Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-02-28
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES
Passed at the Third Session of the Forty first
Congress.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.l
GENERAL NATURE-No. 1871

GENERAL NATURE-No. ID.
AN ACT for the relief of the Stockbridge and
Munsee tribe of Indians, in the State of Wis
consn.
Be If enacted bu the Senate aud House of Re
personalities of the United States of america
IN CONGRESS assembled, That the two townships
of land situated in the county of Shawanaw, and
State of Wisconsin, set apart for the use OF the
Stockbridge and Munsee tribe of Indians, shall,
under direction of the Secretary of the Interior,
be examined and appraised, by two or more dis
interested appraisers to be selected by him, in
eighty-acre lots, according tos public survey |;
such appraisal shall state the quality of the SOIL
the quantity, quality, and value of the timber
growing on each lot estimating the pine timber
at not less than one dollar per thousand, and the
value of all improvements, II any, made tnere-
on. with the name of the owner OF such I'M
provements, as certified by the sachem and
councillors of said tribe, and, when returned to
the land Office of the district in which said lands
are situated be subject to public inspection for
at least thirty days before the day appointed for
the sale of such lands, as hereinafter provided.
One copy of said appraisal shall be made and re-
turned to the land Office of the district, and
duplicate thereof to the Secretary Of the Interior,
within six months from the passage of this act,
and the person appointed to make such apprais-
al shall be allowed such compensation for their
services as may be fixed by the Secretary of the
Interior
SEC. 2. and be 1T further enacted, That the
said two townships of land shall be advertised
for SALE by notice of not less than three months,
to be published in at least three newspapers of
the district having general circulation, and shall
be offered at public auction, at the nearest Gov
eminent land office within the Green Bay agen-
cy, to the highest bidder, in lots of not exceed
ing eighty acres each, but shall not be sold for
less than the appraised value thereof None of
said lands shall be subject to entry until they
shall have been offered as aforesaid, and then
only at the price fixed by such appraisal. All
of said lands remaining unsold at the expiration
of one year after they shall have been offered as
aforesaid shall be again advertised and offered
at public auction at the nearest government land
Office within the Green Bay agency, at not less
than the minimum of one dollar and twenty-five
cents per acre. and thereafter shall be subject to
private entry at the latter price, and shall in all
cases be sold for cash only: Provided, ho,cerer,
That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby au-
thorized to reserve from sale quantity of said
lands not exceeding eighteen contiguous Sec
TONS embracing such as are now actually occu-
pied and improved, and are best adapted to
agricultural purposes, subject to allotment to
members of the Indian party of said tribe as
hereinafter provided.
SEC. 8. And be 1T further enacted, That from
the first proceeds of the sale of lands as provided
in the second section of this act shall be paid
the expenses of appraisal and sale of said lands,
the amount due to individuals for improvements
as returned by the appraisers, and the amount
of the debts contracted by the sachem and coun-
ClllOTS Tor the D6nelC OF SalQ srlD6S,s amounting
TO the sum of eleven thousand dollars, accord
ing to a schedule to be certified by them, and
returned to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Sec 4. And be it further enacted That i'm
mediately after the returns shall be received at
the General Land Office of the last public sale
according to the provisions of this act, state
ment shall be made up, under the direction of
the Secretary of the Interior, exhibiting the
gross amount of moneys realized from the sale
of the said two townships of land, after deduct
tod hx,4l
ceding sections of this act, to which said amount
shall Be added the value of the lands remaining
unsold of said two townships, estimating the
same at sixty cents per acre; also the sum of
six thousand dollars held in trust by the govern
ment of the United States for the use of the
Stockbridge and Munsee tribe of Indians, under
the treaty of eighteen hundred and thirty mine !;
and the total amount thereof shall constitute the
entire sum Of money due from the government
of the United States to the said Stockbridge and
Eunsee tribes Of Indians, to be paid and appro-
priated for their benefit as hereinafter directed.
SEC. 3. And be tt further enacted, That the
sum of money thus found due to the said tribes
shall be divided between the citizen and Indian
parties of said tribes, in proportion to the num-
Der of each respectively, according to rolls
thereof, made and returned in conformity with
the provisions of this act to the Commissioner OF
Indian Affairs That portion of said sum be-
longing to the citizen party shall be equally di-
vided among them per capita, and paid TO the
heads of families, and adult members of said
party; that portion of said sum belonging to
the Indian party shall be placed to their credit
on the books of the Treasurer of the United
States, and bear interest at the rate of i've per
centum per annum, payable semi-annIally, and
said interest shall be applied to the support OF
schools, the purchase of agricultural nipple
ments, or paid in such other manner as the Pre-
sldent may direct: Provided, ho,cerer, That a
part OF said sum due the Indian party, not ex-
ceeding thirty thousand dollars, may, on the
request of the sachem and councillors of said
tribe, be expended in securing q new location
for said tribe, and in removing and aiding them
to establish themselves in their new home; and
in case of their procuring and removal to such
new location, at any time, the said eighteen Sec
tons of land reserved for their use by the sec
ond section of this act shall be sold in the man.
ner therein prescribed and the proceeds thereof
be placed to their credit as aforesaid.
SEC. g. Ai,d be 1t further enacted, That, for
the purpose of determining the presons who are
members of said tribes and the future relation of
each to the government of the United States,
there shall be prepared under the direction ofthe
Commissioner of Indian Affairs, or such person
as may be selected by him to superintend the
same two rolls, one to be denominated the citi-
zen roll, to embrace the names of all such per-
sons of full age, and their families, as signify
their desire to separate their relations with said
tribe and to become citizens of the United
States the other to be denominated the Indian
roll, and to embrace the names of all such as
desire to retain their tribal character and con-
tinue under the care and guardianship of the
United States which said rolls shall be signed
by the sachem and councillors of said tribe. GER
tilted by the person experimenting the same
and returned to the Commissioner of Indian
Affairs, but no person of full age shall be enter
edinpon.ssid ctizenlroll without his.or.. herEfull