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 FOBTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. H: Ou. 336, 337. 1885. 351 notwithstanding the limit heretofore fixed in its original articles of association and determined by the Comptroller of the Currency; and the Comptroller of the Currency is hereby authorized to fix the limit of in- Limit of increase of the capital stock of the First Na1:i0ua.lB:mk ofLa.1·¤ed,Knnsas, °'°*°°- at the amount of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Approved, March 3, 1885. CHAP. 337.-—A.¤ act to rovide for the sale of the Sac an x md Icws Indian Reservations, in the Santos of Nebraska and Kansas, mddb? other purp0•en." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Sale of Sac ana Slam of Americajn Congress assembled That with the consent of u mu- F9! md I¤w=>_I¤— jorlty of the chiefs, hcadmcn, and male adults of the Sac and Fox (cf !1‘““N%“°'{:“°“: the Missouria) tribe of Indians and the Iowa tribe of Indians, expressed Qsflm m in open council by each tribe, the Secretary of the Interior be, and he Secretary or 1¤- hereby is, authorized to cause to be surveyed, if necessary, and sold *<=¤’i¤¤' M wmv the remainder of the reservations of the Sac and Fox and Iowa. Indians, Q‘:h"°‘:°'f.::uh“i?;. lying in the States of Nebraska and Kansas. The said lands shall be majority of chiefs, appraised, in tracts of forty acres each, by three competent commis- headmcnpndmalu sinners, one of whom shall be selected by the Sac and Fox and Iowa ¤1i¤· same, through the United States public·lsmd office at Beatrice or.Liu- md °m°°“· colu, Nebraska at public sale, to the highest bidder. In cases where improvements lmve been made by any Indian or for the United States I¤di•¤ i¤¤P¤>*¤- upon such lands, such improvements shall be separately appraised: :‘°“::b°';P"“°17 Provided, That no portion of such land shall be sold at less than the pB,,,;,,_' appraised value thereoty and in no ease for less than eight dollars per Price not me acre, and to none except such as purchase the same for actual 0ccupa· thm $6 W Mm tion and settlement, and who have made ahd subscribed on oath, before mlm the register of said laudmiice, and Med the same with mid omeer of 8,,,; bmp the lam!-omce at Beatrice or Lincoln Nebraska, that it is his g00d·ii1ith intention to settle upon and occupy the land which he seeks to purchase, and improve the same for a home; and,cxceptin easeof the death of the purchaser, unless said party shall have executed his declared intention by making improvements and being in actual occupation of said land, by actual residence thereon, at the time for makinithe second payment, be shall forfeit the payment already made, and the land shall be subject to resale as hereinafter provided. Each purchaser of said » lands at such sale shall be entitled to purchase one hundred and sixty Purcbnselimltodz acres of land, and no more, except in cases where a. tract contains a. !*°w0¤¤:f%¤f=l;_* fractional excess over one hundred and sixty acres. If the excess is ;§‘°;'°¤“;_ less than forty acres, is contiguous, and results from inability in the survey to make township and section lines conform to the boundary- · lines of the reservation, and no other objection exists, the purchase of _ such excess shall be allowed. Such purchaser shall pay one-fourth of Peymeummdlnthe pmchaseprice at the time said land is bid oil; one-fourth in one WW- year, oue-fourtsh in two years, and one-fourth in three years, with inmrest on the deferred payments at the rata of six per ecutum perammm; and where there are improvements upon the lands purchased which shall have been separately appraised, the purchaser shall pay the appraised value of such improvements at the time of purchase, in addition to the amounts hereiubefore required tobe paid. N0 patents shall issue p“m“,,h,, up until all payments shall have been made; and on the failure of amypub pn ments nechaser to make payment as require] by this act heshall forfeit the IIL _ lands purchased, and the same shall he subject to entry and sale, attha m1;:r;Q:‘*“'° °“· appraised value thereoii or shall be again 0i’fered at public sale, as the P"' Secretary of the Interior may determine.