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 FORTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. 1. GH. 180, 181, 182. 1874. 47 lish for the protection, care, and management of such cemetery. And _ _ he shall cause the same to be laid of and platted in convenient and suit- 1 ,;I`° b°1“’d OH mw able lots, which shall be forever devoted for the purpose of the burial of ° s' the dead. And he may set apart forever to each of the religious deuom- _ Lot for each religinations organized in Salt Lake City which shall file with him proof of l°“¤ °*°“°”’*“”·*'°"· their organization a. lot not to execcd one acre in size, and of convenient shape, which such denominations may inclose and ornament as they see ht, to be used for the purposes of burial ; and two acres shall be reserved as a " p0bter’s field," or common burying ground, which may be inclosed Common bvriel and ornamented by the authority of the said city. S'°°”d· Approved, May 16, 1874. CHAP. 181.-Au aot to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to discharge cer- May 16, 1874. tain obligations of the United States to the creditors of the Upper and Lower Bands ijé of Sioux Indians. Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United I t, States of America. in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Inte- m£:)TQ“%p;§r°;*Q;i rior be, and hereby is, authorized and empowered to discharge all ob1iiL0wm· B u L. ds gf gations of the United States to the creditors of the Upper and Lower Sioux Indians. Bands of Sioux Indians, arising under the treaty of June nineteenth, vol, Xii] P, was eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, between said bands and the United States, and from the diversion by the United States of the funds and assets of said Indians in their possession and control applicable to that _ _ purpose: Provided, That the amount allowed and paid ou said indebt- L*““° *° ”'“°“"° ellness shall in no event exceed the sum of seventy thousand dollars. I’"y°'m°‘ S1:0. 2. That to enable the Secretary of the Interior to curry into effect the provisions of the foregoing section, the sum of seventy thousand dollars, or so much thereof ns may be necessary, be, and the same. _ hereby is, appropriated, out of any moueyin the Treasury not otherwise AI’V”°P““°l°“‘ appropriated. Approved, May 16, 1874. CHAP. 182.-—An act for the relief of certain settlers on tho Fort Randall military May 18, 1874. _ reservation. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United _ _ States of America, in Oongress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, fC°1;*¤¤¤tP•;€‘**<;¤l*{ and he is hereby, authorized to transfer to the custody of the Depart- Qlmmfyrrcurgxzign ment of the I uterior such portions of the military reservation of Fort transrumq to mm. Randall, in Dakota, as were actually occupied by settlers prior to the tody of Indian Depromulgation of the order of the President of June fourteenth, eighteen P’*“’“°“”· hundred and sixty, setting apart the reservation for military purposes, and, ihrther, such portions of the said reservation as were released from military occupation and control between the years eighteen hundred and sixty-seven and eighteen hundred and seventy, and were during that time settled upon in good faith and in the belief that the lands were open to settlement. Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Interior be authorized to conhrm, Tm,,,, of mmm in accordance with existing laws, the titles of such settlers upon the to be confirmed. military reservation of Fort Randall as may be reported by the Secretary of War for that purpose, and to cause patents to be issued for such lands as the aforesaid settlers may be entitled to under existing laws and the provisions of this act. _ SEO. 3. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he 1s_hereby, au- Payment ,-0, im, thorized to pay to each of the aforesaid settlers the respective amounts pmvemenns. that were appraised as the value of their respective improvements, by a military board of survey convened for that purpose,- at Fort Randall, under instructions from the War Department, dated March third, eight.