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FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 337, 338. 1885. 353 cause certificates to issue therefor in the name of the allottees, which certificates shall be of the legal effect, and declare that the United States does and will hold the fee of the land thus allotted, for the period of Sameassections. twenty-five years, in trust for the sole use and benefit of the Indian to whom such allotment shall have been made, or in case of his decease, of his heirs, and that at the expiration of said period the United States will convey the same by patent to the said Indian, or his heirs, in fee, discharged of said trust and free of all charge or incumbrance whatsoever; and if any conveyance shall be made of the lands set apart and allotted ns herein provided, or any contract made touching the same, before the expiration of the time above mentioned, such conveyance or contract shall be absolutely null and void. S20. 10. That the Secretary of the Interior may, with the consent of Removal of Inthe Indians expressed in open Council, as provided in section one, cause d§¤¤¤ to ¤'°¤¤¤•· the removal of that portion of the Sac and Fox and Iowa tribes residing :*,3:, "°°'“`°d f"' upon aid Sac and Fox and Iowa Reservations, in Nebraska and Kan- ° sas, to the reservation or reservations that may be secured for them, and expend such sums as may be rendered necessary by such removal, and for the comfort and advancement in civilization of said Indians; and the sum of ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as maybe necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not APPNPYiIti0¤• otherwise appropriated, for the payment of such expenses and for the expenses of the survey, appraisement,. and sale of said Sac and Fox and Iowa lands; and the amount so expended shall be reimbursed to the United States out of the iirst proeeedsof the sales of said lands by said tribes respectively. Approved, March 3, 1885. CHAP. 338.-An nctmskin an a tion furthe "cultural De artmont for March the decal year ending J nge ighteen hundrgned and eightygsix, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representative: of the United State: of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, Apprvpriptivufcr and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury }‘)1;° *8::’:“"”l of the United States not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation mum for the iiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty- six, for the purposes and objects hereinafter expressed, namely: DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. OFFICE OF conimssrorum. For compensation of Commissioner of Agriculture, four thousand ive Compensation or hundred dollars- chief clerk in said Department, who shall be superin- Cornmislicnvr of tendent of the bepartment buildings, two thousand five hundred dol- A§;‘°“1*“*°·°1°’k'v lars; chief of division of accounts and disbursing officer, one thousand ° eight hundred dollars; one assistant disbursing odlcer, who shall act as property clerk, one thousand four hundred' dollars; one clerk to disbursing officer, one thousand dollars; one stenographer. one thousand eight hundred dollars; one engraver, two thousand dollars; one microscopist, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one botanist, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one assistant botanist, one thousand two hundred dollars · two clerks of class four, three thousand six hundred dollars; two clerks of class three, three thousand two hundred dollars; four clerks of class two, five thousand six hundred dollars; seven clerks of class one, eight thousand tour hundred dollars; eight clerks, at one thousand dollars each ; six clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; one librarian, one thousand four hundred dollars; one engineer, one thousand four hundred dollars; two firemen, at seven

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