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FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sass; H. Ch. 543. 1891. 1011 are hereby, referred to the Court of Claims for adjudication. And said court shall, in determining said cause, ascertain the amounts due and to whom due by reason of actual damage sustained. _ "r\nd all papers, reports, evidences, records, and proceedings relat- rapes, ew, so be mg m anyway to_sa1 claims now on file or of record in the Depart- d°“'°"°‘“°°°‘“'°· ment of the Interior, or any other Department or on file or of record in the office of the Secretary of the Senate, or the office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives, shall be delivered to said court, and in considering the merits of the claims presented to the court all testimony and reports of special agpnts or other officers and other papers now on file or of record in the Departments or Congress, shall considered by the court, and such value awarded thereto as m its Judgment is right and proper. That the remaining proceeds or balances of the sales of the Cher- Kfug¤¤‘¤¥¤¤ Strip. okee Strip in Kansas, isposed of under the seventeenth section of ,,,,;,0.,,,,,,, of the treaty of said nation with the United States of July, eighteen hun- ¤¤¤¤¤- W dred and sixty-six, and under acts of Congress a proved May eleventh, WL 14. v-M eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and Fedruary twenty-eighth, igif eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, and held for alleged charges for land office expenses not authorized by treaty, amounting to nineteen thousand eight hundred and fortyéthree dollars and eighty-two cents, or thereabouts, shall be placed the credit of the Secretary of the Interior as custodian o said trust funds, and shall be forwarded to the treasurer of the Cherokee Nationas other funds of said tribe, to be immediately available. That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to ant rights of rm mu Reservaway into and across the Fort Hall Reservation in Ihlaho to canal, “°"- ditch, or remrvoir companies for the purpose of enablin the citi- nam, right or way zens of Pocatello to thereby receive the water supply, congemplated ““'°“"‘· by section ten S0) of an act to acccipt and ratify an agreement made WL 5, nm with the Shos one and Bannock ndians, and for other purposes , being chapter nine hundred and thirty-six, laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and may also attach conditions as to the supply of surplus water to Indians on said Fort Hall Re ervation asmay be reasonable and prescribe rules and regulations for the same. For the construction, purchase, an use of irgigating machinery rm-aim of ampand appliances in Arizona, Montana, and Nev a for the uses of ”°"’*°'**¤°¤'· Indian reservations, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior and lpulgject to his control, thirty thousand dollars, to be immediately ava a e. That one half of all funds now held in trust by the United States velnvnm for the benefit of the Delaware tribe of Indians, in the Indian Territory, with one half of all interest due upon the same, including the Payment or me or school fund and interest thereon, and a so one half of the sum of “"'““° "f"‘"” "'““°· one hundred and fort thousand dollars, which sum was invested by the United States in lglorida and North Carolina bonds, which bonds are now held in trust ior the benefit of said tribe, be paid per capita, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, to said tribe; hmm. Pro/vided “That hereafter said bonds shall be the plroperty of the United States, and the Secretary of the Interior is ereby author- napomor bums ized and directed to sell one half of the Union Pacific Railroad bonds held in trust for the Delawares, and to pay to the said Indians per capita the proceeds, together with all uninvested funds and interest moneys to their credit and on deposit in the United States Treasury as herein provided, and the authority herein granted shall be in force from and after the approval of this act. To supply food an other necessaries of life in cases of distress Emergencies. among the Indians arising from emergencies not foreseen or otherwise provided for, to be used at the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, twenty-ive thousand dollars. and a report of all expenditures under this provision shall be made to Congress at its next session thereafter.