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 SIXTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Cris. 68, 69. 1920. 405 Sm. 2. That if any claim or claims be submitted to said courts, ufgyofgbfr “mi'=¤· the shall settle the rights therein, both legal and equitable, of each ` ang all the parties thereto, notwithstandingllapse of time or statutes of limitation, and any payment which may ave been made upon any claim so submitted shall not be pleaded as an esto pel, but may be pleaded as an offset in such suits or actions, and lihe United States shall be allowed credit for all sums heretofore aid or expended for , the benefit of said tribe or any band thereof. 'lllie claim or claims of ,,1,$§_“°’"°°‘°” °! the said tribes or band or bands thereof may be presented separately or jointl by petition, subject, however, to amendment, suit to be Eled within live years after the passage of this Act; and such action shall make the petitioner or etitioners party plaintiff of plaintiffs and the United States party defendant, and any band or ands of said tribe the court may deem necessary to a final determination of such suit or suits may be joined therein as the court may order. _ _ Such petition, which s all be verified by a petitioner or an attomey ,,:,_°“°°°“°“ °' *’°“‘ employed by said petitioner, tribes of any bands thereof, shall set forth all the facts on which the claims for recovery are based, and said petition shall be signed by the attorney or attornelys employed, and _ no other verification shall be necessax. _ Offici letters, papers, E"*°°"°°°d“““°d‘ documents, and public records, or cerf ed cgpies thereof, may be used in evidence, and the departments of the ovemment shall give accom to the attorney or attorneys of said tribe or bands thereo to such treaties, papers, correspondence, or records as may be needed by the attornpigor attorneys for said tribes or bands of Indians. Am,,.,,,,,»,,,,,_ Sec. 3. at upon the final determination of such suit, cause, or R¤¤¤i¤**¤¤¤¤· action the Court of Claims shall decree such fees as it shall find reasonable to be paid the attorney or attorneys employed therein by said; tribe or bands of Indians, under contracts nxotiated and approved as ggovided by existing law, and in no case sh the fee decreed by said urt of Claims be in excess of the amounts stipulated in the contracts. approved by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and the Secretary of e Interior, and no attorney shall have a right to represent the said tribe or any band thereof in any suit, cause or action under the ro- ‘ visions of this Act until his contract shall have been approved) as E herein provided. '1`he fees decreed by the court to the attomey or ,,;,2 ,§L$,v§ °’“ attorneys of record shall be paid out of any sum or sums recovered in such suits or actions, and no part of such ee shall be taken from any money in the '1‘reasury of the United States belonging to such tribes or bands of Indians in whose behalf the suit is brought unless specifically authorized in the contract approved by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and the Secretaryl o the Interior as herein provided: pmao; Provided, That in no case shall the fees decreed by said court amoimt ·*'“°‘”" “”’“°‘· to more than 10 per centum of the amount of the judgment recovered in such cause. Approved, February 11, 1920. Feb 11, Hm. _ CHAP- 69.-An Act To add to the Oregon, Siuslaw, and Crater National Formts mO1'eg0n certain lands that were revested in the United States pursuant to the decimqu [P“ u°* N°‘ 137* of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of the Oregon and Califomxa Railroad Company against the United States, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Semis and House bg Re esentatives qtlw Unzized _ Swiss of  in Oemgress assemb, Tgiit such portions of tho C,,°,'§§°§¤f’g§’Q,?,"·§g‘§ lands heremafter described as shall be deemed necessary by the ae. Gres- S°Gi'°$*’·Y‘Y_0f tho Interior and the Secretary oaf Agriculture for the   R§f§§‘g'}{ conservation and protection of the water su plies of the cities of massuasam. Ort<§on City, Dallas, Corvallis, and Ashland gregon, and which are wi _ in the units of the grant b the United States to the Oregon and California Railroad Company, that were revested in the Unite States