Right of way. June 29, 1888. may bridge Noxubee River at Gainsville. gation. money to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, or so much thereof as may be necessary for said purpose. SEC. 2. That before any money shall be expended as aforesaid the title to the right of way shall be granted to the United States free of cost. Approved, June 29, 1888. CHAP. 502.-An act to authorize the construction of a wagon and foot-passenger bridge across the Noxubee River, at or near Gainsville, in the State of Alabama. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Sumter County, Ala., United States of America in Congress assembled, That the court of county commissioners of Sumter County, Alabama, be, and are hereby, authorized to construct and maintain, if, in the opinion of the Secretary of War the same be a public necessity, a wagon and foot-passenger bridge across the Noxubee River, at a point at or near Unobstructed navi- Gainsville, Alabama; that said bridge shall not interfere with the free navigation of said river beyond what is necessary in order to carry into effect the rights and privileges hereby granted; and in case of any litigation arising from any obstruction or alleged obstruction to the navigation of said river, the cause may be tried before the circuit court of the United States in and for any district in which any of said bridge obstruction may be. Said bridge shall be conWagon and foot structed to provide for the safe and convenient passage of wagons and vehicles of all kinds, animals, and foot-passengers. And if tolls shall be charged for the passage of wagons or other vehicles, or of animals and foot-passengers, the rates thereof may be fixed by the Secretary of War, on appeal to him for that purpose, and no higher charges shall be made than shall be established by him. bridge. Tolls. Construction. Provisos. Draw. Lights, etc. Lawful structure and post-route. Postal telegraph. Secretary of War to approve plans, etc. SEC. 2. That any bridge built under the provisions of this act may, at the option of Sumter County building the same, be built as a drawbridge or with unbroken and continuous spans: Provided, That if the said bridge shall be made with unbroken and continuous spans it shall give clear head-room of not less, in any case, than forty-eight feet above extreme high-water mark as understood at the point of location, nor shall the spans of said bridge give a clear width of waterway of less than seventy-five feet, and the piers of said bridge shall be parallel with the current of said river, and the bridge itself at right angles thereto: Provided also, That if the said bridge be built as a draw-bridge, the draw shall be built over the main channel of the river at a convenient and the most accessible point, giving a clear width of water-way of not less than seventy-five feet, and that said draw shall be opened promptly upon reasonable signal for the passage of boats, and said ounty commissioners shall maintain, at their own expense, from sunset to sunrise, such lights or other signals on said bridge as the Light-House Board shall prescribe. SEC. 3. That any bridge constructed under this act and according to its limitations shall be a lawful structure and shall be known as a postal-route, and the same is hereby declared to be a post-route, upon which also no higher charge shall be made for the crossing of mails, troops, and munitions of war of the United States, and for freight passing over said bridge, than is charged for the same services from the public, and equal privileges in the use of said bridge shall be granted to all telegraph companies, and the United States shall have the right of way for postal telegraph purposes across said bridge. SEC. 4. That the structure herein authorized shall be built and located under, and subject to, such regulations for the security of the navigation of said iver as the Secretary of War shall prescribe and to secure that object the said company or corporators shall submit to the Secretary of War, for his examination and approval, a design and drawing of the bridge and a map of the location, giving for space of one-half mile above and below the proposed location the SEC. 5. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act is hereby Amendment. expressly reserved. SEC. 6. That this act shall be null and void if actual construction of the bridge herein authorized be not commenced within one year and completed within three years from the date thereof. Approved, June 29, 1888. CHAP. 503.-An act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eightynine, and for other purposes. Commencement and completion. June 29, 1888. appropriations. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following Indian Department sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of paying the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and fulfilling treaty stipulations with the various Indian tribes, namely: Pay of agents at For pay of fifty-eight agents of Indian affairs at the following- specified agencies. named agencies, at the rates respectively indicated, namely: At the Warm Springs Agency, at one thousand dollars; At the Klamath Agency, at one thousand one hundred dollars; At the Grand Ronde Agency, at one thousand dollars; At the Siletz Agency, at one thousand two hundred dollars; At the Umatilla Agency, at one thousand two hundred dollars; At the Neah Bay Agency, at one thousand dollars; At the Yakama Agency, at two thousand dollars; At the Colville Agency, at one thousand five hundred dollars; At the Puyallup (consolidated) Agency, embracing Nisqually and. S'Kokomish and Quinaielt Agencies, at one thousand six hundred dollars; At the Tulalip Agency, at one thousand dollars; At the Round Valley Agency, at one thousand five hundred dol lars; At the Mission Tule River (consolidated) Agency, at one thousand six hundred dollars; At the Nevada Agency, at one thousand five hundred dollars; At the Nez Perces Agency, at one thousand six hundred dollars; Pay of agents at specified agenciesContinued. Interpreters At the Fort Hall Agency, at one thousand five hundred dollars; At the Fort Peck Agency, at two thousand dollars; At the Fort Belknap Agency, at one thousand dollars; At the Tongue River Agency, at one thousand five hundred dollars; At the Standing Rock Agency, at one thousand seven hundred dollars; At the Cheyenne River Agency, at one thousand five hundred dollars; At the Fort Berthold Agency, at one thousand five hundred dollars; At the Sisseton Agency, at one thousand five hundred dollars; At the Pueblo Agency, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; At the Mascalero Agency, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; At the Southern Ute and Jicarilla Agency, at one thousand four hundred dollars; At the Omaha and Winnebago Agency, at one thousand six hundred dollars; At the Santee Agency, at one thousand two hundred dollars; At the Pottawatomie and Great Nemaha Agency, at one thousand dollars; At the Ponca, Pawnee, Otoe, and Oakland Agency, at one thousand five hundred dollars; At the Sac and Fox Agency, Indian Territory, at one thousand two hundred dollars; At the Quapaw Agency, at one thousand five hundred dollars; and not more than one thousand two hundred dollars of any moneys appropriated by this act shall be expended for clerical labor at this agency; At the Osage Agency, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; At the Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency, at two thousand two hundred dollars; At the Kiowa Agency, at two thousand dollars; At the Union Agency, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; At the White Earth Agency, at one thousand six hundred dollars; At the Sac and Fox Agency, Iowa, at one thousand dollars; At the Green Bay Agency, at one thousand five hundred dollars; At the Mackinac Agency, at one thousand dollars; At the New York Agency, at one thousand dollars; At the Colorado River Agency, at one thousand five hundred dollars; At the Pima Agency, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; For the Eastern Cherokee Agency, eight hundred dollars; in all, eighty-eight thousand two hundred dollars; and all provisions of law fixing compensation for Indian agents in excess of that herein provided are hereby repealed. For the payment of necessary interpreters, to be distributed in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, twenty-five thousand dol lars; but no person employed by the United States and paid for any other service shall be paid for interpreting. For pay of five Indian inspectors, at three thousand dollars per annum each, fifteen thousand dollars. For necessary traveling expenses of five Indian inspectors, including incidental expenses of inspection and investigation, seven thousand dollars. Pay of one superintendent of Indian schools, four thousand dol-Superintendent of lars. schools. penses. Proviso. Necessary traveling expenses of one superintendent of Indian Travelling, etc., exschools, including incidental expenses of inspection and investigation, one thousand five hundred dollars: Provided, That he shall be allowed three dollars per day for traveling expenses when actually on duty in the field, exclusive of cost of transportation and sleepingcar fare. For buildings and repair of buildings at agencies, and repairs of the same, twenty-five thousand dollars. Agency buildings. Contingent ex penses. For contingencies of the Indian service, including traveling and incidental expenses of Indian agents, and of their offices, and of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and of such person as may be detailed to accompany him, also traveling and incidental expenses of five special agents, at three dollars per day when actually employed Special agents. on duty in the field, exclusive of transportation and sleeping-car fare, in lieu of all other expenses now authorized by law; for pay of employees not otherwise provided for, and for pay of five special agents, at two thousand dollars per annum each, forty thousand dollars. For the expenses of the commission of citizens, serving without compensation, appointed by the President under the provisions of the fourth section of the act of April tenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, three thousand dollars. Citizen commission. FULFILLING TREATY STIPULATIONS WITH AND SUP. Fulfilling treaties. PORT OF INDIAN TRIBES. APACHES, KIOWAS, AND COMANCHES. Apaches, Kiowas, and Comanches. For twenty-first of thirty installments, as provided to be expended under the tenth article of treaty of October twenty-first, eighteen Vol. 15, pp. 590, 584. hundred and sixty-seven, concluded at Medicine Lodge Creek, in Kansas, with the Kiowas and Comanches, and under the third article of treaty of the same date with the Apaches, thirty thousand dollars; For purchase of clothing, as provided in the same treaties, eleven thousand dollars; For pay of carpenter, farmer, blacksmith, miller, and engineer, four thousand five hundred dollars; For pay of physician and two teachers, two thousand seven hundred dollars; in all, forty-eight thousand two hundred dollars. CHEYENNES AND ARAPAHOES. Cheyennes and Arapahoes. For twenty-first of thirty installments, as provided to be expended under the tenth article of treaty of October twenty-eighth, eighteen Vol. 15, p. 596. hundred and sixty-seven, twenty thousand dollars; For purchase of clothing, as per same article, twelve thousand dollars; For pay of physician and teacher, as per thirteenth article of same treaty, two thousand dollars; For pay of carpenter, farmer, blacksmith, miller, and engineer, as per same article, four thousand five hundred dollars; in all, thirtyeight thousand five hundred dollars. Vol. 15, p. 597. Shickasaws. Vol. 1, p. 619. Chippewas of the Mississippi. Vol. 9, p. 904. Vol. 16, p. 72). Vol. 16, p. 720. Chippewas, Pillagers, and Lake Winnebagoshish Bands. Vol. 10, p. 1168. Choctaws. Permanent annui ties. Vol. 7, p. 99. Vol. 7, pp. 212, 236. Vol. 11, p. 614. Vol. 7, p. 236. Vol. 11, p. 614. Interest. Vol. 7, p. 23 Vol. 11 p. 614. Columbias and Col villes. Vol. 23, p. 79. Chief Tonasket. CHICKASAWS. For permanent annuity, in goods, three thousand dollars. CHIPPEWAS OF THE MISSISSIPPI. For forty-second of forty-six installments to be paid to Chief Holein-the-Day, or his heirs, per third article of treaty of August second, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, and fifth article of treaty of March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, one thousand dollars; For the support of a school or schools upon said reservation, during the pleasure of the President, in accordance with third article of treaty of March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, four thousand dollars; in all, five thousand dollars. CHIPPEWAS, PILLAGERS, AND LAKE WINNEBAGOSHISH BANDS. For thirty-fourth of forty installments of annuity, in money, per third article of treaty of February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, and third article of treaty of May seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, ten thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents; For thirty-fourth of forty installments of annuity, in goods, per same articles of same treaties, eight thousand dollars; For thirty-fourth of forty installments, for purpose of utility, per same articles of same treaties, four thousand dollars; in all, twentytwo thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents. CHOCTAWS. For permanent annuity, per second article of treaty of November sixteenth, eighteen hundred and five, and thirteenth article of treaty of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, three thousand dollars; For permanent annuity, for support of blacksmith, per sixth article of treaty of October eighteenth, eighteen hundred and twenty, ninth article of treaty of January twentieth, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, and thirteenth article of treaty of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, six hundred dollars; For permanent annuity, for education, per second and thirteenth articles of last two treaties named above, six thousand dollars; For permanent annuity, for iron and steel, per ninth article of treaty of January twentieth, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, and thirteenth article of treaty of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, three hundred and twenty dollars; For interest on three hundred and ninety thousand two hundred and fifty-seven dollars and ninety-two cents, at five per centum per annum, for education, support of the government, and other beneficial purposes, under the direction of the general council of the Choctaws, in conformity with the provisions contained in the ninth and thirteenth articles of treaty of January twentieth, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, and treaty of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, nineteen thousand five hundred and twelve dollars and eighty-nine cents; in all, twenty-nine thousand four hundred and thirty-two dollars and eighty-nine cents. COLUMBIAS AND COLVILLES. For annuity for Chief Moses, as per agreement of July seventh eighteen hundred and eighty-three, ratified by act approved July fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, one thousand dollars; For annuity for Chief Tonasket, as per same agreement ratified by act of July fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, one hundred dollars; |