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Sec. 8. For support and education of two hundred and twenty-five Indian pupils at the Indian school, Pipestone, Minnesota, and for pay of superintendent, thirty-nine thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars; for general repairs and improvements, two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, forty-one thousand six hundred and seventy-five dollars.

For support of a school or schools for the Chippewas of the Mississippi in Minnesota (article three, treaty of March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven), four thousand dollars..

The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to withdraw from the Treasury of the United States, at his discretion, the sum of one hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of the principal sum on deposit to the credit of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota, arising under section seven of the Act of January fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, entitled "An Act for the relief and civilization of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota," and to use the same for the purpose of promoting civilization and self-support among the said Indians in manner and for purposes provided for in said Act.

The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to advance to the executive committee of the White Earth band of Chippewa Indians in Minnesota the sum of one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended in the annual celebration of said band to be held June fourteenth, nineteen hundred and eleven, out of the funds belonging to said band.

There is hereby appropriated the sum of five thousand dollars, or so s. Dak. much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available, for the purpose of defraying the costs and expenses, including the compensation of counsel, in the proceedings authorized to be brought in the Court of Claims by provisions in section twenty-two of the Indian appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven, approved April fourth, nineteen hundred and ten, between the United States and the Yankton Tribe of Indians of South Dakota, to determine the interest, title, ownership and right of possession of said tribe of Indians in and to certain lands and premises therein described.

That the last clause of section ten of the Indian appropriation Act approved April fourth, nineteen hundred and ten, be amended so as to read as follows:

"To enable the Secretary of the Interior to construct a bridge on the old Red Lake Agency Road across Clearwater River in township one hundred and fifty, north of range thirty-seven, west of the fifth principal meridian, one thousand dollars, to be available until expended."

The Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed to withdraw from the Treasury of the United States the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary of the principal sum on deposit to the credit of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota, arising under section seven of the Act of January fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, entitled "An Act for the relief and civilization of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota," to pay the actual and necessary expenses of the members of the White Earth Band of Indians sent by a council of said Indians held December tenth, nineteen hundred and ten, to represent said band in Washington during the third session of the Sixty-first Congress, which expense shall be itemized and verified under oath by Chief Wain-che-mah-dub, of said delegation.