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known as the northern district: And provided, further, That
if it shall be found impracticable to establish the reservations
herein contemplated without embracing improvements made
within their limits by white persons lawfully there, the Secre-
tary of the Interior is hereby authorized and empowered to
contract for the purchase of such improvements, at a
price not exceeding a fair valuation thereof to be made un-
der his direction. But such contract shall be valid, nor
any money paid theron, until, upon a report of said contract
and of said valuation to Congress, the same shall be approved
and the money appropriated by law for that purpose :
And provided, further, That said tracts to be set apart
as aforesaid may, or may not, as in the discretion of the
President may be deemed for the best interests of the Indians
to be provided for, include any of th Indian reservations
heretofore set apart in said State, and that in case any such
reservation is so included, the same may be enlarged to such
an extent as in the opinion of the President may be necessary,
in order to its complete adaptation to the purposes for which
it is intended.

Sec.3 And be it further enacted, That the several
Indian reservations in California which shall not be retained
for the purposes of Indian reservations under the provisions
of the preceding section of this act, shall, by the Commissioner
of the General Land Office, under the direction of the Secre-