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SI}aTX~FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II._ Ch. 146. 1917. 973 For the purpose of encour indust and self—su ortamo E“°°¤¤*€'”¥*°¤¤*¤¢ the Indians and to aid them culturgryf fruits, graiiig, and othlei m" smug crops, $400,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available, which sum may be used for the purchase of seed animals, machinery, tools, implements, and other equipment neces: saréy, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, to enable In ians to become self-supporting: Promkled, That said sum shall be expended under conditions to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior for its repayment to the United States on or before June thirtreth, nineteen hundred and twenty-five: Provided further, That p.,I;¥¤l',“g°° °‘ °x` not to exceed $50,000 of the amount herein appropriated shall be I eprienided on any one reservation or for the benetlit of any one tribe o n rans. That not to exceed $200,000 of applicable appropriations made v,,{§§§“g°'*’”'Y’”g herein for the Bureau of Indian Affairs shall be available for the maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-profpelled and horsedrawn passenger-carrying vehicles for the use o superintendents, farmers, physicians, fiel matrons, allotgplg, irri tion, and other ,, , employees H1 the Indian field service: Pr cd, Tilt not to exceed rmmisumwai. $15,000 maylbe used in the purchase of horse—drawn passengercarrtying ve liglies, and not to exceed h%?i0,000 gorhghe prirchalsle lof mo r-prope assenger-carrying ve o es, an t t sue ve `c es , shall be used 05y for official service: Promkled further, That the mi:. Mmm Secretary of the Interior may hereafter exchange automobiles in part payment for new machines used for the same purpose as those prriposed to be exchangled. _ or reimbursing In 'ans for live stock which may be hereafter destroyed on account of being infected with dourine or other con- "°° °‘°“°*S°‘»°*°· tagious diseases, and for expenses in connection with the work of eradicating and preventing such diseases, to be expended under such rules and re(gu.lations as the Secretary of the Interior ma prescribe, $75,000, said amount to be immediately available and, to remain ,,m_,_m available until expended: Provided, That not to exceed $15,000 of Prmoiismm. this amount may e used in reimbursing Indians for horses killed A previous to the passage of the Act of May eighteenth, nineteen hun- ""’ "‘ m' dred and sixteen, for which they have not heretofore been reimbursed. Sm 0, wm, M That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to cause to umn not fit.-rite'. I " be sold, to the highest bidder, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, any tract or part of a tract of land purchased by the United States for day school or other Indian adnunistrative uses, not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres in any one tract, when said land or a part thereof is no longer needed for the original purpose · the net proceeds therefrom in all cases to be paid mto_ the Treasury of hm, in mw Pub the United States· title to be evidenced by a patent m fee simple for umm. such lands as can he described in terms of the egal survey, or by deed duly executed by the Secretary of the Interior contaming such metes-and-bounds descripgfn as will identify the land so conveyed _ as the land which had n purchased; Prmnded, That where the C1-,dl;g.,;,,m,,¤S_ purchase price was paid from tribal funds, such proceeds shall be placed in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the respective tribes of Indians. _ That the following (provision of the not approved March_ eleventh, 1§d¤§u'{g,§jdjF‘h”“€“ nineteen hundred an four (Thirty-third Statutes, page sixty-five), °£'0l.33,p.65,¤¤¤¤d- authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to grant rights of way across Indian lands for the conveyance of oil an gas, to wit: "l\o such lines shall be constructed across Indian lands, as above mentioned, until authority therefor has first been obtained from, and the mapg of definite location of said lines approved by, the Secretary of t Interior," be, and the same is here y,_amended to read as follows: "Before title to rights of wav applied for hereunder shall vest, *‘PP'°'**°'“"°· maps of definite location shall be ti ed with and approved by the