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 THIRTY—SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 53. 1863. 659 of the Secretary of the Interior to cause each legal subdivision of the said lands to be appraised by discreet persons to be appointed by him for that purpose. And in each instance where there are improvements upon any legal subdivision of said lands, the improvements shall be separately appraised. But no portion of the said lands shall be subject to preemption, settlement, entry, or location under any act of Congress, unless the when to be party preempting, settling upon, or locating any portion of said lands shall ¤¤bJ<>9¢ tv I>¤‘¢· pay therefbr the full appraised value thereof, including the value of the °mpu°n' said improvements, under such regulations as hereinafter provided. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That after the appraisal of the said Aim ¤1>x>*¤l¤¤l reservation the same shall be opened to preemption, entry, and settlement, ;’,°r;§n°}§€:;d82;_ in the same manner as other public lands: Provided, That before any 1 person shall be entitled to enter any portion of the said lands, by preemption or otherwise, previous to their exposure to sale to the highest bidder, at public outcry, he shall become an actual bona fide settler thereon, and Who may pre shall conform to all the regulations now provided by law in cases of pre- °”‘Y’°· emption, and shall pay, within the term of one year from the date of his settlement, the full appraised value of the land, and the improvements thereon, to the land officers of the district where the said lands are situated. And the portion of the said reservation which may not be What is not gresettled upon, as aforesaid, may be sold at public auction, as other public ;;l‘ft°d may ° lands are sold, after which they shall be subject to sale at private entry, i as other public lands of the United States, but no portion thereof shall be sold for a sum less than their appraised value before the iirst of January, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-five, nor for a less price than one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, unless otherwise provided Minimum price. by law: Provided, That where improvements have been made upon said lands by persons authorized by law to trade with said Indians, the value of such improvements, or'the price for which the same may be sold, shall Improvements. be paid to the parties making the same; and in case the land upon which such improvements shall have been made shall be purchased by the parties making the same, at the appraised value as aforesaid, the value of the improvements so made by him shall form no part of the purchase price to be paid for said land. Sec. 4. And be it futher enacted, That the lands of said Indians Lands set apart which have been set apart for the payment of the debts of the said In- gzlddgbtzgglsg dians, shall be sold on sealed bids for the best price the same will bring; bid, y but no bids shall be received for said lands until the first day of January, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-five, for less than two dollars and fifty cents per acre. Bids shall be received for tracts of quarter 7;,1,,,, 3m,, rmsections; and for such tracts conforming to the Government surveys less bidding than one hundred and sixty acres as will secure the largest price for said lands, the Secretary is authorized to receive, in payment of said lands, _ What received certificates of indebtedness of said Indians, issued by the Commissioner m P*‘>'“‘°“*· of Indian Affairs for the debts of said Indians, secured to be paid out of the sale of said lands by the third article of the treaty of the said Indians with the United States, concluded at Wa liington on the fifteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine. The money arising from the _P;-oceeds, how sale of their said lands, after paying the indebtedness required by said d‘SP°*°d °f‘ treaty to be paid, shall be paid into the treasury of the United States, and shall be expended as the same is received, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, in necessary improvements upon their new reservation; and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior to allot Allctmentsin to said Indians in severalty lands which they may respectively cultivate °""“"Y' and improve, not exceeding eighty acres to each head of a family other than to the chiefs, to whom larger allotments may be made, which lands, when so allotted, shall be vested in said Indian and his heirs, without the right of alienation, and shall be evidenced by patent. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the money to be annually A¤¤¤¤l¤PD¤>·