to receive a patent in fee simple for such allotments; and as to full bloods, said restrictions shall be removed when the Secretary of the Interior is satisfied that said adult full-blood Indians are competent to handle their own affairs, and in such case the Secretary of the Interior shall issue to such Indian allottee a patent in fee simple upon application.

MONTANA.

For pay of Indian agents in Montana at the following-named agencies at the rates respectively indicated, namely:

At the Blackfeet Agency, Montana, one thousand eight hundred dollars.

At the Crow Agency, Montana, one thousand eight hundred dollars. At the Flathead Agency, Montana, one thousand five hundred dollars For support and civilization of the Indians at Fort Belknap Agency, Montana, including pay of employees, twenty thousand dollars..

For support and civilization of the Crow Indians in Montana, including pay of employees, eight thousand dollars

$1,800.00

1,800.00 1.500.00

20,000.00

8,000.00

For support and civilization of Indians at Flathead Agency, Montana, including pay of employees, nine thousand dollars.

9,000.00

For support and civilization of the Indians at Fort Peck Agency in

Montana, including pay of employees, fifty thousand dollars

For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Montana, including traveling expenses of agents, two thousand five hundred dollars

2,500.00

50,000.00

For last of nine installments, to be disposed of as provided in article two of the agreement with the Indians of the Blackfeet Reservation, ratified by Act approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars...

CROWS. (Treaty.)

For the last of twenty-five installments, as provided in agreement with the Crows, dated June twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty, to be used by the Secretary of the Interior in such manner as the President may direct, thirty thousand dollars;

For pay of physician, as per tenth article of same treaty, one thousand two hundred dollars:

For pay of carpenter, miller, engineer, farmer, and blacksmith, as per tenth article of same treaty, three thousand six hundred dollars; For pay of second blacksmith, as per eighth article of same treaty, one thousand two hundred dollars;

In all, thirty-six thousand dollars..

For subsistence and civilization, as per agreement with the Sioux Indians approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, including subsistence and civilization of Northern Cheyennes removed from Pine Ridge Agency to Tongue River, Montana, ninety thousand dollars;

For pay of physician, two teachers, two carpenters, one miller, two farmers, a blacksmith, and engineer, per seventh article of the treaty of May tenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, nine thousand dollars; In all, ninety-nine thousand dollars

For the purchase of heifers and bulls for the Indians on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, Tongue River Agency, Montana, thirty

150, 000, 00

36,000.00

99,000.00

thousand dollars: Provided, That the expenditure of this money shall be under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, who shall purchase the cattle and regulate their distribution according to such rules and regulations as in his discretion he may deem best..

FLATHEAD RESERVATION.

That the Act of April twenty-third, nineteen hundred and four (Thirty-third Statutes at Large, page three hundred and two), entitled "An Act for the survey and allotment of lands now embraced within the limits of the Flathead Indian Reservation, in the State of Montana, and the sale and disposal of all surplus lands after allotment," as amended by section nine of the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and five (Thirty-third Statutes at Laige, page one thousand and fortyeight), be amended by adding the following sections:

SEC. 17. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to reserve and set aside for town-site purposes, and to survey, lay out, and plat into town lots, streets, alleys, and parks not less than forty acres of said land at or near each of the present settlements of Arlee, Dayton, Ravalli, Dixon, and Ronan, and not less than eighty acres at the present settlements of Saint Ignatius and Polson, and at such other places as the Secretary of the Interior may deem necessary or convenient for town sites, in such manner as will best subserve the present needs and the reasonable prospective growth of said settlements.

"Such town sites shall be surveyed, appraised, and disposed of as provided in section twenty-three hundred and eighty-one of the United States Revised Statutes: Provided, That any person who, at the date when the appraisers commence their work upon the land, shall be an actual resident upon any one such lot and the owner of substantial and permanent improvements thereon, and who shall maintain his or her residence and improvements on such lot to the date of his or her application to enter, shall be entitled to enter, at any time prior to the day fixed for the public sale and at the appraised value thereof, such lot and any one additional lot of which he or she may also be in possession and upon which he or she may have substantial and permanent improvements: Provided further, That before making entry of any such lot or lots the applicant shall make proof, to the satisfaction of the register and receiver of the land district in which the land lies, of such residence, possession, and ownership of improvements, under such regulations as to time, notice, manner, and character of proof as may be prescribed by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior: Provided further, That in making their appraisal of the lots so surveyed, it shall be the duty of the appraisers to ascertain the names of the residents upon and occupants of any such lots, the character and extent of the improvements thereon, and the name of the reputed owner thereof, and to report their findings in connection with their report of appraisal, which report of findings shall be taken as prima facie evidence of the facts therein set out. All such lots not so entered prior to the day fixed for the public sale shall be offered at public outcry in their regular order, with the other unimproved and unoccupied lots. That no lot shall be sold for less than ten dollars: And provided further, That said lots, when surveyed, shall approximate fifty by one hundred and fifty feet in size.

"SEC. 18. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to reserve and set aside one hundred and sixty acres of land at and surrounding the present hot springs, situated on said reservation near the settlement of Camas.

"That said hot springs and the said one hundred and sixty acres of

$30,000.00

land last mentioned shall be under the control and direction of the Secretary of the Interior, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, but any and all moneys that shall be derived from such use shall be for the benefit of the persons holding tribal relations with said tribes of Indians, the same to be disbursed as provided in section. thirteen of this Act.

"SEC. 19. That nothing in this Act shall be construed to deprive any of said Indians, or said persons or corporations to whom the use of land is granted by the Act, of the use of water appropriated and used by them for the necessary irrigation of their lands or for domestic use or any ditches, dams, flumes, reservoirs constructed and used by them in the appropriation and use of said water.

"SEC. 20. That there is hereby appropriated, for the survey, appraisement, and sale of said town sites, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, the same to be reimbursable out of the funds arising from the sale of said lands: Provided, That the persons employed or detailed under this appropriation shall be allowed therefrom while on duty a per diem in lieu of subsistence, at a rate to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, not exceeding three dollars per day each, and actual necessary expenses for transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares"

NEBRASKA.

GENOA SCHOOL.

For support and education of three hundred Indian pupils at the
Indian school, Genoa, Nebraska, fifty thousand one hundred dollars;
For pay of superintendent of said school, one thousand seven hun-
dred dollars;

For general repairs and improvements, six thousand dollars;
In all, fifty-seven thousand eight hundred dollars

For interest on eight hundred and four thousand nine hundred and nine dollars and seventeen cents, at five per centum per annum, per fourth article of treaty of November first, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, forty thousand two hundred and forty-five dollars and forty-five cents; and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed to expend said interest for the support, education, and civilization of said Indians; to be expended in such manner and to whatever extent that he may judge to be necessary and expedient for their welfare and best interest.

For interest on seventy-eight thousand three hundred and forty dollars and forty-one cents, at five per centum per annum, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior for the erection of houses, improvement of their allotments of land, purchase of stock, agricultural implements, seeds, and other beneficial objects, three thousand nine hundred and seventeen dollars and two cents; In all, forty-four thousand one hundred and sixty-two dollars and forty-seven cents..

That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, to pay to the Santee Sioux Indians in Nebraska and the Ponca Indians in Nebraska the shares of said Indians in the principal permanent fund appropriated and placed in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Sioux Nation of Indians by the seventeenth section of the Act of Congress approved March second, eighteen hundred eighty-nine

$15,000.00

57, 800.00

44, 162. 47

(Statutes at Large, volume twenty-five, page eight hundred and ninetytive): Provided, That the shares of minors until they become of age, and the shares of incompetents, shall remain in the Treasury, and the interest on such shares may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, be paid to the parents or legally appointed guardians of such minors and incompetents under such regulations as he may prescribe; or he may direct that the share of any minor or incompetent to be paid to the parent or legal guardian, on the recommendation of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, if deemed necessary for their best interests: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Interior may withhold any of the payments herein provided for if in his judgment it would be to the best interests of the member entitled to said payment to do so. And so much of the Act of April twenty-first, nineteen hundred and four (volume thirty-three, Statutes at Large, page two hundred and one), as relates to retaining minors' and incompetents' shares in the Treasury is hereby amended so as to permit the shares of the tribal trust funds belonging to minors or incompetents to be paid in like manner to the parents or legal guardians.

That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized, in his discretion, to issue fee-simple patents to the following parties for the lands heretofore allotted them: Reuben Cabana, Lewis Dick, Margaret La Flesche Diddock, Henry Warner, Roy Owens D. Stabler, Ne ka ga he, or Noah La Flesche, Taingena Cook, James B. Atkin, Omaha allottees; Millie Neff, Sac and Fox allottee; Louis Dick and Ida C. Shott, Elsie Grace Pilcher, William H. Campbell, Henry Guitar, Harriet L. Pilcher, Me khu bae, or Anna Mary Walker, Omaha allottees numbered nine hundred and sixty-two, nine hundred and sixteen, four hundred and ninety-two, eight hundred and ninety-two, four hundred and twenty, three hundred and sixtysix, and three hundred and sixty-nine, respectively; David Saint Cyr, Daniel Rice, Alexander Saint Cyr, Charles Raymond, Louis Armell, Louis Saint Cyr, Mrs. Elsie E. Paulson, nee Perry, Mrs. Henrietta Lemmon, and Henry Lemmon, Winnebago allottees numbered two hundred and forty-eight, four hundred and nineteen, one hundred and thirty-nine, three hundred and thirty-eight, two hundred and thirty-seven, two hundred and forty-five, five hundred and nine, one hundred and thirty-two, and one hundred and thirty-six, respectively; Mary Whiting, Ponca (Nebraska) allottee numbered eleven; Rosa Baker, Emma M. Post, Mary Knudsen, Bertha F. Knudsen; Buffalo Chip, White Dog, Frank Sherman, Runs Bowing or William Elk, William Bear, and Mary Lesor, Ponca (Nebraska) allottees numbered thirty-nine, one hundred and six, twenty, two, one hundred, eightyeight, eighty-four, ninety-five, and one hundred and thirty-three, respectively; Josephine Amell, Winnebago allottee numbered two hundred and thirty-five; Zally Rulo, Ponca (Nebraska) allottee numbered eighty-three; George W. Dupuis, Koyakewin, William Holmes, Mary Rockwood, Henry Ross, Frank H. Young, Samuel Baskin, John Hoffman, David Thomas, Joseph Coursoll, junior, Samuel Thomas, Cecilia Coursoll, Julia Rouillard, Frederick A. Dupuis, Alemia Jones, Eliza Rouillard, Edward Mackey, Andrew Jackson Felix, David Mazakute, Henry Felix, Wakinyangi or Samuel, Alfred Dupuis, Samuel Campbell, Mary Coursoll, Thomas Whipple, Jannie Cox, Reuben H. Cahney, Sarah Sheridan, Tae hu tam be or Harvey Warner, Ge u ka or Charles Stabler, Peter Felix, junior, Hin han skaden or Thomas Whiteowl, Dennie Felix, James Hemans, Charles Wicanhpidutawin, Bushman Chapman, Wacanga, George Goodteacher, Asdohewin, John Halfiron, David Boy, Hupojanjanwin, Samuel Stone, Andrew Sherman, Wospimaniwin, Phillip Webster, Joseph Paypay, Sarah Jones, Cantanna or Thomas Whipple, Wihaki or Lina Whipple, Thomas Rouillard, Samuel Whipple, August Trudell, John Ross, and

Joseph Samuels, Santee Sioux allottees numbered one hundred and ninety-five, thirty-two, eight hundred and thirty-nine, one hundred and seventy-nine, seven hundred and fifty-eight, ninety-nine, eight hundred and forty-four, three hundred and fifty-nine, four hundred and twenty-seven, fifty-three, four hundred and twenty-five, seventysix, eight hundred and thirty-one, seventy-one, eight hundred and sixteen, eight hundred and thirty, six hundred and seventy-seven, seven hundred and ten, three hundred and ninety-four, seven hundred and nine, three hundred and eighty-six, one hundred and ninety-four, eight hundred and twenty-one, seventy-four, eight hundred and seven, two hundred and forty-six, three hundred and fourteen, two hundred and ninety-two, five hundred and eight, three hundred and ninety-six, seven hundred and eight, four hundred and sixty-eight, seven hundred and fourteen, three hundred and sixty-three, three hundred and seventy-five, six hundred and fifty, fifteen, one hundred, three hundred and forty-four, two hundred and four, seven hundred and eightyeight, three hundred and forty-nine, three hundred and eleven, three hundred and seventy-nine, fifty, three hundred and twenty-six, four hundred and seventy-two, one hundred and twenty-six, eight hundred and nine, eight hundred and ten, eight hundred and twenty-eight, three hundred and ninety-six, five hundred and forty-eight, five hundred and thirteen, and eight hundred and twenty-six, respectively; Edward Blacksmith, Maud N. Dupuis, Louis Frenier, Nagiiyoptewin, David Whale, Charles Hedges, allottee numbered forty-six; John B. Wapaha, allottee numbered two hundred and thirty-four; Samuel Hoffman, allottee numbered three hundred and forty-three, Santee Sioux schedule; Fannie Baker, Rosebud Sioux allottee numbered one, Sioux Ceded Tract; James Garvie, Santee allottee numbered fifteen; and the issuance of said patents shall operate as a removal of all restrictions as to the sale, incumbrance, or taxation of the lands so patented.

That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized in his discretion to issue a fee-simple patent to Demas Eastman, a Santee Sioux allottee numbered eight hundred and thirty-seven, and the issuance of said patent shall operate as a removal of all restrictions as to the sale, incumbrance, or taxation of the land so patented.

That the Secretary of the Interior may in his discretion issue patent in fee to Good Hawk, Ponca (Nebraska) allottee numbered one hundred and ninety-nine, for such portion of the land allotted him as he may so approve, to be sold under direction of said Secretary; and the issuance of said patent shall operate to remove all restrictions as to the sale, incumbrance, or taxation of the land so patented.

That John Oldman, Santee Sioux allottee numbered one hundred and sixty-two and one hundred and sixty-three, to whom a patent has been issued containing restrictions on alienation, may sell and convey his allotment, but such conveyance shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, and when so approved shall convey full title to the purchaser the same as if a final patent without restrictions had been issued to the allottee.

NEVADA.

For support and civilization of the Indians of the Western Shoshone Agency, Nevada, including pay of employees, eight thousand dollars.

CARSON SCHOOL.

For support and education of three hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school at Carson City, Nevada, fifty thousand one hundred dollars;

For pay of superintendent at said school, one thousand eight hundred dollars;

$8,000.00