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ceptance by the United States, released and conveyed to the United States, shall be held and deemed to be public lands of the United States and subject to disposal under the laws providing for the disposal of the public lands, at the same price and on the same terms as other lands of like character, except as provided in this act:

Provided, That none of said lands, whether mineral or otherwise, shall ject to homestead be liable to entry and settlement under the provisions of the homestead sold for cash, &c.; law; but shall be subject to cash entry only in accordance with existing money how dis- law; and when sold the proceeds of said sale shall be first sacredly apposed of. plied to reimbursing the United States for all sums paid out or set apart under this act by the government for the benefit of said Indians, and then to be applied in payment for the lands at one dollar and twentyfive cents per acre which may be ceded to them by the United States outside of their reservation, in pursuance of this agreement. And the remainder, if any, shall be deposited in the Treasury as now provided by law for the benefit of the said Indians, in the proportion hereinbefore stated, and the interest thereon shall be distributed annually to them in the same manner as the funds provided for in this act:

Subdivisions on

sold at auction.

Provided further, That the subdivisions upon which are located imwhich are improvements to be appraised, as provided for in section two of this act, provements to be shall be offered to the highest bidder at public sale, after published notice of at least thirty days by the Secretary of the Interior, and the same shall be absolutely reserved from occupation or claim until so sold. Indians patent- SEC. 4. That upon the completion of said allotments and the patenting ing allotments to of the lands to said allottees, each and every of the said Indians shall have equal rights be subject to the provisions of section nineteen hundred and seventyseven of the Revised Statutes and to the laws, both civil and criminal, of the State or Territory in which they may reside, with the right to sue and be sued in the courts thereof:

of citizenship.

R. S., § 1977.

-lands of; how not taxable.

Trust fund; interest to be paid each Indian annually.

Salaries continned.

Distribution

of

money to Indians

themselves for energy, &c.

Provided, That their lands and personal property shall not be subject to taxation or execution upon the judgment, order, or decree of any court obtained on any cause of action which may arise during the period named in the above recited agreement.

SEC. 5. That the Secretary of the Treasury shall, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, set apart, and hold as a perpetual trust-fund for said Ute Indians, an amount of money sufficient at four per centum to produce annually fifty thousand dollars, which interest shall be paid to them per capita in cash, annually, as provided in said agreement.

SEC. 6. That all salaries paid to any member or members of the Ute tribe under existing treaty stipulations shall be continued for the term of ten years beyond the time fixed in said treaties.

And the sum of four thousand dollars per annum for the term of ten years shall be distributed by the President at his discretion to such of who distinguish said Indians as distinguish themselves by good sense, energy, and perseverance in the pursuits of civilized life, and in the promotion of a good understanding between the Indians and the Government and people of the United States, and there is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, four thousand dollars as the first installment for such purpose.

Laws relating to Indians to apply. R. S., §§ 20392157.

SEC. 7. That the provisions of title twenty-eight of the Revised Statutes shall extend over and be applicable to every allotment of land provided for in the foregoing agreement, and to the administration of the affairs of said Indians, so far as said provisions can be made applicable thereto.

Springs in UnSEC. 8. That the hot springs located in what is known as "The Uncompahigre Valley compahgre Park", in the Uncompahgre Valley, and four square miles miles of land re- of land surrounding said springs and within said valley, are hereby reserved, and with drawn from settlement, occupancy, or sale, under the R. S., §§ 2474, laws of the United States, and dedicated and set apart for the benefit and enjoyment of the people; and, so far as practicable, the provisions

served, &c.

2475.

of sections twenty-four hundred and seventy-four and twenty-four hundred and seventy-five, of the Revised Statutes, are hereby made applicable to said tract.

SEC. 9. That for the purpose of carrying the provisions of this act into Appropriations. effect, the following sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior as follows, namely:

For the payment of the expenses of the commissioners herein provided, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars.

For the cost of removal and settlement of the Utes, surveying their lands, building houses, establishing schools, building mills and agency buildings, purchasing stock, agricultural implements, and so forth, as provided in said agreement and in this act, the sum of three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For the sum to be paid to said Ute Indians, per capita, in addition to the sixty thousand dollars now due and provided for, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars.

For the payment of the appraised value of individual improvements as provided herein, the sum of twenty thousand dollars.

For the care and support of the Ute Indians in Colorado for the bal. ance of the current fiscal year, the sum of twelve thousand dollars:

Provided, That with the exception of the appropriation for expenses when available. of the commissioners, the above appropriations shall become available only upon the ratification of said agreement by three-fourths of the male adult members of the Ute Indians as provided in this act, and the certification of such fact to the Secretary of the Treasury by the Secretary of the Interior.

SEC. 10. If the agreement as amended in this act is not ratified by Ratification. three-fourths of the adult male Indians of the Ute tribes within four months from the approval of this act the same shall cease to be of effect after that day.(1) [June 15, 1880.]

NOTE (1) The agreement as amended by this act was ratified by three-fourths of the adult male
Indians of the Ute tribes within the time limited by this section.

CHAPTER 225.

AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE LEGISLATIVE, EXECUTIVE, AND JUDICIAL
EXPENSES OF THE GOVERNMENT FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE THIR-
TIETH, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-ONE, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

Par. 1. Rates of pay for folding books, pamphlets, Par. 3. Departments may rent buildings in District of Columbia, in certain cases.

&c.

Par. 2. Secretary of Treasury to report annually

June 15, 1880.

21 Stat. L., 210.

amount received for fines, penalties, &c.,
and how expended.

Be it enacted, &c.

[Par. 1.] And the following prices may be paid for folding books, pam- Rates of pay for phlets, speeches, and the Daily Record, namely: For quarto volumes, not folding, books, exceeding one cent per volume; for octavo volumes, not exceeding one- pamphlets, &c. half cent each per volume; for the Daily Record, not exceeding two dol- 287, § 1, par. 1. lars per thousand; and for speeches not exceeding one dollar per thousand.

[Par. 2.] And the Secretary of the Treasury shall make to Congress each year a statement giving the amount received under section thirty-six hundred and eighty-seven of the Revised Statutes, and also a statement showing in detail how the money appropriated under said section has been expended.

1876, Aug. 15, ch.

Secretary of Treasury to report annually amount penalties, &c., and how expended. R. S., § 3687.

received for fines,

Departments [Par. 3.] And where buildings are now rented for public use in the may rent buildings District of Columbia, the executive departments are authorized, whenbia in certain ever it shall be advantageous to the public interest, to rent others in their stead: Provided, That no increase in the number of buildings now 1874, June 22, ch. in use, nor in the amounts paid for rents, shall result therefrom. 388, par. 4.

in District Colum

cases.

1877, March 3,

[June 15, 1880.]

ch. 106.

CHAPTER 227.

June 15, 1880.

21 Stat. L., 237.

Suits and prose

trespasses, &c.,

&c.

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[SECTION 1], That when any lands of the United States shall have cutions not to be been entered and the Government price paid therefor in full no criminal maintained for suit or proceeding by or in the name of the United States shall therecommitted before after be had or further maintained for any trespasses upon or for or on March, 1879, on account of any material taken from said lands and no civil suit or propublic lands en- ceeding shall be had or further maintained for or on account of any tered and paid for, trespasses upon or material taken from the said lands of the United States in the ordinary clearing of land, in working a mining claim or for agricultural or domestic purposes or for maintaining improvements upon the land of any bona fide settler or for or on account of any timber or material taken or used by any person without fault or knowledge of the trespass or for or on account of any timber taken or used without fraud or collusion by any person who in good faith paid the officers or agents of the United States for the same or for or on account of any alleged conspiracy in relation thereto:

Persons who

lic lands for home

Provided, That the provisions of this section shall apply only to trespasses and acts done or committed and conspiracies entered into prior to March first, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine:

And provided further, That defendants in such suits or proceedings shall exhibit to the proper courts or officer the evidence of such entry and payment and shall pay all costs accrued up to the time of such entry. SEC. 2. That persons who have heretofore under any of the homestead have entered pub- laws entered lands properly subject to such entry, or persons to whom stead under pre- the right of those having so entered for homesteads, may have been atexisting laws, or tempted to be transferred by bona fide instrument in writing, may entheir assigns, may title themselves to said lands by paying the government price therefor, have patent on and in no case less than one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, and paying price. the amount heretofore paid the government upon said lands shall be taken as part payment of said price:

Certain alternate

Provided, This shall in no wise interfere with the rights or claims of others who may have subsequently entered such lands under the homestead laws.

SEC. 3. That the price of lands now subject to entry which were raised sections of rail- to two dollars and fifty cents per acre, and put in market prior to Januroad-grant lands reduced in price to ary, eighteen hundred and sixty one, by reason of the grant of alternate sections for railroad purposes is hereby reduced to one dollar and twentyfive cents per acre.

$1.25 per acre.

R. S., § 2357.

Act not to apply to mineral lands, nor to trespasses after March, 1879.

SEC. 4. This act shall not apply to any of the mineral lands of the United States; and no person who shall be prosecuted for or proceeded against on account of any trespass committed or material taken from any of the public lands after March first, eighteen hundred and seventynine shall be entitled to the benefit thereof. [June 15, 1880.]

CHAPTER 235.

AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE SUNDRY CIVIL EXPENSES OF THE GOV-
ERNMENT FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE THIRTIETH, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED
AND EIGHTY-ONE, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

Par. 1. Commercial reports printed by State Department may be sold.

Par. 2. Who may be admitted to Hospital for Insane in District of Columbia.

Par. 3. Work of Entomological Commission to be under Agricultural Department.

Be it enacted, &c.

Par. 4. Territories may provide for care and cus.
tody of convicts in any other Territory
or State.
-United States not to pay expense.

UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE.

[Par. 1.] That the sum of fourteen thousand three hundred dollars be, and hereby is, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other wise appropriated, for printing and distributing more frequently the publications by the Department of State of the consular and other commercial reports, including circular letters to chambers of commerce, seven thousand dollars:

Provided, That such publications may be sold at such rates as may be fixed by said department, and the proceeds of all sales to be paid into the Treasury;

June 16, 1880.

21 Stat. L., 259.

Commercial re

ports printed by State Department

may be sold. R. S., § 211.

GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE.

[Par. 2.] That hereafter the admissions to the hospital shall be limited to such persons as are entitled to treatment therein under the provisions of title fifty-nine, chapter four, of the Revised Statutes of the United States, and under the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, chapter one hundred and fifty-six, second session, Fortythird Congress.

ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION.

[Par. 3.] For the completion of the work of the United States Entomological Commission under the Department of the Interior in the special investigation of the Rocky Mountain locust or grasshopper and the cotton-worm, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, to be immediately available:

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Provided, That after the close of the next fiscal year all work of the Work of Entocharacter herein provided for shall be exclusively under the control of mological Commisthe Agricultural Department, and all operations under the Interior Department shall be fully and finally closed before the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and eighty-one.

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UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.-MISCELLANEOUS.

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sion to be under
Agricultural De-
partment.
R. S., §§ 520-529.

[Par. 4.] That the legislative assemblies of the several Territories of Territories may the United States may make such provision for the care and custody of provide for care and custody of consuch persons as may be convicted of crime under the laws of such Ter- victs in any other ritory as they shall deem proper, and for that purpose may authorize Territory or State. and contract for the care and custody of such convicts in any other R. S., § 1892. Territory or State, and provide that such person or persons may be sentenced to confinement accordingly in such other Territory or State, and all existing legislative enactments of any of the Territories for that purpose are hereby legalized:

Provided, That the expense of keeping such prisoners shall be borne by the respective Territories, and no part thereof shall be borne by the United States.

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not to pay expense. 1874, June 20, ch. 332, § 2.

CHAPTER 236.

June 16, 1880.

21 Stat. L., 281.

AN ACT TO INCREASE THE PENSIONS OF CERTAIN PENSIONED SOLDIERS AND SAILORS
WHO ARE UTTERLY HELPLESS FROM INJURIES RECEIVED OR DISEASE CONTRACTED
WHILE IN THE UNITED STATES SERVICE.

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Pensions of persons permanently disabled increased to $72 a month. month.

1. Pensions of persons permanently disabled in 2.- to date from June 17, 1878.
military service increased to $72 a month.

Be it enacted, &c.

[SECTION 1], That all soldiers and sailors who are now receiving a pension of fifty dollars per month, under the provisions of an act enti tled "An act to increase the pension of soldiers and sailors who have been totally disabled", approved June eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, shall receive, in lieu of all pensions now paid them by the Government of the United States, and there shall be paid them in the same manner as pensions are now paid to such persons, the sum of 16 Opin. Att'y- seventy two dollars per month. Gen., 594.

R. S., §§ 4698, 46984. 1874, June 18, ch.

298.

to date from June 17, 1878.

SEC. 2. All pensioners whose pensions shall be increased by the provisions of this act from fifty dollars per month to seventy two dollars per month shall be paid the difference between said sums monthly, from June seventeenth, eighteen hundred and seventy eight, to the time of the taking effect of this act. [June 16, 1880.]

CHAPTER 239.

June 16, 1880. 21 Stat. L., 283.

Portsmouth, Ohio, a port of delivery in collection district of New Or leans, La.

R. S., § 2568, 2570, 2822-2831.

Surveyor to be appointed.

AN ACT TO CONSTITUTE THE CITY OF PORTSMOUTH, IN THE STATE OF OHIO, A PORT
OF DELIVERY.

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Be it enacted, &c., That the city of Portsmouth, in the State of Ohio, shall be, and is hereby, constituted a port of delivery within the collec tion-district of New Orleans, and shall be subject to the same regulations and restrictions as other ports of delivery in the United States; and all the privileges and facilities afforded by the act of Congress of the second of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one entitled "An act allowing the duties on foreign merchandise imported into Pittsburgh, Wheeling, Cincinnati, Louisville, Saint Louis, Nashville, and Natchez, to be secured and paid at those places",(1) shall be extended to said port.

A surveyor of customs shall be appointed to reside at said port, and R. S., § 2569, perform the duties prescribed by law, who shall receive such compensa2619, 2656, 2708, tion now provided, or which may hereafter be provided, by law, for surveyors of the same grade:

4186, 4381.

1877, Feb. 27, , ch.

69, par. 69.

ry.

Collector's sala

Provided, That the salary of the collector shall not exceed the net fees collected according to law at said port. [June 16, 1880.]

NOTE. (1) The act of 1831, March 2, ch. 87 (4 Stat. L., 480), here referred to, was repealed by the Revised Statutes into which its provisions are incorporated. Those provisions, so far as this act appears to relate to them, may be found in Revised Statutes, §§ 2568, 2570, 2822-2831.

June 16, 1880.

21 Stat. L., 283.

CHAPTER 240.

AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF THE FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH MISSOURI CAVALRY
VOLUNTEERS.

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