56 TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 89. 1846. and numbers of their respective parties, and the laws and usages in said tribe. The lands in the Indian District are to remain and to be HOW the md, held in common; those in the Citizen District are to be divided; and are to be held. to each Indian who becomes a citizen the said sub-agent shall assign, by distinct metes and bounds, his ratable proportion of land. And, after the division and allotment are completed, it shall be the duty of 5.,b-,,g(,m to the said sub-agent to make out three copies of the divisions thus made, make out three one of which he shall iile with the clerk of the District Court of the
- §L;;';Lg’,; dl` county in which the Citizen District of land may be situated; one
other copy he shall tile in the land office at Green Bay, in Wisconsin Territory; and the other shall be returned to the Secretary of War. Patents to ;,_ And, upon the receipt of the said return by the Secretary of War, sue to those re- patents may be issued to the individual reservees who become citizens, ‘;‘;;‘;°;;';‘:,sb°‘ upon the receipt of which a title in fee simple to the lot of land shall ivest in the patentee; and all transfers and assignments of the land made previous to the issuance of the patent shall be null and void: Indians b,c,,m_ Provided, however, That those Indians who become citizens shall foring emzen¤_ to feit all right to receive any portion of the annuity which may now be f°’f°'“ ““““‘*Y· or may become due the nation of Stockbridges, by virtue of any treaty heretofore entered into by this government with said Stockbridges. 5000 ,0 be Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That, in cons1deration_ of the pgif Ithem rm- moneys paid by said Stockbridge nation of Indians to the Winneba- 3;** *;;*1 mp3?,;)' goes and Menomonies in the years eighteen hundred and twenty-one ,,ci,i:g,,,,, ° ana and eighteen hundred and twenty-two, and all other claims, the sum Menomonies. of five thousand dollars be paid to said tribe of Indians by the Secretary of War; and for this purpose, the said sum of five thousanddol- Appmprmiom lars be, and the same IS hereby,·appropr1ated, out of any money m the proviso_ treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, That nothing m this act contained shall be construed to impair any claim which said nation may have upon the Delaware nation to a share of the lands assigned to them west of the Missouri River. Approved, August 6, 1846. Aug. 5, 1g4g_ Crue. LXXXIX.-dn Act to enable the People of Wisconsin Territory to form e ·-—————— Constitution. and State Government, and for the Admission of such State into the 1847, ch. 53. U,,,;m,_ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives ¢y‘ the The People of United States of America in Congress assembled, That the people of Eg:i<=<;Fé¤i¤:) i_0¤¤· the Territory of Wisconsin be, and they are hereby, authorized u 1,,,,,,;,,,,,1:2 to form a constitution and State government, for the purpose of being and State gov- admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States °'““‘°“*· in all respects whatsoever, by the name of the State of Wisconsin, Boundaries, with the following boundaries, to wit: Beginning at the north-east corner of the State of Illinois-that is to say, at a point in the centre of Lake Michigan where the line of forty-two degrees and 184·‘7,eh.sa,§2. thirty minutes of north latitude crosses the same; thence running with the boundary line of the State of Michigan, through Lake Michigan, Green Bay, to the mouth of the Menomonie River ; thence up the channel of said river to the Brulé River; thence up said last mentioned river to Lake Brulég thence along the southern shore of Post, p. 97. Lake Brulé in a direct line to the centre of the channel between Middle and South Islands, in the Lake of the Desert; thence in a direct line to the head-waters of the Montreal River, as marked upon the survey made by Captain Gramm ; thence down the main channel of the Montreal River to the middle of Lake Superior; thence through the centre of Lake Superior to the mouth of the St. Louis River ; thence up the main channel of said river to the iirst rapids in the
