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Show 356 REPORT OF TnE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR. Minor child, eon years of age, eighty acres; and if a minor child under e:-»'•-• years of age. forty acres; heads of families selecting the land : '-• .*" Lauds selected selves and minor children, and the United States I n u i v •••• " to bo held from orphan children. The lands so selected shall be held from's;i'i" a~ .'.' '"! * vided for herein, and shall be accepted at their fair valuator" •..',' ascertained by the Secretary of the Interior, in part B&tisfucti"''••'. interest in and to said reservation, aud of the moneys or fund ri '•'. • ' . from the sale thereof: Provided, That his right to share in tV ','.•',.' Bistrfbu t i r e ^l , r'^s a n (* credits of the tribe shall not be impaired thereby ;;.:,.;"\l\. share not im- Secretary of the Interior shall cause a patent to issue to ea'<.L ,.;' 'A. pnired. allottees, under the provisions of this act, and the act to which ••;'•- Patent to issue. j s an amendment, for the lands selected by or for such allottet. v • patent shall boot" the legal effect,.and declare that the United JjtatM Lands to bo does and will hold the laud thus patented for the period of twtur\.jj-,, held iu trust for years, in trust for the solo use and benefit of the allottee, or, in c.iv>«f 25years. bis decease, of his heirs accordingtot.be laws of the State in which falj Fee then con-land is situated, and that at the expiration of said period the Cni;«j veyed free of iu-States will convev the same by patent to said Indian, or his he;rs »• cumbrances. aforesaid, in fee, discharged of'said trust and free of all charge or incumbrance whatsoever; aud if any conveyance shall be made of lit lands thus allotted, or any contract made touching the same, before tie expiration of the time above mentioned, such conveyance or contract shall bo absolutely null and void ; aud such lands, during snch time Exempt from shall not be subject to taxation, alienation, or forced sale, underexeca-taxation. tion or otherwise." Approved, January 26, 1887. Feb. 8,15S7. CHAP. 119.-An act to provide for the allot went of lands in severalty to Indians o» / / : thovarioos reservations, and to extend tho protection of tho laws of the L"isiic«t • ' / fVoL 24, p. 3SS.J StateB and the Territories over the Indians, aud for other purposes. Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the United President au- States of Am erica in Congress assembled, That inall cases where any trib»? their use, tho President of the United States be, and ho hereby is, authorized, whenever iu his opinion any reservation or any part thereof of such Indiaus'is advautageous for agricultural and grazing purposes, to causo said reservation, or auy part thereof, to bo surveyed, or rcsar-veyed if necessary, and to allot tho lands in said reservation in severalty to any Indian located thereon in quantities as follows: Distribution. To each head of a family, one-quarter of a section ; To each single person over eighteen years of age, one-eighth of a section; To each orphan child under eighteen years of age, one-eighth of a ection; and To each other single person under eighteen years now living, or who maybe born prior to tho date of the order of the President directing aa i allotment of the lands embraced in any reservation, one-sixteenth of ft j Provisos. section: Provided, That in case there is not sufficient land in any of * Allotment pro said reservations to allot lands to each individual of the classes above ratrv if lands in-named i n quantities as above provided, the lauds embraced in snch f eu ent. reservation or reservations shall be allotted to each individual of each of said classes pro rata in accordance with the provisions of this act: Allotment by And provided further, That where the treaty or act of Congress setting treaty or act not a p a r t euch reservation provides for tho allotment of lands in severalty i r :< ' ' e in quantities in excess of those herein provided, tho President, in making allotments upon such reservation, shall allot the lands to each in- , dividual Indian belonging thereon in quantity as specified in such lotoent'ofVandst r e a t y o r a c t , : And Proviacd further, That when the lands alloted uro fit for grazinR o n^.v v a ^ u a ^ e f°r grazing purposes, an additional allotment of snen only. * grazing lands, in quantities as above provided, shall be -made to each . individual. Selection of al- fiEC- ''" That all allotments set apart under the provisions of this set lotmeats, shall be selected by the Indians, heads of families selecting for their minor children, and tho agents shall select for each orphan child, nud in such manner as to embraco the improvements of tho Indians making Improvements, t h e selection.. Where the improvements of two or more Indians bare ;j |