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ACT MAY 23, 1908. c. 192. (35 Stat. 251.) 



Montana National Bison Range; reservation of lands; fencing and buildings. 



National bison range: The President is hereby directed to reserve 

 and except from the unallotted lands now embraced within the Flat- 

 head Indian Reservation, in the State of Montana, not to exceed 

 twelve thousand eight hundred acres of said lands, near the confluence 

 of the Fend d'Oreille and Jocko rivers, for a permanent national 

 bison range for the herd of bison to be presented by the American 

 Bison Society. And there is hereby appropriated the sum of thirty 

 thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to enable 

 the Secretary of the Interior to pay the confederated tribes of the 

 Flathead, Kootenai, and Upper Pend d'Oreille, and such other In- 

 dians and persons holding tribal relations or may rightfully belong 

 on said Flathead Indian Reservation, the appraised value of said 

 lands as shall be fixed and determined under the provisions of the 

 Act of Congress approved April twentj'-third, nineteen hundred and 

 four, entitled ''An Act for the survej' and allotment of lands now 

 embraced within the limits of the Flathead Indian Reservation, in 

 the State of Montana, and the sale and disposal of all surplus lands 

 after allotment." And the Secretary of x\griculture is hereby author- 

 ized and directed to inclose said lands with a good and substantial 

 fence and to erect thereon the necessary sheds and buildings for the 

 proper care and maintenance of the said bison; and there is hereby 

 appropriated therefor the sum of ten thousand dollars or so much 

 thereof as may be necessary ; in all, forty thousand dollars. 



Act May 23, 1908, c. 192, 35 Stat. 267. 



These are provisions of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal 

 year 1909, cited above. 



Provisions for the enlargement of the Montana National Bison Range, 

 contained in the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1910, 

 are set forth below. 



Appropriations for the maintenance of the Montana National Bison 

 Range are made in the agricultural appropriation acts for the fiscal 

 years 1910 and thereafter. The provision of the act for the fiscal year 

 1913 Is set forth on p. 227, pofit. 



ACT MARCH 4. 1909, c. 301. (35 Stat. 1039.) 

 Montana National Bison Range; enlargement. 



* * * SO much of the forty thousand dollars heretofore appro- 

 priated for the Montana National Bison Range as remains unex- 

 pended is hereby reappropriated, the same to be immediately avail- 

 able, to be expended in fencing said lands, the erection thereon of 

 the necessary sheds and buildings, and enlarging the limits hereto- 

 fore established so as to make the total acreage not to exceed twenty 

 thousand acres, and the President is hereby directed to reserve and 

 except from the unallotted lands now embraced within the Flathead 

 Indian Reservation, in the State of Montana, a sufficient area to 

 enlarge said range as herein provided; * * * 



Act March 4, 1909, c. 301. 35 Stat. 1051. 



This is a provision accompanying an appropriation for the maintenance 

 of the Montana National Bison Range, in the agricultural appropriation 

 act for the fiscal year 1910, cited above. 



The reservation and purchase of lands for a National Bison Range is 

 provided for, and an appropriation of forty thousand dollars is made 

 therefor, by provisions of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal 

 year 1909. act May 23, 1908, c. 192. set forth above. 



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