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Show FORTY- SIXTH CONGRESS. SESS. I I I . CH. 23. 1881. 187 Indian reservations in said State should not be alienated for any purpose, except with the consent of the Indians of such reservations, and in accordance with the conditions of the treaty authorizing such alienation: and Whereas, by the treaty between the United States and the Great Voi. 2, p. 878. and Little Osage Indians, proclaimed January twenty- first, eighteen hundred and sixtv- seven, a trust was created for the disposal of the lands of said Indians in the State of Kansas, the metes and bounds of which said lands are specifically set forth in said treaty, by which the United States bound itself to survey and sell any and all ofsuch lands, ** at a price not less than one dollar and twenty- five cents per acre, as other lands are surveyed and sold", and to place " t h e proceeds of such lands as they accrue, after deducting all expenses incident to the proper execution of the trust, * * * in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of said tribe of Indians"; and y Whereas it is claimed that under the operation of the treaty herein referred to there are moneys due, both on account of grants and sales . of lands, which have not been placed to the credit of said Indians, as provided for in said treaty: Therefor, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives oftlie United Account of number States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the inltnte° of Kansas" to Interior is hereby authorized and directed to cause an account to be ^ seelwteto i872, ch. stated of the number of acres of the Osage lands in the State of Kansas 81°. » « tc, p. 137. that have in any way been alienated by the United States, either by the act of January twenty- ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty- one, entitled i2stat, i26. " An act for the admission of Kansas into the Union", or since the creation of the trust for the sale of these lands by the treaty between the voi. ip. wa United Suites and the Great and Little Osage Indians, proclaimed January twenty- first, eighteen hundred and sixtj'- seven, and of the Account of monev monev received by the United States on account of the sales of such received" by united lands, and to certify the difference between the sum so received and. Konand; 00"" 1 of the sum that would be due said trust at the date of the account herein ( ij£" d difference cer-provided for had all of said lands so alienated been disposed of as provided for bv said treaty. SEC. 2. 1 hat a sum of money equal to the amount certified by the Appropriation to Secretary of the Interior, in pursuance of the foregoing section, to inlerlSfcultodia'n the Secretary of the Treasury, is hereby appropriated, out of any of trust funds, mone}' in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, which the Secre- "^ tary of the Treasury is directed to place to the credit of the Secretary of the Interior as custodian of said trust funds, and, after defraying the cost of survey and sale of said lands and other expenses contracted of' by the United States or the Osage Nation in the execution of said trust, the balance of said funds shall be placed in the Treasury of the Balance pi United States, to the credit of said Indians, to be invested and distrib- credit o £ I n < w - uted in accordance with existing treaties: Provided, That a like settle- proviso, ment shall be made with the Indian- civilization fund for the sixteenth f t S ofTnXn^ fe and thirty- sixth sections, given by the United States to the State of iiization fund. etc. Kansas, within the limits of the Osage lands, ceded by the first article of the treaty aforesaid. . Approved, June 16,1880. Cost and expenses ' survey, etc.. ACTS OF FORTY- SIXTH CONGRESS- THIRD 8E86ION, 1881. CHAP. 23.- An act for the relief of the Winnebajro Indians in Wisconsin, and to aid jan. 18.1881. them to obtain subsistence by agricultural pursuits, and to promote their civilization. • ' -- 21 lStfl. 1., o* 15 « Whereas a large number of the Winnebago Indians of Wisconsin Winnebago lmdiao* have selected and settled in good faith upon homestead claims, under pSamSST section fifteen of the act entitled " An act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending |