The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-10-20
Approved, April 6, 1859.
TPubIIc Re.sIur:on-No. Q
Public Re>BlGri0n-No- g.
A Resolution for the relief Of settlers upon tn.
absentee hawnee lands in Kansas.


A Resolution for the relief Of settlers upon the
absentee hawnee lands in Kansas.
Whereas large tract f LANDS set apart BY a
treaty ~iFE the Shawnee tribe ii Indians uateti
MAY Ijth. ammo DOnini ei-hteen hundred and
nfty-fJur. and proclaimed November sec nd. D.
1854 tor tn benefit Of certain ali entees VI
the sail Shawnee tribe, is now, and FOR IL my
past HIS been, Iccup ed by a large Number
If wilt. settlers and citizens of the state Of
Kansas: ant whereas the beneficial int. est Of
the sld absentee >hawnees II said lands was and
il absoU ely forfeited by reason If their continued
absence liafiJn with the SAID Shawnee
tribe +: and whereas the said Lands ordered
10 D publicly sold At the United States Hard otce
1T Topeka, August IN ri. eighteen hundred and
sixty-tfrve, by Abraham Liscoin, President, by
h., tr,sllulaIipn dated March twentieth ammo
Dom nj eighteen hundred and sixty three AMI by
reason of the absence Of large numbers Vt said
settlers from their homes in the federal armies the
sale was Indefinitely postponed; Therefore,
Resolved by the Senate and House Of Repre-en-
tatives OF the United States Of America IN Con
ere-s assembled. That each bona hie s-ttler now
occupying sdi laats and having made improve
raents thereon, the heirs at law Of sncn, who
a cItiz=n # the United States VIII has de-
cizre,I his intention TO become such, shall lie
tit Ell to pdt chase the land 80 occupied and in
Or we'd by him. not to exceed one hundred! aud
sixty IN ca h case. at the price Of two dol
lars and fifty cent, per acre, under such rules and
regulations the Secretary Of the Interior shall
prescribe Provided, however, That the pro-
ceeis OF said sales shall be lied in accordance
with the prOvi>Iuus tof the treaty o-twtet the
United states and the said Shawnee Indians, pro-
claimed November second, ammo puni al eight
cen han !TeJi and fifty fur
Approved, AprlI, 1862
Public ResDlltion-So. 10
Joint Re.Iiu. ion authorizing, the building of a
railroad bridge over the Ohio river at PaducsiI,
keniucfy-
Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Rep
r-=entatives of the United States Of America in
Congress. assembled That the consent of Congress
be- an. the same Is hereby, .iren 10 the erection
Of a railroad bridge over the ohfo river from the
city # Ps!ucab Kentucky, to the state of Him
ois by the Psiucah and Cuff Railroad Company
and such others as may associate with then for
that purpose under the laws of the Siate- # Zen
tucky and il.iuoi-: Provided, That said bridge il
bull with an unbroken co1tInuuTls span OF not
Ie-. than fur hundred feet in the clear. frUm
pie- to pier. ,ver the main channel If the river
aud Is built ia all other respects in accordance
vita the Conditions and li,nitati0ri OF act en-
titie-t An &C 10 establish ceTta post rOr'.s-
approved July fourteenth, eighteen hundred an
sixty two: that said bridge, when CO p!et-i in
tie manner specified il this iurion, ali be
shall H- a past road r the Transmission of the
rails 0f the United States, but Cong ess reserves
HI. right withdraw the Mt hereby given in
case the free navigation If laid river shall at any
time be -u-tsnti,liy and materially INSTRUCTED
by ANY bric be ed under the authority OF
this RESOLUTION, 81 10 direct the necessary l.oci
fi.4ti n ard altera ions f said bridge.
Approved. april I, ls6g-