Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-05-20
FORT bERThOLD RESERVATION
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and six years, respectively, from and
after the date OF entry. In case any
entryman fails to make the annual
payments, or any of them, when due,
all rights in and to the land covered
by his entry shall cease, and any
payments heretofore made shall be
forfeited and the entry Cancelled, and
the lands shall be again subject to
entry under the provisions of the
homestead law at the appraised price
thereof: Provided, That nothing in
this Act shall prevent homestead set
under section twenty-three hundred
and one, Revised Statutes, by paying
for the land entered at the appraised
price, receiving credit for payments
severally made, in addition to the
price to be paid for the land, the
entryman shall pay the same fees and
commissions at the time of commu-
tation or final entry as now provided
by law where the price of land is
one dollar and twenty-five cents per
acre, and when the entryman shall
have compiled with all the require
ments and terms of the homestead
laws as to settlement and residence
and shall have made all the required
payments aforesaid he shall be en-
titled to a patent for the lands en-.
tered: And provided further: That
all lands remaining undisposed of at
the expiration of four years from the
opening of said lands to entry may,
in the discretion of the Secretary of
the Interior, be reappraised in the
manner provided for in this Act.
Sec. 10. That the Secretary Of the
Interior is hereby authorized to set
aside and reserve as a tribal forest
reserve all timber lands, to be used
by said Indians under the direction
of the Commissioner Of Indian affairs.
Sec. II. That the net proceeds de-
rived from the sale Of said lands in
conformity with this Act shall be paid
into the treasury Of the United States
to the credit of the Indians belonging
to and having tribal rights on said
reservation, which shall draw inter-
est at the rate of three per centum
per annum; that all the moneys de-
rived from the sale of said lands and
deposited in the treasury of the
United States to the credit of said
Indians shall be subject to appropri-
alton by Congress for their education,
support and civilization.
Sec. IL. That there Is hereby ap-
prOpriated, out of any money in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated
the sum of one hundred thousand dol
lars, or so much thereof as may be
necessary, to pay for the lands
granted to the State of North Dakota,
and there is hereby appropriated the
further sum of one hundred thousand
dollars, or so much thereof as may
be necessary, for the purpose of max
ing surveys, appraisements, allot-
ments and classi fcation provided for
herein: Provided, that the latter ap-
preparation, or any further appropri.
atoms hereafter made for the purpose
of carrying out the provisions Of this
Act, shall be reimbursed to the
United States from the proceeds re-
ceived from the sale of the lands de.
scribed herein or from any money in
the treasury belonging to said Indian
tribes.
Sec. 10. That the lands allotted,
those retained or reserved, and the
surplus lands sold, set aside for
town-site purposes, granted to the
state, or otherwise disposed of shall
be subject to all laws of the United
States prohibiting the introduction of
intoxicants into the Indian country
until Congress shall otherwise pro-
vide.
Sec. IA. That nothing in this Act
contained shall in any manner bind
the United States to purchase any of
the land herein described, except sec
tons sixteen and thirty-six, or the
equivalent in each township, or to
dispose of said lands except as pro-
vided herein, or to guarantee to find
purchasers for said lands or any por
ton thereof, it being the intention Of
this Act that the United States shall
act as trustee for said Indians to
dispose of said lands and to expend
and pay over the proceeds received
from the sale thereof only as re-
ceived and as herein provided: Pro-