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530 TH1RTY—SEVENTH CONGRESS. Suas. II. Ch. 135, 138, 139. 1862. moneys due to incompetent or orphan Indians, but the same shall remain in the treasury of the United States until ordered to be paid by the said Secretary to those entitled to receive the same, and shall bear six per centum interest until so paid. Indian service Sec. 7. And be it fiorther enacted, That the following sums be, and l“ c“m°"°i*· the same me hereby, in like manner appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Indian service in California : — Cm-ks to su- For salaries of clerks to superintendents of Indian AH`s.irs for the P°'i“'·°“d°¤*'· Northern and Southern Districts of California, for three-quarters of the fiscal year ending June tbirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, at eighteen hundred dollars per annum, twenty-seven hundred dollars: For the same service for the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, at one thousand five hundred dollars per annum, three thousand dollars:

Puy of super- For compensation of five supervisors for the reservations in California,

"‘;‘§’§6 ch 157 to instruct the Indians in husbandry, for fiscal year ending June thirty, Am: p,k1, ° eighteen hundred and sixty-three, authorized by act of June nineteen, eighteen hundred and sixty, nine thousand dollars. Purehaseofcat- For the purchase of cattle for beef and milk, together with clothing and

  • l°»&°· food, teams and farming tools for Indians, for the fiscal year ending

June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, for the Northern District of California, twenty-five thousand dollars. For the same for the Southern District of California, for the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, fifteen thousand Inquiry to be dollars : Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized {md {*¤d*:° ¤‘°d¤°· and directed to inquire into the expediency of reducing the Indian reser- $@0:, l°;,°({:§°ir` vations in California to two in number; the proper places for the same; ¤is.&¤. the probable expense thereof; the propriety of disposing of any of the reservations, and the value thereof, and of the property thereon; of the manner and terms of such disposal; and, in what manner, in' his judgment, the expense of the Indian Department in that State can be reduced and its system simplified without injury to the same, and report thereon to the next regular session of Congress. Approved, July 5, 1862. July 11, 1862. Can-. CKXXVIII.-An Ad lo grqnt {ze Right of P1·¢Emp¢i0r•¢oSet¢krs on certain Lot:

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Bc it enacted dy the Senate and House of Representatives of the United gmwytqb, States of America in Congress assembled, That the Commissioner of the

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f°h:;*'?i¤ General Land Officc be, and he is hereby, directed to cause survey to be

wimum m made of that portion of lots numbered ten and eleven, lying east of the River au Diable, in township twenty-three north, of range twenty-one east, in the State of Wisconsin, and which portion was not embraced by the confirmatory provisions of the act of Congress approved February 18,8 on m twenty-one§ eighteen hundred and twenty-three, entitled "An acl: to WL mt P 7% rexnve nnd continue in force certain acts for the adjustment of land claims in the Territory of Michigan." Armzovzm, July 11, 1862. July 11, 1862. CHAP. CXXXIX.—An Ad in Relation to the Post-affix Department. Limitation in Bo it enacted (gy the Senate and House of Representatives of the Mzited

i_:’u&€:¥I";’m {States of América in Congress assembled, That the time fixed for the limm,,m, not to itation of suits against the sureties of postmusters by the third section of
p:5 ;§_£t¤¤<>¤ the act of Congress, entitled “An net to reduce into one the several acts

18% M establishing and regulating the Post-office Department," approved March Vol. iv., p. 102. third, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, shall not be considered