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 THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 119. 1863. 819 CHA;. Vrilllilllgléo-(-;;aAlv;a;4·1l1g·; yvrstgnixhmzvdlcoy t;_n:dfS'£aseton, Waféppxtonl Medowakantort, March 3, 1863. Iznds gnuillinnesota and lg-alma: . W a ta mm, and jb" Dwpmmm if Mm Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President is authorized Lands outside and hereby directed to assign to and set apart for the Sisseton, Wahpaton, “’° Hmm °f Q"? Medawakanton, and Wahpakoota bands of Sioux Indians a tract of un- Z?:;:;),?: occupied land outside of the limits of any state, sufficient in extent to ¤fSi<>ux Indians. enable him to assign to each member of said bands (who are willing to Quantiqv. adopt the pursuit of agriculture) eighty acres of good agricultural lands,' the same to be well adapted to agricultural purposes. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several tracts of land Resemticns of within the reservations of the said Indians, shall be surveyed, under the iam I“‘“*}“S *° direction of the commissioner of the general land-office, into legal subdi- °S“w°’°d` visions to conform to the surveys of the other public lands. And the Secretary of the Interior shall cause each legal subdivision of the said_ Legal Subdivislands to be appraised by discreet persons to be appointed by him for that ;,';?s;lb° “p` purpose. And in each instance where there are improvements upon any ;m,,,,,v,m,,,,,s_ legal subdivision of said lands, the improvements shall be separately appraised. But no portion of ·the said lands shall be subject to preemption, WW1 ¤¤l>i¤¤¤ settlement, entry, or location, under any act of Congress, unless the party t° °r°Gmp“°°‘ preémpting, settling upon, or locating any portion of said lands shall pay therefor the full appraised value thereof, including the value of the said improvements, under such regulations as hereinafter provided. Ssc. 3. And be it further enacted, That after the survey of the said Aim survey, reservations the same shall be open to preemption, entry, and settlement in l:“‘*`;g’nb:i;’£°“ the same manner as other public lands: Provided, That before any person gg5y, mil miie. shall be entitled to enter any portion of the said lands by preemption or mamotherwise, previous to their exposure to sale to the highest bidder, at Vl;l’°:&m*Y P'°' public outcry, he shall become an actual bona fide settler thereon, and °mP ’ °' shall conform to all the regulations now provided by law in cases of preemption; 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 portions of the said reservations which may not be settled upon, What may be as aforesaid, may be sold at public auction, as other public lands are sold, ;‘£gu*;;f’“° ° after which they shall be subject to sale at private entry, 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 first of January, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-five, nor for a less price than one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, until otherwise provided for by law. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the money arising from said gf sale shall be invested by the Secretary of the Interior for the benefit of $$5; bz";] said Indians in their new homes, in the establishing them in agricultural plied. pursuits: Provided, That it shall be lawful for said Secretary to locate any meritorious individual Indian of said bands, who exerted himself to save the lives of the whites in the late massacre, upon said lands on which the improvements are situated, assigning the same to him to the extent of eighty acres, to be held by such tenure as is or may be provided by law: And provided, further, That no more than eighty acres shall be awarded to any one Indian, under this or any other act. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the money to be annually ap- Annual appropwpriated for the benefit of the said Indians shall be expended in such }’;i,iE‘;;:S,&’;:l;;‘° manner as will, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Interior, best bg Bxpgudm advance the said Indians in agricultural and mechanical pursuits, and enable them to sustain themselves without the aid of the government ;. but ¤0 portion of said appropriations shall be paid in money to said Indians. P%<>_l>¤¤‘%;0 lw And in such expenditure, said Secretary may make reasonable discrimina- p" mm °l‘ tion in favor of the chiefs who shall be found faithful to the Government