The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-01-13
Laws of Congress Enacted During the Present
Session.

Laws of Congress Enacted During the Present
Session.
[PUBLIC-No. A.
AN ACT to provide for the extinguishment o.
the title of the Chippewa Indians to the lands
owned and claimed by them in the Territory
of Minnesota and State of Wisconsin, and fol
their domestication and civilization.
BE it enacted By the Senate and House OF
Representatives Of the United States of finer
lea IN Congress assembled, That the President
be and is hereby authorized to cause negotia
tions to be entered into with the Chippewa In
dams for the eXtinguishment of their title tt
all the lands owned and claimed by them in the
Territory of Minnesota and State of Wisconsin
which treaties shall contain the following pro
visions and such others as may be requisite
and proper to carry the same into effect
First. Granting to each head of family il
fec simple reservation of eighty acres of land
to be selected in the territory coded, as soor
as surveys shall be completed. by those emit
tied. which reservation shall be patented by
the President of the United States, and the pa
tent therefore shall expressly declare that the
said lands shall not be alienated or leased by
the reserves or their heirs and legal represen
tatives until otherwise ordered by Congress
and no change of location shall be made with
out the assent of the President of the United
States.
Second. The annuities to which said Indian.
are entitled under existing treaties with the
consent of said Indians, together with such al
may be allowed them for the cession or cess
ions under the provisions of this act, shall be
equally distributed and paid them at their vii
lagos or settlements within the limits of the ce
ded territory but the President shall be in
vested with power to cause said annuities tt
be committed from time to time for. such article!
of goods, provisions, stock, cattle, implement!
of agriculture, the clearing and fencing ofland
and the erection of buildings and other i'm
provements as, in his discretion, will conduct
most to promote their comfort, civilization ,anG
permanent welfare. ea
Third. All the benefits and privileges gran
ed to said Indians shall he extended to and en-
joyed by the mixed bloods belonging to OF con
nected with the tribe, and who shall perma
nently reside on the ceded lands.
Fourth. The laws of the United States anG
the Territory ofMinnesota shall be extended
over the Chippewa territory in Minnesots
whenever the same shall be ceded, land the same
shall cease to be "Indian country" except thai
the lands reserved to said Indians or Other
property owned by them shall be exempt from
further taxation and execution ; and that the
act passed thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred
and fifty -four, ito regulate trade and inter
course with the Indian Tribes &C., be inopera
tive over the said coded territory, except the
twentieth section, which prohibits the intro
dams.
Fifth. The President shall have power to
prescribe and enforce such rules and regula
tons, not inconsistent with the foregoing pro-
visions, as he may deem necessary for the eff
fectual execution of the purposes of this act
which said rules and regulations shall be an.
nually reported to Congress-
Sec. 2. find be 1T further enacted, That, fol
the purpose of defraying the expenses of said
negotiations, the sum of ten thousand dollars
be and the same is hereby appropriated out o.
any money in the Treasury not otherwise ap
prOpriated. ......
Approved, December 10, 1854. .
[PUBLIC-No.2.]
AN ACT to relinquish to the State of Wiscon
sin the lands reserved for salt springs therein
Be 1T enacted by the Senate and House OF
Representatives of tho United States Of .amer-
lea IN Congress assembled, That in lieu Of
the "twelve salt springs, with six sections oil
land adjoining to each," heretofore granted to
the State of Wisconsin for its use by the fourth
clause of the seventh section of the act entitled
''an act to enable the people of Wisconsin Ter
eminent, and for the admission of such State
into the Union," approved the sixth day Of
August, in the year eighteen hundred and for
six, there be and is hereby granted to the said
State ofWisconsin, to be selected by the Leg
islature of said State out of any public land
subject to private entry, and to be sold in such
manner as the Legislature may direct, for the
benefit and in aid of the University of said
State, and for no other purpose whatever. sew.
enty two sections of land: Provided, That
any selections ofland heretofore made under
the act entitled can act to extend the time for
selecting land granted TO the State of Wiscon-
sin for saline purposes" approved the fourth
day of May, eighteen hundred and fifty two, and
which shall not have been sold by the United
States, and is not legally claimed by pre-empt-
ion or otherwise, shall be and hereby are gran
ed and confirmed to said State for the use OF
the university of said State, as part of the
sections hereby granted.
Approved, December Is, 1854.
JAPAN MoRMoNIsM.- is common
in Japan. Besides wifc-who is always the
mistress of the family-every man who can af-
ford it seems to have from one to five, or six
Notwithstanding upon his means or in
are bought from their parents
while young. These creatures do not of course
either black their teeth or shave their eyebrows
and are often quite comedy. They are made to
perform the duties of maid servants, and are
through Jealousy, very cruelty
treated. At Simoda, this class appeared to
admire the foreigners very much. and were in
often ordered out of their sight.
FOREIGN ITEMs.-Mr. Macaulay is said to
have made an important discovery of mass of
Stuart papers relating to period immediate
ly anterior to the death of Queen Anne. This
1ircovery will, while adding to the value and
Importance of what he is about, delay, at the