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SEC. 10. [Lands valuable for development of water power-reservation.] That any unallotted lands on the Crow Reservation chiefly valuable for the development of water power shall be reserved from allotment or other disposition hereunder, for the benefit of the Crow Tribe of Indians. [41 Stat. L. 754.]

SEC. 11. [Consolidation of trust funds use - withdrawal of live stock from tribal herd-Act of April 27, 1904, in part repealed.] That so much of article 2 of the Act of April 27, 1904 entitled "An Act to ratify and amend an agreement with the Indians of the Crow Reservation in Montana, and making appropriations to carry the same into effect" (Thirty-third Statutes, page 353), as relates to the disposition of the trust funds of the tribe at the expiration of the fifteen-year period named in the Act, to the purchase of cattle, to the distribution of cattle among the Indians of the reservation, to the purchase of jackasses, stallions, and ewes, to the building of fences, the erection of schoolhouses and hospitals, the purchase of additional cattle or sheep, the construction of ditches, dams, and canals, and to the establishment of a trust fund for the benefit of the Crow Indians thereunder, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, effective from and after June 30, 1920: Provided, That all unexpended balances of trust funds arising under said agreement shall thereupon be consolidated into one fund to the credit of the tribe, the same to bear interest at the rate of 4 per centum per annum: Provided further, That there shall be reserved and set aside from such consolidated fund, or any other funds to the credit of the tribe, a sufficient sum to pay the administrative expenses of the agency for a period of five years; $100,000 for the support of the agency boarding school; $50,000 for the support of the agency hospital, and not to exceed $4,000 of this amount shall be expended in any one year for the support of said hospital; and $50,000 for a revolving fund to be used for the purchase of seed, animals, machinery, tools, implements, and other equipment for sale to individual members of the tribe, under conditions to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior for its repayment to the tribe on or before June 30, 1925: Provided further, That the expenditure of the sums so reserved are hereby specifically authorized, except those for administrative expenses of the agency, which shall be subject to annual appropriations by Congress: Provided further, That after said sums have been reserved and set aside, together with a sufficient amount to pay all other expenses authorized by this Act, the balance of such consolidated fund, and all other funds to the credit of the tribe or placed to its credit thereafter, shall be distributed per capita to the Indians entitled: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to permit competent Indians who have received patents in fee and other Indians who have demonstrated their ability to properly care for live stock to withdraw their pro rata share of cattle out of the tribal herd within one year after the approval of this Act, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe and on condition that said Indians shall execute a stipulation relinquishing all their right, title, and interest in said tribal herd thereafter: Provided further, That any Indian who has received his share of live stock in accordance with the above provision and who has also demonstrated his ability to properly care for and handle live stock may also be permitted to withdraw the pro rata shares of his wife and minor children under the same rules and regulations as applied to the live stock already issued to him and on condition that such cattle be branded with the individual brands of his wife and minor children, which shall be recorded in

the names of the respective members of his family. It shall be the duty of the superintendent of the Crow Reservation to observe closely the manner in which such stock are handled and cared for, and in case of failure or neglect to properly care for the same the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to take charge of such shares and sell them for the benefit of the individual owners, to whose credit the proceeds of the sale shall be placed, or return them to the tribal herd or handle them with tribal cattle for the minor or incompetent owners and charge a fee to cover the cost of caring for such live stock. [41 Stat. L. 754.]

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SEC. 12. [Commission of enrollment — organization — salaries.] That upon the approval of this Act the Secretary of the Interior shall forthwith appoint a commission consisting of three persons to complete the enrollment of the members of the tribe as herein provided for, and to divide them into two classes, competents and incompetents, said commission to be constituted as follows: Two of said commissioners shall be enrolled members of the Crow Indian Tribe and shall be selected by a majority vote of three delegates from each of the districts on the Crow Reservation; and one commissioner shall be a representative of the Department of the Interior, to be selected by the Secretary of the Interior. Said commission shall be governed by regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, and the classification of the members of the tribe hereunder shall be subject to his approval. That within thirty days after their appointment said commissioners shall meet at some point within the Crow Indian Reservation and organize by the election of one of their number as chairman. That said commissioners shall then proceed personally to classify the members as above indicated. They shall be paid a salary of not to exceed $10 per day each, and necessary expenses while actually employed in the work of making this classifi cation, exclusive of subsistence, to be approved by the Secretary of the Interior, such classification to be completed within six months from the date of organiz ing the commission. [41 Stat. L. 755.]

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SEC. 13. [Homesteads allotments of incompetents-sale.] That every member of the Crow Tribe shall designate as a homestead six hundred and forty acres, already allotted or to be allotted hereunder, which homestead shall remain inalienable for a period of twenty-five years from the date of issuance of patent therefor, or until the death of the allottee: Provided, That the trust period on such homestead allotments of incompetent Indians may be extended in accordance with the provisions of existing law: Provided further, That any Crow Indian allottee may sell not to exceed three hundred and twenty acres of his homestead, upon his application in writing and with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe: And provided further, That said land to be sold by said Indian allottee shall not exceed more than one-half of his irrigable nor more than one-half of his agricultural land and shall not include the improvements consisting of his home. [41 Stat. L. 756.]

SEC. 14. [Exchanges of allotments.] That exchanges of allotments by and among the members of the tribe may be made under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior with a view to enabling allottees to group their allotted lands on the Crow Reservation, but always with due regard for the value of the lands involved. And in cases where patents have already been issued for such allot

ments proper conveyance shall be made back to the United States by the allottee, whereupon the land shall become subject to disposition in the same manner as other lands under the provisions of this Act. [41 Stat. L. 756.]

SEC. 15. [Sale to war veterans-payment.] That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to sell allotted and inherited Indian land held in trust by the United States on the Crow Reservation, Montana, with the consent of the Indian allottee or the heirs, respectively, to any soldier, seaman, or marine who served under the President of the United States for ninety days during the late war against the Imperial German Government, or in any war in which the United States was engaged with a foreign power, or in the Civil War, who will actually settle on said land, on annual payments covering a period not to exceed twenty years, as may be agreed upon under such rules, regulations, and conditions as the said Secretary of the Interior may prescribe and in accordance with the provisions of this Act. [41 Stat. L. 756.]

SEC. 16. [School lands— grant to Montana - payment - school attendance by Crow Indian children.] That there is hereby granted to the State of Montana for common-school purposes sections sixteen and thirty-six, within the territory described herein, or such parts of said sections as may be nonmineral or nontimbered, and for which the said State has not heretofore received indemnity lands under existing laws; and in case either of said sections or parts thereof is lost to the State by reason of allotment or otherwise, the governor of said State, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, is hereby authorized to select other unoccupied, unreserved, nonmineral, nontimbered lands within said reservation, not exceeding two sections in any one township. The United States shall pay the Indians for the lands so granted $5 per acre, and sufficient money is hereby appropriated out of the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated to pay for said school lands granted to the said State: Provided, That the mineral rights in said school lands are hereby reserved for the benefit of the Crow Tribe of Indians as herein authorized: Provided further, That the Crow Indian children shall be permitted to attend the public schools of said State on the same condition as the children of white citizens of said State. [41 Stat. L. 756.]

SEC. 17. [Town sites-reservation - park of Crow agency excepted.] That the Secretary of the Interior (with the approval of the Crow Tribal Council) is authorized to set aside for administrative purposes (at the Crow Agency and at Pryor subagency) such tracts for town-site purposes as in his opinion may be required for the public interests, not to exceed eighty acres at each town site, and he may cause the same to be surveyed into lots and blocks and disposed of under such regulations as he may prescribe; and he is authorized also to set apart and reserve for school, park, and other public purposes not more than ten acres in said town sites; and patents shall be issued for the lands so set apart and reserved for school, park, and other purposes to the municipality or school district legally charged with the care and custody of lands donated for such purposes: Provided, however, That the present park at Crow Agency shall not be included in such town site or be subject to such disposition. The purchase price of all town lots sold in town sites shall be paid at such time as the Secretary of the Interior may direct and placed to the credit of the Crow Tribe of Indians, [41 Stat. L. 757.]

SEC. 18. [Appropriation for expenses of councils, etc.] That the sum of $10,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of the tribal funds of the Crow Indians of the State of Montana, is hereby appropriated to pay the expenses of the general council, or councils, or business committee, in looking after the affairs of said tribe, including the actual and necessary expenses and the per diems paid its legislative committee when visiting Washington on tribal business at the request of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs or a committee of Congress, said sum and the actual and necessary expenses to be approved by and certified by the Secretary of the Interior, and when so approved and certified to be paid: Provided, That not to exceed $2,500 shall be expended in any one fiscal year. [41 Stat. L. 757.]

INSURANCE

See CIVIL SERVICE; SHIPPING AND NAVIGATION; WAR DEPARTMENT AND MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT

INTERIOR DEPARTMENT

Act of June 5, 1920, ch. 235 (Sundry Civil Appropriation Act), 64.

Sec. 1. Sand, etc.- Hauling in District of Columbia-Use of Government Trucks, 64.

Fuel Delivery to Branches of Federal Government
ment, 64.

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[SEC. 1.1 [Sand, etc. hauling in District of Columbia - use of government trucks.] Hereafter the Secretary of the Interior may have sand, gravel, stone, and other material hauled for the municipal government of the District of Columbia and for branches of the Federal service in the District of Columbia, whenever it may be practicable and economical to have such work performed by using trucks of the Government fuel yards not needed at the time. for the hauling of fuel. Payment for such work shall be made on the basis of the actual cost to the Government fuel yards; [41 Stat. L. 913.]

This and the paragraph which follows are from the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act of June 5, 1920, ch. 235.

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[Fuel delivery to branches of federal government - payment.] Hereafter the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to deliver, during the months of April, May, and June of each year, to all branches of the Federal service and the municipal government in the District of Columbia, such quantities of fuel for their use during the following fiscal year as it may be practicable to store at the points of consumption, payment therefor to be made by these branches of the Federal service and municipal government from their applicable appropriations for such fiscal year. [41 Stat. L. 913.]

See note to preceding paragraph.

INTERNAL REVENUE

Act of May 31, 1920, ch. 217 (Agricultural Appropriation Act), 65.
Cotton Futures Act Amended - Exemption of Contracts from Tax
- Information Furnished by Cotton Dealers-Secs. 5 and 8
Affected, 65.

CROSS-REFERENCE

See also CUSTOMS DUTIES

[Cotton Futures Act amended-exemption of contracts from tax -information furnished by cotton dealers secs. 5 and 8 affected.] That the amendments relating to cotton provided for in section 6 of the Act known as the wheat guarantee Act, approved March 4, 1919, are hereby recognized and declared to be permanent legislation. [41 Stat. L. 725.]

This is from the Agricultural Appropriation Act of May 31, 1920, ch. 217.

For amendments to Cotton Futures Act, made permanent legislation by the text, see 1919 Supp. Fed. Stat. Ann. 195.

For Cotton Futures Act, see 1918 Supp. Fed. Stat. Ann. 359 et seq.

Another provision of the Agricultural Appropriation Act relating to contracts tenderable under sec. 5 was repealed by Resolution of June 2, 1920. The resolution read as follows: "That the provision of the Act entitled 'An Act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921,' approved May 31, 1920, which reads as follows: 'That hereafter each lot of cotton classified as tenderable in whole or in part on a section 5 contract of said Act as amended, shall give to the buyer the right to demand that one half of the contract shall be delivered in the official cotton standard grades of the United States from the grades of middling fair, strict good middling, good middling, strict middling, and middling, and that the seller shall have the option of delivering the other half of said contract from any of the official cotton standard grades as established in said Act,' be, and the same is hereby, repealed."

INTERSTATE COMMERCE

Act of Feb. 28, 1920, ch. 91, as Amended by Act of June 5, 1920, ch. 235 ("Transportation Act "), 72.

Sec. 1. Name of Act, 72.

TITLE I. DEFINITIONS

2. Terms Defined, 72.

TITLE II.

TERMINATION OF FEDERAL CONTROL

Sec. 200. (a) Time of Termination, 73.

(b) Enumeration of Powers Withdrawn from President, 73.

(c) Effect on War Powers of President, 73.

GOVERNMENT-OWNED BOATS ON INLAND WATERWAYS

201. Operation of Transportation Facilities by Secretary of War, 73.

SETTLEMENT OF MATTERS ARISING OUT OF FEDERAL CONTROL

202. Funds Available, 74.

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