FOBTYSEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 141. 1883. 585 For fuel, ligh and miscellaneous items Na Department buildin Fuel f h¤·¤¤¤· two thousand dollars. . 7 W 8, I xg ‘ INTERIOR DEPARTLIENT. Intterior Departmon For stationery for the Department of the Interior and its several Stationery. bureaus and offices, thirteen thousand dollars. For photolithographing or otherwise producing plates for the Official _Photo1ithograph- Gazetteilthree thousand dollars. mz- _ For p otolithographing or otherwise producing copies of the weekly issues of drawings of patents, designs, and trade-marks, fifteen thousand dollars. . PUBLIC LANDS SERVICE. I _Publiclaudsser· V100. For compensation of registers and receivers of local land offices, Qcmpcnsetiou of twenty thousand dollars. ;•£;*;‘¤ Md *'°· INDIAN AFFAIRS. Indian Affairs. This amount for subsistence and civilization of the Sioux Indians, as Sioux. per agreement ratified by act of Congress approved February twenty- gighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, two hundred thousand 19 S,,,,," 2;,, o ars. For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to feed a Destitute riots number of Piute and other Indians in Nevada, now in a destitute con- *1},*** °sh°*' I¤d”*”» dition, to be available immediately, five thousand dollars. °"' “‘ _ 'Ihis amount for necessary expenses of transportation, under contract, Transportation of goods, provisions, and other articles purchased for various Indian °f¤¤PP?¤°¤·°*°- tribes, twenty thousand dollars. And any unexpended balance of ap- Unoxpended balpropriations for this purpose for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and *¤°° ¤>*PP¤’°P¤¤· eighty-two is hereby reappropriated and made ayailable on account of t°d’,°°°‘ this service for the current iiscal year. The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is hereby authorized to insti- Eastern Band cf tute a suit in the Court of Claims against the United States to deter- Eh‘;',‘:k°‘; 2,**:: mine the rights of the said band in and to the moneys, stocks and ,,;,,8 QQ; ,,m_ in bonds, held by the United States in trust for the Cherokee Indians, Court or Claims arising out of the sales of lands lying west of the Mississippi River, and against the United also in a certain other fund, commonly called the permanent annuity S"“*'°'· fund, to which suit the Cherokee Nation, commonly called the Cherokee Cherokee Nation Nation West, shall be made a party defendant. The said Eastern Band Westmedo sporty · shall within three months after the passage of `this act file a petition in d°f°“d“”*· said court, verified by the principal chief of said band, setting forth ‘ the facts upon which said claim is based. The said Cherokee Nation Procedure. West shall within six months after the passage of this act iile its ‘ auswerto said petition, andsaid causeshall proceed to tinaldetermiuation pursuauttethepractice insaid court,a¤1dsuchru]esorordersas thesaidcourtmaymakeiuthatbehalfl . The Secretary of the Interior shall transmit to said court, for-the Evidenee,et¤. consideration of said court, copies duly certified of all records, reports, papers, and other documents on file in the Department of the Interior which he may deem necessary to said cause or which may be requested by either of the parties hereinbefore referred to, and the said parties, respectively may take and submit to said court such additional competent- testimony as they may desire. And jurisdiction is hereby conferred Jun-isdiction. upon said court to hear and determine what, if any, interest, legal or equitable, the said Eastern Band has in said moneys, stocks, bonds so held in trust as aforesaid by the United States, and shall entera decree Decree. · specifically defining the rights and interests of the said Eastern Band , therein, and in any moneys hereafter to be derived from sources similar to those out of which the existing fund arose. When the interest (if any) of the said Eastern Band has been ascer- Psymentoroosty tained as afbresaid, the Secretary of the Treasury shall, out of the ¤¤<! ¤¤1>¢¤¤¤¤·
