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Indians, for the lands heretofore allotted to them, respectively, in the Territory of Oklahoma, and all restrictions as to the sale, incumbrance, or taxation of said land are hereby removed.

That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to issue patents in fee, severally, to Lotsee Dietrich, Pokin Roache, George Chandler (Allottee Numbered Two hundred and three), and Louisa B. Farwell, members of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache tribes of Indians, for the lands heretofore allotted to them, respectively, in the Territory of Oklahoma, and all restrictions as to the sale, incumbrance, or taxation of said lands are hereby removed. That the following-named allottees of lands situated in the Quapaw Agency, Indian Territory, are authorized to alienate certain portions of their allotments therein, described as follows, namely: Fred Long, the south half of the southeast quarter of the northwest quarter of section twenty-eight, twenty acres; John Faber, the east half of the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section twenty-eight, twenty acres; the heirs of George Bearskin, deceased, the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section twenty-two, forty acres; Annie Daugherty, the northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section twelve, forty acres; and James Boone, lot numbered one in section three; all in township twenty-seven north, of range twentyfour east.

That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to permit an exchange of lands in Oklahoma Territory now included in Kiowa allotment Numbered three hundred and ten for certain other lands in same Territory now included in Kiowa allotment Numbered three hundred and twelve, and to issue new allotment patents to the allottees interested carrying the exchanges into effect.

SEC. 24. That the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to pay the deputy clerks of the United States court in the Indian Territory the deficiency that may exist in their salaries from March first, nineteen hundred and three, to be paid by the disbursing clerk of the Department of Justice in the same manner as the salaries of the clerks of the several United States courts in the Indian Territory are now paid. That hereafter the salaries of the deputy clerks in the Indian Territory, appointed under the Act of March first, eighteen hundred and ninetyfive (Twenty-eighth Statutes, page six hundred and ninety-five), and Acts amendatory thereto, be paid by the disbursing clerk for the Department of Justice at the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum, as fixed by said Act, in the same manner as the salaries of the clerks of the United States courts in the Indian Territory are now paid: Provided, That the deputy clerks shall receive as compensation for recording all instruments provided for in the Act of February nineteenth, nineteen hundred and three (Thirtysecond Statutes, page eight hundred and forty), the fees allowed for the recording of instruments provided for in said Act, to an amount not exceeding the sum of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum, out of which sum all the actual expenses for clerk hire shall be paid, and all fees so received by any deputy clerk as aforesaid, amounting to more than the sum of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum shall be accounted for to the Department of Justice, as required in said Act: Provided further, That at the towns of South McAlester, Muscogee, Vinita and Ardmore, respectively, the clerks of the United States court, who are in charge at said places, but not the deputy clerks, shall be permitted to retain out of the fees collected for the recording and filing of all instruments provided for in the Act of February nineteenth, nineteen hundred and three (Thirty-second Statutes, page eight hundred and forty), an amount not exceeding the

sum of two thousand five hundred dollars per annum, out of which sum all the actual expenses for clerk hire necessary in the recording of instruments provided for in the above Act, shall be paid and all fees so received by any clerk as aforesaid amounting to more than the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars per annum, shall be accounted for to the Department of Justice as required in said Act... SEC. 25. That in carrying out any irrigation enterprise which may be undertaken under the provisions of the reclamation Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, and which may make possible and provide for, in connection with the reclamation of other lands, the reclamation of all or any portion of the irrigable lands on the Yuma and Colorado River Indian reservations in California and Arizona, the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to divert the waters of the Colorado River and to reclaim, utilize, and dispose of any lands in said reservations which may be irrigable by such works in like manner as though the same were a part of the public domain: Provided, That there shall be reserved for and allotted to each of the Indians belonging on the said reservations five acres of the irrigable lands. The remainder of the lands irrigable in said reservations shall be disposed of to settlers under the provisions of the reclamation Act: Provided further, That there shall be added to the charges required to be paid under said Act by settlers upon the unallotted Indian lands such sum per acre as in the opinion of the Secretary of the Interior shall fairly represent the value of the unallotted lands in said reservations before reclamation; said sum to be paid in annual installments in the same manner as the charges under the reclamation Act. Such additional sum per acre, when paid, shall be used to pay into the reclamation fund the charges for the reclamation of the said allotted lands, and the remainder thereof shall be placed to the credit of said Indians and shall be expended from time to time, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, for their benefit.

SEC. 26. That in carrying out any irrigation enterprise which may be undertaken under the provisions of the reclamation Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, and which may make possible and provide for, in connection with the reclamation of other lands, the reclamation of all or any portion of the irrigable lands on the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation, Nevada, the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to reclaim, utilize, and dispose of any lands in said reservation which may be irrigable by such works in like manner as though the same were a part of the public domain: Provided, That there shall be reserved for and allotted to each of the Indians belonging on the said reservation five acres of the irrigable lands. The remainder of the lands irrigable in said reservation shall be disposed of to settlers under the provisions of the reclamation Act: Provided further, That there shall be added to the charges required to be paid under said Act by settlers upon the unallotted Indian lands such sum per acre as in the opinion of the Secretary of the Interior shall fairly represent the value of the unallotted lands in said reservation before reclamation, said sum to be paid in annual installments in the same manner as the charges under the reclamation Act. Such additional sum per acre, when paid, shall be used to pay into the reclamation fund the charges for the reclamation of the said allotted lands, and the remainder thereof shall be placed to the credit of said Indians and shall be expended from time to time, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, for their benefit.

SEC. 27. That the Indian school authorized by the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and one, entitled "An Act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes for the fiscal

$25,000.00

year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, and for other purposes," to be located at or near the city of Mandan, in the State of North Dakota, is hereby located near the city of Bismarck, in the State of North Dakota, upon lands donated to the Government for that purpose and accepted by the Secretary of the Interior.

Approved, April 21, 1904.

Total, Indian Act

$9,447, 961. 40

LEGISLATIVE, EXECUTIVE, AND JUDICIAL APPROPRIATION ACT.

[PUBLIC NO. 57.]

By the Act Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, and for other purposes, approved March 18, 1904.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely:

LEGISLATIVE.

SENATE.

For compensation of Senators, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars..

For mileage of Senators, forty-five thousand dollars

For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others in the service of the Senate, namely:

OFFICE OF THE VICE-PRESIDENT: For Secretary to the Vice-President, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; for messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; telegraph operator, one thousand five hundred dollars; telegraph page, six hundred dollars; in all, five thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars

CHAPLAIN: For Chaplain of the Senate, one thousand dollars OFFICE OF SECRETARY: For Secretary of the Senate, including compensation as disbursing officer of the contingent fund of the Senate, five thousand dollars, and for compensation as disbursing officer of salaries of Senators, three hundred and ninety-six dollars; hire of horse and wagon for the Secretary's office, seven hundred dollars; chief clerk, three thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; financial clerk, three thousand dollars, and seven hundred and fifty dollars additional while the office is held by the present incumbent; minute and journal clerk, three thousand dollars; principal clerk and enrolling clerk, at two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars each; reading clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant financial clerk, two thousand four hundred dollars; librarian, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars, and two hundred and eighty dollars additional while the office is held by the present incumbent; assistant librarian, one thousand eight hundred dollars; messenger, acting as assistant librarian, one thousand six hundred dollars; six clerks, at two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars each; five clerks, at two thousand one hundred dollars each; clerk, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; keeper of stationery, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; assistant keeper of stationery, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant in stationery room, one thousand dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; assistant messenger, one thousand two hundred dollars; six laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, seventy-one thousand five hundred and ninety-six dollars

DOCUMENT ROOM: For superintendent of the document room (Amzi Smith), three thousand dollars; first assistant in document room, one

$450,000.00 45, 000.00

5,760.00

1,000.00

71, 596. 00

thousand eight hundred dollars; two assistants in document room, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; clerk to superintendent of document room, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; skilled laborer, one thousand dollars; in all, ten thousand one hundred and twenty dollars..

CLERKS AND MESSENGERS TO COMMITTEES: For clerk of printing records, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Appropriations, three thousand dollars, and one thousand dollars additional while the office is held by the present incum bent; assistant clerk, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, to be appointed by the committee, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk and stenographer to the Committee on Finance, two thousand five hundred dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Claims, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; assistant clerk, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Commerce, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; assistant clerk, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Pensions, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; two assistant clerks, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on the Judiciary, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Military Affairs, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; assistant clerk, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on the District of Columbia, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Foreign Relations, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Engrossed Bills, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Joint Committee on the Library, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; clerks to the committees on Naval Affairs, Census, Public Lands, Indian Affairs, to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, Public Buildings and Grounds, Agriculture and Forestry, Education and Labor, Territories, Interstate Commerce, Public Health and National Quarantine, Private Land Claims, Patents, Coast Defenses, Privileges and Elections, Additional Accommodations for the Library of Congress, Rules, Civil Service and Retrenchment, Enrolled Bills, Geological Sur vey, Railroads, Pacific Railroads, Pacific Islands and Porto Rico, Phil ippines, Relations with Cuba. Interoceanic Canals, Transportation and 'Sale of Meat Products, Five Civilized Tribes of Indians, Improvement of the Mississippi River and its Tributaries, Organization, Conduct, and Expenditures of the Executive Departments, and clerk to conference minority of the Senate, at two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars each; clerks to committees on Woman Suffrage, and Mines and Mining, at two thousand one hundred dollars each; in all, one hundred and twenty-seven thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars

For twenty-two clerks to committees, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, thirty-nine thousand six hundred dollars..

OFFICE OF SERGEANT-AT-ARMS AND DOORKEEPER: For Sergeantat-Arms and Doorkeeper, four thousand five hundred dollars; horse and wagon for his use, four hundred and twenty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; for clerk to Sergeant-at-Arms, two thousand dollars; assistant doorkeeper, two thousand five hundred and

$10, 120.00

127,760.00

39,600,00

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