Report of the Department of the Interior ... [with Accompanying Documents]., Volume 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1890 |
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Abstract of proposals accompanied bids acres advertisement of March agency allotments Boarding boarding-school boys buildings bushels cent Cherokee Chicago church civilization COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN comparison of samples Congress contracts awarded court Creek crops denote the rates Department dians dozen employés etc.—Continued farming Fort Belknap Agency furnishing girls Government inches INDIAN AFFAIRS Indian Agent Indian reservation Indian schools Indian Territory Industrial teacher Interior July June 30 Kans Kickapoo lands large type denote Laundress located March 25 Matron ment miles mission missionary Munsee Muscogee or Creek Nebr Nez Percé NOTE.-Figures in large Number of Indian offered and awarded Points of delivery Ponca Pottawatomie pounds proposals received pupils Quantity offered Quapaw railroad railway received and contracts reservation River Sac and Fox samples which accompanied Secretary Sept severalty Sioux Stockbridge superintendent tion treaty tribe United States Indian Yakama York City
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Page 435 - ... the United States does and will hold the land thus allotted, for the period of twentyfive years, in trust for the sole use and benefit of the Indian to whom such allotment shall have been made, or, in case of his decease, of his heirs according to the laws of the State or Territory where such land is located...
Page 435 - That if any one entitled to an allotment shall fail to make a selection within four years after the President shall direct that allotments may be made on a particular reservation, the Secretary of the Interior may direct the agent of such tribe or band, if such there be, and if there be no agent; then a special agent appointed for that purpose, to make a selection for such Indian, which selection shall be allotted as in cases where selections are made by the Indians, and patents shall issue in like...
Page 414 - ... until a state government or governments shall exist in said Territory within the limits of which said railway, or a part thereof, shall be located; and then such State government or governments shall be authorized to fix and regulate the cost...
Page 436 - That any Indian receiving and entitled to rations and annuities at either of the agencies mentioned in this act at the time the same shall take effect, but residing upon any portion of said Great Reservation not included in either of the separate reservations herein established, may, at his option, within one year from the time when this act shall take effect, and within one year after he has been notified of...
Page 465 - Congress, or executive order, shall make settlement upon any surveyed or unsurveyed lands of the United States not otherwise appropriated, he or she shall be entitled, upon application to the local land office for the district in which the lands are located, to have the same allotted to him or her, and to his or her children, in quantities and manner as provided in this act for Indians residing upon reservations...
Page 6 - ... within any Territory of the United States, and either within or without an Indian reservation, shall be subject therefor to the laws of such Territory relating to said crimes, and shall be tried therefor in the same courts and in the same manner and shall be subject to the same penalties as are all other persons charged with the commission of said crimes, respectively...
Page 431 - ... public lands adjacent to the line of said road, material, earth, stone, and timber necessary for the construction of said railroad; also, ground adjacent to such right of way for station buildings, depots, machine shops, side tracks, turn-outs, and water stations, not to exceed in amount twenty acres for each station, to the extent of one station for each ten miles of its road.
Page 435 - Interior, he shall cause patents to issue therefor in the name of the allottees, which patents shall be of the legal effect, and declare that the United States does and will hold the land thus allotted, for the period of twenty-five years, In trust for the sole use and benefit of the Indian...
Page 408 - When proceedings have been commenced in court, the railway company shall pay double the amount of the award into court to abide the judgment thereof, and then have the right to enter upon the property sought to be condemned and proceed with the construction of the railway.
Page 422 - ... company shall construct and maintain continually all road and highway crossings and necessary bridges over said railway wherever said roads and highways do now or may hereafter cross said railway's right of way, or may be by the proper authorities laid out across the same.