1036 F1FTY·N1NTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. C11. 2285. 1907.
- '·*€**'* °‘ "”'*" “P‘ That the right to the use of water ac uired under the provisions of
Pumumuolmdr this Act shaIl be appurtenant to the laiiid irrigated, and beneficial use shall be the basis, the measure and the limit of the right: Prorvided "{j€•*:,fY· °*°-· ’°“°" yurtlur, That the Secretary of the Interior may reserve such lands as e may deem necessary for agency, school, and religious purposes, to remain reserved so long as needed and so long as agency,_school, or religious institutions are maintained thereon for the benefit of the Indians, not exceeding two hundred and eighty acres to any one religious society; also such tract or tracts of tim ber lands as he may deem expedient for the use and benefit of the Indians of said reservation in common; but such reserved lands, or any part thereof, may be disposed _ of from time to time in such manner as the said Secretary may eter- ““”“‘°““· mine: Provided, That there is hereby granted three hundred and twenty . acres each for the Holy Family Mission on Two Medicine Creek to the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions and also to the mission of the Methodist Episcopal Church near Browning, to be selected by the authorities of said missions, respectively, embracing the mission buildings and improvements thereon. , °‘ '““°° That upon the completion of said allotments the President of the United States shall appoint a commission consisting of three persons · to inspectikappraise, and value all of the said lands that shall not have been allot in severalty to said Indians or reserved by the Secretary of the Interior or otherwise disposed of, said commission to be constituted as follows: Une commissioner shall be a person holding tribal relations with said Indians, one representative of the Indian Bureau, and one resident citizen of the State of Montana. mf{1g°r;f¤8 °* °°'m¤** That within thirty days after their appointment said commissioners Shall meet at some point within the Blac feet Indian Reservation and organize by the election of one of their number as chairman. Said commission is hereby empowered to select a clerk at a salary of not to . exceed five dollars per day. 0,(;l:.§jii:°°¤°¤· °*°·· That said commissioners shall then proceed to personally inspect and , classify and appraise, by the smallest legal subdivisions of forty acres each, all of the remaining lands embraced within said reservation. In making such classification and appraisemeut said lands shall be divided into the following classes: First, agricultural land of the first class; second, agricultural land of the second class; third, (grazing land; fourth, timber land; fifth, mineral land, the mineral lan not to be alppraised. °°“"°""“°“· That said commissioners shall be paid u. salary of not to exceed ten dollars per day each while actually employed in the inspection and classification of said lands; such mspection and classification to be completed within nine months from the date of the organization of said commission. ”’“l"‘“‘°’“‘"°'· That when said commission shall have completed the classification and appmisement of all of said lands and the same shall have been ‘ approved by the Secretary of the Interior, the lands shall be disposed of under the general provisions of the homestead, mineral., and townhggpggzemgdwhwl site laws of the United States, except such of said lands as shall have Pbeen classified as timber lands, and except such sections sixteen and thirgvsix of each township, or any part thereof, for which the State of L ontana has not heretofore received indemnity lands under existing laws, which sections, or parts thereof, are hereby granted to the State ,a§1‘,§j§,f*m,ff,,“f;‘,f§; of Montana for school pm oses. And in case either of said sections formerly slimeé. or parts thereof is lost to the State of Montana by reason of allotment thereof to any Indian or Indians, or otherwise, the governor of said State, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, is hereby authorized to select other lands not occupied or reserved within said reservation, not exceeding two sections in any one township, which selections shall be made prior to the opening of the lands to settle-
