FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 3. 1897. 85 as provided in the fourth article of the agreement with the Nez Perce Indians, ratified and confirmed by the Act of August fifteenth, eight- Vol.28,p.330. een hundred and ninety-four, his compensation at the rate of one thousa11d two hundred dollars per annum, to be paid from any surplus remaining of the ten thousand dollars set apart by said article for the purchase of two portable sawmills. For pay of physician, New York Agency, six hundred dollars. mf*<;Y.Y¤*k As¤¤¤i~ To enable the President to cause, under the provisions of the Act of ,5,0::;,s February eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled “An Act v¤1.24.p.zséa to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians," such Indian reservations as in his judgment are advantageous for agricultural and grazing purposes to be surveyed, or resurveyed, for the purposes of said Act, and to‘complete the allotment of the same, including the necessary clerical work incident thereto in the field and in the office of Indian Affairs, and delivery of trust patents, so tar as allot ments shall have been selected imder said Act, thirty thousand dollars: Provided, That hereafter whenever it shall be made to appear to the pr.,;,,,, Secretary of the Interior that by reason of age or disability any allottee ‘·°°·°¤- of Indian lands under this or former Acts of Congress can not personally and with benefit to himself occupy or improve his allotment or any part thereof the same may be leased, in the discretion of the Secretary, upon such terms, regulations, and conditions as shall be prescribed by him, for a term not exceeding three years for tarming or grazing pur¢ poses, or five years for mining or business purposes. For construction of ditches and reservoirs, purchase and u : e of irrigat- {,¤:i¢:¢i·>¤- f mh, ing tools and appliances on Indian reservation s, in the discretion of the sa. ”° °°° ° Secretary of the Interior and subject to his control, thirty thousand dollars ; and of this amount not exceeding two thousand seven hundred dollars may be used for the temporary employment of persons of practical Emmexperienceinirrigation work, ata compensation not to exceed one hundred dollars per month each, and not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars for necessary traveling and incidental expenses of such persons. For survey and subdivision of Indian reservations and of lands to ,,§‘é"°Y*¤¤ wl •“°* be allotted to Indians, and to make allotments in severalty, to be ` expended by the Commissioner of Indian Aiiisirs, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, twenty thousand dollars: Provided, That {argvé R five thousand dollars of said sum shall be expended to survey and tion, Q lk.;,,, :::5:; resurvey, if necessary, the lands in the Rosebud Indian Reservation °*°· in South Dakota south of and near the White River where the Lower Brulé Indians now reside, to be immediately available. For the survey of lands in the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation, ¤1¤¤y¤¤¤¤1g¤:rR¤- in the State of South Dakota, twenty thousand dollars, to be immedi- 'Z};}?' °"‘ s' ° " °'"' ately available; and the Commissioner of the General Land Office is hereby directed to survey the whole of said reservation as soon as possible without reference to the location of allotments to Indians on said reservation. For completion of the survey of the lands in the Indian Territory, g¤di¤r= Qvmvgvone hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, vsvlmp °t °° ° m' to be immediately available: Provided, That the surveys herein author- @@6ne bv Gm ized, or any part of them in the Indian Territory, shall be made under ingicsisumy. ' the supervision of the Director of the Geological Survey by such persons as may be employed by or under him for that purpose; and such surveys shall be executed under instructions to be issued by the Secretary of the Interior, and subdivisional surveys shall be executed-under the rectangular system, as now provided by law: Provided further, Films ¤'**'*·°'° That when any surveys shall have been so made and plats and field notes thereof prepared, they shall be approved and certified by the Director of the Geological Survey, and two copies thereof shall be returned, one for tiling in the Indian Office and one in the General Land Office; and such surveys, field notes, and plats shall have the same legal force and effect as heretofore given to the acts of surveyors- "°’°° ""’ °'°°‘·
