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SEVENTIETH CONGRESS . SEss. I. CHs . 481-484 . 1928 . Reservation, Montana," approved May 19, 1926 (Forty-fourth Stat- utes at Large, page 566), is hereby amended to read as follows : " That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to allot lands in severalty to children of the Crow Tribe, now living, not he reto fore all otte d, f rom any suit able lan ds b elon ging to the trib e now available for allotments or which may become available, includ- ing any Crow lands heretofore opened to entry and sale, and to allot land to children hereafter born so long as there are lands of said tribe available for allotment purposes : Provided, That the areas allotted shall be as authorized by the General Allotment Act of Feb ruary 8, 1887 (Twenty-four th Statutes at Large, page 388), as amended ." Appr oved, May 2, 1928 . 483 Allotme nts to livin g children of. Ch ildr en he reaf ter born . Proviso . Areas of allotments . Vol. 24, p. 388. May 2, 1928 . CHAP. 482 .-An Act Authorizing the attendance of the Marine Band at [S .4180 .] the Con federate Veterans' R eunion at Little Roc k, Arkansas .

[Public, No .343.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States o f America in Congress assembled, That the President is authorized to permit the United States Marine Band to attend and give concerts at the Confederate Veterans' Reunion to be held at Little Rock, Arkansas, May 8 to 11, 1928 . SEC. 2 . For the purpose of defraying the expenses of the band in attending such reunion there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $7,872, or so much thereof as may be necessary . App roved, May 2 , 1928 . C onfed erat e Vet er- ans' Reunion . Marine Band author- ized to attend, at Little R ock, Ark . Appropriation for ex- pense s of band . May 2, 1928. CHAP. 483.-Joint Resolution Authorizing the erection in the District of [H . J . Res. 239 .] Columbia of a monument in memory of Peter Muhlenberg .

[Pub. Res., No.30.] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Peter Mo nument Pete

nberg . in mem- Muhlenberg Memorial Association is authorized to erect, without 9r f'trmayf be erect d expense to the United States, a monument in memory of Peter Location . Muhlenberg, eminent statesman, clergyman, and soldier, as a gift to the people of the United States, in the public park lying between Ellicott Street, Connecticut Avenue, and Thirty-sixth Street, north- west, in the District of Columbia . Such monument shall not be C ondit ions . erected until the plans and specifications therefor have been sub- mitted to and approved by t he Joint Comm ittee on the L ibrary and the Commission of Fine Arts . Such monument shall be erected under the supervision of the Director of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital . Approved, May 2, 1928 . May 3, 1928. [H. R. 9569.] [Public, No . 344 .] CHAP. 484 .-An Act Authorizing the payment of an indemnity to the British Gover nment on acc ount of the death of Regi nald 'Ethelb ert Myrie, a lleged to have been killed in the Panama Canal Zone on February 5, 1921, by a United States Army motor truck . Be it enacted by t he Senate and House of Repr esentatives o f t h e United States o f America in Congress assembled, That the Secretar

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to, of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay to the British as indemnity for death Government, as an act of grace and without reference to the question My ie meld Ethelbert of liability therefor, the sum of $1,000 as full indemnity for the