Fl} TY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHs. 2284, 2285. 1907. 1015 Printing, and then in no instance shall the whole number exceed the number originally authorized by law. _ _ _ Sec. 6. That section fifty-nine of the Act approved January twelfth, $§l{°§§_’{,',§{'},*{‘,§j'i,t1_ eighteen hundred and ninety-five, providing for the public printing 62*961- and binding and the distribution of public documents, and sections eighty-one and ninety-nine of said Act, and the amendment thereto in . the ct appipved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, Statutes at rge, volume twenty -eight, page nine hundred and sixty- one, chapter one hundred and eighty-nine, and all other laws or parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed. Approved, March 1, 1907. CHAP. 2285.-An Act Makin appropriations for the curren and ’ n M”°hr1**”· expensesof the Indian Departmeht, iid; riiltillingi treaty stipulatidns Mymud Igmialri gaghcither purposes, for the iisca year ending June thirtieth, nine- [P¤bii<=»N<>·154·] Be it enacted by the Senate and House ofltepresentativea of the United State: of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, ,,,},{“,‘2,*,;',?},£§’€,',{'"“°"* and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of paying the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, for fulfilling treaty sti ulations with various Indian tribes, and in full compensation for all oiiihes the salaries for which are specially provided for herein for the serylice of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eig t, name y: I, GENERAL PROVISIONS. <*¤¤*==¤1¤~v*¤¤¤¤¤· PBESIDEN·T_ Uuderthehuideuh To enable the President to cause, under the provisions of the Act of m§Q°*m°¤'·¤ *¤ ¤"· February eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled "An Act VCT-24,p.388. to provide for the allotment of land in severalty to Indians," such Indian reservations as in his judgment are advantageous for agricultural and grazinig Xurposes to be surveyed or resurveyed, for the purposes of said ct, and to complete the allotment of the same, including the necessary clerical work incident thereto in the field and in the Ofhce of Indian Affairs, and delivery of trust patents, so far as allotments shall have been selected under said Act, forty thousand dollars. SECBETA R1-_ Under the Secretary. That no purchase of supplies for which approlpriatious are made ,0*f,_*;¤¤ §*P*i*= herein, exceeding in the aggregate five hundred dollars in value at any one time, shall be made without first g1ving`at_least three weeks’ public notice by advertisement, except ID case Of GXIQBDCY, when, in the dis- E¤¤<=p¤i¤¤. cretion of the Secretary of the Interior, who shall make official record of the facts constituting the exigency and shall report the same to Congress at its next session, he may. direct that purchases may be made in open market in amount not exceeding three thousand dollars at any one purchase: Prrrvukd, That Supplies may be purchased, con- u_ tracts let. and labor employed for the construction of artesian wells, ditches, and other works for irrigation, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, without advertising as hereinbefore provided: Prmiiderl further, That HS fm' as pi'¤0tlC8.ble Indian labor shall be c,3_§e?jfé§"k°* P“" employed and purchase in the open marketmade from Indians, under _ the direction of the Secretary of the Interior. And the employment pgigggrs vn irrimmcn of such Indians and the hiring of their prdperty, in connection with 1z.s..¤1w¤.s·zus,mA, the construction of any irrigation proiect un er the Reclamation Serv- PP·"*’·"”·
