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1038 FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I1. Ch. 2285. 1907. of five years from the taking effect of this Act shall be sold to the highest bidder for cash, at not less than one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, under rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior; and any lands remaining unsold ten years after said lands shall have been opened to entry shall be sold to the highest bidder, for cash, without regard to the minimum limit above stated: Pro- °nf*::;,’*f* ”°’° *° vided, That not more than six hundred and forty acres of land shall be sold to any one person or company. m};l°j;;fQ;*hdS$°°·· °‘ That the lands within said reservation not already previously entered, whether classified as agricultural, grazing, timber, or mineral lands, shall be subject to exploration, location, and purchase under the general provisions of the United States mineral and coal land laws, at the prices therein fixed, except that no mineral or coal exploration, location, or urchase shall be permitted upon any lands allotted to an Indian. S¤l¤°*“mb°’l“““· That lands classified and returned by said commission as timber lands shall be sold and disposed of by the Secretary of the Interior, under sealed bids to the highest bidder for cash at not less than five dollars per acre, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe: mhm,mm_ P1-m:é&d, That the said timber lands shall be sold in tracts not exceeding forty acres, with preference right of purchase to actual settlers, piiguding Indian allottees residing in the vicinity, at the highest price 1 .· ceQ},’;{’°°“l °‘ "*‘° ¥“’°‘ That after deducting the expenses of the commission of classification, appraisement, and sale of lands, and such other incidental expenses as shall have been necessarily incurred, including the cost of survey of said lands, the balance realized from the proceeds of the sale of the laéndls Qi} conifgrmity wgthl thig Acthshalldbe paidd the 'I)`reas§ry o the United States an p ace to the cre it of said n ian tri l e. ot exceeding one-third of the total amount thus deposited in the Treasury. togetherwith one-third of the amount of the principal of all other funds ppw placed to the credit of or which is due said tribe of Indians from a sources, shall be ex ended from time to time by the Secretar * of the Interior as he maypdeem advisable for the benefit of said Indians, in the construction and maintenance of irrigation ditches, _ the purchase of stock cattle, horses, and farming implements, and D“l’°““f°l“m“"°S· in their education and civilization. The remainder of all funds deposited in the Treasury, realized from such sale of lands herein _ authorized, together with the remainder of all other funds now pgapedto thehcrpdit of <E· tpat shallhhereafter lpeconge duc to said tripe o n rams, s al , upon thec ate oft e a 1 . rova byt e Secretar of tie Interior of the allotments of land autlioriized by this Act, be `gllotted in seveigalty to the members of the tribe; the persgns entiged to share as mem >ers in suc cistribution to be etermine by said Secretarv: the funds thus allotted and apportioned shall be placed to the credit bf A such individuals upon the books of the United States Treasury for D**"'**>°“°”· the benefitpf such allottees, their legatees, orheirs. The President may, by Executive order, from time to time order the distribution and pay- “ meint of Such fpnds or taie intere? accilping therefrpén to such individua mem ers o the tri e as in is 'u ment wou be for the best interests of such individuals to bade sich distribution made, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe therefor: Provided, mpgeresz <·¤ crust That so long as the United States shall hold the funds as trustee for ‘ any member of the tribe the Indian beneficiary shall be paid interest thereon annually at the rate of four per centum per annum. n;;p;¤de¤¤ for Mnés That there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treaspry not otherwilsxe [appropriated, thl; sum of sixty-tive thousand dollars, or so muc thereof as may necessary, to y for the lands granted to the State of Montana and for lands resiifved for agency and school purposes, at the rate of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre: a o the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars, or so much