Act
of January 19, 1891
Chapter
77 – An act to enable the Secretary of the interior to carry out,
in part, the provisions of "An act to divide a portion of the reservation
of the Sioux Nation of Indians in Dakota into separate reservations
and to secure the relinquishment of the Indian title to the remainder,
and for other purposes," approved March second, eighteen hundred
and eighty-nine, and making appropriations for the same and for other
purposes.
Whereas in accordance with section twenty-eight of the act of March
second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, entitled "An act to divide
a portion of the reservation of the Sioux Nation of Indians in Dakota
into separate reservations and to secure the relinquishment of the Indian
title to the remainder, and for other purposes" (public one hundred
and forty-eight), the President of the united States has made known,
by proclamation, that satisfactory proof has been presented to him that
the consent of the different bands of the said Sioux Nation of Indians
to the said act has been obtained in the manner and form required by
the said twelfth article of the treaty of April twenty-ninth, eighteen
hundred and sixty-eight: Therefore,
Be
it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums, or
so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same are hereby, appropriated,
out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be
immediately available to enable the Secretary of the Interior to comply
with and carry out certain provisions of the act of Congress approved
march second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine (public one hundred and
forty-eight, Statutes twenty-five, page eight hundred and eighty-eight),
and for other purposes:
For
the erection of day and industrial schools, providing furniture and
other necessary articles, and pay of teachers, in accordance with article
seven of the treaty of April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight,
which said article of treaty is continued in force for twenty years
by section seventeen of the above mentioned act of March second, eighteen
hundred and eighty-nine: Provided, That as fast as school facilities
are furnished the Secretary of the interior is hereby authorized and
required to compel all children between the ages of six and sixteen
to attend the schools on the reservation at least nine months in the
year, except such as may be attending school elsewhere, one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars.
For
the erection of fifteen school buildings, provided for in article twenty
of the above mentioned act of March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine,
fifteen thousand dollars.
To
enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay to such individual Indians
of the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Agencies as he shall ascertain
to have been deprived by the authority of the United States of ponies
in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-six, at the rate of forty dollars
for each pony: Provided, That the sum paid to each individual Indian
under this provision shall be taken and accepted by such Indian in full
compensation for all loss sustained by such Indian in consequence of
the taking from him of ponies as aforesaid: And further provided, That
if any Indian entitled to such compensation shall have deceased the
sum to which such Indian would be entitled shall be paid to his heirs
at law, according to the laws of the State of Dakota, two hundred thousand
dollars.
To
enable the Secretary of the interior to purchase for the Sioux Nation
of Indians additional beef required for issue, the rations having been
reduced on account of reduced appropriation for the fiscal year ending
June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, one hundred thousand dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the interior to purchase lands for such of
the Santee Sioux Indians in Nebraska as have been unable to take lands
in severalty on their reservations in Nebraska by reason of the restoration
of the unallotted lands to the public domain, thirty-two thousand dollars.
Sec.
2. That the funds appropriated by this act shall not be liable to be
covered into the Treasury, but shall remain on said books until used
and expended for the purposes for which they have been appropriated.
Sec.
3. That the principal of the permanent fund provided for under section
seventeen of the said act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine,
dividing a portion of the reservation of the Sioux Nation of Indians
in Dakota into separate reservations, and for other purposes, shall
be divided in proportion to the number of Indians entitled to receive
rations and annuities upon the separate reservations created by the
above act, or residing and belonging thereon at the time the said act
took effect, and the Secretary of the Treasury shall carry the amount
of principal of said permanent fund belonging to the Indians of each
of the diminished reservation to the credit of the Indians of each of
the said diminished reservations, separate and distinct from each other,
and the principal as well as the interest of each of said funds shall
be expended for the purposes specified in said article seventeen of
the above mentions act, only for the use and benefit of the said Indians
so entitled to receive rations and annuities upon each of the said separate
diminished reservations or so residing and belonging thereupon.
Sec.
4. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed
when making purchases for the military posts or service on or near Indian
reservation to purchase in open market, from the Indians as far as practicable,
at fair and reasonable rates, not to exceed the market prices in the
localities, any cattle, grain, hay, fuel, or other produce or merchandise
they may have for sale and which may be required for the military service.
(Approved,
January 19, 1891)
Jan.
19, 1891
26 Stat., 720
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