to a port of the United States within two years after the termination of the war; and that the head tax provided in the immigration Act of February fifth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, shall not be collected from aliens readmitted into the United States under the provisions of this resolution. [40 Stat. L. 1014.] For Act of Feb. 5, 1917, see 1918 Supp. Fed. Stat. Ann. 211. An Act To regulate further the entry of aliens into the United States. [Act of Nov. 10, 1919, ch. 104, 41 Stat. L. 353.] 1 [SEC. 1.] *** [Entry of aliens regulations by President - passports — false statements-forgery, etc.] That if the President shall find that the public safety requires that restrictions and prohibitions in addition to those provided otherwise than by this Act be imposed upon the entry of aliens into the United States, and shall make public proclamation thereof, it shall, until otherwise ordered by the President or Congress, be unlawful — (a) For any alien to enter or attempt to enter the United States except under such reasonable rules, regulations, and orders, and subject to such passport, visé, or other limitations and exceptions as the President shall prescribe; (b) For any person to transport or attempt to transport into the United States another person with knowledge or reasonable cause to believe that the entry of such other person is forbidden by this Act; (c) For any person knowingly to make any false statement in an application for a passport or other permission to enter the United States with intent to induce or secure the granting of such permission, either for himself or for another; (d) For any person knowingly to furnish or attempt to furnish or assist in furnishing to another a viséed passport or other permit or evidence of permission to enter, not issued and designed for such other person's use; (e) For any person knowingly to use or attempt to use any viséed passport or other permit or evidence of permission to enter not issued and designated for his use; (f) For any person to forge, counterfeit, mutilate, or alter, or cause or procure to be forged, counterfeited, mutilated, or altered, any passport, visé or other permit or evidence of permission to enter the United States; (g) For any person knowingly to use or attempt to use or furnish to another for use any false, forged, counterfeited, mutilated, or altered passport, permit, or evidence of permission, or any passport, permit, or evidence of permission which, though originally valid, has become or been made void or invalid. [41 Stat. L. 353.] SEC. 2. [Penalties and forfeitures.] That any person who shall willfully violate any of the provisions of this Act, or of any order or proclamation of the President promulgated, or of any permit, rule, or regulation issued thereunder, shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than $5,000, or, if a natural person, imprisoned for not more than five years, or both; and the officer, director, or agent of any corporation who knowingly participates in such violation shall be punished by like fine or imprisonment, or both; and any vehicle or any vessel, together with its or her appurtenances, equipment, tackle, apparel, and furniture, concerned in any such violation, shall be forfeited to the United States. [41 Stat. L. 353.] 1 This act became a law without the approval of the President by lapse of time. SEC. 3. [Definitions "United States person."'] That the term "United States as used in this Act includes the Canal Zone and all territory and waters, continental or insular, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. The word " person as used herein shall be deemed to mean any individual, partnership, association, company, or other unincorporated body of individuals, or corporation, or body politic. [41 Stat. L. 354.] SEC. 4. [Appropriation.] That in order to carry out the purposes and provisions of this Act the sum of $600,000 is hereby appropriated. [41 Stat. L. 354.] Act of Dec. 24, 1919, provided as follows: "That so much of the sum of $600,000 appropriated by section 4 of Public Act Numbered 79 of the Sixty-sixth Congress, entitled 'An Act to regulate further the entry of aliens into the United States,' as may be necessary is hereby made immediately available for expenses of regulating entry into the United States, in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved May 22, 1918: Provided, That not more than $450,000 of said sum shall be used during the remainder of the fiscal year 1920." SEC. 5. [Act when in effect.] That this Act shall take effect upon the date when the provisions of the Act of Congress approved the 22d day of May, 1918, entitled "An Act to prevent in time of war departure from and entry into the United States, contrary to the public safety," shall cease to be operative, and shall continue in force and effect until and including the 4th day of March, 1921. [41 Stat. L. 354.] IMPORTS AND EXPORTS See CORPORATIONS; CUSTOMS DUTIES; FOOD AND DRUGS; INTERNAL REVENUE; TRADING WITH THE ENEMY INCOME TAX See INTERNAL Revenue Act of March 3, 1919, ch. 103, 76. INDIANS Claims of Cherokee Indians Jurisdiction of Court of Claims, 76. Act of June 30, 1919, ch. 4, 77. Sec. 1. Intoxicating Liquors - Possession Punishment, 77. Expenditures for Pupils in Indian Schools - Per Capita, 77. 26. Indian Reservations 78. Rolls, 77. Unallotted Lands Leases 27. Withdrawal of Public Lands for Indian Reservation 28. Bureau of Indian Affairs - Investigations by Congress, 81. Act of Con CROSS-REFERENCE See also NATURALIZATION; PUBLIC LANDS. An Act Conferring jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims to hear, consider, and determine certain claims of the Cherokee Nation against the United States. [Act of March 3, 1919, ch. 103, 40 Stat. L. 1316.] [Claims of Cherokee Indians - jurisdiction of Court of Claims.] That jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon the Court of Claims to hear, consider, and determine the claim of the Cherokee Nation against the United States for interest, in addition to all other interest heretofore allowed and paid, alleged to be owing from the United States to the Cherokee Nation on the funds arising from the judgment of the Court of Claims of May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and five (Fortieth Court of Claims Report, page two hundred and fifty-two), in favor of the Cherokee Nation. The said court is authorized, empowered, and directed to carefully examine all laws, treaties, or agreements, and especially the agreement between the United States and the Cherokee Nation of December nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, ratified by the United States March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three (Twenty-seventh Statutes at Large, page six hundred and forty, section ten), in any manner affecting or relating to the question of interest on said funds, as the same shall be brought to the attention of the court by the Cherokee Nation under this Act. And if it shall be found that under any of the said treaties, laws, or agreements interest on one or more of the said funds, either in whole or in part, has not been paid and is rightfully owing from the United States to the Cherokee Nation, the court shall render final judgment therefor against the United States and in favor of the Cherokee Nation, either party to have the right to appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States as in other cases. The said claim shall be presented within one year after the passage of this Act by petition in the Court of Claims by the Cherokee Nation as plaintiff against the United States as defendant, and the petition shall be verified by the attorney employed to prosecute said claim by the Cherokee Nation acting through its principal chief. A copy of the petition shall be served upon the Attorney General of the United States, and he, or some attorney from the Department of Justice to be designated by him, is hereby directed to appear and defend the interests of the United States in said cause. The law and practice and rules of procedure in said courts shall be the practice and law in this case. The attorney for the Cherokee Nation shall be paid such fee as the Court of Claims may find reasonable, the same to be approved by the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, That in no case shall the fee decreed by said Court of Claims be in excess of the amount stipulated in his contract of employment, nor amount to more than ten per centum of the sum, if any, to which the Cherokee Nation shall be found entitled. The amount recovered, if any, for the Cherokee Nation shall be disbursed under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior to the parties entitled thereto in the manner prescribed by the Court of Claims. [40 Stat. L. 1316.] An Act Making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, and for other purposes, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920. * * [Act of June 30, 1919, ch. 4, 41 Stat. L. 4.] [SEC. 1.] * [Intoxicating liquors - possession - punishment.] That on and after July 1, 1919, possession by a person of intoxicating liquors in the Indian country or where the introduction is or was prohibited by treaty or Federal statute shall be an offense and punished in accordance with the provisions of the Acts of July 23, 1892 (Twenty-seventh Statutes at Large, page 260), and January 30, 1897 (Twenty-ninth Statutes at Large, page 506). [41 Stat. L. 4.] For the acts mentioned in the text see 3 Fed. Stat. Ann. (2d ed.) 913; 3 Fed. Stat. Ann. 383 note, 384. [Employees in Indian Service-heat and light.] That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to allow employees in the Indian Service, who are furnished quarters, necessary heat and light for such quarters without charge, such heat and light to be paid for out of the fund chargeable with the cost of heating and lighting other buildings at the same place: And provided further, That the amount so expended for agency purposes shall not be included in the maximum amounts for compensation of employees prescribed by section 1, Act of August 24, 1912. [41 Stat. L. 5.] For Act of Aug. 24, 1912, mentioned in the text, see 3 Fed. Stat. Ann. (2d ed.) 763; 1914 Supp. Fed. Stat. Ann. 170. [Expenditures for pupils in Indian schools - per capita.] That hereafter, except for pay of superintendents and for transportation of goods and supplies and transportation of pupils, not more than $225 shall be expended from appropriations made in this Act, or any other Act, for the annual support and education of any one pupil in any Indian school, unless the attendance in any school shall be less than two hundred pupils, in which case the Secretary of the Interior may authorize a per capita expenditure of not to exceed $250: Provided, That the total amount appropriated for the support of such school shall not be exceeded: Provided further, That the number of pupils in any school entitled to the per capita allowance hereby provided for shall be based upon average attendance, determined by dividing the total daily attendance. by the number of days the school is in session: Provided further, That all moneys appropriated for school purposes among the Indians for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, may be expended, without restriction as to per capita. expenditure, for the annual support and education of any one pupil in any school. [41 Stat. L. 6.] [Segregation of tribal funds - membership of tribes-rolls.] That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, wherever in his discretion such action would be for the best interest of the Indians, to cause a final roll to be made of the membership of any Indian tribe; such rolls shall contain the ages and quantum of Indian blood, when approved by the said Secretary are hereby declared to constitute the legal membership of the respective tribes for the purpose of segregating the tribal funds as provided in section 28 of the Indian Appropriation Act approved May 25, 1918 (Fortieth Statutes at Large, pages 591 and 592), and shall be conclusive both as to ages and quantum of Indian blood: Provided, That the foregoing shall not apply to the Five Civilized Tribes or to the Osage Tribe of Indians, or to the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota, or the Menominee Indians of Wisconsin. [41 Stat. L. 9.] For Act of May 25, 1918, sec. 28, mentioned in the text, see 1918 Supp. Fed. Stat. Annot. 266. [Penalty for removing cattle from Indian country R. S. sec. 2138 amended.] That section 2138 of the Revised Statutes of the United States is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "That where restricted Indians are in possession or control of live stock purchased for or issued to them by the Government, or the increase therefrom, such stock shall not be sold, transferred, mortgaged, or otherwise disposed of, except with the consent in writing of the superintendent or other officer in charge of the tribe to which the owner or possessor of the live stock belongs, and all transactions in violation of this provision shall be void. All such live stock so purchased or issued and the increase therefrom belonging to restricted Indians and grazed in the Indian country shall be branded with the I D or reservation brand of the jurisdiction to which the owners of such stock belong, and shall not be removed from the Indian country except with the consent in writing of the superintendent or other officer in charge of the tribe to which the owner or possessor of such live stock belongs, or by order of the Secretary of War, in connection with the movement of troops. Every person who violates the provisions of this section by selling or otherwise disposing of such stock, purchasing, or otherwise acquiring an interest therein, or by removing such stock from the Indian country, shall be fined in any sum not more than $1,000, or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both such fine and imprisonment." [41 Stat. L. 9.] For R. S. sec.. 2138, amended by the text, see 3 Fed. Stat. Ann. (2d ed.) 809; 3 Fed. Stat. Ann. 382. SEC. 26. [Indian reservations — unallotted lands—leases — mining claims.] That the Secretary of the Interior be, and hereby is, authorized and empowered, under general regulations to be fixed by him and under such terms and conditions as he may prescribe, not inconsistent with the terms of this section, to lease to citizens of the United States or to any association of such persons or to any corporation organized under the laws of the United States or of any State or Territory thereof, any part of the unallotted lands within any Indian reservation within the States of Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington, or Wyoming, heretofore withdrawn from entry under the mining laws for the purpose of mining for deposits of gold, silver, copper, and other valuable metalliferous minerals, which leases shall be irrevocable, except as herein provided, but which may be declared null and void upon breach of any of their terms. That after the passage and approval of this section, unallotted lands, or such portion thereof as the Secretary of the Interior shall determine, within Indian reservations heretofore withheld from disposition under the mining laws may be declared by the Secretary of the Interior to be subject to exploration for the discovery of deposits of gold, silver, copper, and other valuable metalliferous minerals by citizens of the United States, and after such declaration mining claims may be located by such citizens in the same manner as mining claims are |