The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-07-29
CORRECT COPY OF THE Usage BILL.

The following is an official copy of the
Usage bill as it passed Congress and be-
came law. 1t will be recolIected that
the provision was attached to the Indian
appropriation bill. We omit all that
portion relating to Indian appropria-
tions. We take it from the Lawrence
Tribune:
SEC. 10. And be 1T further enacted,
That whenever the Great and Little
Usage Indians shall agree thereto, i'll
such manner as the President shall pre-
scribe, it shall be the duty of the Presi-
dent to remove said Indians from the
State of Kansas to lands provided, or to
be provided, for them, for permanent
home in the Indian Territory, TO con-
sist of a tract of land in compact form,
equal in quantity to one hundred and
sixty acres for each member of said tribe,
or such part thereof as said Indians
may desire, to be paid for out of the
proceeds of the sales of their lands in
the State of Kansas, the price per acre
for such lands to be procured in the In
dian Territory not TO exceed the price
paid, or TO be paid, by the United States
for the same. And to defray the eX-
penses of said removal. and to aid in the
SUBSISTENCE Vi tile Sdll 1HuldliS
the first year, there is hereby appropri-
ated out. of the treasury, out of any
money not otherwise appropriated, to
be expended under the direction of the
Secretary of the Interior, the sum of
fifty thousand dollars I; to be reimbursed
to the United States from the proceeds
of the sale of the lands of the said In
tians in Kansas. including the trust
lands north of their present diminished
reservation, which lands shall be open
ed to settlement after survey, excepting
the sixteenth and thirty-siXth sections,
which shall be reserved to the State OF
Kansas for school purposes, and shall
be sold to actual settlers only, said set
tiers being heads OF families or over
twenty-One years of age, i'll quantities
not exceeding one hundred and sixty
acres, in square form, to each settler, at
the price of one dollar and twenty five
cents per acre; payment to be made in
cash, within one year from the date of
settlement, or of the passage of this act :
and the United States, in consideration
of the REIMBURSEMENT by said Indians
of their lands in Kansas, shall pay ann u
ally interest on the amount of money
received as proceeds of the sale of said
lands, at the rate of five per centum, TO
be expended by the President for the
benefit of said Indians in such manner
as he may deem proper. And for this
purpose an accurate account shall be
kept by the Secretary of the Interior OF
the money received as proceeds of sale,
and the aggregate amount received pri-
or to the first day of November of each
year shall be the amount upon which
the payment of interest shall be based.
The proceeds of the sale of said lands
cbaII ha parPia6 In tho rPaHit nf Sai6 m
dams in the books of the treasury, and
shall bear interest at the rate of five per
cent. per annum PIOUtded, That the
diminished reserve of said Indians in
Kansas shall be surveyed under the di-
rection of the Secretary of the Interior,
as other public lands are surveyed, as
soon as the consent of said Indians is
obtained, as above provided, the expense
of said survey to be paid from the pro-
ceeds of sale of said lands.
SEC Is. And be 1T further enacted,
That there be and is hereby appropri-
ated out of any money in the treasury
not otherwise appropriated, as compen-
sation to the Osages for the stock of
farming utensils which the United States
agreed to furnish them by the second
article of the treaty of January 18th,
1889, and which are only partly furnish
ed, twenty thousand dollars; and as
compensation for the saw and grist mill
which the United States agreed by said
treaty to maintain for them for fifteen
years, and which were only maintained
five years, ten thousand dollars, which
sums shall be expended under the di-
rection of the Secretary of the Interior,
in the following manner: Twelve thous-
and dollars in erecting agency buildings
and warehouses, blacksmith's dwell
ling and blacksmith's shop, and the
remaining eighteen thousand dollars
in the erection of school house and
church, and saw and grist mill, at
their new home in the Indian Territory.
ApDroVad ,JuIv L. 1870