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FOR1‘Y·'1‘HIBtD CONGRESS. Sess. I. GH. 77, 80. 1874. 27 CHAP. 'I7.—An act appropriuting certain uuexponded balances of appropriations April 3, 1874. for removal of Indians. — Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the uuexpeuded balance 1870,,011- 296, Wiof the appropriations made by the acts of July fifteenth, ei ghteeu hun- *"{é,% 120 1 dred and seventy, and March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, xvi pj ’ v° ' “ for the removal of the Kickapoo and other American Indian tribes ’ roving on the borders of Mexico and Texas to reservations 'within the territories of the United States, and for their settlement and subsistence on such reservations," is hereby reappropriated,and the Secretary of Reappropriation the Interior isauthorized to use aid unoxpended balance to defray the °f “”‘}’-‘P€“d°d Tlé. expenses incurred by the removal of said Kicka.poo.Indians,locatiug and subsistiug them in the Indian Territory: Provided, That this Pmvim, amount shall bein full of all expenses and obligation incurred- in the ` removal of said Indians, and the Secretary of the Interior, in disbursiug the same, shall see that all promises and obligations incurred by the commissioners appointed to remove aid Indians shall be fully met and discharged from said amount. Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he hereby is, au- Rgmgvg,] of wm. thorized to expend, for the purpose of defraying expenses incurred, and nebngoes. to be incurred, for the removal of the Winnebago Indians in Wisconsin, from their present homes in that State to their reservation in Nebraska, and for their subsistence during such removal, and at their new homes, the uuexpended balance of the sum of thirtysix thousand dollars, or so @7% <>h· 2¥>`3» *0*- much thereof as may be necessary, which was appropriated by the sixth ""· §6* P' 190* section of the act of May twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy- two, for said purpose: Provided, That this amount shall be in full of all P¤>Vi¤<>· expenses and obligations incurred in the removal of said Indians, and the Secretary of the Interior, in disbursing the same, shall ee that all promises and obligations incurred to said Indians shall be fully met and discharged from said amount. Approved, April 3, 1874. CHAP. 80.-An act concerningjhe prggico in territorial courts, and appeals there- Ap1‘il7,18'74· ID. Whereas, by tlie organic acts establishing several of the Territories Preamble. ‘ of the United States, it is provided that certain courts thereof shall have common-law and chaucery jurisdiction, and doubts have been entertained whether said jurisdictions must be exercised separately, or whether they may be exercised together in the same proceeding, and whether the codes and rules of practice adopted in said Territories which have authorized a mingling of said jurisdictions in the same proceeding, or a uniform course of proceeding in all cases legal aud equitable, are repugnant to the said organic acts respectively: Therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Oemgress assembled, That it shall not be necessary Commonylagv anu in any of the courts of the several Territories of the United States to g”;“°°;Y 1,i6¤’{:dl€i exercise separately the common-law and chancery jurisdictions vested cfu,,; m °""' in said courts; and that the several codes and rule of practice adopted iu said Territories respectively, in so far as they authorize a mingling of said jurisdictions or a uniform course of proceeding in all cases Certain ¤ o d e s, whether legal or equitable, be conurmed; and that all proceedings here- ru 1 es of practice, tofore had or taken in said courts in conformity with said respective 20’;gm£;L° °°°d*°SB codes and rules of practice, so far as relates to the form and mode of proceeding, be, and the same are hereby, validated and confirmed: Pro- _ _ vided, That no party has been or shall be deprived of the right of trial TMI bi J¤¤’· by jury in cases coguizable at common-law. ` SEO. 2. That the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the Appellate juris- United States over the judgments and decrees of said Territorial courts g‘°£*;¤ of I§¤I?’€m3 in cases of trial by jury shall be exercised by writ of error, and in all $,;),,,,38 ° howu ’°x°f,r_ other cases by appeal according to such rules and regulations asto form cised. ’