, appraise, and value all of said lands that shall not hdve been allotted in severalty to said Indians, or reserved by the Secre- . tary of the Interior or otherwise disposed of, and excepting sections sixteen and thirty-six in each of said townships,_each commission to oempamon. be constituted as follows: One resident citizen of the States of North or South Dakota, one representative of the Indian Bureau and one rson holding tribal relations with one of said tribes of Indians. Organization- Rat within twenty days after their appointment the said commission- _ ers so appointed for each of the said reservations, respectively, shall meet and organize by the election of one of their number as chairman. <¤¤rk¤- _Eaoh commission is hereby empowered to select such clerks and assist- _ _ ants at such compensation as the Secretary of the Interior may p,E},_,'§§';}f‘§{’,g_ ”"" approve, That said commissioners shall then proceed to personally ins ct, classify, and appraise, in one hundred and sixty acre tracts each? all of the remaining lands embraced within each reservation as described in section one of this Act. In making such classification and appraisement said lands shall be divided into the followin classes: ”*""*°“ °"‘“‘*'~ First, agricultural land of the first class; second, agriculturaF land of C _ the second class; third, grazing land; fourth, timber land; fifth, min- °“"’““'"°`°"‘ eral land, if any, the mineral land not to be appraised. That said commissioners shall .be paid a salary of not to exceed ten dollars per day each while actually employed in the inspectionand classilication of said lands and necessary expenses to be approved by the Secretary m}2$§_Qf’;l&f°" ""“' of the Interior; such inspection and classification to be completed within six months from the date of the organization of said commissions respectively, and no compensation shall be paid to either the Ar>v¤>v¤l; commissioners or employees after the said six months. That when said commissions shal have completed the (classification and appraiserplenécozf all of  kinds the same shall be subject to the approval of t e retary o the nterior. ,_h{:`_>;gge{>* *·* WP Sec. 4. That the price of said lands shall be paid in accordance with the rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior upon the following terms: One fifth of the purchase price to be paid in cash at the time of entry, and the balance in five equal annual _ installments, to be paid in one, two, three, four, and five years, res c- ""’""’"“""· tively, from and after the date of entry. In case any entr man gills to make the annual payments, or any of them, when due, all rights in and to the land covered by his e'ntry shall cease, and any yments theretofore made shall be forfeited and the entry canceledlriind the _ lands shall be reoifered for sale and entry under the rovisions of the @.f•{;n**:£m0n_ homestead law at the appraised price thereof: Ang pwwvided, That R_B__ggc_§]’p_42]_ nothing in this Act shall prevent homestead settlers from commuting