For the purpose of establishing an industrial school for the education of Indian youths, and the erection of the necessary buildings, at Santa Fe, New Mexico, twenty five thousand dollars.

To enable the Secretary of the the Interior to erect buildings for a school for the Indians near Grand Junction, Colorado, fifteen thousand dollars, to be paid from any money due the confederated bands of Ute Indians; and in addition thereto he is authorized to use the sum of eight thousand dollars out of any money available for that purpose heretofore appropriated: Provided, That before such school shall be established there shall be donated to the Government for the purpose of said school not less than one hundred and sixty acres of land, together with a sufficient amount of water for the cultivation thereof, on which land the said school buildings shall be erected; to be immediately available.

For support and education of three hundred and fifty Indian pupils, at one hundred and seventy-five dollars per annum each, at the Indian school at Lawrence, Kansas, sixty-one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; pay of superintendent of school, two thousand dollars; purchase of material and erection of shops, cottages, out-buildings, and necessary repairs, three thousand dollars; in all, sixty-six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. And the limitation imposed upon the appropriation for this school for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eightyfive in the act approved July fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, is hereby repealed.

For payment, out of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for support of schools for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, to the Indian Industrial School for Boys on the Flathead Indian Reservation, for clothing, subsisting, maintaining, and educating twenty Indian pupils in excess of the number provided for by contract with the Indian Department, during the twelve months beginning July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-three and ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, two thousand dollars.

For payment, out of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for support of schools for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, to Lincoln Institution, Philadelphia, for the education, support, and transportation of thirty-four pupils in excess of the number cared for at that institution, under written authority from the Interior Department, during the quarter ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eightyfour, one thousand dollars.

For support and education of two hundred Indian pupils at Lincoln Institution, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at a rate not to exceed one hundred and sixty-seven dollars per annum for each pupil, thirty-three thousand four hundred dollars.

For care, support, and education of Indian pupils at industrial, agricultural, mechanical, or other schools, other than those herein provided for, in any of the States or Territories of the United States, at a rate not to exceed one hundred and sixty-seven dollars for each pupil, eighty-three thousand five hundred dollars. And wherever the word "children" or "child" occurs in that part of the act making appropriations for the Indian service for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-five, approved July fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, under the heading "Support of schools," it shall be constructed to include all Indians of whatever age that may have been or are pupils in any of the institutions therein provided for..

For transportation of pupils to and from Indian schools, and also for

the transportation of Indian pupils from all the Indian schools and placing of them, with the consent of their parents, under the care and control of such suitable white families as may in all respects be qualified to give such pupils moral, industrial, and educational training, under arrangements in which their proper care, support, and education shall be in exchange for the labor, twenty-eight thousand dollars.

The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to report to Congress, on or before December sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, the amount if any, due the Miami Indians of Indiana and Kansas for money alleged to have been improperly taken from moneys due to said Indians and paid to other Indians, in violation of the treaties of eighteen hundred and fifty-four and eighteen hundred and fiftyeight, including attorneys' fees necessarily paid by said Indians.

INTEREST ON TRUST-FUND ST CKS.

SEC. 2. For payment of interest on certain abstracted and non-paying State stocks belonging to the various Indian tribes, and held in trust by the Secretary of the Interior, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, namely:

For trust-fund interest due Cherokee national fund, twenty-six thousand and sixty dollars;

For trust-fund interest due Cherokee school-fund, two thousand four hundred and ten dollars;

For trust-fund interest due Chickasaw national fund, nineteen thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars;

For trust-fund interest due Choctaw general fund, twenty-seven thousand dollars;

For trust-fund interest due Delaware general fund, eight thousand nine hundred and thirty dollars;

For trust-fund interest due Iowas, three thousand five hundred and twenty dollars;

For trust-fund interest due Kaskaskias, Peorias, Weas, and Piankeshaws, four thousand eight hundred and one dollars;

For trust-fund interest due Kaskaskia, Wea, Peoria, and Piankeshaw school-fund, one thousand four hundred and forty-nine dollars;

For trust fund interest due Menomonees, nine hundred and fifty dollars;

For trust fund interest due Ottawas and Chippewas, two hundred and thirty dollars; in all, ninety-five thousand one hundred and seventy dollars.

SEC. 3. That no purchase of supplies for which appropriations are herein made exceeding in the aggregate five hundred dollars in value at any one time shall be made without first giving at least three weeks' public notice by advertisement, except in cases of exigency, when, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, who shall make official record of the facts constituting the exigency and shall report the same to Congress at its next session, he may direct that purchases may be made in open market in amount not exceeding three thousand dollars. SEC. 4. That so much of the appropriations herein made as may be required to pay for goods and supplies, and for transportation of the same, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eightysix, shall be immediately available; but no such goods or supplies shall be distributed or delivered to any of said Indians prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-five; and the Secretary of the

Interior, under the direction of the President, may use any surplus that may remain in any of the said appropriations herein made for the purchase of subsistence for the several Indian tribes, to an amount not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars in the aggregate, to supply any subsistence deficiency that may occur: Provided, however, That funds appropriated to fulfill treaty obligations shall not be so used: And provided further, That any diversions which shall be made under authority of this section shall be reported in detail, and the reasons therefor, to Congress, at the session of Congress next succeeding such diversion: And provided further, That the Secretary of the Interior, under the direction of the President, may use any sums appropriated in this act for subsistence, and not absolutely necessary for that purpose, for the purchase of stock cattle for the benefit of the tribe for which such appropriation is made, or for the assistance of such Indians to become farmers, and shall report to Congress, at its next session thereafter, an account of his action under this provision.

SEC. 5. That when not required for the purpose for which appropriated, the funds herein provided for the pay of specified employees at any agency may be used by the Secretary of the Interior for the pay of other employees at such agency, but no deficiency shall be thereby created, and, when necessary, specified employees may be detailed for other service when not required for the duty for which they were engaged; and that the several appropriations herein made for millers, blacksmiths, engineers, carpenters, physicians, and other persons, and for various articles provided for by treaty stipulation for the several Indian tribes, may be diverted to other uses for the benefit of the said tribes, respectively, within the discretion of the President, and with the consent of said tribes, expressed in the usual manner; and that he cause report to be made to Congress, at its next session thereafter, of his action under this provision.

SEC. 6. That whenever, after advertising for bids for supplies in accordance with section three of this act, those received for any article contain conditions detrimental to the interest of the Government, they may be rejected, and the articles specified in such bids purchased in open market, at prices not to exceed those of the lowest bidder, and not to exceed the market price of the same, until such time as satisfactory bids can be obtained, for which immediate advertisement shall be made. SEC. 7. That at any of the Indian reservations where there is now on hand Government property not required for the use and benefit of the Indians at said reservations, the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to move such property to other Indian reservations where it may be required, or to sell it and apply the proceeds of the same in the purchase of such articles as may be needed for the use of the Indians for whom said property was purchased; and he shall make report of his action hereunder to the next session of Congress thereafter.

SEC. 8. That the President is hereby authorized to open negotiations with the Creeks, Seminoles, and Cherokees for the purpose of opening to settlement under the homestead laws the unassigned lands in said Indian Territory ceded by them respectively to the United States by the several treaties of August eleventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and July nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six; and for that purpose the sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated; his action hereunder to be reported to Congress.

SEC. 9. That immediately upon and after the date of the passage of this act all Indians, committing against the person or property of another Indian or other person any of the following crimes, namely, murder, manslaughter, rape, assault with intent to kill, arson, burglary, and larceny within any Territory of the United States, and either within or without an Indian reservation, shall be subject therefor to the laws of such Territory relating to said crimes, and shall be tried therefor in the same courts and in the same manner and shall be subject to the same penalties as are all other persons charged with the commission of said crimes, respectively; and the said courts are hereby given jurisdiction in all such cases; and all such Indians committing any of the above crimes against the person or property of another Indian or other person within the boundaries of any State of the United States, and within the limits of any Indian reservation, shall be subject to the same laws, tried in the same courts and in the same manner, and subject to the same penalties as are all other persons committing any of the above crimes within the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States.

Approved, March 3d, 1885.

[PUBLIC-No. 88.]

AN ACT making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the service of the Post-Office Department for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, out of any money in the Treasury arising from the revenues of said Department, in conformity to the act of July second, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, as follows:

OFFICE OF THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL.-For mail depredations and post-office inspectors, including amounts necessary for fees to United States marshals and attorneys, two hundred thousand dollars; and of this sum three thousand dollars shall be paid the chief post-office inspector; and post-office inspectors shall be allowed four dollars per day, in lieu of the charges now permitted, for personal expenses; and not exceeding five thousand dollars of this amount may be expended for fees to United States attorneys, marshals, clerks of courts, and counsel necessarily employed by post-office inspectors of the Post-Office Department, subject to approval by the Attorney-General.

For advertising, twenty thousand dollars.

For miscellaneous items in the office of the Postmaster-General, one thousand five hundred dollars.

OFFICE OF THE FIRST ASSISTANT POSTMASTER-GENERAL.-For compensation to postmasters, twelve million three hundred thousand dollars.

For compensation to clerks in post-offices, five million one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. And postmasters are authorized, with the approval of the Postmaster-General, to assign at any time any clerk or employé of their respective post-offices to duty in any branch thereof: Provided always, That any employé shall be paid from money-order funds for such time as he is engaged in money-order work.

For payment to letter-carriers and the incidental expenses of the freedelivery system, four million four hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars; forty-five thousand dollars of which may be used, in the discretion of the Postmaster-General, for the establishment, under existing law, of the free-delivery system in cities where it is not now established.

For wrapping-paper, thirty-five thousand dollars.

For wrapping-twine, eighty-five thousand dollars.

For post-marking, canceling, and rating stamps, and ink and pads, twenty thousand dollars.

For letter-balances, test-weights, and scales, twenty thousand dollars. For rent, light, and fuel, four hundred and ninety thousand dollars. That the Postmaster General may in the disbursement of this appropriation, apply part thereof to the purpose of leasing premises for use for post-offices of the first, second, and third classes at a reasonable annual rental, to be paid quarterly for a term not exceeding five years; and whenever any building or part of a building under lease becomes unfit for use as a post-office, no rent shall be paid until the same shall