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1080 FIFTY-EIGHTH coxeanss. sm. 111. cH. 1479. 1905. ,§’{!j*)Q;g;f{gg;f°'d· algaipst the U)niteddStaties: {)’r0vi<%d _/fin·éher,d That ttl§tSecretary2 of t e nterior e, is ere y, au orize an 1rec e 0 ay ou 0 the above amount to Samuel J. Crawford, attorney of recoiill for said Indians, an amount e ual to ten per cent of said sum of one hundred and fifty-five thousand] nine hundred and seventy-six dollars and eighty- . eight cents, in full for services and expenses incident to the prosecu- , l;j§;>;:¤1¤l¢¤¤f¤m tion of the claims of said Indians: Provided, howwer, That no part of `said sum shall be paid until said Indians, in general council lawfully convened for that purpose, shall execute and deliver to the United States a general release of all claims and demands of every name and Ad"°’**’i“€~ nature against the United States: Provided further, That out of the amount of one hundred and fifty-five thousand nine hundred and seventy-six dollars and eighty-eight cents, for payment of the claim of the Kaw or Kansas Indians, the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to pay the accounts of the twenty-two newspapers, aggregating the sum of three thousand six hundred and ninety- our dollars and seventy-six cents, set out in the report of the Secretary of the Interior, printed in House of Representatives Executive Document Numbered Sixty, Forty-seventh Congress, first session, at not excmding the commercial rates at the time the service was rendered, for advertising under previous authority of the Department of the Interior the sale of Kansas trust and diminished reserve Indian lands in Eighteen hundred and seventy-four and eighteen hundred and seventy- ve. _ cogggaggm Um of Sec. 8. That the Secretary of the Interior shall make an investiga- Purchase of water tion as to the practicability of providing a water supply for irrigation "g"“"°"”*g““°"· urposes to be used on a portion of the reservation of the Southern Ktes in Colorado, and he is authorized to contract for and to expend from the funds of said Southern Utes in the purchase of rpetual water rights sufficient to irrigate not exceeding ten thousandtcres on the western part of the Southern Ute Reservation and for annual charges for maintenance of such water thereon such amount and upon such terms and conditions as to him may seem just and reasonable, not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, for the purchase of - such perpetual water rights and not exceeding a maximum of fifty _ · cents per acre per annum for the maintenance of water upon the land §'j§§';’§,';,,_ to be irrigated: 1’rovz'1Zed, That after such an investigation be shall find all the essential conditions relative to the water supply and to the perpetuilpy of its availability for use upon said lands as will Iustify a contract or its perpetual use the contract for such water shall be for 1¤<1<>¤¤i¢y¤>¤<¤- a specific number of inches: Prnzdrled, That the Secretary of the Interior, upon making all such contracts, shall require from the company, person, or persons entering into such contract a bond of indemnity, to be approved by him, for the faithful and continuous execution of such contract as provided therein. Sec. 9. That section twelve, chapter fourteen Hundred and ninety- five, Statutes of the United States of America, entitled "An Act for the survey and allotment of lands now embraced within the limits of the Flathead Indian Reservation, in the State of Montana, and the sale and disposal of all surplus lands after allotment," be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: Rggjsfiggf I‘“““” "Sec. 12. That the President may reserve and except from said umn ng catholic lands, not to exceed one thousand two hundred and eighty acres, for ‘m{Zi§?§Y 1Z,{§°gd. Catholic mission schools, church, and hospital and such other eleemosy— °‘· naiéy institutions as may now be maintained by the Catholic Church on sai _ reservation, which lands are hereby granted to those religious organizations of the Catholic Church now occupying the same, known as the Society of Jesus, the Sisters of Charity of Providence, and the Ursuline Nuns, the said lands to be granted in the following amounts, namely:-To the Society of Jesus, six hundred and forty acres; to the