Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs - 1917

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60 COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIFS. to said lands by reason of the construction of a drainage ditch or ditches under the State laws. An appropriation of $60,000, reim-bumable, was made for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this legislation. Authorizing the use of 85,000 of the tribal funds of the Chippewa Indians of the State of Minnesota as part of the cost of a bridge to be constructed across the Mississippi Rirer on the Cass Lake Reservation. Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to pay from the funds of the Chippewa Indians in Minnesota the amount or amounts due any person whose name or names were erroneously stricken from the rolls and reinstated prior to the passage of the Indian act. Appropriating $3,791.17 for payment to certain enrolled members of the Citizen Band of Pottawatomie Indians, Oklahoma, of shares which they failed to receive in the per capita distribution made to the band under the provisions of the act of March 2, 1889 (25 Stat. L., 989). Providing that all of Osage County, Okla., shall hereafter be deemed to be Indian country within the meaning of the acts of Congress making it unlawful to introduce intoxicating liquors into the Indian country. Authorizing an appraisement to be made of all lands of Osage County, Okla., owned by Osage Indians as allottees or as heirs of tribal members, and providing that the appraisement so made might be taken as a basiqfor the adjustment and settlement of any excep-tion or claim made by any such Indian or in his behalf with respect to any assessment made prior to July 1, 1917, and appropriating $5,000 from the funds of the Osage Tribe to defray the expenses of such appraisement. Authorizing the use of $50,000 of the Chickasaw funds for con-structing and equipping dormitories at the Murray State School of Agriculture at Tishomingo, Okla., for the accommodation of Chick-asaw children. Authorizing per capita payments of $100 to the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians and not to exceed $200 to the Seminole Indiana, Oklahoma. Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to use not exceeding $5,000 from Choctaw and Chickasaw funds for building a road to and improving the grounds of the Choctaw Sanatorium, near Tali-hina, Okla. AuthorXing the Secretary of the Interior to use $10,000 of the Cherokee tribal funds for building a road to the Cherokee Orphan Training School from Tahlequah, Okla. Providing that hereafter no allotments of land s h d be made to members of the Creek Nation.