1000 FIFTY-SEVEN TH CONGRESS. Sess. II. C11. 994. 1903. versus Jose Quevas and others, which suits were appealed from the decision of the superior court of the county of San Diego, State of California, to the tspcpreme court of California, and to the Supreme . Court of the Uni States, by direction of the Attorney-General of the United States, being cases numbered two hundred and nine and two hundred and ten, respectively, in the October term, nineteen hundred, of the latter court; also to include costs in any suit that may be pending or that may hereafter be instituted to determine the liabi - €]',‘f,'§{,'{,'·,,_ ity under such undertakings: Provided, That no payments shall be made hereunder until proper vouchers evidencing the expenditures by said company under said undertakings shall have been presented to and approved by the Secretary of the Interior: Provide fin·¢}m·, B¤*¤*>¤¤¤¤¤¤¤*· That if it shall be shown to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Interior that said American Surety Company has been reimbursed or indemnified, then the money hereby approlpriated, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be paid, in who e or in part, to the persons who have reimbursed or indemnified the said company, as the interests C0 m of such persons may appear. _ _ Im,,;P¤e§gg;°°,j;;,*f To pay the persons w o compiled and indexed the two volumes of wg. t fcthe treaties, laws, Executive orders, and so forth, relating to Indian mm f affairs, under Senate resolution of Ma twentieth, nineteen hundred and two, five thousand dollars of which, said sum so much as may be necessary, maybe expended as additional pay or compensation to any officer or em_p oyee 0 the United States to be imm iately available, and to be pmd onk `upon vouchers signed by the chairman of the Comme md fmgxtee in ndian ifpirs of the Senate. tm d Hmm d f ’“ _ ° orte urposeo com romising,se 'ngan y is in o
the_ case of the United_ Stages against William H. Thomas anldodthirs,
which smt was begun in eqmty and has been prosecuted in the c1rcu1t court of the United States for the western district of North Carolina for the benefit of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of North Carolina, the sum of four thousand dollars to be paid to the said band of Indians by and under the direction of the Attorney-General of the United States whenever, in his judgment, such payment will operpte to secure a complete settlement of all matters pertaining to such iti tion. m `i.$ lgdr the payment of settlers within the boundaries of the Northern
- ‘,L'$m,M° umm Cheyenne n ian Reservation, Montana, for improvements upon cer-
¤¤ ¤ ou. tain lands situated therein, two thousand nine hundred and sixty-tive g.¤¤.,.&.,¤.,;.,m. dollars: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior shall and does, "*°”‘· in his discretion, ratify and approve, under the rovisions of section WL M ten of the Indian appropriation Act, approved J uiy first, eighteen hun- °°"' dred and ninety-eight (Thirtieth Statutes, es five hundred and ninety-six and five hundred and ninety-seven£a5ie ment entered into thereunder by United States Insppctor James Ucliaughlin with the settlers included within the boun ries of said reservation, submitted by him to the Secreta of the Interior with his report, dated January sixteenth, nineteen hundred and one, and shall find, after Rum.! mw invesltigation, that the improvements of said settlers remain intact and ° °”' ing condition: And provided further, That the settlers shall remove immediately from the reservation upon the Iéyment of the sums, mm of r1_ according to their respective agreements, as ra ° ed and approved by ¤¤1¤¤id{° P the Secretary of the Interior. And any private lands occupied by actual settlers over which an Indian reservation has been or mav be extended by Executive order may be exchanged, at the discretidn of the Secretary of the Interior, and at the expense of the owner thereof, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, for vacant, nonmineral, nontimbered, surveved public S_ W umwt lands of like area and value, and situated in the same State or'Territory. hwltlltta To pay S. W. Campbell, Indian agent at the La Pointe Agency, Wisconsin, the sum o one hundred dollars, advanced by him as attor-
