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For interest on $356,040.30, at 5 per cent., per fourth article of treaty of November 1, 1837,
and joint resolution of July 17, 1862.
For twenty-ninth of thirty installments
article of treaty of October 13, 1846.
For interest on $78,340.41, at 5 per cent., to be expended, under the direction of the Secretary
of the Interior, for the erection of houses, improvement of their allotments of land, pur-
chase of stock, agricultural implements, seeds, and other beneficial purposes..

of interest on $75,387.28, at 5 per cent., per fourth

YAKAMA NATION.

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3,769 36

3,917 02

For sixteenth of twenty installments, being the first of the last series, for beneficial objects, to be expended under the direction of the President, per fourth article of treaty of June 9, 1855..

For sixteenth of twenty installments, for the support of two schools, one of which is to be an
agricultural and industrial school, keeping in repair school-buildings, and for providing
suitable furniture, books, and stationery, per fifth article of treaty of June 9, 1855.
For sixteenth of twenty installments, for the employment of one superintendent of teaching
and two teachers, per fifth article of treaty of June 9, 1855..

For sixteenth of twenty installments, for the employment of one superintendent of farming
and two farmers, two millers, two blacksmiths, one tinner, one gunsmith, one carpenter,
and one wagon and plow maker, per fifth article of treaty of June 9, 1855..
For sixteenth of twenty installments, for keeping in repair saw and flouring mills, and for
furnishing the necessary tools and fixtures, per fifth article of treaty of June 9, 1855..
For sixteenth of twenty installments, for keeping in repair the hospital, and providing the
necessary medicine and fixtures therefor, per fifth article of treaty of June 9, 1855.....
For sixteenth of twenty installments, for keeping in repair blacksmith, tinsmith, gunsmith,
carpenter, and wagon and plow maker shops, and for providing necessary tools therefor,
per fifth article of treaty of June 9, 1855...

For sixteenth of twenty installments, for the pay of a physician, per fifth article of treaty of
June 9, 1855....

For sixteenth of twenty installments, for keeping in repair the buildings required for the vari
ous employés, and for providing the necessary furniture therefor, per fifth article of treaty
of June 9, 1855

For sixteenth of twenty installments, for the salary of such person as the said confederated tribes and bands of Indians may select to be their head chief, per fifth article of treaty of June 9, 1855..

GENERAL INCIDENTAL EXPENSES OF THE INDIAN SERVICE.

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ARIZONA.

For the general incidental expenses of the Indian service in the Territory of Arizona, presents of goods, agricultural implements, and other useful articles, and to assist them to locate in permanent abodes, and sustain themselves by the pursuits of civilized life, and for educational purposes, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior

CALIFORNIA.

For the general incidental expenses of the Indian service in California, pay of employés, presents of goods, agricultural implements, and other useful articles, and to assist them to locate in permanent abodes, and sustain themselves by the pursuits of civilized life, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior..

COLORADO TERRITORY.

For the general incidental expenses of the Indian service in Colorado Territory, presents of goods, agricultural implements, and other useful articles, and to assist them to locate in permanent abodes, and sustain themselves by the pursuits of civilized life, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior..

DAKOTA TERRITORY.

For the general incidental expenses of the Indian service in Dakota Territory, presents of goods, agricultural implements, and other useful articles, and to assist them to locate in permanent abodes, and sustain themselves by the pursuits of civilized life, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior..

IDAHO TERRITORY.

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For the general incidental expenses of the Indian service in Idaho Territory, presents of goods, agricultural implements, and other useful articles, and to assist them to locate in permanent abodes, and sustain themselves by the pursuits of civilized life, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior..

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For the general incidental expenses of the Indian service in Montana Territory, presents of goods, agricultural implements, and other useful articles, and to assist them to locate in permanent abodes, and sustain themselves by the pursuits of civilized life, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior..

NEVADA.

For the general incidental expenses of the Indian service in Nevada, presents of goods, agricultural implements, and other useful articles, and to assist them to locate in permanent abodes, and sustain themselves by the pursuits of civilized life, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior..

That the Pai-Ute reservation in Southeastern Nevada is hereby reduced to 1,000 acres, to be selected by the Secretary of the Interior in such manner as not to include the claim of any settler or miner.

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NEW MEXICO.

For the general incidental expenses of the Indian service in New Mexico, presents of goods, agricultural implements, and other useful articles, and to assist them to locate in permanent abodes, and sustain themselves by the pursuits of civilized life, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior...

40, 000 00

OREGON.

For the general incidental expenses of the Indian service in Oregon, including transportation of annuity-goods and presents, (where no special provision therefor is made by treaties,) and for paying the expenses of the removal and subsistence of Indians in Oregon, (not parties to any treaty,) and to pay the necessary employés

Provided, That, of this amount, $7,000 may be available at once.

And the Secretary of the Interior be, and hereby is, authorized to remove all bands of Indians now located upon the Alsea and Siletz Indian reservation, set apart for them by Executive order dated November 9, 1855, and restored to the public domain by Executive order of December 21, 1865, and to locate said Indians upon the following described tract of country, namely: Beginning at a point two miles south of the Siletz agency; thence west to the Pacific Ocean; thence north, along said ocean, to the mouth of Salmon River; thence due east to the western boundary of the eighth range of townships west of the Willamette meridian; thence south with said boundary to a point due east of the place of beginning; thence west to the place of beginning; which is hereby set apart as a permanent reservation for the Indians now occupying the same and to be hereafter located thereon; and all the balance of said Alsea and Siletz reservations is hereby thrown open to settlement under the land-laws of the United States: Provided, That these Indians shall not be removed from their present reservation without their consent previously had.

WASHINGTON TERRITORY.

For the general incidental expenses of the Indian service in Washington Territory, including transportation of annuity-goods and presents, (where no special provision is made therefor by treaties,) and for defraying the expenses of removal and subsistence of Indians, and for educational purposes, and for pay of necessary employés.

UTAH TERRITORY.

For the general incidental expenses of the Indian service in Utah Territory, presents of goods, agricultural implements, and other useful articles, and to assist them to locate in permanent abodes, and sustain themselves by the pursuits of civilized life, including transportation and necessary expenses of delivering provisions to the Indians within the Utah superintendency, and for subsistence and clothing for Indians located in the Uintah Valley reservation, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior

WYOMING TERRITORY.

For the general incidental expenses of the Indian service in Wyoming Territory, presents of goods, agricultural implements, and other articles, and to assist them to locate in permanent abodes, and sustain themselves by the pursuits of civilized life, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior..

MISCELLANEOUS.

For transportation of annuities, and the necessary expenses of the delivery of the annuities
and provisions to the Indian tribes in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan...
For second installment of annuity, to be paid to Ouray, so long as he shall be chief of the
Ute Indians

That the fund set apart in the Treasury of the United States by virtue of the fourth and fifth sections of the act of Congress entitled "An act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty-stipulations with the various Indian tribes, for the year ending June 30, 1849, and for other purposes,"

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approved July 29, 1848, shall be applied, under the direction of the Secretary of the Inte.
rior, for the use and benefit of the Eastern band of the Cherokee Indians, to perfect the
titles to their lands recently awarded to them by a decree of the circuit court of the United
States for the western district of North Carolina; to the payment of such costs, charges,
expenses, and liabilities attending their recent litigations in the said court as the Secretary
of the Interior may determine to be properly chargeable to them; to purchase and extin-
guish the titles of any white person or persons within the general boundaries allotted to
them by the said decree of said court, and for the education, improvement, and civilization
of the said Indians.
Civilization and subsistence of Indians on the Malheur reservation: For this amount, or so
much thereof as may be necessary, in the purchase of goods, subsistence, stores, &c., for
the Indians collected on the Malheur reservation, Oregon, and in instructing them in agri-
cultural and mechanical pursuits, providing employés, educating children, procuring medi-
cine and medical attendance, care for and support of the aged, sick, and infirm, for the
helpless orphans of said Indians, or in any other respect to promote their civilization, com-
fort, and improvement

For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to carry on the work of aiding and
instructing the Indians of the Central Superintendency in the arts of civilization, in pro-
viding clothing, food, and lodging for the children attending school, in caring for the orphans,
the sick, and the helpless, and in assisting the Indians generally to locate themselves in
permanent homes, and sustain themselves by the pursuits of civilized life...
For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to defray the expenses of a general
council of certain Indians in the Indian Territory, as provided by the twelfth article of the
treaty with the Cherokees of July 19. 1866, the tenth article of the treaty with the Creeks
of June 14, 1866, the seventh article of the treaty with the Seminoles of March 21, 1866,
and the eighth article of the treaty with the Choctaws and Chickasaws of April 28, 1866....
For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to subsist and properly care for the
Kansas Indians, including agricultural assistants, pay of employés, and for such other bene-
ficial objects for the tribe at large as their necessities may indicate to be proper; said
amount to be refunded to the United States from the proceeds of the sale of their lands in
Kansas..

For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to provide, under the direction of
the Secretary of the Interior, settlements, clothing, food, agricultural implements, and seeds,
for the Modoc Indians that have been removed to, and are now residing within, the Indian
Territory..

Provided, That $3,000 of the amount hereby appropriated may be used to pay the Eastern Shawnee Indians the balance due them for 4,000 acres of land in the northeast corner of their reserve, ceded to the United States for the Modoc Indians, as per agreement made with said Shawnee Indians June 23, 1874, which agreement is hereby confirmed. For the third of ten installments, to be paid, under the direction of the President, to the Flathead Indians removed from the Bitter Root Valley to the Jocko reservation, in the Terri tory of Montana, in accordance with the second section of the act entitled "An act to provide for the removal of the Flathead and other Indians from the Bitter Root Valley, in the Territory of Montana," approved June 5, 1872

Provided, That no part of said sum shall be expended for the benefit of any Indian of said tribe who shall not have settled upon the Jocko reservation.

For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to pay the expenses of the commis.
sion of citizens serving without! compensation, appointed by the President, under the pro-
visions of the fourth section of the act of April 10, 1869...

For general incidental expenses of the Indian service at the various agencies within the Cen-
tral Superintendency, including rent, fuel, light, stationery, and traveling expenses of the
superintendent and agents, to be expended by the Secretary of the Interior...
For general incidental expenses of the Indian service at the various agencies within the
Northern Superintendency, including rent, fuel, light, stationery, and traveling expenses of
the superintendent and agents, to be expended by the Secretary of the Interior...
For continuing the collection of statistics and historical data respecting the Indians of the
United States, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior..
For educational purposes for the Creeks..

And the United States assistant treasurer at Saint Louis. Mo., be, and he hereby is, authorized to open and keep accounts with the duly-constituted treasurer of the Cherokee, Creek, and Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations of Indians the same as with Government agents and disbursing officers.

For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the support, education, and civilization of 3,000, or more, captive Cheyenne, Arapahoe, Kiowa, and Comanche Indians, during the fiscal years ending June 30, 1875, and June 30, 1876, at such place as may be selected by the President of the United States, and under such military forces as he may order. Provided, That under the direction of the President such part of this appropriation as he may deem necessary may be turned over to the Secretary of War, to be used for the supply of rations and clothing for said Indians: Provided further, That, as soon as he may deem it expedient, the President shall cause said Indians to be placed on a permanent reservation. For this amount, to indemnify the Pawnee Indians for 4,800 acres of land erroneously excluded from their reservation in Nebraska by the survey of the boundary-line thereof...... INTEREST ON TRUST-FUND STOCKS.

For payment of interest on certain abstracted and non-paying State stocks belonging to various Indian tribes, (and held in trust by the Secretary of the Interior,) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875, namely:

For interest on the Cherokee national fund..

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For interest on the Cherokee school-fund..
For interest on the Chickasaw national fund
For interest on the Choctaw general fund...
For interest on the Creek orphans' fund...
For interest on the Delaware general fund

For interest on the Iowas' fund...

For interest on the Kaskaskias, Weas, Peorias, and Piankeshaws' fund..

For interest on the Kaskaskias, Weas, Peorias, and Piankeshaws' school-fund..

To enable the said Kaskaskias, Weas, Peorias, and Piankeshaws to buy seeds and grain for

farming purposes, the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to withdraw from their invested funds the sum of $10,000, and pay the same to them as a per capita payment. For interest on the Menomonees' fund..

For interest on the Ottawas and Chippewas' fund

For contingent expenses of trust-funds, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1876..

SEC. 2. That none of the appropriations herein made, or of any appropriations made for the Indian service, shall be paid to any band of Indians or any portion of any band while at war with the United States or with the white citizens of any of the States or Territories.

SEC. 3. That for the purpose of inducing Indians to labor and become self-supporting, it is provided that hereafter, in distributing the supplies and annuities to the Indians for whom the same are appropriated, the agent distributing the same shall require all ablebodied male Indians between the ages of eighteen and forty-five to perform service upon the reservation, for the benefit of themselves or of the tribe, at a reasonable rate, to be fixed by the agent in charge, and to an amount equal in value to the supplies to be deliv- I ered; and the allowances provided for such Indians shall be distributed to them only upon condition of the performance of such labor, under such rules and regulations as the agent may prescribe: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior may, by written order, except any particular tribe, or portion of tribe, from the operation of this provision where he deems it proper and expedient.

SEC. 4. That hereafter, for the purpose of properly distributing the supplies appropriated for the Indian service, it is hereby made the duty of each agent in charge of Indians and having supplies to distribute, to make out, at the commencement of each fiscal year, rolls of the Indians entitled to supplies at the agency, with the names of the Indians and of the heads of families or lodges, with the number in each family or lodge, and to give out supplies to the heads of families, and not to the heads of tribes or bands, and not to give out supplies for a greater length of time than one week in advance.

SEC. 5. That hereafter not more than $6,000 shall be paid in any one year for salaries or compensation of employés at any one agency, in addition to the salaries of the agent, and not more at any one agency than is absolutely necessary; and where Indians can perform the duties they shall be employed; and the number and kind of employés at each agency shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, and none others shall be employed. Indian agents shall be required to state, under oath, upon rendering their quarterly accounts, that the employés claimed for were actually and bona-fide employed at such agency. and at the compensation as claimed, and that such service was necessary; and that such agent is not to receive, and has not received, directly or indirectly, any part of the compensation claimed for any other employé: Provided, That when there is no officer authorized to administer oaths within convenient distance of such agent, the Secretary of the Interior may direct such returns to be made upon certificate of the agent: And provided further, That in case it should be necessary, at any agencies, to have more employés than provided for in this section, the Secretary may, by written order, authorize the increase necessary; but in no case shall the amount expended at any agency exceed $10,000 in any one year; and the provision of this section shall apply to the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875.

SEC. 6. That hereafter it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior, and the offi. cers charged by law with the distribution of supplies to the Indians, under appropriations made by law, to distribute them and pay them out to the Indians entitled to them, in such proper proportions as that the amount of appropriation made for the current year shall not be expended before the end of such current year, so as to prevent deficiencies; and no expenditure shall be made or liability incurred on the part of the Government on account of the Indian service for any fiscal year (unless in compliance with existing law) beyond the amount of money previously appropriated for said service during such year.

SEC. 7. That hereafter no purchase of goods, supplies, or farming implements, or any other article whatsoever, the cost of which shall exceed $1,000, shall be paid for from the money appropriated by this act, unless the same shall have been previously advertised and contracted for as heretofore provided by law; and no payment of any part of the money appropriated by this act, or heretofore appropriated, for the expenses of the Indian Department, shall be credited to any Government officer until the proper vouchers therefor shall first have been submitted to, examined, and authorized by the accounting officers of the Treasury And provided further, That copies of all contracts made by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, or any other officer of the Government, for the Indian service, shall be furnished to the Second Auditor of the Treasury before any payment shall be made thereon. SEC. 8. That hereafter the Secretary of the Interior cause to be prepared and delivered to the Public Printer, on or before the first day of November of each year, a tabular statement of the items paid out up to that date of the appropriations made for the Indian Department for the fiscal year previously ending, each item being placed under the appropria tion from which it was paid, in such manner as to show the disposition made of each appropriation and the amount unexpended of each; also an itemized statement of the salaries and incidental expenses paid at each agency for the said year, and the appropriations out of which paid, and the number of Indians at each agency; and that the same be laid before Congress on the first day of the succeeding session; and that the report of the Com

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missioner of Indian Affairs, with the reports of agents, be printed and laid before Congress on the first day of the said session.

SEC. 9. That hereafter all bidders under any advertisement published by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for proposals for goods, supplies, transportation, &c., for and on account of the Indian service, whenever the value of the goods, supplies, &c., to be furnished, or the transportation to be performed, shall exceed the sum of $5,000, shall accompany their bids with a certified check, or draft payable to the order of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, upon some United States depository or some one of such solvent national banks as the Secretary of the Interior may designate, which check or draft shall be 5 per cent. on the amount of the goods, supplies, transportation, &c., as aforesaid; and in case any such bidder, on being awarded a contract, shall fail to execute the same with good and sufficient sureties according to the terms on which such bid was made and accepted, such bidder shall forfeit the amount so deposited to the United States, and the same shall forthwith be paid into the Treasury of the United States; but if such contract shall be duly executed, as aforesaid, such draft or check so deposited shall be returned to the bidder. SEC. 10. That hereafter the security or securities, upon the bond required by the act of February 27, 1851, to be given by each Indian agent before entering upon the duties of his office, shall file a sworn statement with the Secretary of the Interior, setting forth the nature and kind of property owned by such security or securities, the value of the same, and where situated; and that no money appropriated by this act shall be paid to any Indian agent hereafter appointed until the security or securities shall have filed such statement. Each Indian agent shall keep a book of itemized expenditures of every kind, with a record of all contracts, together with the receipts of money from all sources; and the books thus kept shall always be open to inspection; and the said books shall remain in the office at the respective reservations, not to be removed from said reservation by said agent, but shall be safely kept and handed over to his successor; and true transcripts of all entries of every character in said books shall be forwarded quarterly by each agent to the Commis. sioner of Indian Affairs: Provided, That should any agent knowingly make any false entry in said books, or in the transcripts directed to be forwarded to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, or shall knowingly fail to keep a perfect entry in said books as herein prescribed, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction before any United States court having jurisdiction of such offense, shall be fined in a sum not less that $500 nor more than $1,000, at the discretion of the court, and shall be rendered incompetent to hold said office of Indian agent after conviction under this act.

SEC. 11. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to re-imburse the United States in the sum of $24,000, by transfer from funds in the Treasury belonging to the Kaskaskia, Peoria, Wea, and Piankeshaw Indians, now to their credit under the act of Congress approved July 12, 1862; said sum being the amount advanced by the act of April 10, 1869, in the payment for certain lands purchased from the Senecas and sold to the Kaskaskias: Provided, That there be first deducted from said amount of $24,000 the sum of $5,712.71, the same being the balance of amount due to said Indians for money derived from the sale of their trust-lands, together with amount due them for lands erroneously sold as public lands.

SEC. 12. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and is hereby, authorized and directed to convert into cash so much of the stocks held in trust for the Chickasaw tribe of Indians as shall, when sold, yield the sum of $100,000, and to pay the proceeds thereof to the treasurer of the Chickasaw Nation, to be by him distributed to relieve the pressing necessities of the members of said tribe, to be available immediately: Provided, That the consent of the proper authorities of said Chickasaw Nation be first obtained to this disposition of their funds.

SEC. 13. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay to the treasurer of the Cherokee Nation of Indians, at his earliest convenience, the sum of $200,000, from the trust-funds held by the United States belonging to said nation of Indians, arising from the sales of the Cherokee lands lying south of Kansas and west of the ninety-sixth meridian of west longitude, (disposed of to the Osage Indians;) said amount to be used by said nation in purchasing breadstuffs for said Cherokee Indians, rendered necessary to keep them from suffering in consequence of the destruction of their crops dur. ing the past season by the drought, grasshoppers, and chinch-bugs; and that said amount shall be distributed among said Cherokee Indians as provided by an act of the Cherokee national council, approved November 19, 1874, and shall be immediately available.

SEC. 14. That said amount shall not be paid to the said treasurer of the Cherokee Nation until the Secretary of the Interior shall have received in his office a duly certified copy of the said act of the national council of the Cherokee Nation, approved by the principal chief of said nation.

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By the act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1876, and for other purposes.

PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING.

For the public printing, for the public binding, and for paper for the public printing, inclu ding the cost of printing the debates and proceedings of Congress in the Congressional Record.

And out of the sum hereby appropriated, printing and binding may be done by the Congressional Printer to the amounts following, namely:

For the Court of Claims, $12,000; for the Department of State, $25,000; for the Treasury

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