The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-12-13
PUBLIC ACTS.

close OF the session. GALCSHA a OROW,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
CHAP. XXXIV.
An Act to establish the Office of Register of Deeds
for the District of Columbia.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re-
presentativcs of the United States OF America in
Congress assembled, That there shall be appoint
ed by the President, by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate, register OF deeds Tor the
District of Columbia, who shall perform all the
duties respecting of deeds and other instruments
of writing aud all other services connec led there
WITH authorized to be performed by the clerk OF
the Circuit Court of said District by the fifth sec
tion of the act approved March three, eighteen
hundred and one, entitled IAN Act supplement
tary to the act entitled 'Au act concerning the
District of Columbia" and shall receive the
same fees and emoluments for the And
the said register shall receive and have the charge
and custody of all records papers, and property
which may be in the custody OF all the records,
papers, and property which may be in the custo-
dy possession of said clerk of the Circuit Court
properly appartaining to and belonging to the OF
flee OF the register of deeds; and the said clerk is
hereby required to deliver the same to said regis
ter upon proper application therefor.
Sec. 2 And be it further enacted, That the
Secretary of the Interior be directed to appro-
pirate such rooms in any of the public buildings
under his charge for the use of said register
may be necessary for his accommodation, unless it
shall appear to said Secretary that such rooms
cannot be SO appropriated without interfering
with the business of his Department.; and in that
event the said register shall PROCURE with the ap
y,
city of Washington, as may be necessary for the
security of the records and the convenient tran
sacton of the business of said Office
Sec. g. And be it further enacted, That all
acts and parts OF acts inconsistent with the pro-
visions of this act be, and the same are hereby,
Approved, February IA, 1868.
CHAP. XXXVI
An Act to issue an American Register to the
Steamship Karnak.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re-
personalities of the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the
Treasury is hereby directed TO issue American
register to the steamship or vessel known as the
Karnak, of the collection district of the port of
New York, the same being British build vessel,
but now owned by American citizens.
APPROVED, February IL, 1868.
CHAP XXXVII -
An Act for the Relief of Persons for Damages sus-
tanned by reason of Depradations and Injuries
by certain Bands of Sioux Indians
Whereas the United States heretofore became
bound by treaty stipulations to the Sisseton,
Wanpaton, Medawakanton. and Wa b lpakoota
bands of the Dakota or Siox Indians to pay
large sums of money and annuties, the greater
portion of which r. mains unpaid according to
whereas during the past year the aforesaid
bands of Indians made an unprovoked, aggres-
sive, and most savage war upon the United
women, and children within the State of Mime
sofa, and destroyed and damaged large amount
of property, and thereby have forfeited all just
claim to the said moneys and annuities TO the
United States; and whereas it is just and equ-
table that the persons whose property has been
destroyed damaged by the said Indians, or
destroyed or damaged by the troops OF the u
nited States in said war, should be UNIDENTIFIED
in whole or in part out OF the indebtedness and
annuites forfeited as aforesaid: There |
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re |
presentativcs of the United States of America in |
{ That al hpr
made and entered into by the Sisseton, Wahpa- |
ton, Madawakanton, and Wahpak oota bands of
Sioux or Dakota Indians, or amy of them, with
the United States, hereby declared TO be abro |
gated and anpulled, so far said treaties any
of them purport to impose any future obligation |
on the United States, and all lands and rights of
occupancy within the State of Minnesota, and all
annuities and claims heretofore accorded TO said
Indians, or any of them, to be forfeited to the u
Sec 2 And be it further enacted, That two |
thirds of the balance remaining uneXpcnded of
annutics due and payable to said Indians for the
present fiscal year, not exceeding one hundred |
thousand dollars, and the further sum of one |
hundred thousaad dollars, being two thirds OF |
the annuities becoming due and payable to said !
Indians during the next fiscal year, is hereby ap
propriated, and snail be paid from the Treasury |
Of the United States, out of any moneys not 9th |
erwise appropriated, to the commissioners here !
matter provided for, to he apportioned by them |
among the heads of families, or, in of their |
deccase, among the surviving members of fami- |
lies of the State of Minnesota who suffered dam !
ton, Medawakanion, and Wa[hlpakoota in the |
late Indian war in the State of Minnesota, not eX-
ceedng the sum of two hundred dollars to any |
one family, the actual damages aforesaid, and |
no moneys shall be paid under this section ex- |
cept upon those claims which shall be presented |
to said commissioners on or before the first day |
of June next, for the payment of which the said |
shall take and return to the Sccre-
tary of Il Interior and to the Secretary of the
Treasury duplicate vouchers therefor, certified |
by them
Sec. 3. And pc it further enacted, That, for the |
purpose of making the proper distribution of the
moneys hereby appropriated for the present relief
of such families and for the purpose of ascertain
ing the whole amount of said damages and the |
persons who have suffered the same, it shall be |
lawful for the President, by and with the advice
and consent of the Senate, to appoint three COM
missioners not more than one of whom shall be |
a resident of Minnesota, who shall take an oath |
in the manner prescribed by the laws of the |
United States to faithfully discharge their duties;
they shall entertain and hear the complaints lin
writing, duly verified on oath) of all and every |
person aggrieved by the depredations of said In
dans, and by the troops of the United States in |
said war they shall have power to compel the at
tendance of witnesses, and to administer the pro-
per oaths them to testify the truth; they shall
have power to compel the claimants to be exam |
ned and cross-examined on oath, to be admins,
tered by t EN-, as to their said claim; they shall |
hold their sessions at such times and places as |
will give the persons complaining the fairest op
portIInity of verifying their claim with the least
expense they shall take care that no unjust or
fictitious claim shall be establshed and if they !
have any reason to suppose that any such claim |
is presented, they shall have power, and 1t shall
be their duty to procure any countervalllng proof
to their knowledge, that the same may be finally |
rejected The testimony of the witnesses and the |
examination of the complainant shall DC reduced !
to writing, signed and certified by them, respec-
lively, and shall, with the petition and all the pa
commission, be transmitted to the Secretary of
the Interior for his approval, rejection or modl-