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190 FORTY—SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. H. Ch. 233. 1872. What other sary: Provided, That any other Indian tribe permanently located in said fff¤¤¤ my Send Indian Territory shall be, and is hereby, authorized to elect and send go gsgfggiafcg gi'? said veneral council one delegate, aud, in addibbll, of1G delegate for each one tl10usa,nd Indians, being members of such tribe, on the same terms and conditions, and with the same rights and privileges, including right to compensation, as is provided for delegattles of thentribes gereipbefore men. tioned; and a sufficient sum to pay e per rem an m' euge of such additional delegates is hereby appropriated. Appraisemeut Sec. 5. That the President of the United States and the Secretary of

  • ° b°,m°¤° °f the Interior are hereby authorized to make an appraisement of the Cherf:,:,:" ch°r°k°° okee lands lying west of the ninety-sixth meridian of west longitude, and

west of the land of the Osage Indians, in the Indian Territory, and south of the southern line of the State of Kansas, ceded to tho United States Vol- ¤iV· P- 799· by the Cherokee Indians under their treaty of July nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, for the settlement of friendly Indians, and report theizfégg g the same to Cougress: frovided, T hat. the Secretary of the Interior be, negotiate with and he hereby 1s, authorized to negotiate with the Southern Oheyemmes southern Chey- and Arapahoes for the relinquishment of H1eir claim to the land ceded to

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    %*%: 31;** them by the second article of the treaty of October twenty-eighth,

¥,,lc,Sg upland eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, out of the cession made by the Cher- ¤e<1¤<f}t<> them, okees in the treaty of July nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six;

si3;l;3;‘;_ such relinquishment, fif obltaiuedhtoclée in considegatipu of g sufhcieut and

permanent ocation or the said eyeunes an rrapa oes, u on the Vpllxv; p. 594. lands ceded to the United States by the Creeks and Seminolespin the 755’°7é;"" pp" treanes of March twenty-first and June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and Report to (:0,,- sixty-six ; and that the Secretary report the action taken by him under SMS- this provision to Congress at its next session. rtemoval or Sec. 6. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he hereby is, author- W*”“°b“S°°¤- ized to expend, for the removal of the Winnebago Indians, in lVisconsin, from their present homes in that State to the Winnebago reservation, in Nebraska, or to such other location as may be selected for them, and for th`ei1l;_subsistenlce durggdsuph removal, and at their new homes, the sum o t xrty-su: thousand dollars, or so much thereof as ma be necessar 1870, eh. 206. appropriated by act of July fifteenth, eighteen hundred ahd seventy, fd; V°*- XW P- 359- the removal of stray bands of Pottawatomies and Wi11nebagoes from Wisconsin to the tribes to which they respectively belong. Ruleq. Sec., for SEO. 7. That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior to t0 £{£;2*’{3|$pu prepare and cause to be published such rules and regulations as he may {-0, depmmgus deem necessary or proper, prescribing the manner of presenting claims by Indians. arising under existing laws or treaty stipulations, for compensation for deprcclatious committed by the Indians, and the degree and character of i Claims to be the evidence necessary to support such claims; he shall carefullv investi- £;°*‘"g“°°d· gate all such claims as may be presented, subject to the rules and regulations prepared by him, and report to Congress, at each session thereof, the ING payment nature, character, and amount of such claims, whether allowed by him or withioutjn qpecihu not, and the evidence upon which his action was based: Provided That °ppl°l"`"m°"‘ no payment on account of said claim shall be made without a specific · appropriation therefor by Congress. cggrtaupglnip- 8. That with the consent and concurrence of those bands of the ami mx; QQ_ Chippewa Indians of Lake Superior, located on Lac de Flambeau and on tsgtegipynrzetics Lac (»ourt'Or1elles, andalso of the Fond du Lac bands of said Indians, mm wd10cm2i; erpressed in open council m the usual manner, the Secretary of the Inte- ,m0,,,_ nor bc,a11d hereby IS, authorized to remove the said bands of Indians from the tracts of lands which were set apart for them respectively and vol 111 vpthheld from sale for their use, in accordance with the third and fourth -x. p. 0. c auscslof the secohd article of the treaty between the United States and the Chnppcwzt Ihdxaus of Lake Superior and the Mississippi, concluded beptember tlurtieth, exghteen hundred and fifty-four, and to locate said