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FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Cris. 2290, 2291. 1907. 1055 ’ 2290. 5An Act To authorize the Court of Claims to hear, determine, and Merch 1,1907- adjudicate the claims of the Sac and Fox indians of the Mississippi in Iowa, against [S‘8533·] the Sac and Fox Indians of the Mississippi in Oklahoma, and the United States, and [Pub1ic,No.1s9.] for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and [{0use of Representatives of the United {States of America in Lbngress assembled, That full legal and equitable ,uS§“'};"* ’°°‘I"‘“““" ]urisdiction, without reglard to lapse of time, is hereby conferred upon 0<>¤r¤°<>f Clnims to the Court of Claims to ear, determine, and adjudicate, as justice and hm Umm °f' equity shall require, with right of appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States by any party in interest, all claims of the Sac and Fox Indians of the Mississippi in Iowa, against the Sac and Fox Indians of the Mississip i in Oklahoma, and the United States for money claimed to be due to them as their proportionate shares, according to their numbers, and not heretofore paid to or expended for them, of the appropriations made by Congress for fultillin treaty stipulations with the confederated tribes of the Sac and Fox {Indians of the Mississippi, or arising from the disiposal or sale of lands of said confederated tribes, or otherwise, inclu ing the claims set out in the Senate Document Numbered Sixty-four, Fifty-seventh Congress, first session, for which suit may be instituted in the Court of Claims within ninety days after the passage of this Act by petition signed by the principal chief of said Sac and Fox Indians in Iowa, or by the attorney employed by the proper authorities of said Indians; the compensation to be paid to their said attorney by the Sac ,Of,Q’(f';,?*““‘i°“‘° “" and Fox Indians of the ississippi in Iowa, for his services and expenses rendered and to be rendered in the prosecution of said claims, shall be fixed by the Court of Claims on the termination of said suit. The Attorney-General shall appear and Aefend in said suit, so far as the United States may be concerned. The Sac and Fox Indians in Oklahoma may appear, by counsel employed by their proper authorities, to defend on their behalf. Said suit, on motion of either of the m;{f"““°°’“°“° °’ parties thereto, shall be advanced on the dockets of either of said _ courts and be determined at the earliest date practicable. The reports E"*d°”°° “‘*‘“’“°"· made to Congress on any of said claims by any Department of the Government and printed as Congressional Documents shall be received as evidence in said suit, so far as the facts therein may be concerned, and shall be given such weight as the court may determine for them. Approved, March 1, 1907. CHAP. 2291 .-—An Act Providing that the State of Wyoming be permitted to relin- Muwh {.190% quish to the United States certain lands heretofore selected and to select other lands _____[S·85“·] from the public domain in lieu thereof. [Public, No. 160.] Be it enacted by t/we Senate and House of Reinesentatives 0 f t/oe United States of America in (hmgress assembled, That upon the delivery to mggiggdgav W the Secretary of the II1tBl‘l0l‘ by {Zhié State of Wyoming of lts properly iinqlnisu cei·mn`smw executed and duly recorded deed or deeds reconveying to the United 1**2 ‘·_ States of America, in fee simple, certain lands heretofore selected by ‘°‘·”iP·”°· and certified to said State under the provisions of an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the admission of the State of Wyoming into the Union. and for_ other pu1'p0SGS,” HppI‘0Vf-Bd July tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety,to wit: All of sections ten. twenty-two,twenty-four, and twenty-six, township twenty north, range eighty-four west; all of sections thirtv and thirty-two, township twenty north, range eightythree west, andvall of sections six, eight, eighteen, twenty, twenty-eight, thirtv., and thirty-two,township nineteen north,range eighty-three west; Unitiersity lands, approved list numbered one. Iiebruary eighteen, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, Cheyenne district; south half of southeast quarter section thirty, township fifty-two north, range one hundred and two west; east half of southwest quarter; southeast quarter of