The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-09-25
Approved, April 9, 1869.
TPubIic Resolution-So Of

A Resolution for the relief Of settlers upon the
absentee hawnee lands in Kansas
Whereas a large tract / lands set apart by a
treaty with the shawnee tribe of Indians, dated
Nav IGth, anno Dolnini eli -Eteen hundred and
fifty-fuur and proclaimed November sec nd, ID
1854. for th benefit of certain alb entees of
the sail Shawnee trlbe, Is now, and Tor m,ny
wears past h Is been, uccupie ell by large number
of white settlers and citizens of the state u
kansas: whereas the beneficial interest Of
the said absentee >hswnees IN said lands was and
il sJlu ely forfeited by reason Of their continued
absence ami -a iation with the said Shawnee
tribe Z; and whereas the said lands were ordered
to b publicly sold at the United States iad office
at Topeka, August til I'd, ei-hteen hundred and
sixty-t1ree, by Abraham LiHcoin, President, by
his proclamation dated March twentieth, ammo
Dom nj eighteen hundred and sixty three and by
reason OF the absence of large numbers Of >aid
settlers from rh-ir homes in the federal armies the
sale was indefinitely postpot ed: Therefore,
Resolved by the Senate and House of EepreSen-
tatiyes OF the United States of America in Con
,ress assembled, That each bona ii lie sitter now
u,cupyin.. said lan,ls and having made improve
rnents thereon. or the heirs at law of slcn, who
Is a citiz-n # the United States, or who has de-
clared his intention to become such, shall tie
titled to pa chase the land 50 occupied and i'm
pr we'd by him, not 10 exceed one hundred aud
sixty in ca. case, at the price If two dol
lars and fifty e-ts per acre. und-r sich rules and
regulations the Secretary OF The Interior shall
prescribe Provided. however, Thst the pro-
ce-is said sales shall lie ap lied in accordance
United states aud the said shawnee Indians pro-
claimed November Second, ammo DoIni-Ii eight
cen hunirei and ffty-four.
Approved, Aprii1. 1862
Public kes.,lution-So. 10
Joint Ressiu lou authorizing the building of
railroad bridge over the OHIO river at Paducah,
Ken uCEy-
Belt resolved by the Senate and House of Rep
re.sentatiyes of the United States Of Amerc.
Congress assembled. That the consent of Congress
be aud the same is hereby -iven to the erection
of a railroad bridge over the Ohio river from the
city If Paiucsih Kentucky, to the state of Hin
DIS by the i'aducs,h and Cuff Railroad Company
and such others may associate with them for
tu XIV and liiinoi-: Provided. Ttat said bridge is
bull with an unbrok-n continuous span of hot
less than fur hundred feet in the clear, Euia
pier TO pier the main channel of the river,
and Is built in all other respects in accordance
with the Conditions AMI lifIifati1n of act en-
,itIei AN az TO establish certain post roads,
approved .iuly fourteenth, eighteen hundred ant
sixty two; that sail bridge, when cU-"pleted IN
the n,arln.r specified in this Iutian. all be
deemed and taken to b. "A LEGAL structure, and
shall BE- a u, 81 road f r the TRANSMISSION of the
mail, Of the United States but Cong reserves
the ri..stt + withirtw the mt hereby given in
case the free navigation Of >ad river shall at any
time be substantially and materially INSTRUCTED
by any bridge to be erected under the authority OF
this resolution. or to direct the necessary modi
ficsti .rs and alterations e said bridge
Approved, April :, leeo.