Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-10-12

erection, set aside any appraisements that
may be made under the provisions OF this
section, and cause a new appralsement to
be made.
SEC. 2. That each bona fide settler at the
time occupying any portion of SAID lands
and having made valuable Improvements
thereon, or the heirs at law of such, who
is a citizen of the United States, or VINO
has declared his intention to become such,
shall be entitled, at any time within one
year from the approval of said appraise-
ment, to purchase, for cash, the land so
occupied and improved by him, not to ex-
coed one hundred and sixty acres in each
case, at the appraised value thereof, in
Guiding the appraised value of any i'm
provements which may have been made
by the United States or any of said In
dams on the same, under such rules and
regulations as the Secretary of the Interior
may prescribe.
SEC. 8. That all the lands mentioned in
the first section of this act now occupied
by bona fide settlers, as mentioned in the
second section of this act, remaining I'M
sold at the expiration of one year from the
approval of said appraisement, shall be
sold at public sale, after due advertise
ment, to the highest bidder for cash, in
tracts not exceeding one hundred and six
ty acres; and all the lands mentioned in
the first section of this act which shall be
unoccupied by bona fide settlers at the date
of such appraisement may be sold at any
time after the approval of said appraise-
ment, at public sale, after due advertise
ment, to the highest bidder for cash, in
tracts not exceeding one hundred and
sixty acres, under such rules and regula-
tions as the Secretary of the Interior may
prescribe: Provided, That in no case shall
any of the lands mentioned in this act be
sold at less than their appraised value:
And provided further, That theSecretary of
the Interior may, in his discretion, open any
of said lands remaining unsold after hav-
ing been publicly offered to cash entry at
their appraised value, subject to the rights
of bona fide settlers as provided for in this
act: Provided, however, That the pro-
ceeds of the sale of said lands and inn
provements, after paying the expenses Of
said appraisement and sale, shall be APP
piled in accordance with the provisions of
said treaty in the payment of the hqui-
dated Indebtedness of said Kansas tribe of
Indians pro rata as the same shall be re
ceived, and the excess, if any, shall be
distributed to the said Indians, per capita,
i'll money. s.. .... ..-,... r
Sec. 4. That if said Kansas tribe of In
dians, shall signify to the President of the
United States their desire to sell their
diminished reserve, as indicated in said
treaty, including lands held in severalty
and In common, and to remove from the
State of Kansas, and shall so agree in such
manner as the President may prescribe,
the Secretary of the Interior may cause
the same to be appraised in legal subdivis-
ions as hereinbefore provided for the APP
praisement of the so-called " trust lands
and sold in quantities not exceeding one
hundred and sixty acres at not less than
its appraised value, after due notice, to the
highest bidder or bidders on sealed bids,
including improvements of every charac-
ter, and no preference shall be given to
settlers on any part of said diminished
reserve, and the appraised value of any
improvements on any part of said dimin-
ished reserve made by any member of said
tribe shall be paid to him or her in person,
and the residue of the proceeds of said
sales shall belong to said tribe in common,
fifty per centum of which shall be placed
to their credit on the books of the treasu-
ry, and bear interest at the rate of five per
centum per annum, said interest to be
paid to them semi-annually for the term
of twenty years, after which period the
principal shall be paid to the members of
said tribe per capita, and the remaining
fifty per centum of the proceeds of sales
as aforesaid shall be used in providing and
improving for them new homes in the In
dian Territory, and in subsisting them
until they may become self-sustaining:
Provided, That if any adult member of
said tribe to whom an allotment was as
signed under the provision of articles one
and two of said treaty of November.
eighteen hundred and sixty, shall desire
to remain upon the same, such member of
said tribe shall, upon satisfying the -Seere-
tary of the Interior that he or she is the
person to whom such allotment was origi-
nally assigned, and that he or she has,
since the date of such assignment, con-
tinued to occupy and cultivate the same,
be entitled to demand and receive for such
allotment patent in fee simple; but such
land so patented shall be exempt from
levy, taxation, or sale during the natural
life of such Indian.
Approved, May 8, 1872. .-....
GENERAL NATURE-No. S.
AN ACT to change the time for holding
the circuit and district courts of the
United States for the western district of
Wisconsin, at La Crosse. ur.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
time of holding the circuit and district
courts of the United States for the western
district of Wisconsin, at La Crosse, be on
the third Tuesday of September of each
wear. instead of the first Monday of De-
cember, as now provided by law; and that
the December term at La Crosse be, and
the same is hereby, abolished, and that
all recognizances, indictments, writs, pro-
cess, and other proceedings, civil and
criminal, now pendingoin either of said
courts, may be entered, heard, and tried
at the time herein fixed for holding said
courts Provided, however, That a term
of said court may be held in December.
eighteen hundred and seventy-two, for
the purpose of taking forfeitures of re-
cognizances and disposing of any and all
matters pending in said court, civil or
criminal, necessary to be disposed of at
said term to prevent disturbances or
any loss of any rights that may have ac--
cIued to any party or to the government
of the United States. 1tE
SEC. 2. This act shall not interfere with
the term of said courts appointed to be
holden at Madison, in said district, nor
with the power now possessed by the