2d Session. No. 507. REPAIRS, POST-OFFICE BUILDING, BUFFALO, N. Y. LETTER FROM THE ACTING SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, SUBMITTING AN ESTIMATE OF APPROPRIATION FOR REPAIRS, ETC., OF POSTOFFICE BUILDING AT BUFFALO, N. Y. JANUARY 11, 1910.-Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, SIR: I have the honor to state that there is required for repairs, painting, etc., in connection with the United States post-office building at Buffalo, N. Y., the sum of $30,000, and inasmuch as the annual appropriation for repairs and preservation of public buildings is unable to bear so large a burden in connection with any one building, I earnestly recommend that the following item be included in one of the appropriation bills now pending: Buffalo, New York, United States post-office: For repairs, painting, etc., thirty thousand dollars. 61ST CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. ( DOCUMENT 2d Session. No. 508. { REPAIRS, POST-OFFICE AND COURT-HOUSE, PHILADELPHIA, PA. LETTER FROM THE ACTING SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, SUBMITTING AN ESTIMATE OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR REPAIRS, ETC., OF THE POST-OFFICE AND COURT-HOUSE BUILDING AT PHILADELPHIA, PA. JANUARY 11, 1910.-Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, SIR: I have the honor to state that there is required for repairs, painting, etc., in connection with the post-office and court-house building at Philadelphia, Pa., the sum of $25,000, and inasmuch as the annual appropriation for repairs and preservation of public buildings is unable to bear so large a burden in connection with any one building, I earnestly recommend that the following item be included in one. of the appropriation bills now pending: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, post-office and court-house: For repairs, painting, etc., twenty-five thousand dollars. A COPY OF A COMMUNICATION FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR SUBMITTING AN ESTIMATE OF APPROPRIATION FOR ALLOTMENTS IN YAKIMA INDIAN RESERVATION. JANUARY 11, 1910.-Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith for the consideration of Congress copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, of the 7th instant, submitting an estimate of appropriation in the sum of $30,000 to make additional allotments on the Yakima Indian Reservation, Wash., and for the establishment of town sites there. Respectfully, JAMES F. CURTIS, Acting Secretary. The SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith the rough draft of a bill appropriating $30,000 to make additional allotments on the Yakima Reservation and for the establishment of town sites there. It is accompanied by letters addressed to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs of the Senate, in order that the Congress may be made acquainted with the reasons why I believe the suggested legislation necessary. It is respectfully requested that the inclosed papers be transmitted to the persons to whom addressed. Very respectfully, The SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY. R. A. BALLINGER, Secretary. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, SIR: By direction of the President, I have the honor to transmit herewith the rough draft of a bill authorizing this department to allot lands to children on the Yakima Reservation, to establish town sites there, and to prohibit the sale and introduction of intoxicating liquors within the present boundaries of this reservation. The act of December 21, 1904 (33 Stat. L., 595), authorizing the allotment and disposal of surplus lands on the Yakima Reservation, by its language confines allotments to the children then living, and contains no provision for the establishment of town sites on the reservation. Since the previous allotments were made there have been born to the members of this tribe some 200 or 250 children to whom allotments should be made prior to the disposal of the surplus lands. The superintendent in charge of the Indian school on that reservation and the chairman of the commission now engaged in classifying the surplus lands under the provisions of the act referred to herein have suggested to the Indian Office the advantage of establishing town sites at certain points on the reservation. This department has found it advantageous in the past to establish town sites on Indian reservations prior to the opening and disposal of the surplus lands. In order that the necessary authority may be conferred on this department to make allotments to unallotted children on this reservation and to establish town sites at such points as the future. public interests may require, the inclosed draft of a bill is respectfully submitted to the Congress for its consideration. In connection with the section of the bill relative to the introduction of intoxicants into the Indian country, it may be said that the department can not too urgently appeal for the protection of Indians from the liquor traffic, and has found similar provisions in other bills of great advantage in this respect. I would be pleased, therefore, to see the inclosed bill, or legislation similar thereto, enacted into law. Very respectfully, R. A. BALLINGER, The SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Secretary. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act approved December twenty-first, nineteen hundred and four, entitled "An act to authorize the sale and disposition of surplus or unallotted lands of the Yakima Indian Reservation in the State of Washington," be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding thereto the following: SEC. 9. That before any of the lands are disposed of the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to reserve from said lands such tracts for town-site purposes as, in his opinion, may be required for future public interests, and he may cause the same to be surveyed into lots and blocks and disposed of under the provisions of section twenty-three hundred and eighty-one of the Revised Statutes of the United States. SEC. 10. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to make an allotment under the general allotment laws of the United States to each child of Indian parentage on the Yakima Reservation whose father or mother is or was a duly enrolled member of the tribe on that reservation, and who has not heretofore received an allotment; and there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, the sum of thirty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to enable the Secretary of the Interior to make the necessary surveys of such town sites and the sale of lots therein as may be established on the Yakima Reservation under the provisions of this Act and the allotments to be made to the unallotted children there, as provided for herein; the cost of making these allotments to be reimbursed to the United States out of the proceeds derived from the sale of surplus lands within the reservation: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior shall cause to be set apart and reserved for school, park, and other public purposes not more than ten acres out of each body of lands which may be reserved for town-site purposes under the provisions of this act: And provided further, That after paying the expenses connected with the survey and sale of the lots within such town site as may be established, the Secretary of the Interior shall cause not more than twenty per centum of the net proceeds arising from the sale of lots within uch town sites to be set apart and expended under his direction in the construction of schoolhouses or other public buildings or improvements in the town site in which such lots are located, and that the remainder of the proceeds from the sale of the lots shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States and become a part of the fund belonging to the Yakima Indians arising from the disposal of the surplus lands on that reservation. SEC. 11. That the lands allotted, those retained or reserved, and the surplus lands sold or otherwise disposed of shall be subject for a period of twenty-five years to all the laws of the United States prohibiting the introduction of intoxicants into the Indian country. |