Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-07-13
ABOUT NEBRASKA.
,,nnba Indian reservation.

An act for the relief of the Omaha tribs
of Indians i'll Nebraska, to extend time OF
payment to purchasers Of land of said In
dams, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the senate and house OF rep
trescntatives of the United States Of America in
Congress assembled That in view of the I'D
yanced condition in civiiizStion of hle Omaha
tribe of Indians in the state of Nebraska, and
to enable snid tribe to further improve their
condition by making improvements upon their
homesteuds by the purchase of stock, cattle,
agricultural implements, and other necessary
articles, and in accordance with their wishes,
there is hereby appropriated out of any moneys
in tho treasury not otherwise appropriated, the
sum OF seventy thousand dollars, being the last
seven installments of ten thousand ollnrs
cacl appropriated, and secured to said IN
dia1s undor the fourth article of their treaty
dntd March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and
fiftv-four, to be paid per capita in two annual
;nstallments of ,hirty-1ive thousand dollars
each; provided, that payment OF the second in
stallment shall be made contingent upon their
adv lllcement and improvement, and in the dis
cretion of the secretary of the interior: And pro-
ytpl further, that said money shall be paid to
said Indians per capita by special agent up
pointed for that purpose by the secretary of the
interior, which agent shall in person direct and
advise the expenditure Of the same by such In
tllnns in the manner most conducive to their
present welfare. He shall give u bond for the
faithful performance of his duties and to BIO
paid for his services out OF said money such
reasonable compensation us shall be determined
by sud secretary. He shall report to said sec
retary, in DETAIL his doings hereunder.
SEC. .. hnt the secretary OF the interior be,
ani he is, hereby authorized and directed to
extend the time of the pnyment of the pur-
chase money due for land sold on Omaha In
dian reservation under the snles made by vir-
tue of on act to provide for the sale of part Of
the reservation of the Omahn trib. of Indians
i'll the state of Neb @nska, and for otter pur-
poses, approved August Z, 1882, as follows: The
time OF ench payment shall be extended for
The period y two years beyond the time now
fixed: Provitl d. That the interest Oh said pay
1pents shall be paid annually at the time said
Payments of interest are due: And provided
further, Tint the act above mentioned, except
I'd changed and modified by this act, shall re-
main in full force
Bee 3. The secretary of the interior is here
By directed to declare 70 feited all lands sold
under said act upon which he purchaser shall
bs in default. undor existing law, for sixty
days after the passage Of this act, in payment
ofnny part OF the purchase money, or in the
payment of any interest on such purchase
money for the period of two years previous to
THE expiration Of id sixty dnys. The secre-
d Hay cause all such land, together with all
trncts OF land embraced in said act not h reto-
fore sold, to be sold ut public auction, after
due notice, to the highest bidder over and
above the original appraisal thereof, upon the
terms of payment authorized in snid act. And
the proceeds of all such sales shall be covered
into the trea 'ury, to be disposed OF for the sole
use of said Omaha tribe Of Indians in such
manner rs shall be hereafter determined by
law.
SEC 4. That the secretary of the interior,
with the consent of the Omaha tribe of In
dinns. expressed in such manner as he may de-
termine, be and he is hereby authorized to set
apart from the unalloted and unassigned Ian Ia
of said Omaha Indians, in the state of Ne
.brnska, not to exceed five acres of land for the
use and occupation of the Womans National
Indian association, to be used by the said as
sociation for missionary and educational pur-
poses among the indians, and the use aud oc-
cupancy of the land 80 set apart to insure to
said association and it's successors so long a 8
the same is used for the purposes herein speci-
fed.
Anproyed May IL 1883