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SIXTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 216. 1908. 457 than one dollar per acre: And provided further, That any purchaser can payment, em. of said land may at his option pay the entire amount that is due in cash for such land and receive his title therefor without the necessitv of actually settling thereon: Provided further, That before offering Aiisuuem to enmsaid lands for sale the Secretary of the Interior shall allot one hundred “’°" "°*°'° '“‘°· and sixty acres of land to each child of Indian arentage born since June fifth, nineteen hundred and six, whose father or mother was a duly enrolled member of either the Kiowa, Comanche, or Apache tribe of Indians and entitled to allotment of land under the Act of VM- 34.1>·214- June fifth, nineteen hundred and six, openin said Kiowa, Comanche, . and Apache reservations to settlement, said. allotments to be made of lands remaining unsold known as the pasture reserves in said reservations. The Secretary of the Interior shall make all necessary rules and R°¥“l*`***°¤¤·°*°· issue all necessary instructions to carry the provisions of this Act into effect: Provided, That any person who has heretofore entered any of f",;';; said land under said Act of June fifth, nineteen hundred and six, shall receive patents therefor by paying all the deferred installments of purchase money and proving compliance with the requirements of the omestead laws at any time after the expiration of ten months from the date of his entry. Sec. 25. That whenever the President is satisfied that all the Indians 9r§:,{g{,° f}“kf;R* in any part of the Navajo Indian Reservation in New Mexico and Srgplué `1¤¤q` m- Arizona created by Executive orders of November ninth, nineteen $f.Y.i,,,J§ publ" °°' hundred and seven, and January twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and eight, have been allotted, the surplus lands in such part of the reservation shall be restored to the public domain and opened to settlement and entry byhproclamation of the President. Sec. 26. at the Court of Claims is hereby authorized to consider gg; 1‘{)¤;¤<é¤i·m¤c° and adjudicate and render judgment as law and equity may require in w. rama- again., w the matter of the claim of Clarence W. Turner, of Muskogee, Okla- *’°"°""“°‘“°°· homa, a ainst the Creek Nation, for the destruction of personal property anfthe value of the loss of the pasture of the said Turner, or his ass1gns, by the action of any of the responsible Creek authorities, or with their cognizance and acqpiescence, either party to said cause in APP°**1- the Court of Claims to have the right of appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States. _ Sec. 27. That the Court of Claims is hereby authorized and m’f§f*"*·‘**¥’¥’* C"°°’ directed to hear, consider, and adjudicate the claims against the Missis- Nclgjrns of vfillinjn sippi Choctaws of William N. Vernon, J. S. Bounds, and Chester Howe, ,,,g,“,,§{"{],";,,,`,]dj,fd5. their associates or assigns, for services rendered and expenses incurred °*““‘· in the matter of the claims of the Mississippi Choctaws to citizenship in the Choctaw Nation and to render judgment thereon on the principle of quantum meruit in such amount or amounts as may appear equitable and justly due therefor, which judglment, if any, sha_ be m§;gf*¤*=¤° °‘ l°‘¤· paid from any fun s now or hereafter due suc Choctaws as indnvid- _ _ uals by the United States. The said William N. Vernon, J. S. c,:',;; *3:**},*;;*1; L; Bounds, and Chester Howe are hereby authorized to intervene in the c¤»;¤1esr.w1¤¢o¤. suit instituted in said court under the rovisions of section nine of the l°l‘3** "‘ l°°‘ Act of April twenty-sixth, nineteen Iiundred and six, in behalf of the estate of Charles F. Winton, deceased: Provided, That the evi- Q_*;1’§jggm subm dence of the intervenors shall be immediately submitted: And pro- sion or evidence, vided further, That the lands allotted to the said Mississippi Choctaws are hereby declared subject to a lien to the extent of the c aims of the Lien. said Winton and of the other plaintiffs authorized by Congress to sue the said defendants, subject to the final judgment of the Court of Claims in the said case. Notice of such suit or intervention shall be Notice ossuitew. served on the governor of the Choctaw Nation, and the Attorney- General shall appear and defend the said suit on behalf of the said Choctaws.