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FORTY—FIRST CONGRESS. Sxzss. II. Ch. 296. 1870. 351 For blacksmith and assistant, shop and tools, iron and steel, one tl10u· sand and sixty dollars. Scnecas, M`xed Senecas, and Shawnees, Quapaws, Oonjédemted Pe- Seuecas, Mixed arms, Kaskasicias, Weas, and Piankeshaws, Ozmwas of Blanchardk Fork, S‘;“°“‘# ”·“d and Roche de Bcwf and certain Wgcmdotles.- For this amount to be g,,€,:n§§s?e§.ua_ expended in such goods, provisions, or other articlesns the President émfed P9<>¤‘i¤S, may from time to time determine, including insurance and transportation {$;S;3zl§§Si,i thereof, in instructing in agricultural and mechanical pursuits, in provid- mkeémws, ing employe[e]s, educating children, procuring medicine and medical at- 0********5 of tendance, care For and support of the aged, sick, and infirm, for the help- $00110 1es¤ orphans of said Indians, and in any other respect to promote their de Bueuf, and civilization, comfort, and improvement, two thousand dollars. WY“"‘ For the amount required to defray the expenses of the examination ' and report of sales of land assigned and patented to incompetent Wy- ¥(;]1‘;""pi155197‘ andottes, under the treaty of eighteen hundred and fifty-five, as requiredI pl ' by the fifteenth article, one thousand five hundred dollars. For this amount to enable the Secretary of the Interior to fulfill the V°L x"·P*51°• provisions of the twelfth article of the treaty with the Senccas, Mixed Scnecas, Shawnees, and Quapaws, ninety thousand dollars, to be paid personally to each claimant, or his heir, according to tribal usage, pro rata 0n the awards, as set forth in report of commissioners dated April twenty-five, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, excluding therefrom the claim (number one hundred and sixty-four) of Meskarte for twelve thousand five hundred and thirty-one dollars and seventy-five cents, which is hereby rejected. F or this amount to enable the Secretary of the Interior to carry into effect the provisions of the treaty concluded with the confédemted bands V¤>1.xv.pp.618- of Pcorias, Kaskaskias, WVeas, and Piankeshaws, on the twenty-third day 52°‘ of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, which contemplates the withdrawal {min said confederation of such of its members as may elect to become citizens of the United States, and the payment to such withdrawing members their proportion of the common fund of said of said confederation, thirty thousaud five hundred and twenty-two dollars and six cents, for the purpose of paying fifty-five members who have signified their intention and taken the necessary steps required For such withdrawal, which sum shall be deducted from the money credits of such c0nt"ederated bands. And the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to make an equitable and just division of all stocks held by the United States in trust for said confederated bands between those who have elected to ·beccme citizens and those who retain their tribal relation, and sell the portion awarded to the citizen part of said bands; and both which sums shall be applied by said Secretary in satisfying the claims of such members of said confederate bands as have thus signiiied their desire to become citizens, as stipulated and provided in said treat z S/?aumees.—-For permanent annuity for educational purposes, per Sh’·W”€°*· fourth article treaty third August, seventeen hundred and ninety-five, and Vol. vii. p. 51. third article treaty tenth May, eighteen hundred and fifty-Four, one V°1·X·P· 1°56· thousand dollars. For permanent annuity, in specie, for educational purposes, per fourth Vol, vu, p, 161, article treaty twenty-ninth September, eighteen hundred and seventeen and third article treaty tenth Biay, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, two thousand dollars. For interest, at five per centum, 0n forty thousand dollars, for educational purp0=es, per third article treaty tenth May, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, two thousand dollars. SHOSIiONES.— Western Bands. -—— For seventh of twenty installments, “§;‘;;*;g¤€;;m to be expended, under the direction of the President, in the purchase of ' such msticles as he may deem suitable to their wants, either as hunters or