412 _ FORTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. » Ch. 131. 1875. Transportation Indian Office.—For this amount, or so much thereof as may be neces- °? Su PP!i°° M sary to make up deiiciency in the general appropriation- for the risen} S‘°“‘ I“°"“‘“‘ year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventydive, for trans. portation of supplies provided for the Sioux Indiansunder treaty of April V-15»P·“35· twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, including the Santee Sioux, the Yankton Sioux, and the Poncas, seventy-five thousand dollars. Indian service in For this amount or so much thereof as may be necessary toenable the M<>¤*¤¤¤· Secretary of the Treasury to pay the adjusted accounts of the par-ties named in Executive Document number sixty-nine, submitting estimates for this dedciency bill, due in consequence of deficiencies in the appropriations for the years eighteen hundred and seventy-two, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, for the Indian service in the Territory of Montana, as awarded by the account ing officers of the Treasury Department, fourteen thousand six hundred and eighty-one dollars and thirty-nine cents. SeminoleNation. For this amount, to be paid to the Seminole Nation of Indians being the diiference between the amount paid by the United States to the v, 14, ,,,135, Creeks for the reservation now occupied by said Seminoles by treaty of June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and the amount deducted ior the same from the money due them for their former territory V- 1% P- 755- ceded to the United States by treaty of March twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, forty thousand dollars; the same to be appropriated as follows: one half to be applied under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior to the payment of the present debts of said Seminole Nation and the balance to be paid to said Indians per capita in the same manner as annuities are paid. Indians in Colo- For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to remuo. imburse appropriations for the Indians in Colorado, for the fiscal years ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventythree, and June thirtleth, eighteen hundred and seyonty-four, the amount expended from said appropriations in negotiations with said Indians, in accord- }§72·°·u5¤"· 17: ance with the act approved April twenty-third, eighteen hundred and P' °°' seventy-two, twenty-dve thousand seven hundred and ninetydive dollars and thirteen cents. _C h crokec In- For thi amount, or so- much thereof as may be necessary to pay ams- the costs adjudged against the Eastern band of the Cherokee Indians in the suits at law and in equity between them and William H." Thomas and others, lately determined in the circuit court of the United States for the western district of. North Carolina, and including compensation to special counsel, and for other purposes, in pursuance of the act of V }z""» @,%*6-**- H: Congress of July fifteenth, eighteen hundred andseventy, to be expended ‘ ’P‘ ‘ under the direction of the Attorney General, lifteen thousand dollars. _Kickapoo In- For this amount, to enable the Pre ident of the United States to d*°¤¤· carry out the provisions of the third article of the treaty with the Kickv_ 1;;,, egg, apoo Indians of June twenty-eighth eighteen hundred and sixty-two, to be paid under such rules as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, to seven Kickapoo Indians who have become citizens of the United States, the same being their proportiouof the sum of one hundred thousand dollars provided for said tribe for educational and other V- 10»l>·10’78· beneficial purposes, per treaty of May eighteenth, eightwn hundred and fifty-four, two thousand three hundred and sixty-four dollars and eighty-six cents. And the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to sell for their benefit United States stocks amounting to three thousand two hundred and forty-nine dollars and thirty-two cents, being the proportion of said persons of one hundred and thirty-seven thousand and tour hundred dollars held in tru t for the Kickapoo tribe of Indians; the proceed thereof to be paid to the seven persons who have elected to become citizens of the United States as above. Ppttowntomie That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized, gdxlh ***1** °* with the consent of the citizen class of Pottowatomie Indians, to sell u not exceeding twenty thousand dollars worth of their bonds now held
