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For support and civilization of the Makahs, including pay of employees, four thousand dollars.

For support and civilization of the Menomonee Indians, including pay of employees, four thousand dollars.

For support and civilization of the Modoc Indians now residing within the Indian Territory, four thousand dollars.

For support and civilization of the Navajo Indians, including pay of employees, seven thousand five hundred dollars.

For continuing the work of constructing ditches and reservoirs for the Navajo Indians, and for the purchase maintenance, and operation of a portable saw-mill for the use of said Indians, and for the purchase of nails and such other necessary materials as can not be obtained by the Indians for houses to be constructed by them, fifteen thousand dollars, to be taken from the funds now in the Treasury belonging to said Indians.

The sum of ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay the settlers who, in good faith, made settlement in township twenty-nine north, ranges fourteen, fifteen, and sixteen west of the New Mexico principal meridian, in the Territory of New Mexico, prior to May first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, for their improvements and for damages sustained by reason of the inclusion of said townships within the Navajo reservation by Executive order of April twentyfourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and such settlers may make other homestead, pre-emption, and timber-culture entries as if they had never made settlements within said townships.

For the purchase of agricultural implements and support and civilization of Joseph's band of Nez Percés Indians, fifteen thousand dollars.

For support and civilization of the Nez Percés Indians in Idaho, including pay of physician, six thousand five hundred dollars.

For purchase of agricultural implements for the Wisconsin Oneidas, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, five thousand dollars.

For support and civilization of the Qui-nai-elts and Quil-leh-utes, including pay of employees, four thousand dollars.

For support and education of the Seminole and Creek Indians in Florida, for the erection and furnishing of a school-house, for the employment of teachers, and for the purchase of seeds and agricultural implements and other necessary articles, six thousand dollars.

For support and civilization of Shoshone Indians in Wyoming, fifteen thousand dollars.

For support and civilization of Shoshone Indians in Nevada, including pay of employees, ten thousand dollars.

For support and civilization of Sioux of Lake Traverse, including pay of employees, six thousand dollars.

For support and civilization of Sioux of Devil's Lake, including pay of employees, six thousand dollars.

For support and civilization of the S'Klallam Indians, including pay of employees, four thousand dollars.

For support and civilization of the Tonkawa Indians, and for seeds and agricultural implements, five thousand dollars.

For support and civilization of the Walla-Walla, Cayuse, and Umatilla tribes, including pay of employees, six thousand five hundred dollars.

For support and civilization of the Yakamas and other Indians at said agency, including pay of employees, fourteen thousand dollars.

GENERAL INCIDENTAL EXPENSES OF THE INDIAN SERVICE.

Incidental expenses of Indian service in Arizona: For general incidental expenses of Indian service, including traveling expenses of agents, in Arizona, four thousand dollars; for the support and civilization of Indians at the Colorado River, Pima, and Maricopa and Moquis Pueblo Agencies, eight thousand dollars; and pay of employees at same agencies, eight thousand dollars; in all, twenty thousand dollars. Incidental expenses of Indian service in California: For general incidental expenses of the Indian service, including traveling expenses of agents, in California, and support and civilization of Indians at the Round Valley, Hoopa Valley, Tule River, and Mission Agencies, eighteen thousand dollars; and pay of employees, including one carpenter (for Hoopa Valley Agency), at same agencies, nine thousand dollars; in all, twenty-seven thousand dollars.

Incidental expenses of Indian service in Colorado: For general incidental expenses of the Indian service, including traveling expenses of agents, one thousand five hundred dollars.

Incidental expenses of Indian service in Dakota: For general incidental expenses of the Indian service, including traveling expenses of agents at ten agencies in Dakota, five thousand dollars.

Incidental expenses of Indian service in Idaho: For general incidental expenses of the Indian service in Idaho, including traveling expenses of agents, one thousand dollars.

Încidental expenses of Indian service in Montana: For general incidental expenses of the Indian service, including traveling expenses of agents, four thousand dollars.

Incidental expenses of Indian service in Nevada: For general incidental expenses of the Indian service, including traveling expenses of agents in Nevada, one thousand five hundred dollars; and support and civilization of Indians located on the Pi-Ute, Walker River, and Pyramid Lake Reservations, and Pi-Utes on the Western Shoshone Reservation, fifteen thousand dollars; and pay of employees at same agencies, six thousand dollars; in all, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars.

Incidental expenses of Indian service in New Mexico: For general incidental expenses of the Indian service, including traveling expenses of agents in New Mexico, and support and civilization of Indians at Pueblo Agency, and pay of employees at said agency, five thousand dollars.

Incidental expenses of Indian service in Oregon: For general incidental expenses of the Indian service, including traveling expenses of agents, in Oregon, and support and civilization of Indians at Grand Ronde and Siletz Agencies, ten thousand dollars; and pay of employees at the same agencies, six thousand dollars; in all, sixteen thousand dollars.

Incidental expenses of Indian service in Utah: For general incidental expenses of the Indian service, including traveling expenses of agents, in Utah, support and civilization of Indians at Uintah Valley and Ouray Agencies, and pay of employees at said agencies, ten thousand dollars.

Incidental expenses of Indian service in Washington Territory: For general incidental expenses of the Indian service, including

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traveling expenses of agents at seven agencies, and the support and civilization of Indians at Colville and Nisqually Agencies, and pay of employees, including a physician for Coeur d'Alene Reservation, sixteen thousand dollars.

Incidental expenses of Indian service in Wyoming: For general incidental expenses of the Indian service, including traveling expenses of agents, one thousand dollars.

MISCELLANEOUS.

To enable the Secretary of the Interior to employ practical farmers, in addition to the agency farmers now employed, at wages not exceeding seventy-five dollars each per month, to superintend and direct farming among such Indians as are making effort for selfsupport, fifty thousand dollars; and no person shall be employed as such farmer who has not been for at least five years previous to such employment practically engaged in the occupation of farming.

Pay of Indian police: For the service of not exceeding seven hundred privates, at eight dollars per month each, and not exceeding seventy officers, at ten dollars per month each, of Indian police, to be employed in maintaining order and prohibiting illegal traffic in liquor on the several Indian reservations, and within the Territory of Alaska, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, and for the purchase of equipments and rations for policemen of non-ration agencies, ninety thousand dollars.

For compensation of judges of Indian courts, at such rate as may be fixed from time to time by the Secretary of the Interior, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

For pure vaccine matter and vaccination of Indians, one thousand dollars.

Telegraphing and making purchases of Indian supplies: To pay the expenses of purchasing goods and supplies for the Indian service, including rent of warehouses and pay of necessary employees; advertising, at rates, not exceeding regular commercial rates; inspection and all other expenses connected therewith, including telegraphing, forty thousand dollars.

Transportation of Indian supplies: For this amount, for necessary 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, three hundred thousand dollars.

For survey and subdivision of Indian reservations and of lands to be allotted to Indians, and to make allotments in severalty, in accordance with treaty stipulation, to be expended by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, ten thousand dollars.

Surveying and allotting Indian reservations (reimbursable):

To enable the President to complete the work already undertaken and commenced under the third section of the act of February eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled "An act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservations, and to extend the protection of the laws of the United States and the Territories over the Indians, and for other purposes," including the necessary clerical work incident thereto in the field and in the office of Indian Affairs and the delivery to the Indians entitled

thereu ider of the trust patents authorized under said act, ten thousand dollars, to be immediately available.

To enable the President to cause, under the provisions of the act of February eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled "An act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservations, and to extend the protection of the laws of the United States and the Territories over the Indians, and for other purposes," 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 far as allotments shall have been selected under said act, thirty thousand dollars. And no allotments shall be ordered or commenced upon any reservation unless the allotments upon such reservation so selected and the delivery of trust patents therein can be completed under this appropriation.

For this amount, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior in aiding Indians who have taken land in severalty under the act of February eighth, eighteen hundred and eightyseven, entitled "An act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservations, and to extend the protection of the laws of the United States and the Territories over the Indians, and for other purposes," to establish themselves in homes thereon, to procure seed, farming implements, and other things necessary, in addition to means already provided by law or treaty, for the commencement of farming, thirty thousand dollars. The amounts provided for in the three preceding paragraphs shall be repaid to the Treasury proportionately out of the proceeds of the sales of such lands, if any, as may be acquired from the Indians under the provisions of the aforesaid act. And a report in detail of the expenditures made to December first next, under the appropriations provided by said paragraphs, shall be made to Congress at the commencement of the next session.

For continuing the investigation and examination of certain Indian-depredation claims, originally authorized, and in the manner therein provided for, by the Indian appropriation acts approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, twenty thousand dollars.

For this amount to pay Nimrod Jarrett Smith, chief and delegate of the Eastern band of Cherokee Indians, in North Carolina, services rendered to said band from January fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, to April sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, as delegate to Washington, District of Columbia, three thousand five hundred and seventy-one dollars and sixty-six cents, the_same to be paid out of any funds belonging to said Indians, in the Treasury, to be immediately available.

To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay Charles F. Larrabee for services rendered as disbursing officer of the commission appointed May fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, to negotiate with certain tribes and bands of Indians in Minnesota, by reason of which service he was required to give a bond and to incur extra responsibility, one thousand dollars.

To pay Shirley C. Ward, of Los Angeles, California, for his services to date as special attorney for the Mission Indians of southern California, in suit, Byrne versus Alas and another, under appoint

ment by the Attorney-General, made at the request of the Secretary of the Interior, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For payment to Anna Adamson the equivalent of five months' salary as a teacher at the Indian school at the Mission Indian Agency, California, three hundred dollars, this sum to be in full satisfaction of all claims against the Government growing out of such service.

For this amount, to be paid to Wallace W. Rollins and Otis F. Presbrey, it being in full payment of the amount of their claim against the Eastern band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina, found by the Court of Claims, in Departmental Case Number Eighteen, Senate Executive Document Number One hundred and fifty-eight, Fiftieth Congress, first session, to be due them for services rendered under their contract of May fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventyfour, with same Indians, ten thousand one hundred and seventy-six dollars and seventy-seven cents.

For the construction of a bridge across the Big Wind River on the Wind River Indian Reservation, in the Territory of Wyoming, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, upon plans and specifications to be approved by him, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available.

To enable the Secretary of the Interior to purchase, upon such terms and conditions as he may deem just and proper, a tract of land at or in the vicinity of the Dalles of the Columbia River, in Oregon, of sufficient area and in such locality as to afford suitable facilities for the Indians of the Warm Springs Reservation to take fish in said river, and to properly cure the same, said land to be held by the United States in trust for the use and benefit of said Indians, three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available.

FOR SUPPORT OF SCHOOLS.

For support of Indian day and industrial schools, and for other educational purposes not hereinafter provided for, six hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars; for the construction and repair of school buildings, fifty-five thousand dollars; and for purchase of horses, cattle, sheep, and swine for schools, ten thousand dollars; in all, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That the entire cost of any boarding-school building to be built from the moneys appropriated hereby, including furniture, shall not exceed ten thousand dollars, and the entire cost of any day-school building to be so built shall not exceed six hundred dollars.

For support and education of Indian pupils at Albuquerque, New Mexico, at one hundred and seventy-five dollars per annum for each pupil, and for the erection and repairs of buildings, thirty-five thousand dollars.

For support of Indian industrial school at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, at not exceeding one hundred and sixty-seven dollars for each pupil, eighty thousand dollars; for the purpose of erecting, constructing, and completing additional school-rooms, according to plans and specifications to be approved by the Secretary of the Interior, eighteen thousand dollars; for annual allowance to Captain R. H. Pratt, in charge of said school, one thousand dollars; in all, ninety-nine thousand dollars.

For support of Indian pupils, at one hundred and seventy-five dollars per annum each, at Indian school at Chilocco, Indian Terri

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