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 36 FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 52, 53, 55. 1882. Territory of Dakota lying south of the forty-third parallelof north latitude and east of the Keyapaha River and west of the mam channel of the Missouri River; and when the Indian title to the lands thus described shall be extinguished, the jurisdiction over said lands shall be, and hereby is, ceded to the State of Nebraska, and subject to all the conditions and limitations provided in the act of Congress admitting Nebraska into the Union, and the northern boundary of the State shall be extended to said forty-third parallel as fully and eifectually as if said lands had been included in the boundaries of said State at the time of its admission to the Union; reserving to the United States the omg- Phwiw. inal right of soil in said lands and of disposing of the same: Provided, That this act, so far as jurisdiction is concerned, shall not take effect until the President shall, by proclamation, declare that the Indian t1tle to said lands has been extinguished, nor shall it take effect until the Condition. State of Nebraska shall have assented to the provisions of this act ; and if the State of Nebraska shall not by an act of its legislature consent to the provisions of this act within two years next afterthe passage hereof, this act shall cease and be of no eifect Approved, March 28, 1882. . CHAP. —-An authorize' the ‘ retax·yofWa1:toreleasearightofwa across 53. lahldtstdfthe United Sasctee at lattsburgh, New Yorlg y Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Right or yay States ofrlmerica in Congress assembled, That the Secretary ofWa.r· be HH M F Y1 gmt? authorized and empowered, in his discretion, and on such conditions and ,;“,:§‘:,w:é‘h7§ of restrictions as he may think necessary to protect the interests of the wg to és; United States, to release to the Chateaugay Railroad Company, for my Railroad railroad purposes only, a right of way not exceeding four rods in width C¤¤¤1¤¤¥- over and along the northerly side of the lands of the United States in Plattsburgh, Clinton County, New York, and extending from the Saranac River to the depot grounds of said company, a distance of about one hundred and thirty rods, or so much thereof as said company may re- _ quire for said purpose. Approved, March 28, 1882. Ku-_ 3], ]3Q_ CHAP, 55.-An not to confirm certain instructions given by the De artment of the -·—-;—- Interior to the Indian agent at Green Bay Agency, in the State ofp Wisconsin, and to legalize the acts done ami permitted by said Indian agent pursuant thereto. p,,,,,,m,_ Whereas on the twentyeighth day of November, eighteen hundred and eightyone, the Commissioner of Indian Afairs addressed to the Indian agent at the Green Bay Agency, in the State of Wisconsin, a letter of instructions as follows, namely: "DEPABTKENT or rim Inrmrron, •·01¤·rrc1··: or Immun Amurns “E. S·rm·rm11, United States Indian Agent “Green Bay Agency, Wisconsin : ’·‘Sm: I notice in your annual report a statement that the Indians of your agency complain that they are not allowed to dispose of the dead and down timber going to waste on their reserve. f* You are hereby informed that the sale of such timber is allowed by this office; but great care must be taken by you to see that the Indians dispose of only surplus dead or down wood which without such disposinon {would soon become worthless, and that they do not take advantage of this permission to ent other timber, in violation of section two hundred and sixty-two, Qnstrnctions to Indian Agents’.
 * Washington, November 28, 1881.