Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 17.djvu/231

 FORTY—SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 233, 234. 1872. 191 bands of Indians upon the tract of land set apart by the second clause of said article for the La Pointe band of said Chippewa Indians. The lands rendered vacant under the preceding section of this act shall vacantyands be appraised by three competent commissioners, one of whom shall be the *0 be ¤PP*‘==¤iS¤d» United States agent for the said Chippewa Indians, and the other two and by wh°m‘ shall be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, with the approval of the President. Should there be upon any of the lands to be thus appraised any improvements made by or for the Indians, or for government Improvements. purposes, the said commissioners shall appraise the said improvements separately. After the said lands shall have been appraised, as herein pro- After appraisevided, the Secretary of the Interior shall be, and hereby is, authorized to ;‘;g:_gé“;’€S;g,?§ offer the same at public sale to the highest bidder, in tracts not exceeding Sm, &C_;p one hundred and sixty acres each, at such place in the congressional district in which said lands are situated as may be designated by the Secretary of the Interior, ninety days’ notice of which shall be given by advertisement in at least three newspapers of general circulation published in said congressional district; and if not sold at public sale, it may be sold in ifpot Sold M tracts of not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres to one person, at not l°$1l{£°d?;;)%S5E°;£ less than the appraised value, and upon payment therefor to cause patents in the usual form to be issued to said purchaser or purchasers for said lands : Provided, That no bid for separate tracts shall be accepted which may be less than the appraised value of such tract, including the improve- Bids {O,. lm ments, if any, thereon : And provided further, That bids for tracts having than appraised improvements upon them shall state the price for both the land and the  t° be improvements. The proceeds of such sales shall be invested or expended Improvements. for the benefit of the Indians interested, in such manner as the Secretary }’F°°€€dS vt of the Interior, subject to the approval of the President, may direct. ?:,?;g,;1§I{ w b° The commissioners to be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, pm, Ofcom, under the provisions of this act, shall receive compensation for their missi?>nersservices at the rate of six dollars for each day actually engaged in the duties herein designated, in addition to the amount paid by them for actual travelling and other necessary expenses. The sum of seventy-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may A m mmm be necessary, be, and hereby is, appropriated, out of any moneys in the {O, gglpggggs of treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under the direction ¤pprais<-nmenterid of the Secretary of the Interior, for the appraisement and sale of the said Saglm to be m_ reservations and for the removal and establishment of said Indians, as imbursed. hereinbefore provided, the sum so expended to be reimbursed from the proceeds of the sales of the lands of said Indians authorized by this act. Approved, May 29, 1872. CHAP. CCXXXIV.-——·An Act for the Relay" ay" Albert W. Gray. May 29, 1872. Be it enacted by the Senate and H0z¢se of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Albert W. Gray, of Albert W. Middleton, in the State of Vermont, have leave to make a new applica- tion to the commissioner of patents for the extension of letterspatent i..m}s-pm,,t, granted to him for an improvement in horse-powers, on the ninth day of &c. September, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, and afterwards re-issued on the first day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-two ; and that the said commissioner of patents be authorized to consider and determine said application in the same manner and with the same effect as if it were an original application for such extension, duly filed within the time required _ by law, and no application therefor had heretofore been made: Provided, P’°“’°‘ That, in case such extension shall be granted, all persons who, between the date of the expiration of the original patent and the date of such extension, have constructed, or caused to be constructed, or used such improvement in horse-powers, shall be at liberty during said extended