Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-02-28

nerson. or his or her descendants, be entered
upon either of said rolls who may have hereto
fore separated from said tribe and received al
lotment of lands under the act of Congress
for the relief of the Stockbridge tribe of Indians,
of March third, eighteen hundred and forty.
three, and amendment of August six, eighteen
hundred and forty-six, or under the treaty Of
February fve eighteen hundred and ffty-six,
or who shall not be Of Stockbridge or Munsee
descent. After the said rolls shall be made and
returned as herein provided, the same shall be
held as a full surrender and REIMBURSEMENT on
the part of the citizen party, each and every one
of them, of all claims to be thereafter known or
considered as members of said tribe or in any
manner interested in any provision heretofore
or hereafter to be made by any treaty or law of
the United States for the benefit of said tribes,
and they and their descendants shall thence
forth be admitted to all the rights and privileges
of citizens of the United States.
+ SEC. 7. lind be it further enacted. That after
the said rolls shall have been made and return
ed, the said Indian party shall thenceforth be
known rs the "Stockbridge tribe of Indians"
and may be located upon lands reserved by the
second section OF this act, or such other reser-
assent OF the council of said tribe, and their
adoption among them of any individual, not
of Indian descent shall be null and void.
SEC. 8. A,sd be it further enacted, That as soon
as practicable, after suitable and permanent
reservation shall be obtained and accepted by
where, the same shall, under the direction of
the Secretary of the Interior, be surveyed and
subdiyided to correspond with the public sur
vey, and the council of said tribe, under the
superintendence of the agent of the United
States, shall make just and fair allotment of so
much thereof Tin compact FORM as may be re-
quired, among the individuals and families
composing said tribe, as follows Each head of
family consisting of four persons shall receive
eighty acres of land, and if consisting of more
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ell, eighty acres more may be assigned to him
or her; each male person above the age of eigh-
teen years, not included in any family, shall
receive eighty acres each female person above
the age OF eighteen yours, not member of any
family, and each orphan child, shall receive
forty acres the lands assigned and allotted as
aforesaid shall be held inalienable, and in case
of the death of any person, his or her right
thereto shall descend to his or her heirs, ifmem-
bers of said tribe, and if he or she dies without
heirs capable of inherting, the land shall revert
to and become the common property of said
| tribe; there shall also be set apart and appro-
| priated lot, not exceeding forty acres, to be
held as common property on which to erect a
church, parsonage, school-house, and other i'm
provements necessary for the accommodation
of said tribe: Provided, That If any female
shall marry out of said tribe she shall thereby
forfeit all right to hold any of said lands, as if
deceased.
Sec 9. And be it further enacted. That the
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tons of this act shall be made, and certified
copy thereof returned to the Commissioner of
Indian Affairs. within one year after the reser-
walton shall have been made and accepted by
said tribe; and thereafter the title of the lands
described therein shall be held by the United
States in trust for individuals and their heirs
to whom the same were allotted. The surplus
lands embraced in such reservation remaining
after making such allotments shall be held in
like manner by the United States, subject to be
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have received any portion of said reservation,
or to be disposed of for the common benefit of
said tribe Provided, That no change or addi-
ton shall be made in the allotment returned to
the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, unless the
same shall be approved by the Secretary Of the
Interior
j. G. BLAINE,
Speaker of the House of Representatives
SCHUYLER COLFAX,
Vice President Of the United States and Pyesi-
dent Of the Senate.
Received by the President January Is, 1871.
[NoTE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF srArE.-The
foregoing act having been presented to the
President of the United States for his approval,
and not having been returned by him to the
house of Congress in which it originated within
the time prescribed by the Constitution of the
United States has become a law without his
APPROVAL
GENERAL NATURE-No. AL
An ACT to authorize the removal of the Gus
tom-house from st. Marks to Cedar Keys,
Florida.
Be 1t enacted By the Senate aud House of Re
personalities of the United States of America
IN Congress assembled, That the port of entry
of the collection district of ST. Marks, in the
State of Florida, be, and the same is hereby. re-
moved from the town of st. Marks to the town
of Cedar Keys in said district, and the said
town of ST. Marks is hereby made and declared
to be port of delivery in said district.
Approved, February g. 1871.