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_ FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 290. 1894. 335 of the Colorado River, formerly Fort Yuma, now used as an Indian school, so long as the same shall be used for religious, educational, and hospital purposes for said Indians, and a further grant of land adjacent to the hill is hereby set aside as a farm for said school; the grant for the school site and the school farm not to exceed in all one-half section, or three hundred and twenty acres. Anrrcm VIII. This agreement shall be in iorce from and after its approval by the Ratification. Congress of the United States. ` ln witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals the day and year nrst above written. - _ _ Wasrrmclron J. Hovsron, sun., Jox1N A. GoRMAN, SEAL. Pntrnn R. BRADY, sun,. Commissioners on the part of ·the United States. BILL MOJAVE, and others. Therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Asrument ¤¤¤— United States of America in Congress assembled, That the said agree- a"'""!' ment be, and the same hereby is, accepted, ratined, and contirmed. That for the purpose of making the allotments provided for in said uAgr¤>1>ri=¤¤i<>¤ for agreement, including the payment and expenses of the necessary spe- ° ° mg` cial agent hereby authorized to be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, and· for the necessary resurveys, there be, and hereby is, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasiuy not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. That for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the survey and E¤<1>¤¤¤¤¤ ¤f survey sale of the lands by said agreement relinquished and to be appraised °‘“`1 "1°‘ and sold for the beneiit of said Indians, the sum of three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same hereby is, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the same to be reimbursed to the United States ' out of the proceeds of the sale of aid lands. That the right of way through the said Yuma Indian Reservation is S REM of r¤.vk_}<> hereby granted to the Southern racist Railroad Company for its line ,3,:; €.§E,L’§?° l` of railroad as at present constructed, of the same width, with the same rights and privileges, and subject to the limitations, restrictions, and conditions as were granted to the said company by the twenty-third section of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy- one, entitled “An Act to incorporate the Texas Pacino Railroad Com- VoL16,D·579. pany, and to aid in the construction of its road, and for other purposes :" Provided, That said company shall, within ninety days from the pas- {’;·>·•i:•»-M md sage of this Act, tile with the Secretary of the Interior a map of said °° ° ' right of way, together with a relinquishment by said company of its right of way through said reservation as shown by maps of definite location approved January thirty-one, eighteen hundred and seventy- ‘ ei vht. éyfhe Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to mS:,‘;°.§§u:{,;;8*b*° cause all the lands ceded by said agreement which may be susceptible ` of irrigation, after said allotments have been made and approved, and said lands have been surveyed and appraised, and the appraisal approved, to be sold at public sale, by the officers of the land office in the district wherein said lands are situated, to the highest b1dder_for cash, at not less than the appraised value thereof, after iirst havmg given at least sixty days’ public notice of the time, place, and terms of sale immediately prior to such sale, by publication in at least two newspapers of general circulation, and any lands or subdivisions remaimn g unsold may be reotfered mr sale at any subsequent time m the same