The Portland daily press., 1872-10-14
LAWS
OF THE
UNITED STATES
IA WIS
PASSED AT THE
SECOND SESSION OF THE FORTY SECOND
CONGRESS.

PASSED AT THE
SECOND SESSION OF THE FORTY SECOND
CONGRESS.
GENERAL NATURE-No. 57.l
AN ACT to provide for the removal of the Kansas
tribe of indians to the Indian Territory, and tc
dispose of their lands in Kansas to actual settlers
Be it enacted By the Senate and House Of Repre-
seRtdtires Of the United States Of america IN Con-
gress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior
be- and he is hereby, authorized and empowered to
heretofore owned by the Kansas tribe of Indians in
the State of Kansas and which was coded to the
United States in trust in the treaty made by the
United States and said Indians proclaimed November
Seventeenth ammo Domini eighteen hundred and six
ty, and which remain unsold, in the following man
ner viz The said Secretary shall appoint three dis
interested and competent persons who shall, after
being duly sworn to perform said service faithfully
and mpartially, personally examine and appraise
said lands by legal subdivisions of one hundred and
sixty acres or less separately from the value of any
improvements on the same, and also the value Of
said improvements distinguishing between improve
ments made by members of said Indian tribe,
the United States and white Settlers and make re-
turn thereon to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Irsvi9ed, That the Secretary of the Interior may,
in his discretion set aside any ADVERTISEMENTS that
may be made under the provisions of this section,
and cause new appraisement 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, the heirs at law
of such, who is citizen of the United States OF who
has declared his intention to become such shall be
entitled at any time within one year from the ap-
pEONdt Ol 10 purchase, cash,
the land SO occupied and improved by him, not to
exceed one hundred and sixty acres in each case at
the appraised value thereof including the appraised
value of any improvements which may have been
made by the United States any of said Indians on
the same, uuder such rules and regulations the
Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.
SEC. 3. That all the lands mentioned in the first
section OF this act now occupied by bonade settlers
as mentioned in the second section of this act re-
manning unsold at the expiration of one year from
the approval of said appraisement shall be sold at
public SALE after due advertisement, to the highest
bidder for cash, in tracts not exceeding hundred
and sixty acres; and all the lands mentioned in the
first section Of this act which shall be unoceupied by
bona-hde settlers at the date of such apprasement
may be sold at any time after the approval of said
apprsisement, 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 regulations the Secretary of the Interior
may prescribe: ProUided, That in no case shall any
of the lands mentioned in this act be sold at less
That the Secretary of the Interior may in his dscre
ton open any of said lands remaining unsold after
having been publicly offered to cash entry At their
appraised value, subject to the rghtsof hDlade set
tiers as provided for in this act: Psyide howeUer
That the proceeds of the sale oS said lands and i'm
praisemeut and sale Iba be applied IN sacerSan nee
with the DIVISIONS # said treaty in tho payment of
the hquoated Indebtedness of said Kansas tribe OF
lhdlans pro rata as the same shall be received and
the excess, if any, shalt be distributed to the said IN
dians per capita, in money.
SEC. L. That IL said Kansas tribe of Indians shall
signify to the President of the United States their de-
sire to sell their diminished reserve, as indicated in
said treaty, including lands held in severalty and
common, and to remove from the State of X, nsos
ana shall SO agree in such manner as the srassdnt
may prescribe, the Secretary of the ,ntorior ISsy
as hsreinbeore provided for thu IN egs subdivisions
so-called trust lands, d ,o,d In nmantitiss not
exceeding one hundred and sixty acres at not less
biShest bS9er value, after due notice, to the
Im h of every character and no preference
~ W given to settlers any part of said dimin-
Ff-od reserve and the appraised value of any i'm
DrOVementS mart of gaj1 diminished
made by any member of said tribe shall be paid to
nm or her in person. and the residue of the proceeds
OF said sales shall belong to said tribe in common,
nifty per centum of which shall be placed to their
credit on the books of the treasury and bear inter
est at the rate OF I'VE 2er centum per annum said
term of twenty years after which period the princi
pal shall be paid TO the members of said tribe per
proceeds of sales as aforesaid shall be used in
providing and improving for them new homes
in the Indian Territory, and In subssting them
until they may become self-sustaining: Proyid-
ed, That II any adult member of said tribe to
whom an allotment was assigned under the provision
eighteen hundred and sixty shall desire to remain
upon the same, such member of said tribe SHALL up
on satisfying the Secretary of the Interior that he or
she Is the person to whom such allotment was orig
i1ay assigned and that he she has since the date
yate the same, be entitled to demand and receive for
such allotment patent in fee simple; but such land
patented shall be exempt from levy, taxation or
sale during the natural life of such Indian
Approved, May 8, 1872.
GENERAL NATURE-No. ISL
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,
re 70 enacted By the Senate and House Of Repre-
sentdttoes o. the United States Of f1nericG IN Con-
gress assembled That the time OF holding the circuit
ana ustrlct courts of the United States for the wes-
tern u1srlcI OF Wisconsin, at La Crosse be on the
tmrd u sday OF September of each year. instead of
the first Monday of December, as now provided by
law; and that the December term at La Crosse he and
the same is hereby, abolished, and that ali recognI
ances, indictments, writs, process and other pro-
ceedings, civil and criminal, now pendino in
either of said courts, may be entered heard and
tried at the time herein fixed for bald iino
said COURTS Provided, hoioeper That a term
of said court may be held in December eighteen
hundred and seventy-two for the purpose of taking
ofeitures of recognizances and dsposng of any and
all matters pending in said court, civil or criminal
necessary to be disposed of at said term to prevent
discontnuances or any loss Of any rights that may
have accrued to any party or to the government of
the United States.
SEC. g. This act shall not interfere with the term
OF said courts appointed to be holden at Madison, in
sad district, nor with the power now possessed by
OF said courts to order special terms OF the
same, as now provided by law
j. G. BLAINE,
speaker Of the House of RepresentntiUeS.
~. ~. SCHUYLER .C0LFAX,
~, @gIfresdent Of the United States and President
approved. Nav 1870 - ~ "A'A'