The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-12-13
RALEIGH, n. c.. THURSDAY,
ing thereto, on or before the first day of Decem-

ing thereto, on or before the first day OF Decem-
Der next.
Sec. s. And be it further enacted, That said
commissioners shall receive for their services and
expenses the sum of two thousand five hundred
collars each. And they are authorized to depute
q proper person to summon witnesses, who shall
be entitled to receive his actual.eXpenses, to be
three dollars per day for his services. Witnesses
suoPenaed in behalf of the United States shall
receive pay for attendance, not to exceed the fees
allowed by the laws of Minnesota for witnesses
attending Justices courts And for paying the
expenses of said commission, the further sum of
ten thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out
OF the said annuites in the Treasury OF the United
States, or so much thereof as may be necessary to
pay the
Sec. g. And be it further enacted That the
Secretary of the interior, Immediately after the
passage OF this act, shall cause the same to be
published in four of the newspaper of the State of
Minnesota which, in his opinion, will give the
most publicity to the same among the p ople " no
have suffered by said depredations and i've notice
OF the first meeting of said commissi ners, the
eXpenses to be aid out of the sum apl ropriated
in the next preceding section.
Sec. z. And be it further enacted, That if the
complainant, or any witness testfying before said
commissioners, shall be guilty OF perjury, upon
conviction thereof i'll the proper co rt of the
United States, he shall suffer the pains and pen
aties prescribed by the laws of the United States
for that offence.
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted That the said
commissioners may make rules, not inconsistent
with this act, prescribing the order and mode of
presenting, prosecuting, and proving said cuims
before them which rules shall be published in
newspaper in the city OF Saint Paul and one in
Saint Peter for at least two weeks prior to the
first session of said commission, to be held at
Saint Peter as directed in the fourth section of
TINS act, and the expenses of such publication
shall be paid out OF the fund appropriated in the
fifth section of this act.
Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That the
Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to
set apart of the public lands, not otherwise ap
proprated, eighty acres in severalty to each indi
vidual of the before named bands who exerted
himself in rescuing the whites from the late mas
Indians
not be subject to any tax, forfeiture, sale, by
process of law, and snail not be aliened devised,
except by the consent of the President of the
United States, but shall be inner Iitance to said
Indians and their heirs forever.
Sec. TO- And be it further enacted, That said
commissioners, before entering upon the dis
charge of their duties such, shall give bonds in
the usual form to the United States, in the sum
of twenty thousand dollars each, with good AID
sufficient security, to be approved by the Secre-
tary of the Treasury faithfully to discharge their
duties such, and to account for any money
which may come into their hands.
Approved, February 16, 1868.