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United States Statutes at Large, Volume 4
United States Congress
Public Acts of the Twenty-Third Congress, First Session, Chapter 167
3254082United States Statutes at Large, Volume 4 — Public Acts of the Twenty-Third Congress, First Session, Chapter 167United States Congress


June 30, 1834.

Chap. CLXVII.An Act to relinquish the reversionary interest of the United States in a certain Indian reservation lying between the rivers Mississippi and Desmoins.

Lands relinquished, and to be vested in certain half-breeds of Sacs and Fox Indians.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all the right, title, and interest which might accrue or revert to the United States to the reservation of land, lying between the rivers Desmoins and Mississippi, which was reserved for the use of the half-breeds belonging to the Sacs and Fox nations, now used by them, or some of them, under a treaty made and concluded between the United States and the Sacs and Fox tribes or nations of Indians, at Washington, on the fourth day of August, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, be, and the same are hereby, relinquished and vested in the said half-breeds of the Sacs and Fox tribes or nations of Indians, who, at the passage of this act are, under the reservation in the said treaty, entitled, by the Indian title, to the same; with full power and authority to transfer their portions thereof, by sale, devise or descent, according to the laws of the state of Missouri.

Approved, June 30, 1834.