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 1002 rirrinrn conennss. sm. 11. cH. nz. im. rnmemmuor rot PRAIRIE BAND OF POTTAWATOMIES AND KICKAPOO INDIANS or tawatomles and Kick- KANSAS. apocs ot Kansas. 0g$*¤*i°¤¤f¤*¤¤!° The sum of fiye thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be ` necessary, is hereby appro riated to enable the President to negotiate with the Prairie Band of Pottawattomies and Kickapoo Indians in Kansas for the sale of all or a portion of their lands in Kansas, and the allotment of the remainder in severalty; such agreements as may be made tobe submitted by the President to Congress at the next session, said sum to be immediately available. Sioux Reservation SIOUX RESERVATION. C*2”"“m°”°'”.*°“°‘ The President of the United States is hereby authorized and emgouate for cemion of . . . . portion 0:. powered to appoint three Commissioners for the purpose of entering into negotiations and agreements with the Sioux Indians occupying the great Sioux Indian Reservation in Dakota for a full and complete cession and relinquishment to the United States of a portion of their reservation, and to divide the remainder into separate reservations, and for such other purpose as they may may End necessary touching said Indians and said reservation; and such agreements. when made, to be by them submitted to the first session, fifty-first Congress, for ratification; and to carry out this provision the sum nxpemes of twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be found necessary, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, is hereby appropriated, this amount to be immediately liww- available: Provided, That the pay of such Commissioners shall not y' exceed ten dollars per day exclusive of traveling expenses. mgm ¤`A1¤¤¤ I¤¤i· Sec. 4. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, Negocauouseorpiu. authorized and directed to negotiate with the Coeur d’.Alene tribe of ti°'}·'}§‘,'g;"l,,i'f";'j.",•’f‘m_‘“d Indians for the purchase and release by said tribe of such portions of its reservation not agricultural and valuable chiefly for minerals and timber as such tribe shall consent to sell, on such terms and conditions as shall be considered just and equitable between the United States and said tribe of Indians, which purchase shall not be complete until ratiiied by Congress and for the purpose of such negotia— _ tion, the sum of two thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated; the action of the Secretary of the Interior hereunder to be reported to Congress at the earliest practi- . cable time. ‘ t Pgewbswgizggpueg SEQ. 5. That no purchase of supplies for which appropriations are JQ,,;,,,?; '° ’ °’ herein made, exceee ing in the agglregate five hundre do lars in value at any one time, shall be made wit out first giving at least three weeks` public notice by advertisement, except in cases of exigency, when. in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, who shall make oilicial record of the facts constituting the exigency and shall report the same to Congress at its next session, he may direct that purchases may be made in open market in amount not exceeding t ree A-mm. thousand dollars at any one purchase: Provided, That funds herein and heretofore appropriated for construction of ditches, and other imgmon. works for irrigating may, in the discretion of the Secreta of the Interior, be expended in opjen market: Provided further, That purdhpumumes from iu. chase in open market ma e made from Indians under the direction ns. of the Secretary of the lliiterior. u;¤¤¤r¤<1i¤¤=1y ¤v¤i1¤· SEO. 0. That so much of the appropriations herein made as may ` be required to pay for goods and supplies, and for transportation of the same, for the year ending Jiune thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, shall be immediately available; but no such goods or supplies shall be distributed or delivered to any of said Indians prior to uly first, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and the Secretary of