Territory, one copy in the office of the clerk of the county within which said lands are sitauted, and the other shall be transmitted to the President of the United States,Patents to be issued. who shall thereupon cause patents to be issued to the several individuals named in said report, for the lands so apportioned to them respectively, by which the said persons shall be authorized to hold the said land in fee simple, to themselves and their heirs and assigns.
Disposition of the report and map to be made on or before 1st January 1844; after which the Indians shall be citizens of the United States.Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the said report and map shall be filed with the Secretary of said Territory, and in the clerk’s office of said county, and shall also be transmitted to the President, on or before the first day of January, eighteen hundred and forty-four; and, after the same shall have been filed and transmitted to the President as aforesaid, the said Stockbridge tribe of Indians, and each and every of them, shall then be deemed to be, and from that time forth are hereby declared to be, citizens of the United States, to all intents and purposes, and shall be entitled to all the rights, privileges, and immunities of such citizens, and shall, in all respects, be subject to the laws of the United States and of the Territory of Wisconsin, in the same manner as other citizens of said Territory; and the jurisdiction of the United States and of said Territory shall be extended over the said township or reservation now held by them, in the same manner as over other parts of said Territory; and their rights as a tribe or nation, and their power of making or executing their own laws, usages, or customs, as such tribe, shall cease and determine:Proviso. Provided, however, That nothing in this act contained shall be so construed as to deprive them of the right to any annuity now due them from the State of New York or the United States, but they shall be entitled to receive any such annuity, in the same manner as though this act had not been passed.
Approved, March 3, 1843.
Statute ⅠⅠⅠ.
Chap. CII.—An Act granting a pension to certain revolutionary soldiers.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Pensions to certain widows continued for one year.
1832, ch. 126.
1838, ch. 189.
1842, ch. 191.
Resolution of April 16, 1842. That the widow of any person who served in the war of the Revolution in the manner set forth in the act approved the seventh day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, entitled “An act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution,” and whose widow, in virtue of an act approved the seventh day of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, entitled “An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows,” and an act approved the sixteenth day of August, eighteen hundred and forty-two, amendatory thereof, and a resolution approved the sixteenth day of August, eighteen hundred and forty-two, entitled “A resolution declarative of the pension act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight,” received, or is entitled to an annuity or pension for the term of five years from the fourth of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, shall be entitled to receive the same annuity or pension which she received, or is entitled to receive, under said acts or said resolution, or either of them, for and during the further term of one year from the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-three, or during such portion of said term as said widow shall survive, subject in all respects, however, to the rules, limitations, and conditions, in and by said acts and resolution made and provided.
Appropriation therefor.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sum of three hundred and eighty thousand dollars, be, and the same is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay the annuities or pensions in and by this act granted.
Approved, March 3, 1843.