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 222 FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 248. 1868. stock held in Interior in trust for various Indian tribes, up to and including the interest, g$’gsf°"1“d‘““ payable July first, egghteen lipnprcd and SiXfy-tight, 0¤0 hundred thousand ` one hundred and ti -t ree dollars. c;,0mk,m_ T0 pay the expenises of a commissioner to be appointed to fix the msg 0f property and improvements on farms confiscated and sold by Cherokee nation, under laws of said nation made during the late rebellion, two thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars. Hbglfggpggvu For payment of interest on fifteen thousand dollars, abstracted bonds, bonds Cherokee for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, school fund. for the Cherokee school fund, nine hundred dollars. For payment of interest on sixty-eight thousand dollars, abstracted bonds, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, of the Cherokee national fund, four thousand and eighty · dollars. Delivery of For insurance, transportation, and necessary expenses of the delivery 3;:;¤EE¤;i<:n£:; ofiaunuities and provisions to the Indian tribes m Mmnesota and Michi- 8,,,,, and Mich, gan, ten thousand dollars. gan. For insurance, transportation, and necessary expenses of the delivery c;“;1Q,°$LE:f' to the_Pawnee, Ponca, and Yanetou Sioux Indians of annuity goods and m,,’S;0,,x_ provisions, eight thousand dollars. For this amount to pay the interest on certain non-paying stock held in trust by the Secretary of the Treasury for the Chickasaw Indians, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, fifty- nine thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine dollars and ninety-nine cents. G¤¤¤l ¤¤ Gul- For completing the construction of irrigating canal on the Colorado %‘g1‘{° "°"“"" reservation in Arizona, fifty thousand dollars. Rescue of For actual necessary expenses incurred, and that may hereafter be f£m';:”n:T3';*r_ incurred by officers of the Indian department in the rescue of prisoners rm 0,- {,,,,,,0,,5 from Indian tribes and returning them to their homes, and for expenses charged with incident to the arrest and confinement within the territory of the United f;gR$Bl‘g*""““ titatpadby order of such (ptgeers, of persons charged with crimes against tie n tans, ve tiousan dollars. Sliigtlgmsptlgf F or this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary to establish Bu“]_Ock§ l),, the bhoshoues, Bannoeks, and other strolling bands of Indians lin the 1·'oi-:1-lax1w5e;--· S0l1£llt·§I‘l.] portion of Idaho Territory, on the Fort Hall reservation, on V***l°“· Snake river, Idaho Territory, including the transportation of all necessary articles and the material and labor for the construction of the houses and _ mills and pay of necessary employees for one year, thirty thousand dollars: P"‘“"S°‘ Provided, That none of the payments herein provided for shall be made unless the Secretary of the Interior shall be satisfied that the tribes, bands, or individuals named have observed the treaty stipulations under which such payments have become due, and also the provisions of any other treaties with the government to which they may be parties; or in case of portions1e;; said tribes or bands have observed all of said obligations, pay- ments s a be made to them ro rata. mynglpr t;·_eiv.tgcs For this amount for the puiipose of carrying out the treaty stipulations, Y '“‘ ° · making and preparing homes, furnishing provisions, tools and farming utensils, and furnishing thod for such bands of Indians with which treaties have been made by the Indian peace commission and not yet ratified, and detraying the expenses of the commission in making such treaties, and carrying their provisions into effect, five hundred thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of Lieutenant-General Sherman of said <éonimission,tai;tl prawn trom the treasury upon his requisition upon the eeretary 0t ie nterior. livgtoclcpf de; _ Sec. 2. And be it fierihcr enacted, That all goods and merchandise fur- &°_ ,5,; ;’n§§3:;» rushed any tribe *or band of Indians under the provisions of this act shall be turned over by the agent or superintendent of such tribe or hand to the chiefs of the tribe or band, to be distributed to the tribe or band by the chiefs in such manner as the chiefs may deem best, and the delivery of