Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1894-03-23
THE AMENDED BILL
To Ratify and COMfrns an A.
greeMent With the Neg Perce
Indians. and to Make ApprO-
prtGtiOms Therefor.


vide for the allotment of lands in
severalty to Indians on the var
ious reservations, and to extend the
protection of the laws of the United
States and Territories over the
Indians, and for other purposes"
approved February 8, 1887, author
lied negotiations with the Nez
Perez Indians in Idaho for the ces-
sion of their surplus lands, and
Whereas, in pursuance of the
provisions of said act of Congress,
approved February 8, 1887, Robert
Schleicher, james F. Allen and
Cyrus Beede, on the part of the
United States, and the principal
men and other male adults of the
Nez Perce tribe of Indians located
on said Nez Perce Reservation,
entered into a treaty at the Nez
Perce Agency in the state of Idaho,
on the first day of May 1898, a
copy of which treaty is on file in
the Office of the Commissioner of
Indian Affairs. Therefore
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House Of Representatives of the
United States of America in Con-
gress assembled, that the said
agreement be, and the same here
by is, accepted, ratified, and con-
firmed.
Sec. 2. That for the purpose of
carrying the provisions of the act
into effect there is hereby appro-
priated, out of any money in the
Treasury not otherwise appropri-
ated, the sum of one million six
hundred and sixty-eight thousand
six hundred and twenty-five dol
lars, of which amount the sum of
one million dollars shall be placed
to the credit of "the Nez Perez
Indians of Idaho," in the treasury
of the United States and shall
bear interest at the rate of five per
centum per annum. Said sum of
one million, six hundred and sixty
eight thousand, six hundred
and twenty-five dollars,
together with the interest on
said sum of one million dollars,
shall be paid to said Indians, or
expended for their benefit, as pro-
vided in articles 2, 3, A, and of
said agreement: Provided, that
none of the money agreed to be
paid to said Indians, nor any of
the interest thereon, shall be, or
become, liable to the payment of
any judgment or claim for depre-
datiOns committed by said tribe or
any member thereof before the date
of said agreement.
Sec. 3. That Immediately after
the issuance and receipt by the
Indians of trust patents for the
allotted lands, as provided for in
said agreement, the lands so ceded,
sold, relinquished, and conveyed to
the United States, shall be opened
to settlement by proclamation of
the President, and shall be subject
to disposal only under the home
stead, town-site, stone and timber,
and mining laws of the
United States, excepting the
sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections
in each Congressional township,
which shall be reserved for com:
mon school purposes and be sub
.ject to the laws of the state OF
Idaho: Provided, that each set
tier on said lands shall before max
ing final proof and receiving a
certificate of entry, pay to the
United States for the lands 50 tax.
en- by him, in addition to the fee
provided by law, the sum of three
dollars and fifty cents per acre for
agricultural lands, One-half OF
which shall be paid within two
years from the date of original en-
try, and the sum of five dollars per
acre for stone and timber, and
mineral lands, subject to regulat-
ions prescribed by existing laws;
but the rights of honorably dis
charged Union soldiers and sailors
as defined and described in sections
twenty-three hundred and four and
twenty-three hundred and five Of
the Revised Statutes of the United
States, shall not be abriged except
as to the sum to be paid as afore.
said.
SEC. 4. That the Commissioner
of Indian Affairs be, and hereby is
authorized to employ competent
surveyor for a period not exceeding
two years, at compensation moi
exceeding 12 hundred dollars pei
annum, for the purposes stipulated
in article four of said agreement
and he is also authorized to pur
chase two portable sawmills, as pro
vided in said article four.
SEC. 8. That the Secretary o
the Interior is hereby authorized
to examine the claim Of those In
, dians who served the United States
under General o. o. Howard in thu
late war, with Joseph's band of sale
tribe ,as scouts, ,couriers, and messen
gers, referred to in article ten o
, said agreement, and also as to th'
, claim of Abraham Brooks, men