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94 FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 180. 1884. Miscellaneous. MISCELLANEOUS. Indian police. Pay of Indian police: For the service of not exceeding eight hundred privates, at Eve dollars per month each, and not exceeding one hundred officers, at eight dollars per month each, of Indian police, to be employed in nmiumining order and prohibiting illegal trahic in liquor on the several Indian reservations, and lor the purchase of equipments and rations tor policemen of non-ration agencies, seventytwo thousand dollars: rr·m.m. Provided, That the agent of the Navajo Indians may employ ten Indian policemen, at a rate of compensation not exceeding Biteen dollars per month each. \’m~a¤e. d For pure vaccine matter and vaccination of Indians, one thousand ollars. Indian supplies, Telegraphing and making pmchases of Indian supplies: To pay the l’“"°h°*—‘° °*`· expenses of purchasing goods and supplies for the Indian service, including rent of warehouses and pay ot necessary employees; advertising, at rates not exceeding regular commercial rates · inspection, and all other expenses connected therewith, including telegraphing, forty thousand dollars. Sak, of cattla, That where Indians are in possession or control of cattle or their inconditions cr; pen- crease which have been purchased by the Government such cattle shall NW Y0? V*¢>1¤ii¤¤ not be sold to any person not a member of the tribe to which the own- °f "’"““ °f ”1°· ers of the cattle belong or to any citizen of the United States whether intermarried with the Indians or not except with the consent in writing of the agent of the tribe to which the owner or possessor of the cattle belongs. And all sales made in violation of this provision shall be void and the offending purchaser on conviction thereof shall · be fined not less than five hundred dollars and imprisoned not less than six months. . Transportation Transportation of Indian supplies: For this amount, for necessary 0* ¤¤PP¥¤°¤· expenses of transportation of such goods, provisions, and other articles for the various tribes of Indians provided for by this act, including pay ` and expenses of transportation agents, two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. Survey, etc., of For this amount, for survey and subdivision of Indian reservations, !Pd*¤¤ Y°¤¤1'V¤- and defining by surveys the boundaries of reservations and of lands to h""" be allotted to Indians, to be expended under the direction of the Secre— tary of the Interior, fifty thousand dollars; and five thousand dollars of this sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be used for Navajo Indian surveying and defining the boundaries of the Navajo Indian reservamservation. tj°n_ neeecmm, m,, For detecting and prosecuting persons who sell or barter, or donate or persons selling or furnish in any manner whatsoever, liquors, wines, beer, or any inl"1“°"° *·° I“élP°““ toxicating beverage whatsoever to Indians upon or belonging to any °P§f’m° 3%*: Indian reservation, five thousand dollars. And no part of section 12. s. 2140; 373, twentyone hundred and thirty-nine or of section twenty-one hundred and forty of the Revised Statutes shall be a bar to the prosecution of any officer, soldier, sutler or storekeeper, attache, or employe of the Army of the United States who shall barter, donate, or furnish in any manner whatsoever liquors, wines, beer, or any intoxicating beverage whatsoever to any Indian. . _1 r i- i g s u i n g- For the purpose of constructing irrigating-ditches on Indian reserva·

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1 °°’ °' thousand dollars. Bridges on Bam For construction of bridges on the Santee Sioux Indian reservation, '°° Shu ****1*** in Nebraska. and the Ponca Indian reservation, in the Territory of Da- "‘"" kota, twelve thousand dollars, (or so much thereof as may be necessary), to be immediately available Huulpnislndiaun To.enable the Secretary of the Interior to purchase beer, ilour, and ·¤ *'*¤°¤¤· other necessaries for the support of the Hualpais Indians in Arizona, to be immediately available, twenty thousand dollars.