FO RTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. IL Ch. 132. . 1875. 451 duties of his office, shall file a sworn statement with the Secretary of 1851·°·14»¤-6»V· the Interior, setting forth the nature and kind of property owned by 9i§"§872b57 36,, such security or securities, the value of the same, and where situated;" ’P` ` and that no money appropriated by this act shall be paid to any Indian agent .hereafter appointed until the security or securities shall have nled such statement. Each Indian agent shall keep a book of itemized Agent to k ee p expenditures of every kind, with a record of all contracts, together with iw0k of ¤*<P°¤d¤ the receipts of money from all sources ; and the books thus kept shall ;;g°fé,;§‘l§"‘°“°` always be open to inspection; and the said books shall remain in the P ' office at the respective reservations, not to be removed from said reser- _ yation by said agent, but shall be safely kept and handed over to his successor; and' true transcripts of all entries or every character in said Q¤¤¤*¢¥T>’ *¤~¤· books shall be forwarded quarterly by each agent to the Commissioner “°"P"· of Indian Affairs: Provided, That should any agent knowingly make K<><>Di¤5_ f¤l¤·<> an y false entry in said books, or in the transcripts directed to be for- ,‘;ggk°¤°' *“‘]“‘¥ °° warded to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, or shall knowingly fail p' to keep a perfect entry in said books as herein prescribed, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction betbre any United States court having jurisdiction of such offense, shall be fined in a sum Penalty- not less than ilve hundred nor more than cnc thousand dollars, at the discretion of the court, and shall be rendered incompetent to hold said msqualincationj office of Indian agent after conviction under this act. Sec. 11. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, R¤—iml>¤r¤¤m¤¤¤ authorized and directed to reimburse the United States in the sum of U,j‘*Q;}S°¥,‘6‘fr}Q’ twenty-four thousand dollars, by transfer from funds in the Treasury WT, “`;,$’p,_,,,,k,,i . belonging to the Kaskaskia, Peoria, Wea, and Piankcshaw Indians, now nm} Indians} to their credit under the art of Congress approved July twelfth, eight- 1ss2,s. 157, v. 12, een hundred and sixty-two; said sum being the amount advanced by n·540- · the act of April tenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, in the payment i869,¤. 16, v. 16, for certain lands purchased from the Senecas and sold to the Kaslzaskias : P- 34- Protided That there be iirst deducted from said amount of twenty-four Pumas. thousand dollars the sum of five thousand seven hundred and twelve dollars and seventy-one_ cents, the same being the balance of amount duc to said Indians for money derived from the sale of their trustlands, together with amount due them for lands erroneously sold as public lands. Sec. 12. That the Secretary of the Interior bo, and is hereby, author _P¤r¤ of Chickaized and directed to convert into cash so much of the stocks held in QjE*§f]*`{'“f€j°°°k“ “° trust for the Chickasaw tribe of Indians as shall, when sold, yield the sum ‘ ’ ‘ ‘ or one hundred thousand dollars, and to pay the proceeds thereof to the treasurer of the Chickasaw Nation, to be og, 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 Pmviso. Chickasaw Nation be first obtained to this disposition of their funds. Sec. 13. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, an- Payment to chethorized and required to pay to the treasurer of the Cherokee Nation of ;,°k3°¤ 0**** °f*’“¤°· Indians, at his earliest convenience, the sum of two hundred thousand ““ “‘ dollars, fronrthe 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 ninetysixth meridian of west longitude, (disposed ofto the O age Indians;) said amount to be used by said nation in purchasing breadstuifs for said Cherokee Indians, rendered necessary to keep them from su1l`ering‘in consequence of the destruction of their crops during 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 nineteenth, eighteen hundred and . seventy-four, and shall be immediately available. _ Sec. 14. That said amount shall not be paid to the said treasurer of the Gertrficd wry of Cherokee Nation until the Secretary of the Interior shall have received gfuglusft }§h‘;:'0_ in his office a duly certilied copy of the said act of the national council kc, N,,,,;,,,,_ of the Cherokee Nation, approved by the principal chief of said nation. Approved, March 3, 1875
