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 362 FORTY—FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 296. 1870. t°S¤°h P;;'i°¤¤ to be made, such persons shall cease to be members of said tribe, and mem, of fh, thereafter- the lands so patented to them shall be sulnect to levy, taxation, moe, src. upon, and sale, in like manner with the property of other citizens. &‘imcm baud Sec. [11.] And be it further enacted, That the eastern band of the of Cherokee In. Cherokee Indians, by that name and style be, and they are hereby, au. dla11S ¤§1¤}’ i¤§$l- thorized and empowered to institute and carry on 9. suit 01* Suits in law or lgtggxlggggggftl equity in the district or circuit courts of the United States against the pressaid ban. ent or former Indian agent or agents of said band, their administrators, executors, and heirs, and against the securities of such agent or agents, their administrators, executors, curators or trustees for all claims, causes of suit or rights in law or equity that said band may have against them or _ Law oflimita.- either of them; and the law of limitation shall apply to such claims, Egggohgu and causes of action, and rights from and after the day this act takes effect, pgsmcgaabp It shall be the duty of the district attorneys and the Attorney—General of nays topresc- the United States to institute and prosecute all suits, cause for which may C11 6 Sill. · · · arise under this section. Great Md Sec. [12.] And be it further enacted, That whenever the Great and ·, 1 e save n ians s a a ree ere o, in suc manner as e residen {;;g$;;§;;*§; be mn o ,, 1 a h ll g in t · u in P 11 t removed from shall prescribe, it shall be the duty of the President to remove said Indigzemggt ans from the State of Kansas to lands provided or to be provided for them pc,m,m6m` for a. permanent home in the Indian Territory, to consist of a tract of land home in Indian in compact form equal in quantity to one hundred and sixty acres for each them. be paid for outof the proceeds of the sales of their lands mithe btate of Kansas, the price per acre for such lands to be- procured in the Indian Territory not to exceed the price paid or to be paid by the United States f APP";l’;l°*;?“ for the same. And to defray the expenses of said removal, and to aid in t§;§.€gmO$.;1 the subsistence of the said Indians during the first year, thereis hereby 3nd_sub5;stgncp appropriated out of the treasury, out of any money not otherwise approyggg ° “ priated, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the lnte~ howwbe mor, the sum of fifty thousand dollars, to be reimbursed to the United ¤¥P°§d¢<L3¤d States from the proceeds of the sale of the lands of the said Indians in r°§;,:l;c_'0f· Kansas, including the trust lands north of their present diminished. reserthe_1a¤dso£seid vanon, which lands shall be open to settlement after survey, excepting the “‘ sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections, which shall be reserved to the State of Kansas for school purposes, and shall be sold to actual settlers only, said settlers being heads of families, or over twenty-one years of age, in quantities not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres, in square form, to each settler, at the price of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre ; payment hmm upon tc; bpfmade in calshhwithin one year from date of settlement or of: the passage Pwd! dma 0 t xs act, an the United States, m consideration of the relinumshment tube paid to the by sa1d Indians of their lands in Kansas shall pay annually interest on hd""' the amount of money received as roeeeds df sale of said lands at the rate of five per centum, to be expended by the President for the behefit of said A b Indians, in such manner as he may deem proper. And for this purpose kopffggft t° ° an accurate account shall be kept by the Secretary of the Interior of the money received as proceeds of sale, and the- aggregate amount received prior to the first day of November of each year shall be the amount upon which the payment of interest shall be based. The proceeds of sale of said land shall be carried to the credit of said Indians on the books of the _ _ treasury, and shall bear interest at the rate of five per cent. per annum: Exgzpggl Provided, 1`hat the diminished reserve of said Indians in Kansas shall be mmmgm Km supvieyeid gnder the direepiou of the Seplretary of tlfre Iptprmr as other sasto esur— pu IO an s are surveye as soon as e consento said n xans IS o · “Y°d· tained as above provided, the expense of said survey to be paid from the proceeds of sale of said land. Peym Osages Sec. _[13.] And be it further enacted, That there be, and is hereby, f°" “*f°°k ““d . appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, farmmgutensxls . . . . . as compensation to Osages for the stock and farming utensils which the
 * f;‘Q;g°;fg_b° member of said- tribe, or such part thereof as saidllndians may desire, to