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For subsistence and civilization of Nez Percés of Joseph's Band, in the Indian Territory, ten thousand dollars;

For advertising, at rates not exceeding regular commercial rates, telegraphing, inspection, and all other expenses connected with contracts and purchases for the Indian service, fifteen thousand dollars.

CHAP. 39.-An act for the relief of certain actual settlers on the Kansas trust and diminished reserve lands in the State of Kansas. [March 16, 1880.]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the persons included in the provisions of section one of the act approved July five, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, entitled "An act providing for the sale of the Kansas Indian lands in Kansas to actual settlers, and for the disposition of the proceeds of the sale," or the heirs, legal representatives and assigns of said persons, shall be permitted to complete the payment for the lands to which they are entitled under said act, at the newly appraised value as ascertained and approved by the Secretary of the Interior, under section three of said act, and in completing such payment credit shall be given for all sums heretofore paid as principal and interest, which sums shall be considered as constituting one instalment upon the present appraised value at the date when the last payment thereof was made; and the balance shall be paid in three equal instalments, the first to be paid on or before the first day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, and the remaining instalments shall be payable annually from the date of the first; each instalment to draw interest at the rate of six per centum per annum, from the date when the last payment heretofore made, was received by the district office: Provided, That if any of said persons have failed to make payment heretofore of any portion of the purchase money, as required under the act aforesaid, or the act of June twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventyfour, relating to these lands, such persons, their heirs, legal representatives or assigns, being in possession thereof, shall be required, prior to the first day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, to make entry and pay for their respective claims in three equal instalments, the first on the day of entry and the remaining instalments annually from that date and drawing interest at the rate of six per centum per annum until paid; bond being required in case of timbered lands to prevent waste as in section one of said act; and where such persons, their heirs, legal representatives or assigns are not in possession of said lands then the same may be entered as others of the said Kansas Indian lands, by actual settlers only.

SEC. 2. That all persons who have made entries under section two of the act of June twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, relating to these lands, may complete their payments upon such entries at the newly appraised value thereof in the same manner and upon the same terms, credits, and limitations as are provided in section one of this act.

SEC. 3. That the terms of the proviso of section two of the act of July fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, relating to default and forfeiture shall extend to all entries and requirements under the provisions of this act.

SEC. 4. Actual settlement on any of said lands shall be regarded as sufficient in all cases where the claimant actually resides on contiguous land to which he holds the legal title, and has heretofore cultivated and made valuable improvements on his adjoining claim, in good faith, for the purpose of a home for himself: Provided, Said claimant shall in all other respects comply with the law and the regulations issued thereunder by the General Land Office.

CHAP. 41.-An act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to deposit certain funds in the United States Treasury in lieu of investment. [April 1, 1880.]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to deposit, in the Treasury of the United States, any and all sums now held by him, or which may hereafter be received by him, as Secretary of the Interior and trustee of various Indian tribes, on account of the redemption of United_States bonds, or other stocks and securities belonging to the Indian trust-fund, and all sums received on account of sales of Indian trust-lands, and the sales of stocks lately purchased for temporary investment, whenever he is of the opinion that the best interests of the Indians will be promoted by such deposits, in lieu of investments; and the United States shall pay interest semi-annually, from the date of deposit of any and all such sums in the United States Treasury, at the rate per annum stipulated by treaties or prescribed by law, and such payments shall be made in the usual manner, as each may become due, without further appropriation by Congress.

CHAP. 61.-An act to amend an act entitled "An act for the removal of certain Indians in New Mexico," approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight. [April 23, 1880.) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proviso to the act approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, making an appropriation for the removal of the band of Apaches at Cimarron, New Mexico, to the Mescalero Apache Reservation at Fort Stanton, New Mexico, requiring the removal of said Indians within thirty days after the passage of the act, and forbidding the issue of rations and annuities to said Indians, except at the Mescalero Apache Agency, New Mexico, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to issue to said Indians their supplies and annuities at the Abiquiu Agency, New Mexico.

CHAP. 85.-An act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian_Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, and for other purposes. [May 11, 1880.]

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 they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of paying the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and fulfilling treaty stipulations with the various Indian tribes, namely:

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REMOVAL, SETTLEMENT, SUBSISTENCE, AND SUPPORT OF INDIANS.

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For subsistence and civilization of the Assinaboines in Montana, including pay of employees, twenty-five thousand dollars.

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For subsistence and civilization of the confederated tribes and bands in Middle Oregon, and for pay of employees, eight thousand dollars.

For subsistence and civilization of the D'Wamish and other allied tribes in Washington Territory, including pay of employees, eleven thousand dollars.

For subsistence and civilization of the Flatheads and other confederated tribes, pay of employees and of Indian chiefs, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars.

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For support, education, and civilization of the Mixed Shoshones, Bannocks, and Sheepeaters, including pay of employees, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For subsistence and civilization of the Qui-nai-elts and Quil-leh-utes, including pay of employees, six thousand dollars.

For support of industrial schools and for other educational purposes, for the Indian tribes, seventy-five thousand dollars.

For subsistence and civilization of the S'Klallam Indians, including pay of employees, eight thousand dollars.

For subsistence and civilization of the Walla-Walla, Cayuse, and Umatilla tribes, including pay of employees, fourteen thousand dollars.

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For subsistence and civilization of the Yakamas, including pay of employees, twenty-two thousand dollars.

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GENERAL INCIDENTAL EXPENSES OF THE INDIAN SERVICE.

Incidental expenses of Indian service in Arizona: For general incidental expenses of the Indian service, support and civilization of Indians at the Colorado River, Pima and Maricopa, and Moquis Pueblo agencies, twenty thousand dollars, and pay of employees at same agencies, sixteen thousand dollars; in all, thirty-six thousand dollars.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Telegraphing and purchase of Indian supplies: To contract for the Indian service, advertising at rates not exceeding regular commercial rates, inspection, and all other expenses connected therewith, including telegraphing, thirty thousand dollars: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized, whenever it can be done advantageously, to purchase for use in the Indian service, from Indian manual and training schools, in the manner customary among individuals such articles as may be manufactured at such schools, and which are used in the Indian service. Accounts of such transactions shall be kept in the Indian Bureau and in the training schools, and reports thereof made from time to time.

No part of the money appropriated by this act shall be paid, or in any way used, for the payment of the salaries or expenses of the Indian Commissioners provided for by section two thousand and thirty-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States.

Pay of Indian police: For the services of not exceeding eight hundred privates at five dollars per month each, and not exceeding one hundred officers at eight dollars per month each, of Indian police, and for equipments and rations, to be employed in maintaining order and prohibiting illegal traffic in liquor on the several Indian reservations, seventy thousand dollars: Provided, That teachers and Indians employed at agencies in any capacity shall not be construed as part of agency employees named in section five of the act making appropriations for the Indian service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five.

For additional clothing not specifically appropriated for under the treaties with the various tribes, to be distributed by the Secretary of the Interior in cases where necessary, forty-five thousand dollars; and he shall cause report to be made to Congress at its next session thereafter of his action under this provision.

To refund to the appropriation for Sioux of different tribes, including Santee Sioux of Nebraska, the proceeds of the sale of sheep and wool made in June last and covered into the Treasury, being two thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars and ninety cents, are hereby reappropriated, to be expended for the Yankton Sioux.

For this amount to pay the following-named persons the sums annexed to their

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To J. D. Abbott, of Cherokee County, North Carolina, one hundred and seventy-five dollars.

To M. C. King, of Cherokee County, North Carolina, two hundred and twelve dollars and three cents.

To M. L. Brittam, of Cherokee County, North Carolina, two hundred and thirtytwo dollars.

To Scroop Enloe, Jackson County, North Carolina, one hundred and twenty-five dollars and thirty-five cents; total, seven hundred and forty-four dollars and thirtyeight cents: Provided, That the amounts due as above set forth be charged to the fund held in trust by the Secretary of the Interior for the North Carolina Cherokees; and the proper accounting officer of the Treasury is hereby directed to pay the said sums to the above-named persons.

INTEREST ON TRUST-FUND STOCKS.

SEC. 2. 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 fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, 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 Creek orphans, four thousand and forty-eight 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-nine thousand two hundred and eighteen dollars.

SEC. 3. 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 contingency, 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 eighty-one, 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, and the Secretary of the Interior, under the direction of the President, may nse 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 fifty 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 all officers and agents of the Army and Indian Bureaus are prohibited, except in a case specially directed by the President, from granting permission in writing or otherwise to any Indian or Indians on any reservation to go into the State of Texas under any pretext whatever; and any officer or agent of the Army or Indian Bureau who shall violate this provision shall be dismissed from the public service. And the Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed and required to take at once such other reasonable measures as may be necessary in connection with said prohibition to prevent said Indians from entering said State.

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 the 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 the Secretary of the Treasury, be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed, semi-annually, to place to the credit of the L'Anse and Vieux de Sert bands of Chippewas, of Lake Superior, under the provisions of the act entitled "An act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to deposit certain funds in the United States Treasury in lieu of investment", approved April first, eighteen hundred and eighty, interest upon twenty thousand dollars, being the unexpended balance of money belonging to the said Indians appropriated under the provisions of the act entitled "An act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the government for the fiscal years ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three and eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes", approved June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and now to their credit on the books of the Treasury, said unexpended balance and interest thereon to be applied as provided in said act.

CHAP. 107.-An act for the relief of settlers on the Osage trust and diminished-reserve lands in Kansas, and for other purposes. [May 28, 1880.]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all actual settlers under existing laws upon the Osage Indian trust and diminished-reserve lands in Kansas (any failure to comply with such existing laws notwithstanding) shall be allowed sixty days after a day to be fixed by public notice by advertisement in two newspapers in each of the proper land districts, which day shall not be later than ninety days after the passage of this act, within which to make proof of their claims, and to pay one-fourth the purchase price thereof, and the said parties shall pay the balance of said purchase price in three equal annual installments thereafter: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent an earlier payment of the whole or any installment of said purchase money as aforesaid.

And if default be made by any settler in the payment of any portion or installment at the time it becomes due under the foregoing provisions, his entire claim, and any money he may have paid thereon, shall be forfeited, and the land shall, after proper notice, be offered for sale according to the terms hereinafter prescribed, unless before the day fixed for such offering the whole amount of purchase money shall be paid by said claimant, so as to entitle him to receive his patent for the tract embracing his claim.

SEC. 2. That all the said Indian lands remaining unsold and unappropriated and not embraced in the claims provided for in section one of this act, shall be subject to disposal to actual settlers only, having the qualifications of pre-emptors on the public lands. Such settlers shall make due application to the register with proof of settlement and qualifications as aforesaid; and, upon payment of not less than one-fourth the purchase price, shall be permitted to enter not exceeding one quarter section each, the balance to be paid in three equal installments, with like penalties, liabilities, and restrictions as to default and forfeiture as provided in section one of this act.

SEC. 3. All lands upon which such default has continued for ninety days shall be placed upon a list, and the Secretary of the Interior shall cause the same to be duly proclaimed for sale in the manner prescribed for the offering of the public lands, but

not exceeding one quarter section shall be sold to any one purchaser, at a price not less than the price fixed by law, but such lands, upon which such default shall be made, shall be offered for sale by advertisement of not less than thirty days in two newspapers in the proper land districts respectively, and unless the purchase price be fully paid before the day named in the notice, shall be sold for cash to the highest bidder at not less than the price fixed by law. And all such lands, subject to unpaid overdue installments, shall be so offered once every year. And if any of said lands shall remain unsold after the offering as aforesaid, they shall be subject to private entry, for cash in tracts not exceeding one quarter section by one purchaser.

SEC. 4. After the payment of the first installment as hereinafter provided for, such lands shall be subject to taxation according to the laws of the State of Kansas, as other lands are or may be in said State: Provided, That no sale of any such lands for taxes shall operate to deprive the United States, of said lands, or any part of the purchase-price thereof, but if default be made in any installment of the purchaseprice as aforesaid, such tax sale purchaser, or his or her legal representatives, may, upon the day fixed for the public sale, and after such default has become final, under the foregoing provisions, pay so much of said purchase-price as may remain unpaid, and shall thereupon be entitled to receive a patent for the same as though he had made due settlement thereon: And provided further, That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to deprive or impair the right of the settler, of the right of redemption under the revenue laws of the State of Kansas.

SEC. 5. That the register and the receiver shall be allowed the same fees and commissions as are allowed by law for the disposal of the public lands, and the net proceeds of the sales and disposals, after deducting the expenses of such disposals, shall be deposited to the credit of the proper Indian fund, as provided by existing laws; and the Secretary of the Interior shall make all rules and regulations necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this act.

SEC. 6. That nothing in this act shall be construed to interfere in any manner with the operation of the town-site laws as applicable to these lands: Provided, That all claims for entry under said statutes shall be proved up and fully paid for, before the day fixed for the commencement of the public sales provided for in section three of this act.

SEC. 7. In all cases arising under this act interest at the rate of five per cent. per annum shall be computed and paid upon all that part of the purchase money in respect to which time is given for the payment of the same.

CHAP. 223.—An act to accept and ratify the agreement submitted by the confederated bands of Ufe In dians in Colorado, for the sale of their reservation in said State, and for other purposes, and to make the necessary appropriations for carrying out the same. [June 15, 1880.]

Whereas certain of the chiefs and headmen of the confederated bands of the Ute tribe of Indians, now present in the city of Washington, have agreed upon and submitted to the Secretary of the Interior an agreement for the sale to the United States of their present reservation in the State of Colorado, their settlement upon lands in severalty, and for other purposes; and

Whereas the President of the United States has submitted said agreement, with his approval of the same, to the Congress of the United States for acceptance and ratification, and for the necessary legislation to carry the same into effect: Therefore

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That said agreement be, and the same is hereby, accepted, ratified, and confirmed: Provided, That the said agreement shall be amended by adding to the first clause thereof, after the words "guilty parties", the words following, to wit: "Until such surrender or apprehension, or until the President shall be satisfied that the guilty parties are no longer living or have fled beyond the limits of the United States, the proportion of the money, hereinafter provided, coming to that portion of the Ute Indians known as the White River Utes, except for removal and settlement, shall not be paid"; and by adding to the third express condition of said agreement after the word "forever", the words following, to wit: "Provided, That the President of the United States may, in his discretion, appropriate an amount thereof, not exceeding ten thousand dollars, for the education in schools established within or beyond the limits of the lands selected, of such youths of both sexes as in his judgment may be best qualified to make proficiency in practical industries and pursuits necessary for their self-support, and out of the portion of said moneys coming to the White River Utes, the United States shall pay annually to the following-named persons, during the period of twenty years, if they shall live so long, the following sums respectively: To Mrs. Arivella D. Meeker, five hundred dollars; to Miss Josephine Meeker five hundred dollars; to Mrs. Sophronia Price, five hundred dollars; to Mrs. Maggie Gordon, five hundred dollars; to George Dresser, two hundred dollars; to Mrs. Sarah M. Post, five hundred dollars; to Mrs. Eaton, mother of George Eaton, two hundred dollars; to the parents of Arthur L. Thompson two hundred dolars; to

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