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CONGRESS. (MISCELLANEOUS.) 



valued at $6.50 cents per acre, shall constitute a 

 standard allotment, and shkll be the measure for 

 the equalization of values; and any allottee select- 

 ing lands of less value than such standard may 

 select other lands, not lawfully held or occupied 

 by any other citizen, which, at their appraised 

 value, will make his allotment equal in value to 

 the standard so fixed." The act dealing with the 

 Creek tribe was shaped with the same design: 

 "All lands belonging to the Creek tribe of In- 

 dians in the Indian Territory, except town sites 

 and lands herein reserved for Creek schools and 

 public buildings, shall be appraised at their true 

 value, excluding only lawful improvements or 

 lands in actual cultivation. The appraisement 

 shall be made under direction of the Dawes Com- 

 mission by such number of committees, with 

 necessary assistance, as may be deemed necessary 

 to expedite the work, one member of each com- 

 mittee to be appointed by the principal chief; and 

 if the members of any committee fail to agree as 

 to the value of any tract of land, the value 

 thereof shall be fixed by said commission. Each 

 committee shall make report of its work to said 

 commission, which shall from time to time pre- 

 pare reports of same, in duplicate, and transmit 

 them to the Secretary of the Interior for his ap- 

 proval, and when approved one copy thereof shall 

 be returned to the office of said commission for its 

 use in making allotments as herein provided. 

 All lands of said tribe, except as herein pro- 

 vided, shall be allotted among the citizens of the 

 tribe by said commission so as to give each an 

 equal share of the whole in value, as nearly as 

 may be, in manner following: There shall be al- 

 lotted to each citizen 160 acres of land bound- 

 aries to conform to the Government survey 

 which may be selected by him so as to include 

 improvements which belong to him. One hundred 

 and sixty acres of land, valued at $6.50 cents per 

 acre, shall constitute the standard value of an 

 allotment, and shall be the measure for the equali- 

 zation of values, and any allottee receiving lands 

 of less than such standard value may, at any time, 

 select other lands, which, at their appraised value, 

 are sufficient to make his allotment equal in value 

 to the standard so fixed." 



In the sundry civil service appropriation bill it 

 was provided : " That the commission authorized 

 by the act entitled 'An Act making appropria- 

 tions for sundry civil expenses of the Government 

 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1898, and for 

 other purposes,' approved June 4, 1897, to revise 

 and codify the criminal and penal laws of the 

 United States, is hereby directed to revise and 

 codify, in accordance with the terms and provi- 

 sions of said act and the acts supplementary 

 thereto, all laws of the United States of a per- 

 manent and general nature in force at the time 

 when the same shall be reported. That in per- 

 forming this duty the said commission shall bring 

 together all statutes and parts of statutes relat- 

 ing to the same subjects, shall omit redundant 

 and obsolete enactments, and shall make such 

 alterations as may be necessary to reconcile the 

 contradictions, supply the omissions, and amend 

 the imperfections of the original text; and may 

 propose and embody in such revision changes in 

 the substance of existing law; but all such 

 changes shall be clearly set forth in an accom- 

 panying report, which shall briefly explain the 

 reasons for the same. That the said commission 

 shall arrange such revision under titles, chapters, 

 and sections, or other suitable divisions and sub- 

 divisions, with head notes briefly expressive of 

 the matter contained in such division, and with 

 marginal notes so drawn as to point to the con- 



tents of the text, and with references to the 

 original text from which each section is compiled, 

 and to the decisions of the courts of the United 

 States explaining or construing the same; and 

 shall provide by an index for an easy reference to 

 every portion of such revision. That when the 

 commission have completed such revision in ac- 

 cordance herewith, it shall cause a copy of the 

 same, in print, to be submitted to Congress, that 

 the statutes so revised and codified may be re- 

 enacted if Congress shall so determine." * 



The following amendments to the Revised Stat- 

 utes were made: Sections 183; 1111; 1225; 1319; 

 1338; 1342, article 60; 1342, article 83; 4427; 

 4472; 4708; 5153; 5546; 1342, article 94. Section 

 1278 was repeated. 



The following acts were passed: 



For the relief of settlers under the public land 

 laws on lands within the indemnity limits of the 

 grant to the Great Northern Pacific Railroad 

 Company. 



For the construction of a steam revenue cutter 

 for service in the harbor of Boston. 



To supplement existing laws relating to the dis- 

 position of lands. 



To amend an " Act temporarily to provide rev- 

 enue and a civil government for Porto Rico, 

 and for other purposes." 



Authorizing the Attorney-General, upon the re- 

 quest of the Secretary of the Interior, to appear 

 in suits brought relative to school lands. 



To provide for ports of entry and delivery in 

 the Territory of Hawaii. 



To amend the act for a civil government for the 

 territory of Alaska. 



Granting a charter to the General Federation 

 of Women's Clubs. 



Ratifying the agreement between Tennessee and 

 Virginia with reference to the boundary-line of 

 said States. 



Providing for leaves of absence to certain em- 

 ployees of the Government. 



To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to loan 

 naval equipment to certain military schools. 



To confirm to the city of Albuquerque, New 

 Mexico, the " Ville de Albuquerque land grant." 



For the preparation of plans or designs for a 

 memorial or statue of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in 

 the city of Washington. 



Requiring common carriers engaged in inter- 

 state commerce to make full reports of all acci- 

 dents to the Interstate Commerce Commission. 



Providing that entrymen under the homestead 

 laws, who have served in the United States army, 

 navy, or marine corps during the Spanish war or 

 the Philippine insurrection, shall have certain 

 service deducted from the time required to perfect 

 title under homestead laws, and for other pur- 

 poses. 



Granting permission to the Indians on the 

 Grand Portage Indian Reservation, in the State 

 of Minnesota, to cut and dispose of the timber <?n 

 their several allotments on said reservation. 



To provide for celebrating the one hundredth 

 anniversary of the purchase of the Louisiana ter- 

 ritory by the United States by holding an inter- 

 national exhibition of arts, industries, manufac- 

 tures, and the products of the soil, mine, forest, 

 and sea in the city of St. Louis, in the State of 

 Missouri, and for other purposes. 



To restore to the public domain a small tract of 

 the White Mountain Apache Indian Reservation, 

 in the Territory of Arizona. 



For the protection of birds, game, and fish in 

 the District of Columbia. 



For the reward of enlisted men in the navy or 

 marine corps. 



