INDIAN TERRITORY.

For pay of Indian agent at the Union Agency, Indian Territory, three thousand dollars

For special clerical force in the office of the United States Indian agent, Union Agency, and miscellaneous expenses in connection with entering of remittances received in account of payments of town lots and issuance of patents, and conveying same, ten thousand dollars... For clerical work and labor connected with the sale and leasing of Creek and the leasing of Cherokee lands, thirty thousand dollars.... That there shall be reserved from allotment one acre of the unallotted lands of the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes for each church under the control of or used exclusively by the Choctaw or Chickasaw freedmen; and there shall be reserved from allotment one acre of said lands for each school conducted by Choctaw or Chickasaw freedmen, under the supervision of the authorities of said tribes and officials of the United States, and patents shall issue, as provided by law, to the person or organization entitled to receive the same. There are also reserved such tracts from said lands as the Secretary of the Interior may approve for cemeteries; and such cemeteries may be reserved, respectively, for Indians, freedmen, and whites, as the Secretary may designate.

That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and empowered to segregate and reserve from allotment, and to cancel any filings or applications that may heretofore have been made with a view to allotting, the following-described lands, situate in the Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory, to wit: The northwest quarter of section twelve, in township five north, range fifteen east, containing in the aggregate one hundred and sixty acres more or less. That the provisions of sections fifty-six to sixty-three, inclusive, of the Act of Congress approved July first, nineteen hundred and two, entitled "An Act to ratify and confirm an agreement with the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes, and for other purposes," be, and the same are hereby, made applicable to the lands above described, the same as if the said described lands had been made a part of the segregation as contemplated by said sections fifty-six to sixty-three, inclusive, of said above Act approved July first, nineteen hundred and two: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior may, in his discretion, add to and make a part of the coal mining leases now in effect, and to which said lands are contiguous, the northwest quarter of section twelve, in township five north, of range fifteen east, Government subdivisions being followed as nearly as possible: Provided further, That the holder or holders of the lease or leases to which such lands shall be added shall, before the same are added, pay the Indian or Indians who have filed upon or applied for such lands as their allotments, or who are in possession thereof, the value of the improvements placed on the land by said Indian or Indians, such value to be determined under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior.

That there is appropriated, out of any money in the United States Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one thousand two hundred and thirty-six dollars, to pay Toney E. Proctor two dollars per day in lieu of subsistence from August thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, until April twenty-third, nineteen hundred and one, while serving as town-site appraiser of Wagoner, Indian Territory, Creek Nation

Removal of intruders, Five Civilized Tribes: For the purpose of removing intruders and placing allottees in unrestricted possession of their allotments, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, twenty thousand dollars.

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That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to make such contract as in his judgment seems advisable for the care of orphan Indian children at the Whittaker Home, Pryor Creek, Indian Territory, and for the purpose of carrying this provision into effect, the sum of ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as is necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated

Ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available, in the payment of indebtedness already incurred, necessarily expended in suppressing the spread of smallpox in the Indian Territory during the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, all accounts to be first examined and approved by the Secretary of the Interior as just and reasonable before being paid To enable the Secretary of the Interior to carry out the provisions of the Act approved April twenty-first, nineteen hundred and four, for the removal of restrictions upon the alienation of lands of all allottees of the Five Civilized Tribes, eighteen thousand dollars: Provided, That so much as may be necessary may be used in the employment of clerical force in the office of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs..

For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in the Indian Territory, and for pay of employees, eighteen thousand dollars

To carry out the provisions of section ten of the supplemental agreements with the Creek Nation, as ratified by the Act of June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, and section thirty-seven of the Cherokee agreement, as ratified by the Act of July first, nineteen hundred and two, eight thousand dollars.

INSPECTOR.

For clerical and incidental expenses of the United States inspector's office, Indian Territory, in accordance with the provisions of section twenty-seven of the Act of June twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, entitled "An Act for the protection of the people of the Indian Territory, and for other purposes," ten thousand dollars..

To enable the Secretary of the Interior to investigate, or cause to be investigated, any lease of allotted land in the Indian Territory which he has reason to believe has been obtained by fraud, or in violation of the terms of existing agreements with any of the Five Civilized Tribes, as provided by the Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, ten thousand dollars.

SCHOOLS.

For the maintenance, strengthening, and enlarging of the tribal schools of the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole nations, and making provision for the attendance of children of parents of other than Indian blood therein, and the establishment of new schools under the control of the Department of the Interior, the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be placed in the hands of the Secretary of the Interior, and disbursed by him under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe

That the Court of Claims be, and is hereby, authorized and empowered, upon final determination of the case or cases involving the claim of the intermarried white persons in the Cherokee Nation to share in the common property of the Cherokee people, and to be enrolled for such purpose (being numbers four hundred and nineteen, four hundred and twenty, four hundred and twenty-one, and four hundred and twenty-two, on the docket of the United States Supreme Court for October term, nineteen hundred and five), to ascertain and determine

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the amount to be paid the attorney and counsel of record for the Cherokee Indians by blood in said cases, in reimbursement of necessary expenses incurred, and as reasonable compensation for services rendered in such proceedings not exceeding sixty thousand dollars. Such court shall further designate the persons, class, or body of persons by whom such payment should equitably be made and the fund or funds held by the United States out of which the same shall be paid and enter a decree for the amount so found; and the sum necessary to pay the same is hereby appropriated out of the fund or funds designated by the court, and the Secretary of the Treasury shall pay the same: Provided, That notice of hearing of such application to determine such compensation shall be given the governor of the Cherokee Nation or the attorney of record thereof and the Secretary of the Interior, at least thirty days before the day of said hearing.

The amount awarded by the court when paid shall be in full for all expenses and services of said attorney and counsel in connection with the claim of the intermarried whites.

FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES.

For the completion of the work heretofore required by law to be done by the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes, two hundred thousand dollars. Said appropriation to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior...

That the Commissioner to the Five Civilized Tribes is hereby authorized to add the names of the following persons to the final roll of the citizens by blood of the Choctaw tribe: Malinda Pickens, Morris Battiest, and Samuel Sydney Burris; and the names of the following persons to the final roll of the citizens by blood of the Chickasaw tribe; Rebecca Pitts, Maggie Wade; and the names of Nancy Bigknife, Alice Owen and her children, to the final roll of the citizens by blood of the Cherokee tribe, the said persons being either Choctaw, Chickasaw, or Cherokee Indians by blood, whose names, through neglect on their part or on the part of their parents, have been omitted from the tribal rolls: Provided, That the enrollment of said persons by the Commissioner to the Five Civilized Tribes shall not be objected to by the said tribes, and shall be approved by the Secretary of the Interior.

That the Secretary of the Interior shall upon completion of the approved rolls, have prepared and printed in a permanent record book such rolls of the Five Civilized Tribes and that one copy of such record book shall be deposited in the office of the recorder in each of the recording districts for public inspection. That any person who shall copy any roll of citizenship of the Creek, Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, or Seminole tribes of Indians, prepared by or under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes or the Commissioner to the Five Civilized Tribes, whether completed or not, or any person who shall, directly or indirectly, exhibit, sell, offer to sell, give away, offer to give away, or in any manner or by any means offer to dispose of, or who shall have in his possession, any such roll or rolls, any copy of the same, or a copy of any portion thereof, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and punished by imprisonment for not exceeding two years: Provided, That this Act shall not apply to any persons authorized by the Secretary of the Interior, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, or the Commissioner to the Five Civilized Tribes to copy, exhibit, or use such rolls, or a copy thereof, for any purpose necessary or required by law. No distinction shall be made in the enrollment of full-blood Mississippi Choctaws who have been identified by the United States Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes, and who had removed to the Indian Territory prior to March fourth, nineteen hundred and six, and who shall furnish proof thereof.

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CHOCTAWS. (Treaty.)

For permanent annuity, per second article of treaty of November sixteenth, eighteen hundred and five, and thirteenth article of treaty of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, three thousand dollars;

For permanent annuity for support of light horsemen, per thirteenth article of treaty of October eighteenth, eighteen hundred and twenty, and thirteenth article of treaty of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, six hundred dollars;

For permanent annuity for support of blacksmith, per sixth article of treaty of October eighteenth, eighteen hundred and twenty, ninth article of treaty of January twentieth, eighteen hundred and twentyfive, and thirteenth article of treaty of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, six hundred dollars;

For permanent annuity for education, per second and thirteenth articles of last two treaties named above, six thousand dollars;

For permanent annuity for iron and steel, per ninth article of treaty of January twentieth, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, and thirteenth article of treaty of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fiftyfive, three hundred and twenty dollars;

For interest on three hundred and ninety thousand two hundred and fifty-seven dollars and ninety-two cents, at five per centum per annum, for education, support of the government, and other beneficial purposes, under the direction of the general council of the Choctaws, in conformity with the provisions contained in the ninth and thirteenth articles of treaty of January twentieth, eighteen hundred and twentyfive, and treaty of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, nineteen thousand five hundred and twelve dollars and eighty-nine cents;

In all, thirty thousand and thirty-two dollars and eighty-nine cents. And provided, The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized in case after investigation he deems it for the best interest of the tribe to set aside six hundred and forty acres of Choctaw land for the benefit of Old Goodland Indian Orphan Industrial School, and to convey the same to said school in conjunction with the executive of the Choctaw tribe.

That section two of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the final disposition of the affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes in the Indian Territory, and for other purposes," approved April twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and six, be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking out thereof the words "Provided further, That nothing herein shall be construed so as to hereafter permit any person to file an application for enrollment in any tribe where the date for filing application has been fixed by agreement between said tribe and the United States: Provided further, That nothing herein shall apply to the intermarried whites in the Cherokee Nation whose cases are now pending in the Supreme Court of the United States." And insert in said Act in lieu of the matter repealed, the following: Provided further, That nothing herein shall be construed so as hereafter to permit any person to file an application for enrollment or to be entitled to enrollment in any of said tribes, except for minors the children of Indians by blood, or of freedmen members of said tribes, or of Mississippi Choctaws identified under the fourteenth article of the treaty of eighteen hundred and thirty, as herein otherwise provided, and the fact that the name of a person appears on the tribal roll of any of said tribes shall not be construed to be an application for enrollment.

That section fifteen of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the final disposition of the affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes in the Indian Territory, and for other purposes," approved April twenty-sixth, nine

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teen hundred and six, be, and the same is hereby, amended by inserting after the word "conveyances," at the end of said section, the following: "Provided, That this section shall not take effect until the date of the dissolution of the tribal governments of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek, and Seminole tribes.'

That, in addition to the places now provided by law for holding courts in the central judicial district of Indian Territory, terms of the district court of the central district shall hereafter be held at the town of Wilburton, and the United States judge of said central district is hereby authorized to establish by metes and bounds a recording district for said court to be known as recording district numbered thirty. That all laws regulating the holding of courts in the Indian Territory shall be applicable to the court hereby created at the town of Wilburton. That there is hereby created in the Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory, an additional recording district, to be known as district numbered twenty-seven. Said district shall be bounded as follows: Beginning at the northwest corner of the Cherokee Nation, thence east along the north boundary line of the Cherokee Nation to the northeast corner of section seventeen, in township twenty-nine north, of range fourteen east; thence south to the township line at the corner of section thirty-two; thence west along said township line to the northeast corner of section four, in township twenty-eight north, of range fourteen east; thence south with the section line to the township line between townships twenty-three and twenty-four; thence west to the dividing line between the Osage and Cherokee nations; thence north along said dividing line between the Osage and Cherokee nations to the place of beginning.

That not less than two terms of court in each year shall be held at the town of Bartlesville, in said recording district numbered twentyseven, and a United States commissioner's court shall be established in said recording district numbered twenty-seven and maintain an office at Bartlesville, in said district, and an Act of Congress entitled "An Act providing for the recording of deeds and other conveyances and instruments in writing in Indian Territory and for other purposes,' approved February nineteenth, nineteen hundred and three, shall have the same force and effect in said district numbered twenty-seven as it has in the districts created by said Act approved February nineteenth, nineteen hundred and three.

That there is hereby created in Indian Territory an additional recording district, to be known as recording district numbered twenty-eight. Said district shall be bounded as follows: Beginning at the southwest corner of the Cherokee Nation; thence north along the western boundary line of the Cherokee Nation to the township line between townships twenty-three and twenty-four north; thence east along the township line between townships twenty-three and twenty-four north to the range line between ranges fourteen and fifteen east; thence south along the range line between ranges fourteen and fifteen east to the township line between townships sixteen and seventeen north; thence west along the township line between townships sixteen and seventeen north to the range line between ranges twelve and thirteen east; thence north along the range line between ranges twelve and thirteen east to the township line between townships eighteen and nineteen north; thence west along the township line between townships eighteen and nineteen north to the range line between ranges ten and eleven east; thence north along said range line to the Arkansas River; thence northwest up said river to a point where it crosses the north line of the Creek Nation; thence east along the north line of the Creek Nation to the place of beginning. That the judge of the western judicial district of Indian Territory shall hold not less than three terms of court in each year at the town of Tulsa, in said recording district numbered twenty-eight; and a