Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-06-21

| For contingent expenses of trust funds, here
| tofore and to be hereafter incurred. three thon.
l sand dollars and the Secretary Of the Treasury
/ IS hereby authorized 20 issue 20 the Choctay
Che amount of two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars, as directed by the act of March two,
eighteen hundred and sixty-one, entitled IA,
! act making appropriations for the current and
contingent expenses Of the Indian department,
and 1 sSf lSisg treaty atipnlf various
i Sec 2 ThatIthe act approved July fifteen,
eighteen hundred nahd lseventy,rf making APP
propriations fort the current and contingent ex-
penses of the Indian department.. and for fu /
fllfnT treaty stipulations with various Indian
tribes. forthe year ending jane thirty, eighteen
poses" be amended by adding the following
section, which was Inadvertently omitted in the
enrolment of said act viz: "a - - te''.l
b ;'SEcI IA !54Ia Be IL fsfrfksr enacted, That
nothing IN this act contained or in any Of the
PROVISIONS thereof, shall Be 50 construed as to
with any tribes, cahds,h or parties Of Indians
since the twentieth of July, eighteen hundred
and sixty-seven,n or affirm or disaffrm any of
the powers Of the Executive and Senate oyer
the subject" 5ooii1> SiI.iiiou I51i'S','1' -
SIC. 59Thst hereafter no contract or agree
nient Of any kind shall felmsde by any person,
with any tribe or Indians, or Individual Indian
not citizen of the United States, for the paw,
n,ent of any money or other thing of value to
him. or any other person, in consideration of
or to any claims growiEg ont Of ,or IN reference
TO ai1natiesi from or treaties with the United
States, unless such contract or agreement be in,
writing and approved by the Commissioner of
Indian Affairs and the Secretary of the Interior;
and all such contracts or agreements hereafter
made, in violation of the provisions Of this secr
ton, are hereby declared null and void, and All
money or other thing of value paid, to any per-
SON by any Indian or tribe, Or any one else, for
or on his or. their behssf on account of such,
services, in excess Of che amount approved by
the said Commissioner and Secretary for such
services, may be recovered By suit in tie name.
Of the United States in any Court of the United
States, regardless of the amount in CONTROVERSY
one-haff Of *aich shall be paid to the person
suing for the 'sanie, and the other half shall be
the use Of Che Indian, or tribe by Of for whom
lit was 50 paid; and the person SO receiving said
money, and his aiders and abettors, SHALL in
addition to the forfeiture Of said sum, be subject
to prosecution for misdemeanor. in any. court Of
the United States, and on conviction shall be
fined not less than enc thousand dollars and
imprisoned mot less than SIX months, and it
shall be the dutyo all district attorneys of the
United Statss to prosecute such Leases when apr
piled to to do So, and their failure and refusal
shall be ground for their removal from Office.
And any Indian agent, or other person in the
employment of the United States, who shall, IN
violation Of the provisions of this section, adj
ssise sanction, or in any way aid in the making
of such contracts or agreements, or in making
such payments as are here prohibited, shall, in
addition to the punishment herein imposed on
the person making said contract, or receiving
said money, be, on conviction, dismissed from
the service Of the United States, and be forever
disqualified from holding any Office of profit or
trust under the same frosqrg' pdi 20 lro = -
Approved March 8, 1871. aIe s7a.1 .-,l r,r-