946 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 324. 1899. F¤r•¤¤¢¤¤¤¤¤ ¤¤<l¤* That all expenditure of money appropriated for school purposes in $;;°.i:°$,s?f 0mm1s` this Act shall be at all times under the supervision and d1rection_of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and in all respects in conformity ' with such conditions, rules, and regulations as to the conduct and ` methods of instruction and expenditure of money as may be from time to time prescribed by him, subject to the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior. 8i¤•¤¢¤¤d¤¤•}) IQ'? Sec. 2. And nothing in section twenty-seven of chapter five hundred £i·"si=iii¤°i¤•iim=,;°m.’ and forty-three, volume twenty-six, of the United States Statutes at bww3g:; fg; Large, pages one thousand and thirty-eight and one thousand and »m°g••. thirty-nine, shall be construed to apply to any contract for services ,,,;,°’· ”°· W ‘°°8* for the prosecution of any claim against the United States, or the Indians - not ¤1>1»¤<·~•M• is named in said section, and which had been prosecuted to its iinal allow- $iiiii°i°im¤°i¢i¤‘i¤`¤ii¤ ance by the Department before which it was prosecuted within the
of m_ period stated in said contracts; and said contract shall not be deemed
mlxohimu rm W or taken to have been in full force and legal effect until the date of 1¤;__'*§·°*;°_ in P_ their official approval by the Secretary of the Interior and the Commisur. " sioner of Indian Aifairs, and the date of the approval thereof odicially - indorsed thereon by said Secretary of the Interior and Commissioner of Indian Afairs, as required by the provisions of the fourth paragraph of section twenty-one hundred and three of the Revised Statutes of 44u¤•e¤•¤z un the United States; and in cases mentioned in said section twenty-seven
- “°"*”°° °*'· the Secretaryof the Interior shall cause all claims for service under
agreements mentioned in said section twenty-seven to be adjusted, . audited, allowed, and paid out of any moneys in the Treasury belonging Arwvtrrww f" to the bands or tribes to which such Indians belong; and so much """°" money as is necessary for that purpose is hereby appropriated out ot their funds in the Treasury, and the amount so paid shall be charged against any fund to the credit of said Indians, tribes, bands, or indi-·
viduals in the Trea ury of the United States: Provided, That the amount
" ‘"“‘ sp auditgdé sphowed, and paid shall not exceed the sum of forty-five thousand dollars. S¤p1>¤9¤i_1>¤r¢l¤·¤¤ Sec. 3. That no purchase of supplies for which appropriations are ""°' “‘1`°m°°”`°”°‘ herein made, exceeding in the aggregate five hundredpdollars in value at any one time, shall be made without first giving at least three weeks' -¤c¤pm.¤, ua. public notice by advertisement, except in case of exigency, when, in the ¤°”°>'· discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, who shall make onicial - record of the facts constituting the exigency and shall report the same to Congress at its next session, he may direct that purchases may be _ made in open market in amount not exceeding three thousand dollars {v*g;y:;hni¤tin_ at any one purchaser Provided, That funds herein and heretofore approprinted for construction of artesian wells, ditches, and other works for irrigating may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, be d£¤;¤*··¤¤¤ ‘¤·¤· h- expended in open market: Provided further, That purchase in open market shall, as far as practicable, be made irom Indians, under the ,,,Q§_f'“"°‘°'°°"*"“· direction of the Secretary of the Interior: Provided jbmther, That the Secretary of the Interior may, when practicable, arrange for the manufacture, by Indians upon the reservation, of shoes, clothing, leather, harness, and wagons, and such other articles as the Secretary of the _ _ Interior may deem advisable. ,0}’;`jg{_‘;';;.’_f;“'P*“* Sec. 4. That the Secretary of the Interior, under the direction of the Pres1dent,_may use any surplus that may remain in any of the said appropriations herein made for the purchase of subsistence for the several Indian tribes, to an amount not exceeding twenty-five thousand _ dollars in the aggregate, to supply any subsistence deticiency that may
occur: Ifromded, That any diversions which shall be made under authority of this section shall_be reported in detail, and the reason therefor,
Pmhm of gmk to Congress, at the session of Congress next succeeding such diversion: Mme_ Promded further, That the Secretary of the Interior, under direction of the President, may use any sums appropriated in this Act for subsistence, and not absolutely necessary for that purpose, for the purchase of stock cattle for the beneiit of the tribe for which such appropriation is made, and shall report to Congress, at its next session thereafter, an
