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Show posed plan of settlement with the tribe signed by a majority of its adult male members. This plan, x~ithth e draft of a bill to carry out its provisions, was submitted to the Department on January 24, 1901, and is printed in Senate Report No. 2699, Fifty-seventh Congress, second session. The bill mas presented 'ta the Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth Con~gresses, twice past the Senate, but failed to pass the House of Representa-tives, and was finally incorporated in the current Indian appropria-tion act (34 Stat. L., 382). It provides that the members of the Stockbridge and Mnneee tribe of Indians, as they appear on the offi-cial roll made in 1893, shall be given allotments of land and patents therefor in fee simple, each head of a family receiving one-eighth and each single person one-sixteenth of a section. As there is not enough land in the reservation to make these allotments, the Secre-tary of the Interior is authorized to negotiate thm an Indian in-spector with the Menominee tribe of Indians. of Wisconsin for the cession to the United States of a part of their surplus lands, or to negotiate with the authorities of the State or with any corporation $)r individual, for the purchase of additional land to complete the allotments, at a: price not exceeding $2 per acre. Those members of the tribe who have not selected allotments within the reservation may either take an allotment under this act or have it commuted in cash, at the rate of $2 per acre, out of the moneys appropriated from the tribal funds to carry 'out the provisions of the act. It is hoped that the affairs of these Indians can be settled and the Government's supervision of them cease. They ought then to be abundantly able to care for themselvesbetter, it is hoped, than in the past. Very r'espectfully, your obedient servant, FRANOE.I ~L EUPPC, ommissLlner. The SECRET-~ORFY TH E INTERIOR. |
