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 SIXTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sass. I. Cns. 723, 724. 1920. 80] director of which shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Director of the United States Veterans’ Bureau shall receive a salary of $12,000 per annum, payable month1y." Approved, July 2, 1926. CHAP. 724.-—-An Act Authorizing the Citizen Band of Pottawatomie In- Jmlgégwll dians in Oklahoma to submit claims to the Court of Claims. lP¤b1i¤.N¤-449.} Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in 6’emgreea.assembZed, That jurisdiction d,f;;*—Q,‘Qg°mi° I¤· is hereb conferred on the Court of Claims with the right of appeal ciaims 61 cmu;} to the Syupreme Court of the United States by either party as in 2,225* °i’,,“’ lé‘§§$Q“d(§§ other cases, notwithstanding the lapse of time or statutes of limits- C*Q,*$"·,5 p 6,, tion, to hear, examine, and adjudicate and render judgment in any ` ’ ` ' and all legal and equitable claims arising under or growing out of the treaty of February 27, 1867 (Fifteenth Statutes at Large page 531), or arising under or £rowing out of any subsequent Act of Congress in relation to In an affairs which said Citizen Band of Pottawatomie Indians of Oklahoma may have against the United States, which claims have not heretofore been determined and adju- gicated by the Court of Claims or the Supreme Court of the United tates. Sno. 2. An and all claims against the United States within the '““‘°‘°"‘m”*- purview of this Act shall be forever barred unless suit or suits be instituted or petition filed as herein provided in the Court of Claims within five years from the date of the approval of this Act, and such suit or suits shall make the Citizen Band of Pottawatomie Indians of Oklahoma arty plaintiff and the United States party defendant. vmmu The petition siiall be verified by the attorney or attorneys emplged °°'°‘°` to prosecute such claim or claims under contract with the sai iti· zen Band of Pottawatomie Indians approved in accordance with existing_law; and said contract shall be executed in their behalf by a committee or committees to be selected by said Citizen Band of Emma sdmnm Pottawatomie Indians. Official letters, papers, documents, and rec- ords, or certified co ies thereof, ma t be used in evidence, and the departments of the government shall give access to the attorney or attorneys of said Citizen Band of Pottawatomie Indians to such treaties, papers, correspondence, or records as they may require in the prosecution of any suit or suits instituted under this Act. Sac. 3. In said suit or suits the court shall also hear, examine, cOg;>,:r;{j,;;¤¤*¤¤ <>* consider, and adjudicate any claims which the United States may ' have against the said Citizen Band of Pottawatomie Indians, but any paymentor payments which may have been made by the United States upon any such claim shall not operate as an estoppel, but may be plea ed as a ,set~oif in such suit or suits, as may any gratuities pag}; to or expended for said Indians subsequent to February 27, 18 . . . i Sno. 4. The court shall join an other tribe or band `of Indians m'l,‘f,lT“"“ °' °"‘°' that may be necessary to a final deterrnination of an suit brought b;£gg;{3;’c{>°,j,°{ °°¢·· under this Act. Upon the final determination of such suitor cause ` of action, the Court of Claimsshall have jurisdiction to decree the fees to be paid to the attorney or attorne Vs, not “to_exceed 10 per centum of the anionnt of the judgment, iii an`, recovered in such cause, and in no event to exceed  e Sllm ofi$g5,0`QO,_together with all necessaryl and__prqper expenses incurred in preparation and prose- cution of t e sui, to be paid out of any judgment that may be mmm otjuqsment recovered, and the balance of such judgment shall be placed in the {$’,§§—°,“;§.§£§“d‘““ m 43892**-·-27--51 A