Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-04-25

four equal annual payments, and shall
be entitled to patent therefor only at
the expiration of four years from the
date Of entry, according to sid home.
stesd laws. sud after the full pay msDt Of
said sum Of fifty cents per acre therefor
but the rights Of soldiers shall NOT be
abridged except % TO said fifty cents per
acret aud sDy convey snce OF said Iands
so taken - Homestead, Oh any contract
touching the same. or lie1 thereon.
crested prior to the date Of snch psteut.
shall be nall AID void: Atd provided
further, That nothing iD ii,is acs coo
Is,ned shall be 80 construed y. to afFe:t
the right 0f conRrts. or oi tb.. t+rrltur,sl
gosrrnment ut ID .kOts to establish pub
llc highways or to graDt To railroad com
pauies the right Of way through said
lands. Amerlcsn island. M island il, the
Missouri ilvtr near Chamberlain, III the
territory of Dakota. aud nov part of
the Slcax resef vatioD, IL herehy 0nDnt+d
~ the said city Oi ChamberIaiu: Pro
rided fitrther, That said city ui Cham.
Ueriaiu shall formally accept the ssue
wlihin one year from the passage Of this
act, upon the express condition that The
same shall be preserved for ali tiue
entire as public park to which all per.
SOUS shall have free ncc+ss; aud sxlu city
shall have authority to adopt all proper
ales and regulations for the improve.
ment aud care ot said park. subject to
the approval oi the president Of The
Uolted States; and upon the failure of
soch conditions the eaid island shall
revert to the United States.
Sec. II. That all money accruiog from
the disposal of iauds IN conformity With
the foregoing section shall, after deduct.
ing the necessary expenses attending
such disposition thereof, be paid into
the treasury of the United states aud be
applied solely as follows: FIRST, to the
reimbursement Of tue United States for
all necessary actual expenditures for the
purchase Of stock and the creation of the
permanent fund hereinbefore provided;
and after sach reimbursement to the in
crease of said permanent fund for the
purposes h-teiDbefore provided.
Sec. ". That this act ehall take eff
feet only upon the acceptance thereof and
consent thereto by the different bands
of the Sioux Nation of Indians, in man
ner and form prescribed by the twelfth
article of the said treaty between the
United States and said Indians con.
ciuded April twenty ninth, eighteen
hundred and sixty. eight; which said
0cCoptAuce auO consent 0l4u De made
known by proclamation thereof BY the
president of the United States, upon
satisfactory proof presented to him that
the same has been obtained IN the man.
ner aud form required by said
twelfth article of said treaty
which proof shall be so presented to
him within one year from the passage of
this act; and upon failure of such proof
and proclamation this act becomes of no
effect, and null and void
Sec. %. There is hereby appropriated,
out of any money in the treasury not
otherwise appropriated. the sum OF five
Thousand dollars, which sum, together
with the unexpended balance Of ten
thousand dollars appropriated in set of
March third. eighteen hundred and
eighty-three, for procuring the assent of
the Sioux Indians to an agreement there.
in specified. to be expended in detraying
the necessary expenses OF procuring the
assent of the Sioux Indians to this act
provided in the preceding section; and
the same shall be expended under the
direction OF the secretary of tho interior,
and be repaid to the treasury from the
proceeds OF the sale of the land author
lied by this act.
Passed the senate April l6. 1882
Attest: ASsoN G. McCooK, Sec'y.