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342 FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 398. 1896. Cheyenne Indians from their present reservation on the Rosebud River at Lame Deer Agency to the southern portion of the Crow Reservation; with the Indians residing on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation in the State of Idaho, and with the Indians residing upon the Uintah Reservation in the State of Utah, for the surrender of any portion of their respective reservations, or for such modification of existing treaties as may be deemed desirable by said Indians and the Secretary of the Interior; and with the Yakima Indians in the State of Washington for the surrender of a portion of their reservation lands, and for such modification of existing treaties as may be deemed desirable by said Indians and the Secretary of the Interior, any agreement thus negotiated being subject to subsequent ratification by Congress; and for · the expenses of such commission and negotiations hereunder the sum gjfggghxmptiun of ten thousand dollars is appropriated: Provided, That the time for Company. the completion of the canal, or any part thereof, authorized by an Act ,,,,“j§§° °f ‘""` *"‘ entitled “An Act granting to the Columbia Irrigation Companya right V¤1-28·1•-¤18- of way through the Yakima Indian Reservation, in Washington/’ be, and is hereby, extended two years nom July twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six. H·>¤·:*··d @:1 That the homestead settlers on all ceded Indian reservations be, and 5y?;? H °° ° they are hereby, granted an extension of one year in which to make payments as now provided by law. t_Klsg'.ath mma- That the President of the United States is hereby authorized to '§‘};m,,,,§,;,,,,,,,,,°c,t° appomt a commission, to be composed of three persons, two of whom - 1»¤¤·1•ry.¤¤<=· shall be practical surveyors, not more than two of whom shall beof the same political party, and not more than one of whom shall be a resident of any one State, whose duty it shall be to visit and thoroughly investigate and determine as to the correct location of the boundary lines of the Klamath Indian Reservation, in the State of Oregon, the location of said boundary lines·to be according to the terms of the treaties heretofore made with said Indians establishing said reservation; and when the correct location of said treaty boundaries of said reservation shall have been so ascertained and determined, said commission shall ascertain and determine, as nearly as practicable, the number of acres, if any, of the land, the character thereof, and also the value thereof, in a state of nature, that have been excluded from said treaty reservation by the erroneous survey of its out boundaries, as now existing and as shown and reported to have been made in reports of the Commissioner of Indian Afairs and of the Commissioner of the General Land Ollie, submitted to the Senate by the Secretary of the Interior, and as set out in Senate Executive Documents Numbered One hundred and twenty-nine, Fifty-third Congress, second session, and Numbered Sixty-two, Fifty-third Congress, third session. R<¤r<>rr. And said commission shall make report of the facts ascertained and of their conclusions and recommendations upon the matters hereby committed to them to the Secretary of the Interior, who is hereby directed to report the facts found and reported by said commission and their conclusions and recommendations in the matter, together with his recommendations thereon, to the next regular session of Congress for its action. _r¤y..-i»., orwm¤s¤- And each member of said commission shall be paid not to exceed the "°“°“’· sum of ten dollars per day while necessarily engaged in the performance of the duties of said commission and actual expenses of travel and subsistence, the same to be audited and paid upon proper vouchers as other expenditures for the Indian Service are audited and paid. And the sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for such purpose. Cjiigjgg I¤<*i¤¤¤- To enable the Attorney General to employ a special attorney for the Amway. Mission Indians of southern California, upon the recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior, one thousand dollars. Bnc;Lisys¤¤sn1v»r¤¤u For the survey of lands in the Cheyenne River and Rosebud indian b“° '°“°"“"°“'· reservationsin South Dakota, the sum of thirty thousand dollars, to be