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340 FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 3504. 1906. season. s0HooLs. “'°°"“*'°“"“’°“— For the maintenance, strengthening, and enlarging of the tribal schools of the Cherokee. Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole nations, and making provision for the attendance of children of parents of other than Indian blood therein, and the establishment of new schools‘under the control of the De rtment of the Interior, the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand diillars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be placed in the hands of the Secretary of the Inte- ‘ rior, and disbursed by him under such rules and regulations as he may rescribe. 0*.**,*55,; **1*** P That the Court of Claims be, and is hereby, authorized and empow- Court or Claims m ered, upon final determination of the case or cases involving the claim 2§,*§,.‘§';§,‘T° dghu °f of the intermarried white persons in the Cherokee Nation to share in the common property of. the Cherokee people, and to be enrolled for . such purpose (being numbers four hundred and nineteen, four hundred sand twenty, four hundred and twenty-one, and four hundred and twenty-two, on the docket of the United States Supreme Court for October term, nineteen hundred and five), to ascertain and determine the amount to be paid the attorney and counsel of record for the Cherokee Indians by blood in said cases, in reimbursement of necessary expenses incurred, and as reasonable compensation for services rendered in such proceedings not exceeding sixty thousand dollars. ,uIr-:,;*.**,5;******** 0* Such court shall further designate the persons, class, or body of 'persons by whom such payment should equitably be made and the fund or fnmds held by the United States out of which the same shall be paid and enter a decree for the amount so found; and the sum nec- _ essary to (pay the same is hereby appropriated out of the fund or funds designate b the court, and the i retary of the Treasury shall pay ‘ ,{f!“1:,°chmna_ the same: ided, That notice of hearing of such application to determine such compensation shall be iven the governor of the Cherokee Nation or the attorney of recorg thereof and the Secretary of the Interior, at least thirty days before the da of said hearing. AW•¤¤¤>b¢i¤ Ml- The amount awarded by the court when paid shall be in full for all expenses and services of said attorney and counsel in connection with the claim of the intermarried whites. rivscxviixzeurnses. rrvrz c1vu.1z1·:1> Tmnns. df;¤5:g}g;_i{¤s¤¤¤¤i+ For the completipn_of the work heretofore rei uired by law to be -done by the Commission to the Five Civilized 7[lrihes, two hundred thousand dollars. Said a propriation to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior. N•¤P°•*dd¤d *°*’°ll·- That the Commissioner to the Five Civilized Tribes is hereby authorized to add the names of the following persons to the final roll of the citizens by blood of the Choctaw tribe: Malinda Pickens, Morris Battiest, and Samuel Sydney- Burris; and the nan1es of the following pegrsons to the final roll of the citizens by blood of the Chickasaw tribe: becca Pitts, Maggie Wade; and the names of Nancy Bigknife. Alice Owen and her children, to the linal roll of the citizens bv blood of the Cherokee tribe, the said persons being either Choctaw, Chickasaw, or Cherokee Indians by blood, whose names, through neglect on their I part or on the part of their parents, have been omitted from the tribal é‘;',f,,'{&0n_ rolls: }’ru2·id»2d, That the enrollment of said persons by the Commissioner to the Five Civilized Tribes shall not be objected to by the said _ _ tribes. and shall be approved bly the Secretary of the Interior. §jf}lQ’,f§;,§"’“*"‘¥‘· Phat the Secretary of the nterior shall upon completion of the approved rolls, have prepared and printed in a permanent record book such rolls of the Five Civilized Tribes and that one copy of such record book shall be deposited in the office of the recorder in each of the