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860 SIXTY·FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 431. 1910. _ to be surveyed or resurveyed whenever in his opinion such reservation or any part thereof may be advantageously utilized for agricultural Amincmwd. or grazing purposes by such Indians, and to cause_allotment_to each Indian located thereon to be made in such areas as m his opimon may be for their best interest not to exceed eighty acres of afncultural or eg: *”'¤”°” P'°l‘ one hundred and sixty acres of grazing land to any one ndian. A:nd whenever it shall appear to the Pres1dent that lands on any Indian reservation subject to allotment by authority of law have been or may be brou ht within any irrigation project, he may_ cause allotments of such irrigable lands to be made to the Indians entitled thereto in such areas as may be for their best interest not to exceed, however, forty acres to any one Indian, and such irrigable land shall be held to be equal in quantity to twice the number of acres of nonirrigable agricultural landand four times the number of acres of non- ,,_e"2_'f•••-djmuwn mm irrigable grazing land: Provided, That the remaimng area to which irrismc uma:. any Indian may be entitled under existing law after he shall have received his —proportion of irrigable land on the basis of e ualization herein established may be allotted to him from nonirrigaltile agricul- '*"°*°Y•u°““°"“· tural or. grazing lands: Provided further, That where a treaty or Act of Congress setting apart such reservation provides for allotments in severalty in uantity greater or less than t at herein authorized, the President shgll cause_allotments on such reservations to be made in , quantity as Slpzecified in such treaty or Act subject, however, to the basis o equ ation between i able and nomrrigable lands established herein, but. in such casesnaldotments may be made in quantity as specified in this Act, with the consent of the Indiansexpressed in ‘ such manner as the President in his discretion may 'l1I1'0.” ,;‘·8§!;’&*'g*f ”°* ’“_ “Sec. 4. That where any Indian entitled to allotmgiilf under existvoriegje, p. 795. ing laws shall make settlement upon any surveyed or unsurve ed mm lands of the United States not otherwise appropriated, he or she shall be entitled, upon application to the local land office for the district in which the lands are ocated, to have the same allotted to him or her and to his or her children in manner as provided b law for allotments to Indians residing upon reservations, and such allotments to Indians Ammmluowed on the Iéublic domain as herein provided shall be made in such areas ' as the res1dent maly deem proper, not to exceed, however, forty acres of irrigable lan or eighty acres of nonirrigable agriculturahland or one hun red sixty acres 0 nonirrigable grazing land to an one Indian; and when such settlement is made upon unsurveyed lands the grant to such Indians shall be adjusted u on the survev of the mffust v·=¢¤*¤ '° ’·· lands so as to conform thereto, and patent shalllbe issued to them for · H of I such lands in the mauner and with the restrictions rovided in the ,,,,m"',,‘}',§“,$,,,u,,°°° Act of which this is amendato 2 And the fees to which the officers of such local land office would have been entitled had such lands been entered under the general laws for the disposition of the public lands shall be paid to them from any moneys in the Treasurv of the United States_not otherwise appropriated, upon a statement of an account in their behalf for such fees by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and a certification of such account to the Secretarv Sb h of the Treasury by the Secretary of the Interior/’ J ,,_,,,_°{*,,f;,’,§{° R°‘“"'“‘ Smc, 18. That the last clause of the fifth paragraph of section kggggoigeoccyfwm twenty-seven of the Indian appropriation Act of A ril fourth nine- _ NAME, p_288,&1D€‘l1d- teen hundred and ten, be, an it is hereby, amended) so as to rim} 33

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the _Act entitled ‘An Act to ratify and amend an agreement with the Indians residipgvon the Shoshone or Wind River Indian Reservation in the_State or yoming, and to make appropriations for carryin the same into effect ,’ approved March third nineteen hundred d ig " Reports abolished. · ’ . , an V9- R_ S__ m is, 469, . Sno, 19. That Sections four hundred and sixty-eight four hundred gggyv· 7* an or and s¤¤ty·mno, and two thousand and ninety-one ol the Revised ` Statutes of the United States be, and they are hereby, repealed.