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 562 THIRTY—EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 127. 1865. _ _Cermin annu- is authorized to pay in coin such of the annuities as by the terms of any lgfoggrbe Pmd treaty of the United States with any Indian tribe, are required to be paid in com. Chiefs, &c., of Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That each of the chiefs, warriors, gfggégggy Bn_ and heads of families of the Stockbridge Munsee tribes of Indians rem a homestead, siding in the County of Shawana. and State of Wisconsin, may, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, enter a homestead and become entitled to all the benefits of an act entitled “An act to secure homesteads 1862, Q1- 75- to actual settlers on the public domain," approved May twenty, eighteen V°LX“‘ P' 392 hundred and sixty-two, free from any fee or charge whatever, and any Abandoned part of the lands being a part of their present reservation, which may be £;s;;Y3fl°"° m°y abandoned under the foregoing provisions, may be sold under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, and the proceeds applied for the benefit of such Indians as may settle on said hornesteads, to aid them in improving Iiomestead not the same. The said homestead thus secured shall not be subject to any §;*;’J*°i t° ‘"‘· tax, levy, or sale whatever, nor shall the same be sold, conveyed, mort- ` gaged, or in any manner encumbered except upon the decree of the dis- Chiefs_ &c_ trict court of the United States, as hereinafter provided. Whenever any may become hiti- of said chiefs, warriors, or heads of families of said tribes, having filed "“s· with the clerk of the district court of the United States a declaration ot' his intention to become a citizen of the United States, and to dissolve T’r<>¤¢¤<ii¤z¤· all relations with any Indian tribe, two years previous thereto, shall appear in said court, and prove to the satisfaction thereof, by the testimony of two citizens of the United States, that for five years last past he has adopted the habits of civilized life, that he has maintained himself and family by his own industry, that he reads and speaks the English Ianguage, that he is well disposed to become a peaceable and orderly citizen; and that he has sufficient capacity to manage his own affairs; the court may enter a decree admitting him to all the rights of a citizen of the United States, and thencefbrth he shall be no longer held or treated as a member of any Indian tribe, but shall be entitled to all the rights and privileges, and be subject to all the duties and liabilities to taxation of other citizens of the United States. But nothing herein contained shall be construed to deprive them of annuities to which they are or may be entitled. Portions of Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Interior giggzgggzgggyiggf be, and he is hereby, authorized to expend such part of the amount herein may be cxrgcudcj appropriated to carry into effect any treaty stipulation with any tribe or for individual tribes of Indians, all or any portion of whom shall be in 2. state of actual lgfbf m°"‘b°" °f hostility to the government of the United States, including the Creeks, ` Choctaws, Chickasaws, Seminoles, Wichitas, and other afiilinted tribes, as well as the Cherokees, as may be found necessary to support such individual members of said tribes as have been driven from their homes or reduced to want on account of their friendship to the United States, and enable them to subsist until they can support themselves in their own Account to be country: Provided, That an account shall be kept of the sums so paid for k°Pl· the benefit of the said members of said tribes, which account shall be rendered to congress, at the commencement of the next session thereof, Purchases and all the purchases of articles for the purposes above set forth, shall be h°W m°d°' made of the lowest- responsible bidder after sufficient public notice by advertisement in appropriate newspapers: Provided, aZs0, That ·the said Secretary shall not be required to accept any bid which is in his judg- Ng pm-t to bg ment unreasonable in its character: Provided, further, That no part of ¢EP°¤d°f1 for °¤F· said annuities shall be expended for Indians outside of the Indian Terrimm I"d"°°S` tory south of Kansas, except in providing for such individual Indians or families as are sick and unable to remove to that territory, or such as may be driven out of that territory by armed rebels, after the passage of this act. Sec. G. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury