FOBTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. QH. 132, 135. 1874. 35 CHAP._132.—,An act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to issue certificate April 25, 1874. oi registry and enrolment to the schooner “Almina," and changing the name t0`""—"`“;` “ Minnie Davis." Be it enacted by the Smale and House of Representatives of the United _ _ States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- t A"‘f‘°““ "°=‘§‘fi” ury be, and he is,hereby, authorized to issue certificates of registry, or Qin;?: °°°°°° ` enrolment and license, to the schooner “A1mina,” owned by Bruce M. ` Levis, of Alexandria Bay, New York, and to change the name Almina to that of "Minnie Da.vis," by which latter name said schooner shall be Name changed to thereafter known and distinguished. “M*“m° D“"’“-" Approved, April 25, 1874. CHAP. 135.-—An act relative to private contracts or agreements made with Indi- April 29, 1874. ans prior to May twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-two.` """`°"_°‘; Bc it enacted by the Senate a/nd House of Representatives of the United _ _ States of America in Congress assembled, That hereafter it shall not be C°¥“"“tP“"“{"’ lawful for any United States officer, or other person under its employ or $°;€5,°R°:,I§,°;,B2(;:,°,g control, to recognize the binding force or legality, or in any manner be meogmwi nn. sustain or entoree orconnsel, or give any aid or assistance to sustain or MSS, &¢- enforce, any contract or agreement made by any person or persons, or corporation, with any band, tribe, or nation of Indians, or individual Indian or Indians, not a citizen of the United States, entered into prior to the date of the act of Congress entitled "An act regulating the mode of making private contracts with Indiaus," approved May twentydirst, {$72. vit 177. wleighteen hundred and seventy-two, for the payment or delivery of any X"“»P· 13** money or other thin g of value, in present or prospective, or for the granting or procuring any privilege to him or her, or any other person or persons, or corporation, in consideration of services lor, or advancements made to, said Indians relativeto their lands, or to any claim growing out of or in reference to annuities, instalments, or other moneys, claims, demand, or thing under laws or treaties with the United States, or official acts of any officer thereof, or in any way connected with or due from the United States, unless such contract or agreement was reduced to writing and duly signed by the parties in interest thereto at the time it was entered into and fully made known to the parties at the time the contract was signed, and then not until such original written contract shall nrst have been presented to and examined by the Secretary of the Interior and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and these facts by them severally endorsed thereon, and a copy of said contract and of any assignments that may have been made thereon duly entered of record _ in the office of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. _ _ SEO. 2. That in addition thereto there shall also be tiled in said Com- Swteruevt to be missioner’s oililce, and retained therein as official papers, and be exam- 61***1 ima °X’“m“°d· ined by said Commissioner- and Secretary,`an`d that fact indorsed on them, the following statement of facts touching each and all such cou- T b _ tracts and agreements so presented, which statements shall be sworn pug); °w°m °° m to specially by all and severally the person or persons claiming interest , in and seeking the support and enforcement of such contract or agreement, and not by agent or attorney: First,`that the writing presented ‘Whatsw0r¤ statefbr examination and record, as provided for in the first section of this ¤¤°¤° SMU °°¤““°· uct, and purporting to be the original contract or agreement, is in fact such, and that it was entered into and reduced to writing at the date and for the purposes it purports to have been made and executed; secondly, such sworn statement shall give particularly the names of the real parties in interest in the original contract or agreement, naming them if not named in the written contract or agreement, and if either ot the contracting parties is a band, tribe, or nation of Indians, or a cerporation or firm, the name of the person, officer, or agent contracting in their behalf, together with his authority for so doing, shall be specially slatedi thirdly. a particular statement of all and singular the services
