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SEVENTIETH CONGRESS . SESS. I. CHs . 660-663 . 1928 . -Proviso,

the corporate limits inwardly the houses average more than two Expenditures for . hundred feet apart : Provided, That no Federal funds shall be ex- bridge cons truction

y ended for the construct ion of an bri dge within or partly within limited .

p ended municipality having a population of more than thirty thousand, as shown by the latest available Federal or State census

but this

limitation shall not apply in the case of an interstate bridge, including approaches, connecting such municipality in one State with a point in an adjoining State which may be within a municipality Incon siste nt A cts r e- having a pop ulation of no t more than t en thousand . pea led . SEC . 5 . All Acts or parts of Acts in any way inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed, and this Act shall take effect on its passage . Approved, May 21, 1928 . May 21, 1928. [S .766.] [Public, No . 459 .]

offices, and for other purposes . CHAP. 661 .-An Act To fix the compensation of registers of local land Pub lic la nds

Be it enacted by t he Senate and House of Repr esentatives of the . Compensati on of United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and reVolers,1p .208,amend- after the beginning of the next fiscal year the compensation of ei U. S. Code, p. 1330. registers of local land offices shall be a salary of $1,000 per annum each and all fees and commissions now allowed by law to such registers, but the salary, fees, and commissions of such registers shall -Proviso .

not exceed $3,600 each per annum : Provided, That the salary of the Juneau, Alaska .

register, of the Juneau land district, Alaska, shall be $3,600 per annum. Approved, May 21, 1928 . May 9046..

[H .R . 9046 .)

CHAP. 662 .-An Act To continue the allowance of Sioux benefits . [Public, No . 460.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives o the Si oux to Indians. Allowance of articles United States o f America in Congress assembled, That the ecre- or commutation to all tar of the Interior be and he is hereby, directed to continue the allottees under Act of

Y May 29,1908.

allowance of the articles enumerated in section 17 of the Act of 29, p. 3325,4

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. March 2, 1889 (Twenty-fifth Statutes at Large, page 894), or their 451 . commuted cash value under the Act of June 10, 1896 (Twenty-ninth Statutes at Large, page 334), to all Sioux Indians who shall have taken or may hereafter take allotments of land in severalty under section 19 of the Act of May 29, 1908 (Thirty-fifth Statutes at Large, page 451), and who have thee prescribed status of the head of a family or single person over the age of eighteen years, and his approval shall be final and conclusive, claims therefor to be paid as for- Restricted on one al- merly from the permanent appropriation made by said section 17 low ance to a per son, and carried on the books of the Treasury for this purpose . No per- etc. son shall receive more than one allowance of the benefits, and appli- cation must be made and approved during the lifetime of the allottee or the right shall lapse. Approved, May 21, 1928 . May 21, 1928 . [H . 8.12067 .]

CHAP. 663 .-An Act To set aside certain lands for the Chippewa Indians [Public, No . 461 .]

in the State of Minnesota . Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota. United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Commis- Lands of, permanent- sioner of Indian Affairs having recommended to the Secretary of the lysetasideforavillagesite .

Interior on February 8, 1899, that certain Chippewa Indian lands be with held from ent ry and settlem ent, describe d as follows : T h e