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the Secretary of War shall have authority, and it shall be his duty, to require the said company to alter and change the said bridge, at its own expense, in such manner as may be proper to secure free and complete navigation without impediment; and if upon reasonable notice to said company to make such change or improvements the said company fails to do so, the Secretary of War shall have authority to make the same at the expense of said company, and all the rights conferred by this act shall be forfeited; and Congress shall have power to do any and all things necessary to secure the free navigation of the river. Approved, May 15, 1886.

CHAP. 333.-An act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven and for other purposes.

May 15, 1886.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, Indian appropriand they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury ation for the year not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of paying the current and ending June 30, contingent expenses of the Indian Department for the year ending Juue thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and fulfilling treaty stipulations with the various Indian tribes, namely:

1887.

For pay of sixty agents of Indian affairs at the following-named Pay of agents at agencies, at the rates respectively indicated, namely:

At the Warm Springs agency, at one thousand dollars;

At the Klamath agency, at one thousand one hundred dollars;

At the Grand Ronde agency, at one thousand dollars;

At the Siletz agency, at one thousand two hundred dollars;

At the Umatilla agency, at one thousand two hundred dollars;

At the Neah Bay agency, at one thousand dollars;

At the Yakama agency, at two thousand dollars;

At the Colville agency, at one thousand five hundred dollars;

At the Nisqually and S'Kokomish agency, at one thousand two hundred dollars;

At the Quinaielt agency, at one thousand dollars;

At the Tulalip agency, at one thousand dollars;

At the Round Valley agency, at one thousand five hundred dollars;

At the Tule River agency, at one thousand dollars;

At the Mission agency, at one thousand three hundred dollars;

At the Nevada agency, at one thousand five hundred dollars;
At the Western Shoshone agency, at one thousand five hundred dol-
lars;

At the Nez Perces agency, at one thousand six hundred dollars;
At the Lembi agency, at one thousand one hundred dollars;
At the Fort Hall agency, at one thousand five hundred dollars;
At the Flathead agency, at one thousand five hundred dollars;
At the Blackfeet agency, at one thousand eight hundred dollars;
At the Crow agency, at two thousand dollars;

At the Fort Peck agency, at two thousand dollars;

At the Fort Belknap agency, at one thousand dollars;

At the Tongue River agency, at one thousand five hundred dollars;
At the Yankton agency, at one thousand six hundred dollars;

At the Crow Creek and Lower Brule agency, at one thousand eight hundred dollars;

At the Standing Rock agency, at one thousand seven hundred dollars;

At the Cheyenne River agency, at one thousand five hundred dollars;
At the Fort Berthold agency, at one thousand five hundred dollars;
At the Sisseton agency, at one thousand five hundred dollars;
At the Devil's Lake agency, at one thousand two hundred dollars;
At the Pine Ridge agency, at two thousand two hundred dollars;

specified agencies.

Interpreters..

Inspectors.

Traveling, etc.,

At the Rosebud agency, at two thousand two hundred dollars;
At the Shoshone agency, at one thousand five hundred dollars;
At the Uintah and Ouray agency (consolidated), at one thousand
eight hundred dollars;

At the Pueblo agency, at one thousand eight hundred dollars;

At the Navajo agency, at two thousand dollars;

At the Mescalero agency, at one thousand eigh hundred dollars;
At the Southern Ute agency, at one thousand four hundred dollars;
At the Omaha and Winnebago agency, at one thousand six hundred
dollars;

At the Santee agency, at one thousand two hundred dollars;

At the Pottawatomie and Great Nemaha agency, at one thousand dollars;

At the Ponca, Pawnee, Otoe, and Oakland agency, at one thousand five hundred dollars;

At the Sac and Fox agency, Indian Territory, at one thousand two hundred dollars;

At the Quapaw agency, at one thousand five hundred dollars; and not more than one thousand two hundred dollars of any moueys appro priated by this act shall be expended for clerical labor at this agency; At the Osage agency, at one thousand six hundred dollars;

At the Cheyenne and Arapaho agency, at two thousand two hundred dollars;

At the Kiowa, Comanche, and Wichita agency, at two thousand dollars;

At the Union agency, at one thousand eight hundred dollars;

At the White Earth agency, at one thousand six hundred dollars ;

At the Sac and Fox agency, Iowa, at one thousand dollars;

At the Green Bay agency, at one thousand five hundred dollars;

At the La Pointe agency, at two thousand dollars;

At the Mackinac agency, at one thousand dollars;

At the New York agency, at one thousand dollars;

At the Colorado River agency, at one thousand five hundred dollars;
At the Pima agency, at one thousand eight hundred dollars;
At the San Carlos agency, at two thousand dollars;

For the Eastern Cherokee Indians, eight hundred dollars; in all, eighty-nine thousand three hundred dollars; and all provisions of law fixing compensation for Indian agents in excess of that herein provided are hereby repealed.,

For the payment of necessary interpreters, to be distributed in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, twenty-five thousand dollars; but no person employed by the United States and paid for any other service shall be paid for interpreting.

For pay of five Indian inspectors, at three thousand dollars per annum each, fifteen thousand dollars.

For necessary traveling expenses of five Indian inspectors, including expenses of inspec- incidental expenses of inspection and investigation, eight thousand dol lars.

tors.

School superintendent.

Traveling, etc., expenses of super

intendent. I'roviso. Allowance.

Agency build. ings and repairs. Contingent ex

penses.

Pay, etc., of five special agents.

Pay of one Indian school superintendent, three thousand dollars. Necessary traveling expenses of one Indian school superintendent, including incidental expenses of inspection and investigation, one thousand dollars: Provided, That he shall be allowed four dollars per day for traveling expenses when actually on duty in the field, exclusive of cost of transportation and sleeping-car fare.

For buildings and repair of buildings at agencies, and repairs of the same, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For contingencies of the Indian service, including traveling and incidental expenses of Indian agents, and of their offices, and of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and of such person as may be detailed to accompany him, also traveling and incidental expenses of five special agents, at three dollars per day when actually employed on duty in the field, exclusive of transportation and sleeping-car fare, in lieu of all

other expenses now authorized by law; for pay of employees not otherwise provided for, and for pay of five special agents, at two thousand dollars per annum each, forty thousand dollars.

Expenses of citi

For the expenses of the commission of citizens, serving without compensation, appointed by the President under the provisions of the zen commissionfourth section of the act of April tenth, eighteen hundred and sixtynine, three thousand dollars.

FULFILLING TREATIES WITH INDIAN TRIBES.

APACHES, KIOWAS, AND COMANCHES.

For nineteenth of thirty installments, as provided to be expended under the tenth article of treaty of October twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, concluded at Medicine Lodge Creek, in Kansas, with the Kiowas and Comanches, and under the third article of treaty of the same date with the Apaches, thirty thousand dollars;

For purchase of clothing, as provided in the same treaties, twelve thousand dollars;

For pay of carpenter, farmer, blacksmith, miller, and engineer, four thousand five hundred dollars;

For pay of physician, and two teachers, two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, forty-nine thousand dollars.

CHEYENNES AND ARAPAHOES.

ers.

Vol. 16, p. 40.

Fulfilling treaties with.

Apaches, Kiowas, and Comanches.

Vol. 15, p. 584.
Vol. 15, p. 590.

Cheyenues and Arapahoes.

For nineteenth of thirty installments, as provided to be expended under the tenth article of treaty of October twenty-eighth, eighteen Vol. 15, p. 596. hundred and sixty-seven, twenty thousand dollars;

For purchase of clothing, as per same article, twelve thousand dollars;

For pay of physician and teacher, as per thirteenth article of same treaty, two thousand dollars;

For pay of carpenter, farmer, blacksmith, miller, and engineer, as per same article, four thousand five hundred dollars; in all, thirty-eight thousand five hundred dollars.

Vol. 15, p. 597.

CHICKASAWS.

For permanent annuity, in goods, three thousand dollars.

CHIPPEWAS OF THE MISSISSIPPI.

For fortieth of forty-six installments to be paid to Chief Hole-in-theDay, or his heirs, per third article of treaty of August second, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, and fifth article of treaty of March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, one thousand dollars;

For the support of a school or schools upon said reservation, during the pleasure of the President, in accordance with third article of treaty of March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, four thousand dollars; in all, five thousand dollars.

CHIPPEWAS, PILLAGERS, AND LAKE WINNEBAGOSHISH BANDS. For thirty-second of forty installments of annuity, in money, per third article of treaty of February twenty second, eighteen hundred and fiftyfive, and third article of treaty of May seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, ten thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents;

For thirty-second of forty installments of annuity, in goods, per same articles of same treaties, eight thousand dollars;

For thirty second of forty installments, for purposes of utility, per same articles of same treaties, four thousand dollars; in all, twenty-two thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents.

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CHOCTAWS.

For permanent annuity, per second article of treaty of November sixteenth, eighteen hundred and five, and thirteenth article of treaty of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, three thousand dollars;

For permauent aunuity, for support of blacksmith, per sixth article of treaty of October eighteenth, eighteen hundred and twenty, ninth article of treaty of January twentieth, eighteen hundred and twentyfive, and thirteenth article of treaty of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, six hundred dollars;

For permanent annuity, for education, per second and thirteenth articles of last two treaties named above, six thousand dollars;

For permanent annuity, for iron and steel, per ninth article of treaty of January twentieth, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, and thirteenth article of treaty of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, three hundred and twenty dollars;

For interest on three hundred and ninety thousand two hundred and fifty-seven dollars and ninety-two cents, at five per centum per aunum, for education, support of the government, and other beneficial purposes, under the direction of the general council of the Choctaws, in conform ity with the provisions contained in the ninth and thirteenth articles of treaty of January twentieth, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, and treaty of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, nineteen thousand five hundred and twelve dollars and eighty-nine cents; in all, twenty-nine thousand four hundred and thirty-two dollars and eightynine cents.

COLUMBIAS AND COLVILLES.

For annuity for Chief Moses, as per agreement of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, ratified by act approved July fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, one thousand dollars;

For annuity for Chief Tonasket, as per same agreement ratified by act of July fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, one hundred dollars.

For employees, as provided in said agreement ratified by act of July fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, six thousand dollars; in all, seven thousand one hundred dollars.

CREEKS.

For permanent annuity, in money, per fourth article of treaty of August seventh, seventeen hundred and ninety, and fifth article of treaty of August seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, one thousand five hundred dollars;

For permanent annuity, in money, per second article of treaty of June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and two, and fifth article of treaty of August seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, three thousan dollars; For permanent annuity, in money, per fourth article of treaty of January twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, and fifth article of treaty of August seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, twenty thousand dollars;

For permanent annuity, for blacksmith and assistant, aud for shop and tools, per eighth article of treaty of January twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, and fifth article of treaty of August seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, eight hundred and forty dollars;

For permanent annuity, for iron and steel for shop, per same articles and treaties, two hundred and seventy dollars;

For permanent annuity, for the pay of a wheelwright, per same articles of same treaties, six hundred dollars;

For five per centum interest on two hundred thousand dollars, for purposes of education, per sixth article of treaty of August seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, ten thousand dollars;

For interest on six hundred and seventy-five thousand one hundred and sixty-eight dollars, at the rate of five per centum per annum, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, under provisions of third article of treaty of June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, thirty-three thousand seven hundred and fifty-eight dollars and forty cents; in all, sixty-nine thousand nine hundred and sixty-eight dollars and forty cents.

CROWS.

For fifth of twenty-five installments, as provided in agreement with the Crows dated June twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty, to be used by the Secretary of the Interior in such manner as the President may direct, thirty thousand dollars;

Interest.
Vol. 11, p. 701.

Vol. 14, p. 787.

Crows.

Vol. 22, p. 43.

For eighteenth of thirty installments, to supply male persons, six hundred in number, over fourteen years of age, with a suit of good substantial woolen clothing, consisting of a coat, hat, pantaloons, flannel shirt, and woolen socks, as per ninth article of treaty of May seventh, Vol. 15, p. 651. eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, six thousand dollars;

For eighteenth of thirty installments, to supply each female, seven hundred in number, over twelve years of age, with a flannel skirt, or the goods necessary to make the same, a pair of woolen hose, twelve yards of calico, and twelve yards of cotton domestic, as per same article, four thousand dollars;

For eighteenth of thirty installments, to supply three hundred and fifty boys and three hundred and fifty girls, under the ages named, such flannel and cotton goods as may be needed to make each a suit as aforesaid, together with a pair of woolen hose for each, per same article, five thousand dollars;

For pay of a physician, per tenth article of same treaty, one thousand two hundred dollars;

For seventeenth of twenty installments, for pay of teacher and furnishing necessary books and stationery, under seventh article of same treaty, one thousand five hundred dollars;

For pay of carpenter, miller, engineer, farmer, and blacksmith, under tenth article of same treaty, three thousand three hundred dollars; For pay of second blacksmith, and iron and steel, a's per eighth article of same treaty, one thousand five hundred dollars;

For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to furnish such articles of food as from time to time the condition and necessities of the Indians may require, sixty thousand dollars; în all, one hundred and twelve thousand five hundred dollars.

Vol. 15, p. 652.

Vol. 15, p. 651.

Vol. 15, p. 652.

Vol. 15, p. 651.

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For interest, in lieu of investment, on fifty-seven thousand five hun. Interest. dred dollars, balance of one hundred and fifty-seven thousand five hundred dollars, to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty six, at five per centum per annum, for education or other beneficial, purposes, under the direction of the President, per ninth article of treaty of May seventeenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, two thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars.

KANSAS.

For interest, in lieu of investment, on two hundred thousand dollars, at five per centum per annum, per second article of treaty of January fourteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, ten thousand dollars.

49-1- 3 PUB

Vol. 10, p. 1071.

Kansas.

Interest.

Vol. 9, p. 842.

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