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FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 888. 1902. 263 eiglhth day o(f January, nineteen hundred and two, are hereby ratified an approve . Thatpso much of the Act approved March second, eighteen hundred MQQQQQ f',$gf'§,,f""l and eighty-nine, entitled "An Act to provide for the allotment of land saiforéurpiusiauds. in severalty to United Peorias and Miamies in Indian Territory, and V°25* p' 101* for other purposes,” which inhibits the sale of their surplus lands for twenty-fivelyears from said date, be, and the same is hereby, repealed: Promded, hat before any distribution per capita shall be made of the gmk, for wv_ proceeds of any sale thereof among said Western Miami Indians, there ms. shall first be paid such sum or sums as the Secretary of the Interior may determine to be due for services rendered or ei;/Ipenses incurred by any of the delegates or officers of said Western iami tribe since the thirty-first day of March, eighteen hundred and ninety. To maintain at the city of Omaha, Nebraska, in the discretion of- the 9v¤;¤;m_;uY;§b¤· Secretary of the Interio1·, a warehouse for the receipt, storage, and ` shi pin of goods for the Indian Service, ten thousand dollars: Pro- Pr<¤¤¤<>¤— lvidgd, fhat so much of the Act of June seventh, eighteen hundred mF¤{)¤’¤g*;*¤1g{’¤fl:g_;d· and ninety-seven, entitled "An Act making appropriations for the in>1l,ao,i».v€I ` current and contingent expenses and fulfilling treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes or the fiscal year ending June lihlftléth, eighteen hundred and ninet —eight," as provides that the city of Omaha shall provide, eqtpipé andzfgrnish a pluilcgng suitable for this purpose free of cost to the United States is ere y re ea e . To maintain at the city of Saint Louis? Missouri, in the discretion of M°· ' the Secretary of the Interior, a warehouse for the receipt, storage, and ` shi ping of goods for the Indian service, ten thousand dollars. That the accounting officers of the Treasury Department are hereby te·,'Q:,‘j)‘;jgg?"g;{},§{;‘g authorized and directed to allow in the settlement of the accounts of m imma cms. the disbursing officers in charge of the warehouses for Indian supplies, such sums as may have been disbursed by them during the Hscal ‘ years nineteen hundred and one and nineteen hundred and two, in payment of clerks appointed to clerkships in such warehouses and temporarily detadgd gpr duty the oing of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs in 'as in on, 'strict o o um ia. That the ten thousand giillars, or so much thereof as may be avail- §,*;"Y,gfQ;,};"fsg’}‘· able, reserved by Act of March third, nineteen hundred and one, out v¤1.s1,p. nm. of the amount a propriated for payment of the judgment in favor of the New York Indians, to pay expenses necessary to ascertain the beneficiaries of said judgment, may when necessary be used for the gniploymieint of the clerical force necessary therefor in the Office of n ian A airs. That the Secretary of the Interior, with the consent thereto of the R§L'}‘*,§’Q,,,’}“d wh“° majority of the adult male Indians of the Uintah and the White River b1At::p•>¤¢¤f i¤iz¤· tribes of Ute Indians, to be ascertained as soon as practicable by an isa, ;{p.v44,sm. inspector, shall cause to be allotted to each head of a family eighty acres of agricultural land which can be irrigated and forty acres of such land to each other member of said tribes, said allotments to be made irior to October first, nineteen hundredand three, on which Stggg1¥g¢¤£1gyg=gg date all the unallotted lands within sgid reservation shall be regtoreg mam. to the mblic domain: Provided, That persons entering any o said P¤*°*°¢· . land under the homestead law shall pay therefor at the rate of one Homestead mmm dollar and twenty-five cents per acre: And£22·0videdfurthe1·, That M*¤°¤***°¤S¤· nothing herein contained shall impair the rig ts of any mineral lease which has been approved by the Secretary of the Interior, or any permit heretofore issued by direction of the Secretary of the Interior to negotiate with said Indians for a mineial lease; but any person or company having so obtained such approved mineral lease or such permit to ne otiate with said Indians for a mineral lease on said reservation, pending such time and up to thirty days before said lands are