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Volume 45

Private Law 70–130

To reimburse certain Indians of the Fort Belknap Reservation, Montana, for part or full value of an allotment of land to which they were individually entitled.

Approved March 5, 1928

Statutory text

An Act

To reimburse certain Indians of the Fort Belknap Reservation, Montana, for part or full value of an allotment of land to which they were individually entitled.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, from any funds in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $45,716.80 to reimburse the following-named Indians or their heirs, if deceased, in the amounts following their respective names as full compensation for the value of an allotment of land on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, Montana, to which they were individually entitled under the

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provisions of the Act of March 3, 1921 (Forty-first Statutes, page 1355) : Richard O’Bryan, $1,516.80; Bessie O’Bryan Dohmeyer, $3,400; Eva O’Bryan, $3,400; Kate O’Bryan Wernicke. $3,400; Gerald O’Bryan. $200; Barbara E. O’Bryan, $200 ; John F. O’Bryan, $3,400; Rose Ellen O’Bryan, $3,400 ; Archie DuBoise, $1,600; Henry Bradley, $1,000; George Bradley, $1,600 ; William Bradley, $1,600; Josephine First Raised, $1,600; Mary First Raised, $1,600; Bryan First Raised, $800; Elizabeth Parker, $3,400; Charles W. Parker, $3,400; Ambrose Parker, $3,400; Darlene E. Parker, $3,400; Adell Strike, $200; Rosella O’Bryan, $1,600; Daisy Adams, $1,600:

Proviso.

Manner of payment.

Provided, That the funds authorized to be appropriated hereby may be paid to the Indians in cash, or expended in the purchase of inherited or other trust lands within the Fort Belknap Reservation for which patents shall be issued of the same form as those held by other Indians of the reservation.

Approved, March 5, 1928.

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