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Show * 5 1 as to the payment of fees or commissions, which are hereby 2 waived. The value of improvements owned by the State 3 on lands relinquished to the United States for the benefit 4 of said Indians shall be taken into consideration and full 5 credit in the form of lands shall be allowed therefor. 6 Authority is hereby granted for the purchase of privately 7 owned and State- owned lands, including the improvements 8 thereon, together with water rights and water holes, within 9 or without said boundary. Further authority is hereby 10 granted to purchase the livestock normally operated in 11 connection with the lands or rights so purchased and such 12 - livestock shall when purchased become the property of the 13 Ute Bands of Indians, referred to in section 1 of this Act. 14 SEC. 3. For the purpose of purchasing the lands, live- 15 stock, improvements, claims, and rights hereinabove referred 16 to, within or without the boundaries above defined, there is 17 hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any funds in 18 the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $ 650,- 19 000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, which sum 20 shall be reimbursable from funds accruing to the Ute Bands 21 of Indians referred to in section 1 of this Act, as and when 22 such funds accrue, including available appropriations hereto- 23 fore or herafter made to their credit arising from judgments 24 or awards made in their favor by the Court of Claims or to 25 their credit from any source whatsoever, notwithstanding |