United States may lease his allotment without restriction for a period not exceeding five years: Provided further, That the parent or the person next of kin having the care and custody of a minor allottee may lease the allotment of said minor as herein provided, except that no such lease shall extend beyond the minority of said allottee.

OSAGES. (Treaty.)

For interest on sixty-nine thousand one hundred and twenty dollars, at five per centum per annum, being value of fifty-four sections of land set apart by treaty of June second, eighteen hundred and twentyfive, for educational purposes, per Senate resolution of January ninth, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, three thousand four hundred and fifty-six dollars.

PAWNEES. (Treaty.)

For perpetual annuity, which is to be paid in cash to them, per second article of treaty of September twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, and agreement of November twenty-third, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, article three, thirty thousand dollars;

For support of two manual-labor schools, per third article of same treaty, of September twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, ten thousand dollars;

For pay of one farmer, two blacksmiths, one miller, one engineer and apprentices, and two teachers, as per fourth article of same treaty, five thousand four hundred dollars;

For pay of physician and purchase of medicines, one thousand two hundred dollars;

For purchase of iron and steel and other necessaries for the shops, as per fourth article of treaty of September twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, five hundred dollars;

In all, forty-seven thousand one hundred dollars

For permanent annuity, in goods or otherwise, per third article of treaty of November third, eighteen hundred and four, one thousand dollars;

For interest on two hundred thousand dollars, at five per centum, per second article of treaty of October twenty-first, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, ten thousand dollars;

For interest on eight hundred thousand dollars, at five per centum, per second article of treaty of October eleventh, eighteen hundred and forty-two, forty thousand dollars: Provided, That the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars of this amount shall be used for the pay of a physician and for purchase of medicine;

In all, fifty-one thousand dollars..

That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, to pay to the Sac and Fox Indians in Oklahoma, per capita, in cash, or to expend otherwise for their benefit, the sum of fifty thousand dollars out of the amount of money now to their credit in the United States Treasury, to be immediately available.

That the boundary line between the Creek Nation, Indian Territory, and the Territory of Oklahoma, as surveyed by Frederick W. Bardwell in eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and reestablished by the Geological Survey in eighteen hundred and ninety-five and eighteen hundred and ninety-six is hereby declared to be the west boundary line of the Creek Nation.

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That Tah lah to ti, or Emma Saumty, Kiowa allottee numbered ten hundred and twenty-five, to whom a trust patent has been issued containing restrictions upon alienation, may sell and convey not exceeding five acres of her allotment for a cemetery site; 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.

That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed, in his discretion, to cancel the fee-simple patent issued June twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and five, to W. E. Hardy, Amelia Clavier, Melinda Harris, William Hardy, and W. F. S. Hardy, heirs of Victoria Hardy, deceased, a member of the Kansas tribe of Indians, for the land heretofore allotted to her in Oklahoma Territory, described as follows: Lot six, in section seven, and the north half of the southwest quarter of section eight, in township twenty-seven north, range four east; and the west half of the southwest quarter and the northwest quarter of section twenty-one, in township twenty-eight north, range five east, of the Indian meridian, all on the Kansas Reservation, in Oklahoma; and he is hereby authorized and directed to issue a patent in fee simple to W. E. Hardy, Amelia Clavier, Melinda Harris, William Hardy, W. F. S. Hardy, D. W. Hardy, G. M. C. Hardy, and Lee Cross Hardy, heirs of Victoria Hardy, deceased, late a member of the Kansas tribe of Indians in Oklahoma, for the lands heretofore allotted to her as a member of said tribe of Indians, and described as follows: Lot six of section seven, the north half of the southwest quarter and the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section eight, in township twenty-seven north, of range four east, of the Indian meridian, containing one hundred and fifty-five acres; and the west half of the southwest quarter and the northwest quarter of section twenty-one, in township twenty-eight north, of range five east, of the Indian meridian, containing two hundred and forty acres; all on the Kansas Indian Reservation, in the Territory of Oklahoma.

That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized, in his discretion, to cancel a patent issued to Annie Adams, Wichita allottee numbered eight hundred and forty-two, on the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and one, and allot forty acres of the land covered thereby to Ots se kuddy kid dah hay, Wichita allottee numbered five hundred and twenty-six, and cause a patent to be issued therefor, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of Congress approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five.

That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized, in his discretion, to cancel the patent to Margaret Bourassa, Citizen Pottawatomie allottee numbered thirteen hundred and thirty-six, and to allot the lands covered thereby to some member or members of the Citizen band of Pottawatomie Indians who have failed to receive an allotment, although legally entitled thereto; the patent issued December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and one, in the name of James Longhat, Wichita allottee numbered five hundred and eighty-two, and he is further authorized to cause the land covered thereby to be allotted to Gertrude Lamb, a member of the Wichita tribe of Indians who failed to receive an allotment, although legally entitled thereto.

That all restrictions as to sale and incumbrance as to the lands heretofore allotted in Oklahoma to Frank Shincis and Josephine Barone, absentee Shawnee allottees numbered twenty-nine and thirty-two, Emily Bertrand as to the northwest quarter of section fifteen, township six north of range one east, and the heirs of Gertrude E. Collister as to the south half of section fifteen, town six north of range one east of the Indian meridian in Oklahoma, are hereby removed.

That any missionary society or religious organization now occupying, under proper authority, for religious or educational work among

the Indians, any of the lands in the Territory of Oklahoma heretofore ceded to the United States by the Indians theretofore occupying the same, and reserved to such societies or organizations for such religious uses on the schedules of allotments approved by the Secretary of the Interior, shall have the right for two years within which to make application for a patent therefor; and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed, upon such application, to issue patents in fee to such religious societies or organizations, severally, for the lands so occupied, not to exceed one hundred and sixty acres to any one institution: Provided, That where such Indians, in their agreement under which the lands were ceded and allotted, reserved to themselves a reversionary interest in such lands, such religious society or organization shall pay therefor a fair valuation to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, not to be less than the price paid such Indians by the United States for the lands so ceded, and the proceeds therefrom shall be placed to the credit of the tribes or bands by whom such lands were ceded.

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: Frank O. Jones, Sac and Fox allottee numbered ten, Per Mam Su or Comanche Jack, Comanche allottee numbered two thousand and twenty-five, Mary McCoy, Sac and Fox allottee, Isaac McCoy, Ottawa allottee, Minnie Plumb, Mississippi Sac allottee numbered five hundred and forty-six, Victoria Ezell (née Bradley), Glen Bradley, Alexander B. Peltier, Lincoln Kennedy, John B. Bruno, Lucy A. Lourane, Zoe Rhodd, Nellie Finley, Eliza J. Neiswender, Davis Hardin, Daniel Chilsom, Amanda Nadeau (née Toupin), R. W. Dike, Doshia E. Phillips (née Kennedy), Joseph Bertrand, Benjamin Bertrand, Dan. O'Brien, Philip Wickens, and William Frapp, Citizen Pottawatomie allottees numbered one hundred and eighty, one hundred and eighty-two, one hundred and thirteen, thirteen hundred and fifty-one, one hundred and twenty-one, two hundred and ten, one hundred and four, five hundred and sixty-three, seventeen, forty-one, seven hundred and two, ninety-eight, seven hundred and thirty-eight, three hundred and seventy-one, one hundred and forty, seven hundred and seventy-two, seven hundred and seventyfour, one hundred and nine, and five hundred and eighty-three, respectively; Albert M. Glardy, John B. Bergeron, Catherine Peltier, and Anthony Bourbonnais, junior, Citizen Pottawatomie allottees in Oklahoma numbered thirteen hundred and sixty-three, thirty-seven, and thirty-four, respectively; Julia Lazelle and Phillip Wickens, Citizen Pottawatomie allottees numbered one hundred and seventeen and five hundred and eighty-three, respectively; heir of Horace P. Jones, Kiowa allottee numbered two thousand three hundred and fifty-six; 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 jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon the Court of Claims to hear and determine the claim for services rendered by Clement N. Vann and William P. Adair, late of the Indian Territory, to the Osage nation of Indians, in defeating a treaty between the said nation and the United States, executed in eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, commonly known as the "Drum Creek treaty," and certain proposed legislation injurious to the Osage Indians for the sale of their lands in Kansas, and in procuring the enactment of other legislation favorable to said Indians for the sale of said lands.

That a petition may be filed by the executor or administrator of the estates of said Adair and Vann, respectively, in said court within forty days from the approval of this Act against the Osage Nation of Indians, and service of said petition shall be had by delivering a copy thereof to the Secretary of the Interior and to the governor or prin

cipal chief of said nation, with a notice to answer within the time herein prescribed; and said answer shall be filed in said court within ninety days after the service of the petition.

The court may receive and consider all papers, depositions, records and documents heretofore filed either in said court or the Executive Departments of the Government, together with any other evidence offered by either party to the case, and shall render a judgment or decree against the Osage Nation of Indians for such amount, if any, as the court shall find legally or equitably due for the services of said Adair and Vann, either upon contract or upon a quantum meruit, provided said court shall determine that a plea of quantum meruit may be interposed and considered, not exceeding one hundred and eighty thousand dollars. The court shall enter judgment for the total amount found to be due, if any, and shall specify therein the amounts payable to any person or persons under any contract or assignment made since September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and two, covering any portion of said claim.

Said cause shall be advanced on the calendar of said court. The amount for which judgment may be rendered by the Court of Claims, when paid to the parties named in said judgment, shall be received in full and final settlement of the claim for said services of said Adair and Vann against said nation of Indians: Provided, That the Osage tribe be, and are hereby, authorized to employ counsel, with the consent of the Secretary of the Interior, to represent them in said cause. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of the funds of the Otoe and Missouri Indians, of Oklahoma Territory, the sum of one hundred and eighty-two dollars and fifty cents to the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad Company for five tickets from Oklahoma City to Washington, District of Columbia, furnished members of said tribe, the payment of which has been asked by the council of said tribe.

That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to pay to Lorenzo A. Bailey six thousand one hundred and fifty-five dollars and twenty-two cents, out of any money in the Treasury of the United States belonging to the Osage Nation or tribe of Indians, for his retainer fee and his contingent fee in the Watson Stewart case, under his contract with said nation bearing date February twentyninth, nineteen hundred and four, and such further sum as the Court of Claims may hereafter determine to be a fair and reasonable fee to him under said contract.

That the Indian appropriation Act of March third, nineteen hundred and one (Thirty-first Statutes, page one thousand and sixty-five), be amended so as to read as follows: "That it shall be unlawful hereafter for the traders upon the Osage Indian Reservation to give credit to any individual Indian, head of a family, to an amount greater than seventy-five per centum of the next quarterly annuity to which such Indian will be entitled."

OREGON.

For support and civilization of the Klamaths, Modocs, and other Indians of the Klamath Agency, Oregon, including pay of employees, five thousand dollars

For support and civilization of the confederated tribes and bands under Warm Springs Agency, and for pay of employees, four thousand dollars..

For support and civilization of the Walla Walla, Cayuse, and Umatilla tribes, Oregon, including pay of employees three thousand dollars. Whereas James McLaughlin, an Indian inspector for and on behalf

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of the Secretary of the Interior, under and by virtue of an Act of Congress approved July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight (Thirtieth United States Statute Laws, page five hundred and seventyone), 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 year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and for other purposes,' did, on the seventeenth day of June, nineteen hundred and one, make and conclude an agreement with the Klamath and Modoc tribes and Yahooskin band of Snake Indians, residing on the Klamath Indian Reservation, in the State of Oregon, which agreement is as follows:

This agreement, made and entered into on the seventeenth day of June, nineteen hundred and one, by and between James McLaughlin, U. S. Indian inspector, on the part of the United States, and the Klamath and Modoc tribes and Yahooskin band of Snake Indians, belonging to the Klamath Indian Agency, in the State of Oregon, witnesseth:

ARTICLE I. The said Klamath and other Indians belonging to the Klamath Agency, Oregon, for the consideration hereinafter named, do hereby cede, surrender, grant, and convey to the United States all their claim, right, title, and interest in and to all that part of the Klamath Indian Reservation lying between the boundaries described in the treaty with said Indians concluded October fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and proclaimed February seventeenth, eighteen hundred and seventy, as confirmed by the Klamath boundary commission in their report to the Secretary of the Interior, dated December eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and the reservation boundary lines as established by the survey approved in eighteen hundred and eighty-eight by the General Land Office, the tract of land hereby ceded and relinquished comprising six hundred and twenty-one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four acres.

ARTCLE II. In consideration of the land ceded, relinquished, and conveyed by Article I of this agreement, and in full of all claims and demands of said Klamath and other Indians arising or growing out of the erroneous survey of the outboundaries of their reservation in eighteen hundred and seventy-one, the United States stipulates and agrees to pay to and expend for said Indians, in the manner hereinafter provided, the sum of five hundred and thirty-seven thousand and seven dollars and twenty cents ($537,007.20), being at the rate of eighty-six and 30% (.863) cents per acre, the price awarded for said lands by the Klamath boundary commissioners in their report to the Secretary of the Interior, dated December eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six.

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ARTICLE III. It is agreed that of the amount to be paid to the said Klamath and other Indians, as stipulated in Article II of this agreement, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars shall be paid in cash pro rata, share and share alike, to each man, woman, and child belonging to said Klamath, and other tribes and under the jurisdiction of the Klamath Indian Agency, within one hundred and fifty days from and after the date of the ratification of this agreement, and the sum of three hundred and fifty thousand dollars shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of said Indians, and shall draw interest at the rate of five per centum per annum, which interest shall be paid to said Indians annually per capita in cash, and that the remainder of said sum of five hundred and thirty-seven thousand and seven dollars and twenty cents, after the payment of the legal fees of attorneys having duly approved contracts, shall be expended for the benefit of said Indians, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, upon requisition of the Indians through the U. S. Indian Agent, in the drainage and irrigation of their lands, and the purchase