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 SIXTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 237. 1908. 56] six dollars per day. In addition to the compensation of said clerks and assistants and in addition to the salaries hereinafter provided for the said commissioners, they shall each receive their actual necessary expenses incurred during such time only as they shall be engaged in the performance of their respective duties on said reservation. Sec. 6. That said commissioners shall then proceed to personally 1¤¤p¢¢¢l<>¤. ew-. of inspect and classify and appraise by the smallest le al subdivisions of r°m°°"`°g1°”d°' forty acres each all of the remaining lands embraced within said reservation. ln making such classification and appraisement said lands cimumunn. shall be divided into the following classes: ldirst, agricultural land; second, (grazing land; third, arid land; fourth, mineral land, the mineral lan not to be ap raised; that said commissioners shall be paid a salary of not to exceed) ten dollars per day each while actually employed in the inspection and classification of said lands, such inspection and Timellxuit classification to be completed within nine months from the date of the organization of said commission. Sec. 7. That when said commission shall have completed the classi- Sm ¤fl¤¤·l¤- fication and appraisement of said lands and the same shall have been approved by the Secretary of the Interior the lands shall be disposed · of under the general provisions of the homestead, desert—land, mineral, and town-site laws of the United States, except sections sixteen and School lands exthirty-six of each township, or any part thereof, for which the State °°pt°°`. of Montana has not heretofore rcweived indemnity lands under existing laws, which sections, or parts thereof, are hereby granted to the State of Montana for school purposes. And in ease either of said sections, me- mus. or parts thereof, is lost to the State by reason of allotment thereof to any Indian or Indians, or by reservation or withdrawal under the provisions of this Act or otherwise, the governor of said State, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, is hereby authorized to select other unoccupied, unreserved, nonmineral lands within said reservation, not exceeding two sections in any one township, which selections must be made within the sixty days immediately prior to the L,,,m_ date fixed by the President’s proclamation opening the surplus lands to settlement: Hwided, That the United States shall pay to the said fjjgfxght Indians for the lands in said sections sixteen and thirty-six, so granted, ` or the lands within said reservation selected in lieu thereof, the sum of one dollar and twenty- five cents per acre. Sec. 8. That the lands so classified and alppraised as provided shall mQ,§’§”°° '° "‘“°' be o ned to settlement and entry by proc amation of the President, whiclfproclaniation shall prescribe the time when and the manner in which these lands may be settled upon, occupied, and entered by persons entitled to make entry thereo, and no person shall be permitted to settle upon, occupy, or enter any of said lands except as prescribed in such proclamation, until after the expiration of sixty days from the _ time when the same are opened to settlement and entry: Provided, ,f,'{f',;'g’g·,md mlm, That the rights of honorab y discharged Union soldiers and sailors of sign.; me nmwm the late civil and Spanish Wars and the Phili pine insurrection, as p_.mj’S°°' ’ ‘ defined and described in sections twenty-three hundred and four and twenty-three hundred and five of the Revised Statutes, as amended by v,,;_31_ p_ 84; the Act of March iirst, nineteen hundred and one, shall not be abridged, but no entry shall be allowed under section twentv—three hundred and six of the Revised Statutes: Provided farther, That the price of said Agricultural. ew-. lands shall be the appraised value thereof, as fixed by said commission, la§i:imum page per which in no case shall be less than one dollar and twenty-five cents per ¤°l*=- acre for agricultural, grazing, and arid land, and shall be paid as follows: Upon all lands entered or filed upon under the provisions of the Paymentshomestead law, there shall be paid one-fifth of the appraised value of the land when entry or filing is made, and the remainder shall be paid in five equal annual installments in one, two, three, four, and five years,