FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 545. 1898. 593 _ gt {argc, page eight hundred and fifty-one), four thousand six hundred o ars. That the mineral lands only in the Colville Indian Reservation, in ¤·>iv¤l• F¤¤¢try•- the State of Washington, shall be subject to entry under the laws of il‘,`].'3,,`,Y;§Z.'§§,ZC'§{',g,*l the United States in relation to the entry of mineral lands: Provided, Promo. That lands-allotted to the Indians or used by the Government for any -mm-we from onpurpose or by any school shall not be subject to entry under this °""· provision. · The right is hereby granted to cut timber for mining and domestic —righw>c¤t umm. purposes, at such prices and subject to such regulations as maybe prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, from that portion of the Colville Indian Reservation in the State of Washington, which was vacated and restored to the public domain by the Act of July ilrst, eighteen hun- vm. zv,p.aa dred and ninety-two, entitled “An Act to provide for the opening of a part of the Colville Reservation in the State of Washington and for other purposes," and the net proceeds arising from the disposition of —•·};°;f {}¤¤l·¤r· 41+ said timber shall be set apart and disposed of according to the provi- lm ° ’"’°°°°" sions of section two of said Act of July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, but primarily the expense incident todisposing of said timber, including compensation of such special agent as the Secretary of the Interior shall appoint, shall be paid out of any existing appropriation for the survey and allotment of said lands and shall bereimbursed and replaced from the proceeds arising from the disposition of the timber. The Indian allotments in severalty provided for in said Act shall A11<>¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ in sevbe selected and completed at the earliest practicable time and not later °"°°" than six months after the proclamation of the President opening the . vacated portion of said reservation to settlement and entry, which proclamation may be issued without awaitingghe survey of the unsurveyed lands therein. Said allotments shall made from lands which mummmmm shall at the time of the selection thereof be surveyed, excepting that "°’°° “"'°‘· any Indian entitled to allotment under said Act who hasimprovements .1¤au¤ improv .- upon unsurveyed land may select the same for his allotment, whereupon '“°"*'· the Secretary of the Interior shall cause the same to be surveyed and allotted to him. At the expiration of six months from the date of the uuutqm imag, proclamation by the President, and not before the non-mineral lands Q',';}" ’“"J°°“°°”"'¤'· within the vacated portion of said reservation which shall not have been allotted to Indians as aforesaid, shall be subject to settlement, entry and disposition under said Act of July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-two: Provided, That the land used and occupied for school pur- rama. poses at what is known as Tonasket School, on Bonapart Creek, and the site of the sawmill, gristmill, and other mill property on said reser— Reservations mm vation, are hereby reserved from the operation of this Act, unless other *“°*¤¤¤¤°· lands are selected in lieu thereof as provided in section six of the aforesaid Act of July tlrst, eighteen hundred and ninety-two. That the Secretary of the Interior shall make investigation as to the Syuthvrnlvw Reece practicability of providing a water supply for irrigation purposes, to be §,‘§,Z,°§‘g JQ °‘* """“` used on a portion of the reservation of the Southern Utes in Colorado, PM. r-ML aud he is authorized, in his discretion, to contract for, and to expend _ hom the funds of said Southern Utes in the purchase ot, perpetual ‘ water rights sutllcient to irrigate not exceeding ten thousand acres on ·· s _=· the western part of the Southern Ute Reservation, and for annual charges for maintenance of such water thereon. such amount and upon such terms and conditions as to him may seem just reasonable, not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the purchase of such perpetual water rights, and not exceeding a maximum of fifty cents per acre per annum for the maintenance of water upon land irrigated, provided that after such an investigation he shall find all the essential conditions relative to the water supply and to the perpetuity of its availability for use upon said lands, such as in his judgment will justify a contract for its perpetual use: Provided, That the Secretary (mm. of the Interior, upon making all such contracts, shall require from the 0¤¤¤·w¤>r¤' bmiperson or persons entering into such contract a bond of indemnity, to von xxx--38
