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Show 36 REPOBT OF THE COMMIBSIONEB OF IITDIAN IWFAIBS. for the appointment of a cornmiasion consisting of two persons to make a roll of the Chippewa Indians allotted within the White E&h Reservation in the State of Minnesota. This act also provides for a commission consisting of two members of the Senate and two members of the House of Representatives for the purpose of investigating the necessity and feasibility of estab-lishing, equipping, and maintaining a tuberculosjs sanatorium in New Mexico for the treatment of tuberculous Indim; also to investigate , the necessity and feasibility of procuring impounded waters for the Yakima Reservation, or the construction of an irrigation system upon said reservation, to impound the waters of the Yakima River for the reclamation of the lands within the reservation. There was also appropriated $150,000 for the purchase of allot-ments for the individual members of that portion of the Wisconsin band of Pottawatomie Indians now residing in the States of Wiswn-sin and Michigan. Section 26 of the act provides for the installation of a system of bookkeeping in the Bureau of Indian &aim which will afford a ready snalysia of expenditures by appropriations and allotments and by units of the service, showing for each c l w of work or activity carried on, the expenditures for the operation of the service, for purchase and construction of additional property, for repair and preservation of property, salaries and wages of employees, and for other expenditures and purposes; but it carries no appropriation to make the provision effective. The most important general legislation passed during the .fiscal year, other than that contained in the Indian appropriation act, is as follows : By the act of July 1, 1912, the Secretary of the Interior is author-ized, when the amount of tribal funds due the Winnebagoes in Wis-consin shall have been rvertained in accordance with the enrollment as provided by law, to expend the funds for their benefit in such manner, including the purchase of lands for said Indians, as he may deem proper, or, in his discretion, to distribute the funds, or any part thereof, per capita among the Winnebago Indians in Wisconsin. The act of July 19, 1912, authorized the Secretary of the Interior. in his discretion, to approve maps showing right of way and definite location of proposed &&inage districts and assessments, made under the laws of Oklahoma, upon the allotments of certain Absentee Shawnee and Citizen Potawatomi allottees in the Little =ver drainage district in Pottawatomie County, Olrla., and upon the allot-ments of certain Sac and Fox,allottees in Deep Fork drainage district in Lincoln County, Okla. By the act of March 4, 1913 (37 Stat. L., 1007), the Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion, to request of the present |