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 1010 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 543. 1891. to do so, may take lands in severalty upon the Rosebud reservation south of the White River, six thousan dollars. Sioux. summ, md For the payment to the Sisseton and Wahpeton bands of Sioux Inw""”“"‘ °°""“· dians, of Devils Lake Reservation, in the State of North Dakota, for sixty-four thousand acres of land (being at the rate of one dollar and ramen: mum. twenty-five cents per acre) to which they are gustly entitled under v 15’“°°'” treaty of February nineteenth eighteen hun red and sixty-seven (Fifteenth Statutes, five hundred and five) but which were not included within their reservation boundaries surveyed in eighteen ¥ hundred and seventy-Eve, this amount to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior in the purchase of stock and agricultural im lements, and in promoting the comfort and immmmw, um. provement of said Ihdians, eighty thousand dollars, to be immedi- We- atel available. num: Town oom- That the Secretary of the Interior be, and is hereby, authorized ""'· in his discretion to sell to the Miami Town Company, a coiiporation created under the law of the State of Kansas, or and on ehalf of gn, of 0;,g,,,·, the Ottawa tribe of Indians, the north half of the southeast quarter l¤¤““*· of section twenty-five township twenty-eight north, range twenty- two east; also the southeast quarter of the southeast quarter of said section; also lots Eve, six, seven, eight, nine, and ten in said section; also the northeast quarter of the southwest cpuarter of section thirty, township twenty-eight north, range twenty-t ree east; also lots eight, nine, ten, and e even, in said section; also lots one, two, and three, in said section thirty-one township twenty-eight north, range twenty- three east; also lots one, two, an three, in section thirty-six, township twenty-eight north, range twenty-two east, situated in the Indian Territory, and containing five hundred and fifty-seven and ninety- five one-hundredths acres, more or less. PPM- That said lands shall be sold to said company at not less than ten honest. dollars per acre and the proceeds of such sale shall be aid over under the direction of. the Secretary of the Interior, to the Ottawa Indians per capita, as per request of said Indians now on nle in the Department of the Interior. Phhetc. That the said Miami Town Company shall, within ninety days from the approval of this act, ile in the General Land Office a plat of said lan, showing the same to have been surveyed and divided into lots, blocks, streets, and alleys; and immediate y upon filing of said map, and the payment of the said sum of ten dollars r acre the Secretary of the nterior shall cause a patent to be issueldeto said company for the several tracts herein described. cmu. T 's amount to be paid per cafpita to one hundred and twenty- hymmxqzpuas nine citizens of the Creek Nation o Indians, under the direction of the °"""·""· ‘*°· Secretary of the Interior, who have removed themselves from the State of Albama to the Creek Nation in the Indian Territory, and subsisted themselves for one ear, in accordance with the twelfth article of v¤1.v,p.a¤v. the treaty with the greek Nation, proclaimed April fourth, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, seven thousand and ninety-tive dollars, to be immediately available. P°“*"•°°”'*"· _ That the last clause of the subdivision entitled “Pottawatomies " in the act entitled "An act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian }Department, and for fulfillvo¤.¤¤,pa·:2,¤¤¤¤r mg the treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the year °‘* ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and for other purposes," being chapter three hundred and forty one, of volpnge twenty-three, of the Statutes at Large, be amended to read as o ows: m§,';b**;;°{B,¤j*"Qg¤g‘) That the claims of certain individual members of the Pottawatcom ofC1aims. omie N ation of Indians, their heirs or legal representatives, for depredations committed by others upon their stock, timber, or other V¤L1¤,p.¤3& property reported to Congress under the tenth article of the treaty of August seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, be, and the same