Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 31.djvu/1117

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FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. 11. cu. 832. 1901. .1065 MOLELS. Moms. For pay of teachers and for manual-labor schools, and for all neces- S°'*°°lS- sary materials therefor,. and for the subsistence of the pupils, per second article of treaty of December twenty-first, eighteen hundred "°l·12·P·981· and fifty-five, three thousand dollars. Noirrnnan CHEYENNES AND Aaaranons. m§é>j3¤;;§,§,gi?€¤¤¤ For subsistence and civilization, as per agreement with the Sioux S¤bSiS¤>¤¢<*· Indians, approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and V0]-19·p·256· seventy-seven, including subsistence and civilization of Northern Chey- ennes removed from Pine Ridge Agency to Tongue River, Montana, ninety thousand dollars; For pay of physician, two teachers, two carpenters, one miller, two farmers, a blacksmith, and engineer, per seventh article of the treaty of May tenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, nine thousand dollars; in all, ninety»-nine thousand dollars. osacns. Osam- For interest on sixty-nine thousand one hundred and twenty dollars, I¤*€*°S*— at five per centum per annum, being value of fifty-four sections of land V°l· 7~ P· 2** set apart by treaty of June second, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, for educational purposes, per Senate resolution of January ninth, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, three thousand four hundred and fifty-six dollars. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed m{*;gj;**6°g*;$;¤,{€r<;fv%3t$; to examine the accounts of Indian traders with the Osage Indians at Osage Indiansaiithor the Osage Agency, and to determine the sums equitably due to such md' traders from such Indians, and to adjust their accounts upon the basis rlmlsof a fair profit upon the goods which have been sold by such traders to such Indians, and when the amounts due as aforesaid shall have been determined and adjusted, the Secretary of the Interior is hereby author- g¥"§§,g‘;§},‘j* gjiifflggf ized to pay, by a disbursing officer selected by the Secretary for that las-dirxrerkesc. écc. purpose, to the Osage Indians per capita the amount which has been collected as rent of pasture lands, and any accumulated interest other than their regular annuities which has not been heretofore paid to them: Provided, That when it shall appear to such disbursing officer _§;;g;g,t to trader that any such Indian, either as an individual or as the head of a family. or per capiw Share of is indebted to a trader or traders at such agency, as the same shall I“d“‘""‘d"b°€d‘ °“" have been determined and adjusted, in an amount equal to or exceeding said per capita payment, such disbursing officer shall pay the per capita share due to said Indian as an individual or the head of a family, to such trader or traders in discharge of, or to be a plied upon such indebtedness to such trader or traders. If such Indlian as an individual or head of a family shall be indebted to more than one of such traders, such payment of his per capita share shall be paid to the traders in proportion to the amount of the respective sums due them as determined and adjusted. If the per capita share of any such Indian as an individual or head of a family shall exceed his indebtedness to said tradci or traders, then payment shall be made as aforesaid to such trader or traders of the amount due, as aforesaid, and the balance of such ner capita payment shall be paid to said Indian: Andp1·¢wzTded_fz4.2·t/le»·, _ _ ‘That it shall be unlawful hereafter for the traders upon the Osage Q,§‘§j,Q§S‘§fO{,f'{§§f,€;§ Indian Reservation to give credit to any individual Indian or head of swa family to an amount greater than sixty per centum of the next quarterly annuity to which such individual Indian or head of a family will be entitled; and if such traders shall give credit to {lily individual Indian or head of a family upon such reservation in excess of the