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 304 THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 82, 83. 1854. July 17, 1854. CHAr· LXXXII.-An Act to provide for the Construction of a Military Road in the "‘""‘—_"·" Territory ry" Ulah. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Aél§}'°ggl¤tl°¤ Smm q'Ame¢·ica in Congress assembled, That there be, and is hereby, §£nS,,.‘Qg,,0nf§§ appropriated, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, out of any money said road. in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, in the construction of a Military Road within the Territories of Utah and New Mexico, commencing at Great Salt Lake Cit, and running, by the way of Provo City, Fillmore City, Parovan and (lyedar City, to the eastern boundary of California, in the direction of the Cajon Pass. Approved, July 17, 1854.. July 17, 1854. CHAP. LXXXIII.——An Act to authorize the President of the United States to cause to —-—-— b¢.S|lTIJ3H1 the tract gl land in the Temtoygq :y" Minnesota, belongzng to the halyibreeds or maxed- · ood.: of the acota/i or Sioux natzon of Indums, and for other purposes. Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Authority to States of America in Congress assembZe¢L That the President be, and he g:°vl;;’5§g‘;“gi? is hereby, authorized, to exchange with the half-breeds or mixed-bloodg Lake Pepin and of the Daeotah or Sioux nation of Indians, who are entitled to an inte Mi¤¤¤SiPPi¤V°¤'- rest therein, for the tract of land lying on the west side of Lake Pepin and the Mississippi River, in the Territory of Minnesota, which was set apart and granted for their use and benefit, by the ninth article of the Treaty of Prairie du Chien, of the fifteenth day of July, one thousand Vol. 7, p. 880. eight hundred and thirty; and for that purpose he is hereby authorized to cause to be issued to said persons, on the execution by them, or by the legal representatives of such as may be minors, of a full and complete relinquishment by them to the United States of all their right, title, and interest, according to such form as shall be prescribed by the Commissioner of the General Land—Oiiice, in and to said tract of land or reservation, certidcates or scrip for the same amount of land to which each individual would be entitled in case of adivision of the said grant or reservation pro rata among the claimants——which said certificates or scrip may be located upon any of the lands within said reservation not now occupied by actual and bond jide settlers of the half-breeds or mixed-hloods, or such other persons as have gone into said Territory by authority of law, or upon any other unoccupied lands subject to preemption or private sale, or upon any other unsurveyed lands, not _ reserved by Government, upon which they have respectively made im- P'°V*’°· provementsz Provided, That said certificates or scrip shall not embrace more than six hundred and forty, nor less than forty acres each, and provided that the same shall be equally apportioned, as nearly as practicable, among those entitled to an interest in said reservation: And proml;l"*ll°' P"°* vided :fur£L¥,bTha¥•p4o transfer or conveyance of any of said certificates or scrip s a e vai When certiii- Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President be, and he is gx: ‘”` ""P *° hereby authorized, to cause to be ascertained the number and names of ' the half-breeds or mixed-bloods who are entitled to participate in the benefits of the said grant or reservation as aforesaid, before the issue of the certificates or scrip provided for in the preceding section. Lamistobe S20. 3. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passage zggggxaéoggz of this act, the President is authorized to have the lands within the said ' reserve surveyed and exposed to public sale at the Land—Offices for the districts in which said lands may lie, according to the boundaries of the several land districts recently established by Congress, in the same manner as other public lands. Armzovnn, July 17, 1854.