Feb. 25, 1869. Frederick ment of ac [No. 13.] Joint Resolution for the Relief of Frederick Schley. Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Allowance to States of America in Congress assembled, That the accounting officers of Schley in settle- the Treasury Department be, and they are hereby, authorized to allow and credit Frederick Schley, late collector of internal revenue in the fourth district of the State of Maryland, such amount of uncollected taxes as he may, by satisfactory proof, show to have been uncollected by reason of the destruction of his tax lists and accounts by rebel forces during the recent rebellion. counts. Two coupon bonds to be is APPROVED, February 25, 1869. March 1, 1869. [No. 18.] Joint Resolution for the Relief of Edward E. Shead, of Eastport, State of Maine. Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the sued to Edward Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to issue to Edward E. Shead, of E. Shead, in lieu Eastport, State of Maine, two six per centum coupon bonds, for the sum of of two destroyed five hundred dollars each, in lieu of two bonds destroyed by fire, bearing by fire. date eighteenth of August, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, numbered nineteen thousand seven hundred and forty-seven, and nineteen thousand seven hundred and forty-eight, payable in eighteen hundred and eighty one. APPROVED, March 1, 1869. March 3, 1869. [No. 29.] Joint Resolution authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to remit the Duty on on certain meridian circles remitted. certain Meridian Circles. Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Customs duty States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to remit the duties on a meridian circle, imported for the observatory at Cambridge, in the State of Massachusetts, and a meridian circle imported for the observatory connected with the Chicago University, at Chicago, in the State of Illinois. APPROVED, March 3, 1869. March 3, 1869. [No. 30.] Joint Resolution for the Relief of Henry S. Gibbons, Luther McNeal, and Seth M. Gates. Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Postmaster-General be, and he hereby is, authorized and required, in settling the accounts of Henry S. Gibbons, late postmaster at St. John's, Michigan, to allow him a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars as indemnification for a like amount belonging to the post-office fund and stolen from him by burglars, and which amount has been paid to the United States by said Gibbons: Provided, [That] it shall be proven satisfactorily to the Postmaster-General that funds belonging to the Post-Office Department to the amount of five hundred dollars were stolen by burglars, and that said Gibbons was not guilty of neglect in the custody thereof. SEC. 2. And be it further resolved, That Luther McNeal be paid the sum of one hundred and seventy-five dollars and forty-six cents for money and postage stamps belonging to the United States, and which were stolen from the post-office at the town of Lancaster, Erie county, New York, while he was postmaster, and which sum he has paid to the government on settlement with the Post-Office Department, as such postmaster, and that such sum be paid out of the post-office fund by the Postmaster-General upon the said McNeal making proof to his satisfaction that said money and stamps were stolen without any fault of said McNeal. Seth M.Gates; SEC. 3. And be it further resolved, That in the settlement of the accounts of Seth M. Gates, postmaster at Warsaw, New York, with the Post-Office Department, the Postmaster-General be, and he is hereby, authorized to allow a credit to the said Seth M. Gates of seven hundred and twenty-six dollars and seventy-three cents, the amount in value of postage stamps belonging to the United States, stolen from the post-office on the sixteenth day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, while the said Gates was postmaster: Provided, That it shall satisfactorily appear proviso. to the Postmaster-General that the said Gates was guilty of no negligence in the custody of said stamps. APPROVED, March 3, 1869. [No. 31.] Joint Resolution for the Relief of Mrs. Ella E. Hobart. Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Ella E. Hobart, who was appointed as chaplain to the first regiment of Wisconsin volunteer heavy artillery, shall be entitled to receive the full pay and emoluments of a chaplain in the United States army, for the time during which she faithfully performed the services of a chaplain to said regiment, as if she had been regularly commissioned and mustered into service. APPROVED, March 3, 1869. March 3, 1869. Payment to Ella E. Hobart. VOL. XV. PRIV. - 30 TREATIES. Treaty between the United States and the Confederated Tribes of Sacs and BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: October 1, 1859. A PROCLAMATION. TO ALL AND SINGULAR TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETING · WHEREAS a treaty was made and concluded at the Sac and Fox Agency Preamble in the Territory of Kansas, on the first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, by and between Alfred B. Greenwood, commissioner on the part of the United States, and certain chiefs and headmen hereinafter named representing the confederated tribes of Sacs and Foxes of the Mississippi, which treaty is in the following words, to wit: Articles of agreement and convention made and concluded at the Sac and Fox agency, in the Territory of Kansas, on the first day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, by and between Alfred B. Greenwood, commissioner on the part of the United States, and the following named chiefs and delegates, representing the confederated tribes of Sacs and Foxes of the Mississippi, viz. Contracting Ke-o-kuk, Mack-a-sah-pee, Sha-bah-caw-kah, Mat-tah-tah, My-ah- parties. pit, Kaw-ah-kee, Kah-sha-moh-mee, Maw-mee-won-e-kah, and Cheko-skuk, they being thereto duly authorized by said confederated tribes. Part of pres to be set apart. Pust, p. 40. Boundaries. ARTICLE I. The Sacs and Foxes of the Mississippi having now more lands than are necessary for their occupancy and use, and being desirous ent reservation of promoting settled habits of industry and enterprise amongst themselves by abolishing the tenure in common by which they now hold their lands, and by assigning limited quantities thereof, in severalty, to the individual members of the tribe, to be cultivated and improved for their individual use and benefit, it is hereby agreed and stipulated that the portion of their present reservation contained within the following boundaries, that is to say beginning at a point on the northern boundary line of their reservation, six miles west of the northeastern corner of the same; running thence due south, to the southern boundary of the same, twenty miles; thence west, and along said southern boundary, twelve miles; thence due north, to the northern boundary of said reservation, twenty miles; and thence east, along said boundary line, twelve miles, to the place of beginning-estimated to contain about one hundred and fiftythree thousand and six hundred acres - shall be set apart and retained by them for the purposes aforesaid. Assignment to each member of the confederated for school. Locations. ARTICLE II. Out of the lands so set apart and retained there shall be assigned to each member of said confederated tribe, without distinction of age or sex, a tract of eighty acres, to include, in every case, as far as practicable, a reasonable portion of timber. One hundred and sixty acres of said retained lands shall also be set apart and appropriated to the use and occupancy of the agent for the time being of said confederated tribe; and one hundred and sixty acres shall also be reserved for the establishment and support of a school for the education of the youth of the tribe. The location of the tracts, the assignment of which is provided for in this article, shall be made in as regular and compact a manner as possible, and so as to admit of a distinct and well-defined exterior boundary, embracing the whole of them and any intermediate portions or parcels of land or water not included in or made part of the tracts assigned in severalty. Intermediate All such intermediate parcels of land and water shall be owned by the parcels. Sacs and Foxes of the Mississippi in common; but, in case of increase in the tribe, or other cause, rendering it necessary or expedient, the said intermediate parcels of land shall be subject to distribution and assignment in such manner as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe and direct. The whole of the lands, assigned or unassigned, embraced within said exterior boundary, shall constitute and be known as the reservation of the Sacs and Foxes of the Mississippi; and all laws which have been, or may be, passed by the Congress of the United States regulating trade and intercourse with Indian tribes shall have full force and effect over the same, and no white person, except such as shall be in the employment of the United States, shall be allowed to reside or go upon any portion of said reservation, without the written permission of the superintendent of the central superintendency, or of the agent of the tribe. Lands to be known as, &c. Laws. White persons not to reside thereon except, &c. Division and assignment how made. tracts. Tracts not to be disposed of, &c.; ARTICLE III. The division and assignment in severalty among the Sacs and Foxes of the Mississippi of the land hereinbefore reserved for that purpose shall be made under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, and his decision of all questions arising thereupon shall be final Certificates for and conclusive. Certificates shall be issued by the commissioner of Indian Affairs for the tracts assigned in severalty, specifying the names of the individuals to whom they have been assigned, respectively, and that the said tracts are set apart for the exclusive use and benefit of the assignees and their heirs. And said tracts shall not be alienated in fee, leased, or otherwise disposed of, except to the United States, or to members of the Sac and Fox tribe, and under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior. And said tracts to be exempt, shall be exempt from taxation, levy, sale, or forfeiture, until otherwise provided by Congress. Prior to the issue of the certificates aforesaid, the Secretary of the Interior shall make such rules and regulations as he may deem necessary or expedient respecting the disposition of any of said tracts, in case of the death of the person or persons to whom they may be assigned, so that the same shall be secured to the families of such deceased persons; and should any of the Indians to whom tracts shall be assigned abandon them, the said Secretary may take such action in relation to the proper disposition thereof as, in his judgment, may be necessary and proper. &c. Certain lands of present reser vation to be sold, and proceeds how applied. Post, p. 495. Sales, how made. ARTICLE IV. For the purpose of establishing the Sacs and Foxes of the Mississippi comfortably upon the lands to be assigned to them in severalty, by building them houses, and by furnishing them with agricul tural implements, stock animals, and other necessary aid and facilities for commencing agricultural pursuits under favorable circumstances, the lands embraced in that portion of their present reservation, not stipulated to be retained and divided as aforesaid, shall be sold, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, in parcels not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres each, to the highest bidder, for cash; the sale to be made upon sealed proposals, to be duly invited by public advertisement, and |