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 THIRTYJIHIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 204. 1855. 699 Cheyennes, and clothing, and transportation to the States, of one white and ten Mexican prisoners, one hundred and seventy dollars. For pay of an additional clerk of the Indian office, under the appro- Clerk. I priation per act of August five, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, for one 185% °h· 167- ‘- year, fourteen hundred dollars. For paying the expenses of one commissioner and two clerks employed Clm-ks, gw_ uu. _‘ by the Attorney-General, in the investigation directed by the resolu- der Seuatqrescgj tion of the Senate of fourth August, eighteen hundred and fifty-t'our, two },;:,‘QQgc(fl'h'°h “ thousand dollars: Provided, That said resolution, and any other since - adopted, relating to the same object, be, and the same are hereby, repealed. For collecting, removing, and subsisting the Indians of California, (as flhtllitns in 0** provided by law,) on two additional military reservations, to be selected mm` as heretofore, and not to contain exceeding twenty-five thousand acres - each, in or near the State of California, the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That the President may enlarge the _ quantity of reservations heretofore selected, equal to those hereby pro- fo3*°s°"'°·*‘°“’ vided for, and shall not expend the amount herein appropriated unless, ` in his opinion, the same shall be expedient; and the last proviso to the ROPE,] of pmt authority for five military reservations in California, per act of third of of =w¤<>f1858,<;l1- March, eighteen hundred and fifty-three,be, and the same is hereby, ;2%’$:3);‘§§;§$§ repealed: Provided, That so much of the act approved on the thirty-first or not or 1854, of July last, as requires that no more than twenty thousand dollars shall °b- 16% 9 *- be drawn by the Superintendent of Indian Affairs, or be in his hands unexpended at one and the same time, bc, and the same is hereby, repealed. For the purpose of enabling the President to treat with, and arrange Arrangement the difficulties existing among the Stockbridge and Munsee Indians of °f dlmgilgig k_ Lake Winnebago, in the State of Wisconsin, arising out of the acts g¥;3n§S,,$dM$,,,. of Congress of third of March, eighteen hundred and forty-three, and we 1€¤di¤n¤· August sixth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, and the treaty of twenty- tg:} fourth of November, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, in such manner v°1.1k,p.9¤·r. as may be just to the Indians, and with their assent, and not inconsistent with the legal rights of white persons who may reside on the Stockbridge reserve, of the claim of the United States under the treaty of eighteen hundred and forty-eight, the sum of fifteen hundred dollars. For the completion of the collection of the sixth and last volume of Statistics. the statistics and other information of Indian tribes, authorized by the act of third of March, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, and subsequent 18% °l’· “· acts, the sum of seventeen thousand two hundred dollars: Provided, That said volume shall be so condensed as to embrace all the material now, or to be collected, and not inferior in any respect to the preceding volumes; and to be completed within two yearsfrom the passage of this act: And provided, further, That said compilation shall be subjected, before publication, to revision by the Secretary of the Interior, with a view to the curtailment in the work of all matters useless, irrelevant, or inconsistent with tho objects of the work. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That section four of the “Act léct ¢>f41854»t¤{¤6 making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the ,n,é,,,l,rc’W?3,,c, Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various or 185t, ch. ss, Indian tribes, for the year ending June thirtieth, one thousand eight hun- ;;SP°;§§ES E12'?} dred and fifty-tive, and for other purposes," approved thirty·iirst July, S;gux;,,,,d,,_ eighteen hundred and fifty-four, shall not be so construed as to interfere with an act entitled, “An act to authorize the President of the- United States to cause to be surveyed, the tract of land in the Territory of Minnesota, belonging to the half-breeds or mixed bloods of the Dacotah or Sioux nation of Indians, and for other purposes," approved July seventeen, eighteen hundred and fifty-four: Provided, That so much of the money appropriated by the iirst-named  as may be necessary to carry out the lastrnamed act, shall be applicable thereto.