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Show '' for the collection of any moneys or recovery of any land claimed" by either of the tribes and to pay the expenses of the suit from the funds of the tribe making claim. Expiration of tn'bal governments.-As has already been snid the tribalgovernments wouldhave expired on March 4,1906, but by joint. , resolution of Congress they were continued temporarily, and the act of April 26 provides that they shall continne in force and cff~cfto r .all purposes authorized by law "until otherwise provided by law; " but the council or legislature of any' tribe shall not he in session for a longer period than thirty days in any one year, arid "no act, ordi-nance or resolution (except resolutions of adjournment) of the tribal council or legislature " shall have any vadidity until approved by the President. Removal of chiefs.-The President is authorized to remove the chief executive officer of any of the tribes for good cause shown and to appoint a citizen by blood to fill the vacancy. Should any execu-tive become permanently disabled, the President may declare the office vacant and appoint his successor. CANCELLATION OF CHIPPEWA SCRIP. On the 2d of last May this O5ce recommended to the Department the cancellation of 57 pieces of scrip issued under the seventh section of article 2 of the treaty of September 30, 1854 (10 Stat. L., 1109), with the Chippewas of Lake Superior and Minnesota. On May 5 the Department approved the recommendation and directed that the scrip be. not returned to the claimant as requested, but be formally canceled, with a reference on the face of each piece to the order of Secretary Delano of March 19, 1872. That order directed that the outstanding scrip issued under section 7, excepting those pieces known as the Gilbert scrip, should be disregarded and, as far as in the possession of the Government and unpatented, should be canceled. 'The Department held that this action should have been taken immediately after the issue of the order of 1872, and that now that .order should certainly be carried into effect, especially as practically the same decision had been reached by the Department on November 26, 1884, when the right of the claimant to the lands located by this scrip was adversely determined (3 L. D., 196). The scrip has therefore been canceled and filed in this Office. WHITE EARTH RESERVATION. The current Indian appropriation act (34 Stat. L., 353) removes all restrictions as to sale, incumbrance, or taxation of allotments within the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota, now or here-after held by mist-blood Indians, and the trust deeds heretofore or hereafter executed by the Interior Department are ''declared |
