Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-07-30

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NUMBER II.
House Of Representatives Of the United
States Of America in Con gr.ss assem-
bled, That hereafter it shall not be
lawful for any United States officer, or
other person under its employ or con.
troll, 70 recognise the binding force Or
legality, or in any manner sustsin Of
enforce or counsel, or give any aid or
assistance to sustain or enforce, any
contract or agreement made by any
person or persons, or corporation, with
any baud, tribe, or nation of Indians,
or individual Indian or Indians, not a
citizen of tho United States, entered
into prior to the date of the act OF
Congress, entitled can act regulating
the mode Of making private contracts
with Indians" approved May twenty
first, eighteen hundred and sever ty-
two, for the payment or delivery Of
any money or other thing Of value,
in present or prospective, or for the
granting or procuring any privilege to
him or her: or any other person or
persons: or corporation, in considera-
ton Of services for, or advancemcnts
made to, said Indians relative to their
lands, or to any claim growing out Of
or in reference to annuities, INSTALL
ments, or other moneys, claims, de-
mand or thing under laws or treaties
with the United States, or official acts
Of any officer thereof, or in any way
connected with or due from the United
States, unless such contract or agree
ment was reduced to writing and duly
signed by the parties in interest there.
to at the time it was entered into and
fully made known to the parties at the
time the contract was signed, and then
not until such original written con-
tract shall first have been presented to
and examined by the Secretary of the
Interior and the Commissioner Of In
dian Affairs, and these facts by them
severally endorsed thereon, aud copy
of said contract, and Of any assign
ments that may have been made there
on, duly entered Of record in the Office
Of the Commissioner Of Indian Affairs.
SEC. 2. That in addition thereto,
there shall also be fled in said Com
missioner's Office, and retained therein
as official papers, and be examined by
said Commissioner and Secretary, ami
that fact endorsed on them, the follow
ing statement of facts touching each
and oil such contracts and agreements
so presented which statements shall
be sworn to specially by all and sever
ally the person or person claiming in
terest in and seeking the support and
enforcement Of such contract or agree.
mcnt, and not by agent or attorney !:
First, that the writing presented for
examination and record, as provided
for in the first section Of this act, and
purporting to be the original contract
or agreement, is in fact such, aud that
it was entered into aud reduced to
writing at the date, and for the purpc-
Sos it purports to have beea made and
executed secondly, such sworn state
ment shall give particularly the names
Of the real parties in interest in the
original contract or ageement, banning
them il not named in the written con-
tract or agreement, and if either of
the contracting parties is band, tribe,
or nation Of Indians, or a corporation
or firm, the name Of the person, officer,
or agent contracting in their behalf,
together with his authority for SO
doing, shall be specially stated; third
ly: particular statement Of all and
singular the services rendered or the
thing or things done under such con-
tract or agreement prior to said fling,
with those things to be done or rem
dered, together with particular state
ment Of any and all moneys paid or
advanced by either party under such
contract or agreement, giving in all
cases the time, place, and real value Of
services rendered, or thing or thing
done, or the kind aud manner Of pay
ment, whether in money, property, or
credits, up to the date Of the fling Of
the said sworn statement; fourthly,
state specifically whether the original
contract or agreement had been sub
mitted to any Secretary Of the Interior,
Commissioner Of Indian Affairs, Su-
periDtendent Of Indian Affairs, Indian
Agent, Commissioner, or other person
having official control Of CT connection
with Indian affairs, giving the time
when, place where, and person by name
to whom such submission was made,
and whether by said officer Endorsed or
not, or whether any such officer was
cognizant of such contract or agree
ment having been made, though not
submitted to him for approval.
Sec. 3. That the Secretary " Com
missioner of Indian Affairs is hereby
empowered to require, in writing, any
additional facts OF proofs that may b.
necessary to aid in determining the
true character of the contract or agree
ment, or assignment thereof.
SEC. 4. That no such contrac: OF
agreement shall be recognized BY any
officer or employe of the United States
until che Secretary Of the Interior
shall, after full consideration Of any
such contract or agreement, together
with the proofs and papers in this act
required to be fled, and such as the
Secretary Of the Interior or Commis-
sioner Of Indian Affairs may require
in addition thereto, the Secretary Of
the Interior shall consider to be just