Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-05-20

g pay for the construction of the neces
sary buildings on said lands and 70
the purchase Of necessary live stock
Q machinery, and, equipment, and ais,
/ to defray the expenses of operating
/ said farm. The management and con
l. troll of said farm shall be under tn,
+ supervision Of the Commissioner O
| Indian Affairs.
Section S. That the Secretary O
the Interior IL hereby authorized Il
set aside and reserve from location
entry, sale, allotment, or other appro
> prtation, such tracts as are found tt
be chiefly valuable for power sites OF
reservoir sites; provided, that the
Secretary of the Interior is hereby
authorized to cancel, after notice and
a hearing, all trust patents issued
to Indian allottees for allotments
within any such power or reservoir
site; provided further, that the Secre.
tary Of the Interior shall report to
Congress all lands so withdrawn for
power or reservoir sites.
Section 6. That before any of the
land is disposed of, as hereinafter
provided, and before the State of
North Dakota shall be permitted to
select or locate any lands to which
1t may be entitled, by reason of the
loss of sections sixteen and thirty
six, or any portions thereof, by oea-
son of allotment thereof to any In
dian or Indians, the Secretary of the
| Interior is authorized to set aside and
reserve from said lands such tracts
for townsite purposes as in his opin-
ion may be required for the future
public interests, and he may cause
the same to be surveyed into lots and
blocks and disposed Of under such
regulations as he may prescribe; and
he is hereby authorized to set apart
and reserve for school, park and 9th
or public purposes not more than ten
acres in any town site; and patents
shall be issued for the lands so set
apart and reserved for school, park
and other public purposes, to the mu-
nicipality legally charged with the
care and custody of lands donated for
such purposes. The purchase price
Of all town lots sold in town sites, as
hereinafter provided, shall be paid at
such time and in such installments as
the Secretary of the interior may
direct; and he shall cause not more
than twenty per centum Of the net
proceeds arising from such sales to
be set apart and expended under his
direction in the construction of school
houses or other public buildings or
improvements in the town sites In
which such lots are located. The net
proceeds derived from the sale of
such lots, less the amount expended
in the construction of school houses
or other public buildings or improve
ments, as hereinbefore provided,
within the town sites aforesaid, shall
be credited to the Indians as herein
after provided.
Section Z. That the President of
the United States shall appoint a
sons, to inspect, classify, appraise,
and value all of the lands described
in section one of this Act that shall
not have been allotted in severalty
to said Indians or granted or reserved
by the terms of this Act, said com
mission to be constituted as follows:
One of the commissions shall he a
person holding tribal relations with
said Indians, one representative of
the Interior Department, and one a
resident citizen of the state of North
Dakota. That within twenty days
after their appointment said commits |
sioners shall meet and organize by
the election of one Of their number |
as chairman. The said commission |
ers shall then proceed to personally |
inspect and classify and appraise, in
one hundred and sixty acre tracts, all
of the remaining lands described in
section one of this Act, except sec.
lions sixteen and sections thirty-six.
In making such classification and ap-
praisement said lands shall be divid- |
ed into the following classes: First,
agricultural land of the first class;
second, agricultural land Of the Sec
ond class; third, grazing land; fourth.
timber land; fifth, mineral land, it
any. but the mineral and timber lands
shall not, be appraised. That said
commissioner shall be paid salary,
of not to exceed ten dollars per day
each while actually employed In the
inspection and classification of said
lands and necessary expenses. ex-
elusive of subsistence, to be approved
by the SECRETARY of the Interior; such
inspection and classification to be
completed within six months from
the date of the organization of said
Sec. 8. That when said commits
commission.
sioners shall have completed the clas-
sification and appraisement of all of
said lands, and the same shall have
been approved by the Secretary Of
the Interior, the lands shall be dis
posed of under the provisions Of the
homestead, mineral and 'townsite laws
of the United States except as here
matter otherwise provided and 6x-
cepung sections sixteen and thirty