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FORTY—SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 430-432. 1872. 389 each; and no purchaser shall be permitted to purchase moreth0.n one quarter section thereof. Upon the payment of the purchase-money of Patents for said lands upon the terms and conditions aforesaid, the Secretary of the P‘"“l"‘S“"S· Interior shall cause- to be issued to the purchaser or purchasers patents for the same. Such lands and the whole thereof shall be subject to taxa— Lands to be tion as other lands in the State of Kansas are taxable, notwithstanding :;:}g€Et§°a:1‘;§;" any provisions of law heretofore existing. The said commissioners are power or coin. authorized to examine, under oath, any person or persons touching the ¤*l*§*°*!°YS *0 49* property, credits, or assets hereinbefore mentioned, and to compel the pro- duction of such books, or other testimony as may pertain to the same; to said property. and for this purpose they are, and each of them is, hereby empowered to administer all necessary oaths, and the trustees acting under said sixth article of said treaty are hereby required upon demand, to account to said commissioners for all moneys, property, clioses in action or assetts, of any description that may be now, or at any time heretofore has been in their possession or or under their control, and the trust created by virtue of said article is hereby discharged, vacated, and declared at an end; but nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to relieve the said trustees, or any of them, from any liability incurred in the management or disposition of said property or any part thereofi The proceeds of such Proceeds or sales shall be paid to the several members of the said tribe, their heirs or ;“l“i*€§°W t° b“ assigns, per capita; and in case any of the members of said tribe are pp ` minors, then such sums of money as are due or coming to them from such proceeds shall be paid to the guardian of such minors appointed under the laws of the State of Kansas. The commissioners to be ap- Compensation pointed under the provisions of this act shall receive compensation foi·g;`S‘?°'“““”’°°' their services at the rate of five dollars for each day actually engaged in ' the duties herein designated, in addition to the amount paid by them for actual travel and other necessary expenses, and the said sums and ex- Y0 be Mid penses shall be paid out of the funds arising from the sales of the prop- from sms' erty herein provided to be disposed of Approved, June 10, 1872. CHAP. CDXXXI. —-An Act to authorize the President y"the United States to appoint June 10, 1872. one or more Commissioners to represent the Government of the United States at the """"——_" International Exposition <y"Ayr[cu/ture, Industry, and Fine Arts, to be he/d at Wezzna in eighteen hundred and seventy-three. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United President may States be, and he hereby is, authorized, by and with the advice and con- fcflgfégglfifglgts °° sent of the Senate, to appoint one or more agents to represent the United States at government of the United States at the international exposition of agri- zhé ¤'ff€g;l=*;;>¤¤l culture, industry, and fine arts, to be held at Vienna in eighteen hundred Vigggaf and seventy-three: Provided, That such appointments shall not impose Proviso. on this government any liability for the expense which they may occasion. A1‘1‘1{OVED, June 10, 1872. CHAP. CDXXXII.—-An Act c0n]’irm1`ng and extending a Patent-rzyhi to Levi W. June 10, 1872. Pond and Eau Claire Lumber Company. E;'." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the rights described in the Letters-patent letters-patent granted on the fourth day of August, eighteen hundred and ;{$;‘$‘;%’*`§) Levi sixtyeight, to Levi W. Pond and Eau Claire Lumber Company, of lthe 3v_ pong gud county of Eau Claire, and State of Wisconsin, and citizens of the United E¤¤CCl¤¤¥i Uéiné States, to an invention therein described and referred to, be granted, con- " °‘°X °¤ 8 ' firined, and extended to the said Levi W. Pond and Eau Claire Lumber Company, their heirs and assigns, for the full term of seventeen years from the first day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy, notwithstanding that said invention may have been to some extent possessed and enjoyed