purchaser of that portion of such subdivision lying within the reservation, residents and improvements upon either portions of such subdivision as provided by the homestead law shall constitute a compliance as to all such Government subdivisions.
Removal of Indians to diminished reservation.All of the Indians residing upon the tract above described shall remove therefrom to the diminished reservation within six months after the passage of this Act; and there is hereby appropriated from the proceeds of said sale the sum of twenty thousand dollars, or so
much thereof as may be necessary, to be paid to those thus removing in proportion to their respective Payment for improvements.improvements, which payment to the said Red Lake Indians shall be in full for all improvements which they will abandon, and also for the expense of removal within the diminished reservation of their dead from where they are now buried on the tract above described, and the expense of making allotments.
Per capita distribution of proceeds.The proceeds of said lands as realized from time to time shall be paid into the United States Treasury to the credit of the Indians belonging on said reservation. Of the amount realized from the sale of said lands a sum not exceeding three hundred thousand dollars shall be paid in cash, per capita, share and share alike, to each man, woman, and child belonging on said Red Lake Indian Reservation within ninety days after the first sale herein provided for, and the remainder of the proceeds of the sale of said lands shall he paid in cash, per capita, in fifteen annual installments, the first installment to be paid in the month of October of the year following that in which the payment of the three hundred thousand dollars is made; and all moneys received after the expiration of said fifteen years shall be apportioned in like manner among said Indians and paid to them on the first day of October in each year.
Regulations, etc.The Secretary of the Interior is hereby vested with full power and authority to make such rules and regulations as to the time of notice, manner of sale, and other matters incident to the carrying out of the
provisions of this Act as he may deem necessary, and with authority to continue making sale of said lands until all of said lands shall have been sold.
Entry fees, etc.In addition to the price to be paid for the land, the entryman shall pay the same fees and commissions at the time of commutation or final
entry as now provided by law where the price of the land is one dollar an twenty-tive cents per acre.
United States not bound to purchase land, etc.Sec. 4. That nothing in this Act contained shall in any manner bind the United States to purchase any portion of the land herein described, or to guarantee to find purchasers for said lands or any portion thereof, it being the intention of this Act that the United States shall act as trustee for said Indians to dispose of said lands and to expend and pay over the proceeds received from the sale thereof only as received as herein provided.
Effect.Sec. 5. That this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.
Approved, February 20, 1904.
February 24, 1904.
[S. 1935.]
[Public, No. 24.]
Chap. 163.—An Act Providing for the holding of an additional term of court in the northern district of West Virginia at Martinsburg, West Virginia.
United States courts.West Virginia judicial district.
Additional term at Martinsburg, W. Va.
R.S., sec. 572, p. 101.
Vol. 31, p. 738.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in addition to the courts heretofore held in the northern district for the State of West Virginia, there shall be held an additional term of court at Martinsburg, West Virginia, on the second Tuesday in May in each year.
Approved, February 24, 1904.
