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SIXTY-FIFTH coxennss. sees. II. cH. se. 1918. 589 pay of superintendent, $47,450 ; for general repairs and improvements, $8,000; in all, $55,450. For support and education of two hundred and seventy-Eve Indian T°mh S°h°°l‘ pupils at the Indian school, Tomah, Wiisconsin, including pay of superintendent, $57,000; for general repairs and improvements, $8,000; in all, $65,000. . For support and civilization of the Chippewas of Lake Superior, Su°§€,§’§’°“ °f L“k° Wisconsin, including pay of employees, $7,000. S¤¤i><>rt¤t¢· For support, education, and civilization of the Pottawatomie §),‘§f,t,§‘,,‘§i‘f§,’§‘§{°°" Indians w o reside in the State of Wisconsin, including pay of emlployees, $7,000. _ _ or the support and civilization of those portions- of the Wisconsin p,l§‘§,$§’§S0¥;}i9]§?“‘%,-igi Band of Pottawatomie Indians residing in the States of Wisconsin mgulgglg M and Michiglan, and to aid said Indians in establishing homes on the V¤l.3s,i».1d2. lands purc ased for them under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved Jime thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $75,000, or R so much thereof as may be necessary, said sum to be reimbursed to °p°Ym"’”t‘ the United States out of the appropriation, when made, of the principal due as the roportionate s are of said Indians in annuities and moneys of the lgbttawatomie Tribe in which they have not shared as set forth in House Document Numbered Eight hundred and U . thirty (Sixtieth Congress, first session), and the Secretary of the In- S°Sp°°‘°°d‘ terior is hereby authorized to expend the said sum of $75,000 in the clearing of land and the purchase of houses, building material, seed, animals, machinery, too s implements, and other e uipment and supplies necessaiiy to enable said Indians to become self-suplporting: P . _ Promklecl, That rom the sum herem appropriated for said Potta- 1I}g?i°Be1¢. watomie Indians the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized mmiiiiiiieiitgriigleg to a to the legal representatives of R. V. Belt (Mrs. Joana Belt ‘°°“- and) O. Belt) such sum, not exceeding $25,000, as he, after a proper hearing, may fix as compensation justly and ecipitably due the said Belt and associates on a quantum meruit for their services in recovering for the said Pottawatomie Indians the annuities withheld from them, under contract with re resentatives of said Indians approved by the Commissioner of Affairs November Hist, nmeteen hundred and two. _ _ mmmmm The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to withdraw from S¤M~¤¤*>p€>r¢, exc., the Treasury of the United States, m his discretion, the sum of "°"“'“’°* ““‘”· $300,000 of the tribal funds of the Menominee Indians in Wisconsin, VOL 2, P up vo, arising under the rovisions of the Acts of June twelfth, eighteen him- sséap. si? ven. ’zc, pi dred and ninety Ffwentyl-sixth Statutes at Large, page one hundred 1° ‘ and forty-six), and Marc twenty-eighth, nineteen imdred and eight (T hirty-fifth Statutes at Large, pagxe fifty-one), section twenty-six of the Act of March third, nineteen lmdred and eleven (Th1rty-sixth Statutes at Large, page one thousand and seyenty-six), and any Acts amendatory thereo , and under such regulations as he may {prescribe to expend the same to aid said Indians to fit themselves or, or to enga e in, farmin or such other pursuits or avocations as will enable . said Indians to gecome self-supportinfg, or in the case of the old, P,,,,,,_,,,_,_ decrepit, or inca acitated members 0 the tribe, for support: Pm- alggggiggxgyg mkied, That in tiiie case of those who engage in farming upon the mas. Menominee Reservation, that prior to aut onzation to make expenditures for farmin pu oses upon lands not heretofore entirely cleared of all memilianteiiiile timber, the Forest Service of the Indian Bureau shall make a survey of same and shall certify that such lands have been cut over and cleared of all merchantable timber, or that if there be merchantable timber on such lands that it is to the interest Not dmmmm to of the Menominee Indians, and not detrimental to the Menominee ummm rm:. Forest, that such timber be removed, and that such Forest Service of the Indian Bureau shall also certify that the lands proposed to be