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Show the Department March 17,1894, with recommendation that the same be submitted to Congress. By the thirteenth section of the Indian appropriation act, approved August. 15, 1894 (Public, No. 197, p. 38), the agreement was duly confirmed andratified, and the money appro-priated to carry it into effect. WINNEBAGOES IN MINNESOTA. By the first article of the Winnebago treaty of April 15,1859 (12 Stats., 110), no provision was made for the issue of patents to the several members of the tribe to whom lands in severalty shonld be allotted, but certificates were to be isslied by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, with the stipulation that said tracts should not be alienated in fee, leased, or otherwise disposed of, except to the United States or to members of the tribe. By the fourth section of the act of bebruary 21, 1863, (12 Stats., 658), for the removal of the Winnebago Indians and for the sale of their reservation in Minnesota, it was made the duty of the Secretary of the Interior to allot to those Winnebago Indians who had cultivated and improved their lands A0 acres of land which, when so allotted, should be vested in said Indians and their heirs without the right of aliena-tion, which should be evidenced by patent. By the ninth section of the Indian appropriation actt approved July 15, 1870 (16 Stats., 361), the Secretary of the Interior was directed to oanse to be investigated and to determine the claims to patents of those Winnebago Indians then lawfully residing in Minnesota, and to issue to those whom he should find to be entitled thereto patents with-out the right of alienation for the lands theretofore allotted to themin severalty or which might have been designated by them for allotment under the treaty of 1859, or of the aforesaid act of 1863, and which had not been sold or disposed of by the United States. In case the lauds had been sold they were to have lands designated by them for allotment out of any unsold lands within the limits of the origind Winnebago Reservation in Minnesota, and if it were found to be impracticable to make allotments within such limita on good agricul-tural lands, then they were to be made on any public land subject to private entry. By the Indian appropriation act of May 29,1872 (17 Stats., 185), it was declared to be the intention and meaning of said ninth and tenth sections of the act of July 15,1870, aforesaid, "to authorize and direct the Secretary of the Interior to cause to be patented to each and every Winnebago Indian, lawfully resident in the State of Minnesota at the date of said act, in accordance with the conditions of said two sections an al lotme~o~ft land, who have not heretofore received the same in quantity as provided in the treaty of 1859." Under this legislation Walter T. Burr made the investigation, and reported to this office July 8,1873, s list of 52 persons who presented . |