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United States Statutes at Large, Volume 5
United States Congress
Public Acts of the Twenty-Eighth Congress, First Session, Chapter 104
4110590United States Statutes at Large, Volume 5 — Public Acts of the Twenty-Eighth Congress, First Session, Chapter 104United States Congress


June 17, 1844.

Chap. CIV.An Act explanatory of the Treaty made with the Chippewa Indians at Saganaw, the twenty-third of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,1st and 2d articles of treaty with Chippewas of Jan. 23, 1838, how to be construed. That the first and second articles in the treaty made with the Chippewa Indians on the twenty-third of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, shall be so construed as to prevent the sales of land ceded by said treaty for a less sum than two dollars and fifty cents per acre from and after the first day of September, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three; and that the minimum price of said lands, from and after that day, shall be two dollars and fifty cents per acre.

Approved, June 17, 1844.