New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-15

For interest on certain stocks and bonds
belonging to the Cherokee national fund,
three thousand two hundred and fifteen dol
lars and seventy five cents.
! For interest on certain stocks and bonds
belonging to the Chickasaw national fund.-
fifteen thousand one hundred and forty
dollars.
For interest on certain stocks and bonds
| belonging to the Chickasaw incompetents,
one hundred dollars.
For interest on certain stocks and bonds
| belonging to the ChOwtaw general fund,
thirty four thousand seven hundred and
fourteen dollars and twenty cents.
For interest Oh certain stocks and bonds
belonging to the Creek orphans, six thou
sand four hundred and twenty three dollars
and fourteen cents.
| For interest on certain stocks and bonds
belonging to the Delaware general fund.
eleven thousand SIX hundred and.thrty
dollars.
For interest on certain stocks and bonds
belonging to the IOwas, three thousand
three hundred and forty dollars.
For interest ON certain stocks and bonds
belonging to the Kaskaskias, PeOrias, Weas
and Piankeshaws, six thousand and seventy
dollars.
For interest on certain stocks and bonds
belonging to the Menomonees, nine hundred
and fifty dollars.
For interest on certain stocks and bonds
belonging to the Ottawas and Chippewas,
two hundred and cighty-onc dollars and
forty three cents.
For interest on certain stocks and bonds
belonging to the POttawatOmies education
fund, three thousand three hundred and
fifty dollars.
For this amount Or so much thereof as
may be necessary to enable the Secretary
of the Interior to collect bands of kickapOO
| or other Indians rowing on the borders of
Texas and Mexico, and to locate and subsist
them in the Indian Territory, twenty-five
thousand dollars.
For this amount or so much thereof as
may be necessary te pay the expenses of
holding general council of the Cher0-
kee Creek, Seminole and Choctaw and
Chickasaw Indians, in the Indian Territory,
as provided by the treaties with said tribes
in eighteen hundred and sixty ten thou
sand dollars; provided, that any other In
dan tribe perlnanen ly located in said In
dian Territory shall BE-, and is hereby, au-
tho il d to elect and send to said general
cOuncip one delegate, and in addition one
delegate for each one thousand Indians or
fraction of a thousand greater than five
hundred, being members Of such tribe, on
the same terms and conditions, and with
the same rights and privileges, including
right to compensation, as is provided for dele
gates of the tribes hereinbefore mentioned,
and a sufficient sum to pay the per diem
and mileage of such additional delegates is
hereby appropriated: And provided further,
That the Secretary Of the Interior shall not
call any such council if objected to by said
Indians, nor until after the adjournment of
the present session of Congress.
For the purchase Of wagons, teams, tools,
agricultural implements, live stock, seeds,
and SO forth, and for the erection of houses
for the Indians in the northern superintend
ency to be distributed among the different
tribes at the discretion of the Secretary of
the Interior, the sum of thirty thousand
dollars.
For the support of industrial and other
schools among the Indian tribes, not other
wise provided for, to be expended under the
direction of the Secretary of the Interior,
one hundred thousand dollars.
For this amount, to enable the Secretary
of the Interior to pay for goods issued by
S. +. Ward to Indians at Fort Laramie by
order of the Indian peace commissioners in
May and June, eighteen hundred and sixty
eight, eight thousand dollars.
, For payment for goods issued as presents
by John E. Tappan, by direction OF General
Alfred Sully, to the kiowa Indians at Fort
Larned, Kansas, in July, eighteen hundred
and sixty-eight, at the time of the delivery
of two white captives held by them, the
sum of one thousand one hundred and one
dollars and sixty five cents.
For this amount, or SO much thereof as
may be necessary to pay the expenses of
the removal of stray bands of Pottawatto
ME and WinnebagO Indians in Wisconsin
from their present homes in that State to
the tribes to which they respectively belong,
as follows:
For transportation and subsistence of one
thousand WinnebagOes from Wisconsin to
Nebraska, at fifteen dollars each, fifteen
thousand dollars.
For transportation of five hundred Potta-
: watomies and two hundred Chippewas, in
termarried with them, from Wisconsin to
the Indian country south of Kansas. at
thirty dollars each, twenty-one thousand
dollars.
To enable the Secretary Of the Interior to
pay that amount found due by the Interior
Department. June nine. eighteen hundred
and sixty nine, to R. Ii. Taylor, for herding
cattle, three hundred and thirty one dollars
and ninety seven cents.
For this amount, to enable the Sec
rotary of the Interior to pay for
legal services rendered by Messrs
Thomas P. FenlOn and James S.
Emery, attOrneys-at-law, in eighteen hun
bred and sixty-tve, and subsequently, IN
defending suits instituted against the
| United States officers in Kansas, relating to
the rights and property of Indians, by
direction of the Interior Department, two
thousand dollars: provided, that this
amount shall be received in full satisfaction
for said indebtedness; provided, that upon
annuities and interest of trust funds pro-
vided by treaties, no taxes shall in any ease
} be assessed or collected.
SEC r And be it further enacted, That
in every case where annuities are provided
to be paid to any Indian tribe, it shall be
the duty of the Secretary of the Interior to
expend the same for such objects as Will
best promote the comfort, civilization, and
improvement of the tribe entitled to the
same; provided, that the consent of such
tribe to such expenditures can be obtained;
and no claims tor supplies for Indians pur-
} chased without authority of law shall be
| paid out OF any appropriation tor expenses
Of the Indian department or for Indians.
Sec. [3.] And be it further enacted, That
the Secretary of the Interior shall
SO exercise the discretion vested in
him by this act as to encourage
: able bodied Indians in habits OF
industry and peace, and the commits
sion of citizens, serving without pay, APP
pointed by the President under the prOvi-
| sions of the fourth section of the act of
April ten, eighteen hundred and sixty nine,
t is hereby continued SO long as the apprOpri-
| alton heretofore made for their expenses
shall last. And it shall be the duty of said
commissioners to supervise all expenditures
of money appropriated for the benefit OF In
dams in the United States, and to inspect
all goods purchased for said Indians in con
, nection with the Commissioner OF Indian
,, Affairs, whose duty it shall be to consult
said comm >iOn in making purchases OF
such goods; and provided that the said com
mission shall have power to appoint one Oh
its number as secretary, with such reason
able compensation as they may designate;
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