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 558 SIXTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 236,237. 1908. _ conn-we erehxhiyz- Sec. 7. That the United States shall not exempt itself from liability {,'f,*fd_ mm I"` W under this Act by any contract, agreement, ru e, or regulation, and any such contract, agreement, rule, or regulation shall be pro tanto void. Reveul Sec. 8. That all Acts or parts of Acts in conflict herewith or providinga different scale of compensation or otherwise regulating its payment are hereby repealed. Approved, May 30, 1908. M¤[Y Wy 1908- CHAP. 237 .-An Act For the survey and allotment of lands now embraced within S'm'] the limits of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, in the State of Montana, and the sale [Public, No. 177.] and disposal of all the surplus lands after allotment. Be it enacted by the Senate and House 0 f R¥n·eseatat¢}ves of the United R,;‘g§°,,§§f,kM{,'},‘{$‘“ States of America in (]0ngre.ss assembled, That the Secretary of the _ Survey <>f'¤11 1¤¤d¤ Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be m` surveyed all the lands embraced within the limits of the Fort Peck E¤¤¤¤i¤¤¤<>¤ by cx- Indian Reservation, in the State of Montana, and tocause an examina- £.$.ii8ii‘iiq:¤g°m° md tion of the lands within such reservation to be made by the Reclamation Service and by experts of the Geological Survey, and if there be found any lands which it ma be deemed practicable to bring under Rescryufivn- an irrigation project, or any lands bearing lignite coal, the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to construct such irrigation projects and reserve such lands as may be irrigable therefrom, or necessary for irrigation works, and also coal lands as may be necessary to the construction and maintenance of any such projects. d,5:lnIs°¤¤°¤¤ *0 I¤· Sec. 2. That as soon as all the lands embraced within the said Fort -Peck Indian Reservation shall have been surveyed the Commissioner _ of Indian Affairs shall cause allotments of the same to be made under the provisions of the allotment laws of the United States to all Indians AM of ¤U<>¤¤*=¤'¤· belonging and having tribal rights on said reservation; and there shall be allotted to each such Indian three hundred and twenty acres of b£1lg;¤;§¤*¤ 0* **m· grazing land, and there shall also be made an additional allotment of ` not less than two and one—half acres nor more than twenty acres of timber land to heads of families and single adult members of the tribe fzggsgjélmdswm over eighteen years of age: Provided, That should it be determined siionea. as feasible, after examination, to irrigate any of said lands, the irrigable land shall be allotted in eqlual proportions to such only of the members of said tribe as shall be iving at the day of the be inning of the work of allotment on said reservation by the special: allottin g agent, and such allotment of irrigable land shall be in addition to the allotments of grazin and timber lands aforesaid, but no member umn. shall receive more than forty acres of such irrigable land; and to pay the costs of examination provided for herein and for the construction of irrigation systems to irrigate lands which may be found Appi·0pi·im¤¤ no susceptible of irrigation, there is hereby appro riated two hundred ""’ “"“‘ thousand dollars, to be immediately available, tde said sum and an and all additional sums hereafter appropriated to pay the cost of such Reimbummeuz. examination and irrigation systems to be reimbursed from proceeds m;’j{”‘°”‘ *°’ ‘"°°' of sales of lands within the said reservation: Provided, /um~ez·e¢·, That any land irrigable by any system constructed under the provisions of this Act may be disposed of subject to the following conditions: The entryman or owner shall, in addition to the payments re uired by section eight of this Act, be required to pay for a water rigilit the proportionate cost of the construction of said system in not more than fifteen annual installments, as fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, with a view to the return of all moneys expended thereon, the same to be paid at the local land office, and the register and receiver shall be allowed the usual commissions on all moneys paid.