newspapers, freight (foreign and domestic), telegrams, advertising, messenger service, traveling expenses of consular officers and conLoss by exchange. sular assistants, compensation of Chinese writers, loss by exchange, and such other miscellaneous expenses as the President may think necessary for the several consulates and consular agencies in the transaction of their business, and payment in advance of subscriptions for newspapers (foreign and domestic) under this appropriation is hereby authorized, $1,000,000. Seamen's mission, Rio de Janeiro. Reeducation of war cripples. SEAMEN'S MISSION AT RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL. Annual contribution toward the support of the seamen's mission at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, $50. INTERALLIED COMMITTEE FOR THE REEDUCATION OF WAR CRIPPLES. For the contribution of the United States toward the maintenance Contribution to In- of the permanent Interallied Committee for the Reeducation of War Cripples, $6,000. terallied Committee. INTERNATIONAL TRADE-MARK REGISTRATION BUREAU QUOTA OF International trademark registration. bureau. Vol. 39, p. 1680. For the annual share of the United States for the expenses of the Expenses, Habana maintenance of the International Trade-Mark Registration Bureau at Habana, including salaries of the director and counselor, assistant director and counselor, clerks, translators, secretary to the director, stenographers and typewriters, messenger, watchmen, and laborers, rent of quarters, stationery and supplies, including the purchase of books, postage, traveling expenses, and the cost of printing the bulletin, $14,112. Passport control. Expenses, regulating entry of aliens. Vol. 40, p. 559. p. 353. EXPENSES, PASSPORT-CONTROL ACT. For expenses of regulating entry into the United States, in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved May 22, 1918, Public Laws, 1st sess., and Public Act Numbered 79 of the Sixty-sixth Congress, when the Additional to bal- latter Act shall have become effective, $250,000, in addition to the Public Laws, 1st sess., remaining $150,000 of the sum appropriated by section 4 of said Public Act Numbered 79. ance. p. 354. Passports. Fees established for Provisos. State officials. Persons exempted. FEES FOR PASSPORTS AND VISÉS. SECTION 1. From and after the 1st day of July, 1920, there shall application and issue be collected and paid into the Treasury of the United States quarterly a fee of $1 for executing each application for a passport and $9 for each passport issued to a citizen or person owing allegiance to or entitled to the protection of the United States: Provided, That Retention of fee by nothing herein contained shall be construed to limit the right of the Secretary of State by regulation to authorize the retention by State officials of the fee of $1 for executing an application for a passport: And provided further, That no fee shall be collected for passports issued to officers or employees of the United States proceeding abroad in the discharge of their official duties, or to members of their immediate families, or to seamen, or to widows, children, parents, brothers, and sisters of American soldiers, sailors, or marines, buried abroad whose journey is undertaken for the purpose and with the intent of visiting the graves of such soldiers, sailors, or marines, which facts shall be made a part of the application for the passport. Alien passports. SECTION 2. From and after the 1st day of July, 1920, there shall be collected and paid into the Treasury of the United States quarterly Fees for visé and application for. Proviso. Persons exempt. a fee of $1 for executing each application of an alien for a visé and $9 for each visé of the passport of an alien: Provided, That no fee shall be collected from any officer of any foreign Government, or members of his immediate family, its armed forces, or of any State, district, or municipality thereof, traveling to or through the United States, or of any soldiers coming within the terms of the public Vol. 40, p. 1014. resolution approved October 19, 1918 (Fortieth Statutes at Large, part 1, page 1014). SEC. 3. The validity of a passport or visé shall be limited to two Validity limited. years, unless the Secretary of State shall by regulation limit the valid ity of such passport or visé to a shorter period. Return of passport SEC. 4. Whenever the appropriate officer within the United fee if visé refused by States of any foreign country refuses to visé a passport issued by foreign officer. the United States, the Department of State is hereby authorized upon request in writing and the return of the unused passport within six months from the date of issue to refund to the person to whom the passport was issued the fees which have been paid to Federal officials, and the money for that purpose is hereby appropriated and directed to be paid upon the order of the Secretary of State. Authority to issue Vol. 34, p. 1228, re SEC. 5. Section 1 of the Act approved March 2, 1907, entitled passports to persons "An Act in reference to the expatriation of citizens and their pro- not citizens repealed. tection abroad" (Thirty-fourth Statutes at Large, part 1, page 1228), pealed. authorizing the Secretary of State to issue passports to certain persons not citizens of the United States is hereby repealed. Approved, June 4, 1920. CHAP. 224.-An Act To provide for the allotment of lands of the Crow Tribe, for the distribution of tribal funds, and for other purposes. June 4, 1920. [S. 2890.] [Public, No. 239.] Crow Indian Reser Allotment of unreserved lands on. Distribution. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the vation, Mont. Interior be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to cause to be alloted the surveyed lands and such unsurveyed lands as the commission hereinafter provided for may find to be suitable for allotment, within the Crow Indian Reservation in Montana (not including the Big Horn and Pryor Mountains, the boundaries whereof to be determined by said commission with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior) and not herein reserved as hereinafter provided, among the members of the Crow Tribe, as follows namely, one hundred and sixty acres to the heirs of every enrolled member, entitled to allotment, who died unallotted after December 31, 1905, and before the passage of this Act; next, one hundred and sixty acres to every allotted member living at the date of the passage of this Act, who may then be the head of a family and has not received allotment as such head of a family; and thereafter to prorate the remaining unallotted allotable lands and allot them so that every enrolled member living on the date of the passage of this Act and entitled to allotment shall receive in the aggregate an equal share of the allotable tribal lands for his total allotment of land of the Crow Tribe. Allotments made hereunder shall vest title in the allottee subject only to existing tribal leases, which leases in no event shall be renewed or extended by the Secretary of the Interior after the passage of this Act, and shall as hereinafter provided be evidenced by patents in fee to competent Indians, except Trust patents for as to homesteads as hereinafter provided, but by trust patent to minors and incompetent Indians, the force and legal effect of the trust patents to be as is prescribed by the General Allotment Act of February 8, 1887 (Twenty-fourth Statutes, page 388). Priority of Priority of selection. selection, up to three hundred and twenty acres, is hereby given to the members of the tribe who have as yet received no allotment on Titles subject only to tribal leases. homesteads. Proviso. competent Indians. the Crow Reservation, and thereafter all members enrolled for allotment hereunder shall in all respects be entitled to equal rights and privileges, as far as possible, in regard to the time, manner, and Patents in fee to amount of their respective selections: Provided, That Crow Indians who are found to be competent may elect, in writing, to have their allotments, except as herein provided, patented to them in fee. OtherHomestead restric- wise trust patents shall be issued to them. No patent in fee shall be issued for homestead lands of a husband unless the wife joins in the application, who shall be examined separately and apart from her husband and a certificate of the officer taking her acknowledgment Conveyance by In- shall fully set forth compliance with this requirement. tions. dians to large landowners forbidden. SEC. 2. No conveyance of land by any Crow Indian shall be authorized or approved by the Secretary of the Interior to any person, company, or corporation who owns at least six hundred and forty acres of agricultural or one thousand two hundred and eighty acres of grazing land within the present boundaries of the Crow Indian Reservation, nor to any person who, with the land to be acquired by such conveyance, would become the owner of more than one thousand two hundred and eighty acres of agricultural or one thousand nine hundred and twenty acres of grazing land within said reservation. Any conveyance by any such Indian made either directly or indirectly to any such person, company, or corporation of any land within said reservation as the same now exists, whether Punishment for ac- held by trust patent or by patent in fee shall be void and the grantee accepting the same shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and be punished by a fine of not more than $5,000 or imprisonment not more than six months or by both such fine and imprisonment. Conveyance void. cepting. Classification and allotment. Vol. 36, p. 859. Complete rolls of Tribe to be prepared. The classification of the lands of such reservation for the purpose of allotment and the allotment thereof shall be made as provided in the Act of Congress approved June 25, 1910 (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page 859), which classification with any heretofore made by authority of law as to lands heretofore allotted shall be conclusive, for the purposes of this section, as to the character of the land involved. SEC. 3. That the Secretary of the Interior shall, as speedily as possible, after the passage of this Act, prepare a complete roll of the members of the Crow Tribe who died unallotted after December 31, 1905, and before the passage of this Act; also, a complete roll of the allotted members of the Crow Tribe who six months after the date hereof are living and are heads of families but have not received full allotments as such; also, a complete roll of the unallotted members of the tribe living six months after the approval of this Act who are Made final allot- entitled to allotments. Such rolls when completed shall be deemed the final allotment rolls of the Crow Tribe, on which allotment of all tribal lands and distribution of all tribal funds existing at said date shall be made. The rolls shall show the English, as well as the Indian, name of the allottee; the age, if living; the sex, whether declared competent or incompetent; the description or descriptions of the allotments; and any other fact deemed by the Secretary of the Interior necessary or proper. Said rolls shall be completed within one year after the approval of this Act, and allotments shall be completed within one year and six months from the date of the approval of this Act. ment rolls. Contents. Completion. Fraudulent names to be stricken off, etc. SEC. 4. That any names found to be on the tribal rolls fraudulently, may, at any time within one year from the passage of this Act, be stricken therefrom by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, after giving all parties in interest a full opportunity to be heard in regard thereto; and any allotment made to such fraudulent allottee shall be canceled and shall Protection of legal then be subject to disposition under the provision of this Act: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to deprive Proviso. rights. any such persons of the protection in the premises provided under existing law. vations retained. etc. Provisos. Fee patents to reliorganizations, SEC. 5. That such of the unallotted lands as are now used for Agency, etc., reseragency, school, cemetery, or religious purposes shall remain reserved from allotment so long as such agency, school, cemetery, or religious institutions, respectively, are maintained for the benefit of the tribe: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior, upon the request of the tribal council, is hereby authorized and directed to cause to be issued gious a patent in fee to the duly authorized missionary board or other proper authority of any religious organization heretofore engaged in mission or school work on the reservation for such lands thereon as have been heretofore set aside and are now occupied by such organizations for missionary or school purposes: Provided further, That not more than six hundred and forty acres may be reserved for administrative purposes at the Crow Agency, and six tracts of not exceeding eighty acres each, in different districts on the reservation, may be reserved for recreation grounds for the common use of the tribe, or purchased from the tribal funds if no tribal lands are available, and all such lands shall be definitely described and made a matter of record by the Indian Office. Agency and recrea tion lands reserved. served for tribal bene Leases authorized. SEC. 6. That any and all minerals, including oil and gas, on any Mineral deposits reof the lands to be allotted hereunder are reserved for the benefit of the fit. members of the tribe in common and may be leased for mining purposes, upon the request of the tribal council under such rules, regulations, and conditions as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, but no lease shall be made for a longer period than ten years, but the lessees shall have the right to renewal thereof for a further period of ten years upon such terms and conditions as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe: Provided, however, That allotments hereunder may be made of lands classified as valuable chiefly for coal or other mineral reservations. minerals which may be patented as herein provided with a reservation, set forth in the patent, of the coal, oil, gas, or other mineral deposits for the benefit of the Crow Tribe: And provided further, That at the of allottee after fifty expiration of fifty years from the date of approval of this Act unless years. otherwise ordered by Congress the coal, oil, gas, or other mineral deposits upon or beneath the surface of said allotted lands shall become the property of the individual allottee or his heirs. Provisos. with To become property Appropriation for SEC. 7. That there is hereby appropriated the sum of $50,000, or expenses. so much thereof as may be necessary, from any funds in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Crow Tribe of Indians not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of making the surveys and allotments and for other expenses provided for herein. Irrigable lands to pay Proviso. SEC. 8. That any allotment, or part of allotment, provided for irrigation charges. under this Act, irrigable from any irrigation system now existing or hereafter constructed by the Government on the said reservation, shall bear its pro rata share, computed on a per acre basis, of the cost of constructing such system: Provided, That no additional irrigation Consent of tribe resystem shall be established or constructed by the Government for quired for additional the irrigation of Indian lands on the Crow Reservation until the project. consent of the tribal council thereto has been duly obtained. All charges against allotments authorized by this section shall be reimbursed in not less than twenty annual payments, and the Secretary of the Interior may fix such operation and maintenance charges against such allotments as may be reasonable and just, to be paid as provided in rules and regulations to be prescribed by him. Unless otherwise Payment of charges. paid, these latter charges may be paid from or made a charge upon his individual share of the tribal fund, when said fund is available for distribution; and if any allottee shall receive patent in fee to his allotment before the amount so charged against his land has been paid, such unpaid amount shall become and be a lien upon his allotment, tures reimbursable. Lien for charges to be recited in patents. acquired. the of which a record shall be kept in the office of the superintendent of the reservation at the agency; and should any Indian sell any part of his allotment, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, the amount of such unpaid charges against the land so sold shall remain a first lien thereon, and may be enforced by the Secretary of the Irrigation expendi- Interior by foreclosure as a mortgage. All expenditures for irrigation work on the Crow Reservation, Montana, heretofore or hereafter made, are hereby declared to be reimbursable under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe and shall constitute a lien against the land benefited, regardless of ownership, and including all lands which have heretofore been sold or patented. All patents or other instruments of conveyance hereafter issued for lands under any irrigation project on the said Crow Indian Reservation, whether to individual Indians or to purchasers of Indian land, shall recite a lien for repayment of the irrigation charges, if any, remaining unpaid at the time of issuance of such patent or other instrument of conveyance, and such lien may be enforced or, upon payment of the delinquent charges, may be released by the Secretary of the InPurchasers believing terior. In the case of lands under any project purchased in the bona Indian right of water fide belief on the part of the purchaser that by his purchase he acquired a right to have water from the system for the irrigation of the land purchased by him in the same manner as the Indian owner, Secretary may, after notice to the Indians interested, determine the value of the land at the time of the purchase from the Indian, and give to the purchaser or his assigns credit on the charge for construction against the land to the amount of the difference between the price paid and the value as so determined, and shall withhold for the benefit of the tribe from the Indian or Indians of whom the purchase was made, an equal amount from any funds which may be due or distributable to then hereunder. Delivery of water to such land may be refused, within the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, Right to water sub- until all dues are paid: Provided, That no right to water or to the use of any irrigation ditch or other structure on said reservation shall vest until the owner of the land to be irrigated shall comply with such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, and he is hereby authorized to prescribe such rules and regulations as may be deemed reasonable and proper for making effective the No payment until foregoing provisions: Provided, however, That in no case shall any allottee be required to pay either construction, operation, or maintenance charges for such irrigation privileges, or any of them, until water has been actually delivered to his allotment: Provided further, of construction costs to That the Secretary of the Interior shall cause to be made immediately, if not already made, an itemized statement showing in detail the cost of the construction of the several irrigation systems now existing on the Crow Indian Reservation separately, the same to be placed at the Crow Agency, and with the Government farmers of each of the districts of the reservation, for the information of the Indians affected by this section. Credit allowed. ject to compliance with rules, etc. delivery of water. Detailed statement be made, etc. Intoxicants prohib ited. Water power reservations. Trust funds disposi tion under former Act, repealed. Vol. 33, p. 357, repealed. SEC. 9. That lands within said reservation, whether allotted, unallotted, or otherwise disposed of, shall be subject to all laws of the United States prohibiting the introduction of intoxicating liquors into the Indian country until otherwise provided by Congress. SEC. 10. That any unallotted lands on the Crow Reservation chiefly valuable for the development of water power shall be reserved from allotment or other disposition hereunder, for the benefit of the Crow Tribe of Indians. SEC. 11. That so much of article 2 of the Act of April 27, 1904, entitled "An Act to ratify and amend an agreement with the Indians of the Crow Reservation in Montana, and making appropriations to carry the same into effect" (Thirty-third Statutes, page 353), as |