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 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 3. 1897. 89 hundred and nfty-four, proclaimed January twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, be, and the same is hereby, referred to the Court of h **0*%*** .·>f1.Cg?¤i¤¤¤ *<> Claims; and jurisdiction is hereby conferred on said court, with right °v°°“m `° `°°` of appeal as in other cases, to hear and determine the diderence, if any, between the area of the reservation actually set apart to said Indians and that provided to be set apart in said treaty, if any, the said action to be brought by the said Fond du Lac baud of Chippewa Indians against the United States by petition, verified under oath by P¤ti¤i<>¤- any duly authorized attorney for said Indians, within thirty days from ‘ the passage of this Act; and in hearing and determining the said mat- atf;*;j¤_f,jf°' °°¤°id°¤* ter, the court shall take into consideration and determine whether` since the date of said treaty there has been any equitable adjustment made to said Indians in whole or in part for the alleged difference in area, and the court shall also take into consideration and make due allowance for the fact that said Indians were given a share in the proceeds of the lands sold and disposed of under and pursuant to the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act for the relief and civilization of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota," approved January Vo1.25,p.642. fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine. The Attorney-General A'“"'°'· shall appear and answer said petition within thirty days from the nling thereof, unless the time for pleading be extended by the court for cause shown; and said action shall have precedence in said court and when completed, the court shall make a full report to Congress. Report That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed to report to. · Congress, as soon as practicable, or at its next regular session, copies ’ of all treaties or agreements made with the Sisseton and Wahpeton §j;fg[·_•;1*:,s4,j;9DXgl¤; bands of Dakota or Sioux Indians prior to and since eighteen hundred fisms ruams. and sixty-three; also a statement in detail, as far as practicable, of all c0ff§g’;,,¥,§"Q°,§’g';§§§j“ amounts or sums paid to said Indians under said treaties or otherwise, ae. ' _ including amounts for subsistence since said period; also the extent of reservations granted to them by said treaties or agreements or any of them and amounts now in the Treasury arising from sale of their reservations or portions thereof; also statement of all appropriations made for or on their behalf since said period, or on behalf of any of them. The Secretary of the Interior shall also make a like report respecting Smw Shu:. Ncthe Santee Sioux Indians of Nebraska and the Flandreau Sioux `§{§?§',$fl{,'§,'i,'§f: Indians of South Dakota, formerly known as and being a confederacy {_¢·1»¤T ¢¤t0¤¤¥m¤ of the Medawakanton and Wapakoota Sioux Indians, and shall also $Y.,,°°" °' r" ' include any and all amounts paid to said bands or any of them under treaties with and appropriations made since eighteen hundred and sixty-three, for the beneiit of the Sioux of different tribes, including the Santee Sioux of Nebraska. The Secretary of the Interior shall also embrace in his report a statement of annuities due, if any, and unpaid to said Indians prior to the passage of the forfeiture Act of "°’·”· P- *5* eighteen hundred and sixty-three. Whereas the Seneca Indians in council, January third, eighteen hun- l’,¤‘<i¤g;bl¤·m dred and ninety-three, duly entered into an agreement with William B. ° ’p` ' Barker whereby said nation leased to said Barker the Oil Springs, the Cattaraugus, and Allegany reservations, sitnate in western New York, for the purpose of boring and testing said territory for gas and oil, under certain conditions therein stated, said agreement having been ratified and confirmed by Act of Congress; and ` Whereas the assignee of said lease has re-leased to the Seneca Indians gjéfjléjtigjjiims certain portions of the lands and reservations, included or referred to ¤s1¤¤aam.,m1¤ea. in said lease, and the council of the Seneca Nation of Indians, by a resolution adopted by said council, on or about the third day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety- six, in all things ratified, confirmed, and extended as to the lessee thereof, and as to the assignees thereof, the said lease, and empowered and authorized them to fulfill the said lease, the same and to the same extent as the original lessee might or could have done, when said lease was executed: Now therefore, The action aforesaid of the lessee of said lease and of the council of the