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52 FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Gus. 119,120. 1892. Aqueduct, such smn as the Secretary of War may consider necessary to defray all the expenses that may be incurred by the United States in connection with the inspection of the company’s work on said crossing and in making good any damages done by said company or its works or its contracting agents to the conduit or the conduit road, or to any work or land or other property of the United States, and in completing, as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, any of the company’s work that the said company may neglect or refuse to complete and that the Secretary of War may consider necessary for the safety of the Washington Aqueduct and the works pertaining thereto, including its telephone line, or for the proper drainage of the Conduit Road and the land pertaining thereto, or for the proper use and orderly appearance of said road and land; and the said company shall also deposit, as aforesaid, such further sums for said purposes and at such times as the Secretary Disbursement or of War shall require: Provided, That the said moneys shall be dis- "“'“°Y'· bursed like other moneys appropriated for the Washington Aqueduct, and that whatever shall remain of said deposits at the end of one year -after the completion of said railroad shall be returned to said company, with an account of their disbursement in detail: And provided also, That disbursements of said deposits shall, except in case of emergency, be made only on the order of the Secretary of War. The exercise of _1;:;¤i¤¤¢i¤¤ ¤f the rights by this act granted are to terminate at the pleasure of the ngSecretary of War in ca e of persistent neglect by said company or by its successors to make the deposits or to comply with any of the conditions, requirements, and regulations aforesaid; and no claim for damages shall ever be made by said company or its successors in consequence of the exercise of any of the rights of the United States under this act. Approved, June 15, 1892. Juno1I1N!- CHAP. 120.-An act to provide for the disposition and sale of lands known as "‘""""";1‘ the Klamath River Indian Reservation. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United mama. mmm States of America in Congress assembled, That all of the lands embraced ‘"‘“°"· °'“· in what was Klamath River Reservation in the State of California, as set apart and reserved under authority of law by an Executive order Opened to wm,- dated November sixteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-tlve, are hereby ¤¤¤¤¤· declared to be subject to settlement, entry, and purchase under the laws of the United States granting homestead rights and authorizing mum. the sale of mineral, stone, and timber lands: Provided, That any Indian _,,,,,,,,,,,, t,, mu. now located upon said reservation may, at any time within one year •¤¤- from the passage of this act, apply to the Secretary of the Interior for V°‘·”· P·3“· an allotment of land for himself and, if the head of a family, for the members of his family, under the provisions of the act of February eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled “An act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservations, and to extend the protection of the laws of the United States and the Territories over the Indians, and for other purposes! and, if found entitled thereto, shall have the same allotted as provided in said act or any act amendatory thereof: Provided, That lands set ugmxjiw of ¤*=*-tied upon, improved, and now occupied by settlers in good faith by quahiied person under the land laws shall be exempt from such allotment unless one or more of said Indians have resided upon said tract in good faith for four months prior to the passage of this act. And the Secretary of the Interior may reserve from settlement, entry, or purchase any tract or tracts of land upon which any I¤<¤¤¤·¤1az¤¤- village or settlement of Indians is now located, and may set apart the SBIIIB for the permanent use and occupation of said village or settlement of Indians. And any person entitled to the benefits of the ntmsswi enum. homestead laws of the United States who has in good faith prior