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and Cumberland eral certificates issued by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department to the officers, sailors, marines, and crews of the Congress and Cumberland, and other persons provided for by the act of April second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, entitled “An act to provide for the equitable settlement of the accounts of the officers and crews of the frigate Congress and other vessels."

1862, ch. 52. Ante, p. 375.

masters and en

signs
until, &c.
1861, ch. 13.
Ante, p. 272.

Temporary ap- SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the second section of pointments of acting assistant pay the act entitled "An act for the temporary increase of the navy," confirmed approved July twenty-four, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, shall be so construed that the temporary appointments made, or which may be made, of acting assistant paymasters and acting ensigns are hereby ratified and confirmed as temporary acting appointments until the return of the vessels in which they are respectively employed, or until the suppression of the present insurrection, as may be deemed necessary; and the rate of compensation allowed for the several grades specified is hereby legalized and approved. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized to purchase in such manner as he shall deem most advantageous to the government, the flour required for naval use; and to have the bread for the navy baked from this flour by special contract under naval inspection.

Pay.

Purchase of flour for the navy.

Baking bread.

a clerk.

Assistant pay- SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That every assistant paymaster attached to war vessel allowed master attached to a vessel-of-war shall be allowed a clerk, with the compensation and privileges which would be given by law to the clerk of a paymaster if attached to the same vessel: Provided, That clerks shall not be allowed to paymasters or assistant paymasters in vessels having complements of less than one hundred, excepting in supply steamers or storeships.

Proviso.

Pay of boatswains, gunners,

sailmakers. 1860, ch. 67. Ante, p. 23.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the act to increase and carpenters, and regulate the pay of the navy of the United States, approved June first, eighteen hundred and sixty, be so construed as it respects boatswains, gunners, carpenters, and sailmakers of the navy as to allow to those officers such arrears of pay or difference of pay as they would be entitled to had their sea service been computed from the dates of their appointments or entry into the service, in their respective grades, instead of the date of their war

rants.

Approved March 3, 1863.

March 3, 1863.

Lands

CHAPTER CXIX.

AN ACT for the removal of the Sisseton, Wahpaton, Medawakanton, and Wahpakoota bands of Sioux or Dakota Indians, and for the disposition of their lands in Minnesota and Dakota.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of outside the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the as President is authorized and hereby directed to assign to and set bands of Sioux In- apart for the Sisseton, Wahpaton, Medawakanton, and Wabpa

the limits of any State to be signed

dians.

Quantity.

certain

koota bands of Sioux Indians a tract of unoccupied land, outside of the limits of any State, sufficient in extent to enable him to assign to each member of said bands (who are willing to adopt the pursuit of agriculture) eighty acres of good agricultural lands, the same to be well adapted to agricultural purposes.

Reservations of said Indians to be

Legal subdivisions to be ap

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several tracts of land within the reservations of the said Indians shall be surveyed, surveyed. under the direction of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, into legal subdivisions to conform to the surveys of the other public lands. And the Secretary of the Interior shall cause each legal subdivision of the said lands to be appraised by discreet praised. persons to be appo nted by him for that purpose. And in each instance where there are improvements upon any legal subdivision Improvements. of the said lands the improvements shall be separately appraised. But no portion of the lands shall be subject to pre-emption, settlement, entry, or location, under any act of Congress, unless the pre-emption. party pre-empting, settling upon, or locating any portion of said lands shall pay therefor the full appraised value thereof, including the value of the said improvement, under such regulations as hereinafter provided.

When subject to

After survey lands to be open

ment.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That after the survey of the said reservations the same shall be open to pre-emption, entry, to pre-emption, and settlement in the same manner as other public lands: Pro- entry, and settlevided, That before any person shall be entitled to enter any por- Who may pretion of the said lands by pre-emption, or otherwise, previous to empt, &c. their exposure to sale to the highest bidder, at public outcry, he shall become an actual, bona fide, settler thereon, and shall conform to all the regulations now provided by law in cases of preemption; and shall pay, within the term of one year from the date of his settlement, the full appraised value of the land, and the improvements thereon, to the land officers of the district where the said lands are situated. And the portions of the said reservations which may not be settled upon, as aforesaid, may be sold at sold at public aucpublic auction, as other public lands are sold, after which they shall be subject to sale at private entry, as other public lands of the United States, but no portion thereof shall be sold for a sum less than their appraised value before the first of January, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-five, nor for a less price than one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, until otherwise provided for by law.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the money arising from said sale shall be invested by the Secretary of the Interior for the benefit of said Indians in their new homes, in the establishing them in agricultural pursuits: Provided, That it shall be lawful for said Secretary to locate any meritorious individual Indian of said band, who exerted himself to save the lives of the whites in the late massacre, upon said lands on which the improvements are situated, assigning the same to him to the extent of eighty acres, to be held by such tenure as is or may be provided by law: And provided, further, That no more than eighty acres shall be awarded to any one Indian under this or any other act.

What may be

tion.

Proceeds of sales

of lands, how to

be applied.

Annual appropriations for these

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the money to be annually appropriated for the benefit of the said Indians shall be ex- Indians, how to be pended in such a manner as will, in the judgment of the Secretary expended. of the Interior, best advance the said Indians in agricultural and mechanical pursuits, and enable them to sustain themselves without the aid of the government; but no portion of said appropriations No part to be shall be paid in money to said Indians. And in such expenditure said Secretary may make reasonable discrimination in favor of the chiefs who shall be found faithful to the government of the

paid in money.

favor

chiefs.

subject to laws,

regulations.

Discrimination in United States, and efficient in maintaining its authority and the of loyal peace of the Indians. Said Indians shall be subject to the laws Indians to be of the United States, and to the criminal laws of the State or and to rules and Territory in which they may happen to reside. They shall also be subject to such rules and regulations for their government as They cannot the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe; but they shall be incapable of making any valid civil contract with any person other than a native member of their tribe without the consent of the President. The Secretary of the Interior shall also make reasonable provisions for the education of said Indians, according to their capacity and the means at his command. Approved March 3, 1863.

make a valid civil contract, &c.

Education.

March 3, 1863.

CHAPTER CXX.

AN ACT to provide for the collection of abandoned property and for the prevention of frauds in insurrectionary districts within the United States.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of Special agents to the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall receive and collect be lawful for the Secretary of the Treasury, from and after the tured property in passage of this act, as he shall from time to time see fit, to appoint

abandoned or cap

certain States.

Proviso.

Such property

may be appropria

or sold at public

a special agent or agents to receive and collect all abandoned or captured property in any State or Territory, or any portion of any State or Territory, of the United States, designated as in insurrection against the lawful government of the United States by the proclamation of the President of July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two: Provided, That such property shall not include any kind or description which has been used, or which was intended to be used, for waging or carrying on the war against the United States, such as arms, ordnance, ships, steamboats, or other water craft, and the furniture, forage, military supplies, or munitions of

war.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That any part of the goods ted to public use, or property received or collected by such agent or agents may be auction in loyal appropriated to the public use on due appraisement and certificate thereof, or forwarded to any place of sale within the loyal States, as the public interest may require; and all sales of such property shall be at auction to the highest bidder, and the proceeds thereof shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States.

States.

Bond of special

agents.

Books to kept.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury may require the special agents appointed under this act to give a bond, with such securities and in such amount as he shall deem necessary, and to require the increase of said amounts, and the strengthening of said security, as circumstances may demand; be and he shall also cause a book or books of account to be kept, showing from whom such property was received, the cost of transOwners of such portation, and proceeds of the sale thereof. And any person claiming to have been the owner of any such abandoned or capcourt of claims. tured property may, at any time within two years after the suppression of the rebellion, prefer his claim to the proceeds thereof Upon what proof in the court of claims; and on proof to the satisfaction of said court of his ownership of said property, of his right to the pro'ceeds thereof, and that he has never given any aid or comfort to the present rebellion, to receive the residue of such proceeds, after

property may sue for proceeds

may recover.

in

the deduction of any purchase money which may have been paid, together with the expense of transportation and sale of said property, and any other lawful expenses attending the disposition thereof.

into loyal States

surrection, except

fiscated.

Proceedings for

sale.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That all property coming, Property coming into any of the United States not declared in insurrection, as from States in inaforesaid, from within any of the States declared in insurrection, through special through or by any other person than any agent duly appointed agents, to be conunder the provisions of this act, or under a lawful clearance by the proper officer of the Treasury Department, shall be confiscated to the use of the government of the United States. And the proceeds for the condemnation and sale of any such property shall be instituted and conducted under the direction of condemnation and the Secretary of the Treasury, in the mode prescribed by the eighty-ninth and ninetieth sections of the act of March second, 1799, ch. 22, §§ seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled "An act to regulate 89, 90. the collection of duties on imports and tonnage." And any agent Vol. i, p. 695. or agents, person or persons, by or through whom such property whom property shall come within the lines of the United States unlawfully, as comes unlawfully aforesaid, shall be judged guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, or imprisoned for any time not exceeding one year, or both, at the discretion of the court. And the fines, penalties, and forfeitures accruing under this act may be mitigated or remitted in the mode prescribed by the act of March three, seventeen hundred and ninety-seven, or in such manner, in special cases, as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the fifth section of the "Act to further provide for the collection of the revenue upon the northern, northeastern, and northwestern frontier, and for other purposes," approved July fourteen, eighteen hundred and sixtytwo, shall be so construed as to allow the temporary officers which have been or may be appointed at ports which have been or may be opened or established in States declared to be in insurrection by the proclamation of the President on the first of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, the same compensation which by law is allowed to permanent officers of the same position, or the ordinary compensation of special agents, as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine.

Persons through

to be punished.

Remission penalties. 1797, ch. 13. Vol. i, p. 506.

of

Pay of special opened in States in insurrection. Ante, p. 572.

agents at ports

1862, ch. 169, § 5.

diers receiving any

the same over to

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty Officers and solof every officer or private of the regular or volunteer forces of such property, or the United States, or any officer, sailor, or marine, in the naval cotton, &c., to turn service of the United States, upon the inland waters of the special agents. United States, who may take or receive any such abandoned property, or cotton, sugar, rice, or tobacco, from persons in such insurrectionary districts, or have it under his control, to turn the same over to an agent appointed as aforesaid, who shall give a receipt therefor; and in case he shall refuse or neglect so to do, Penalty for not he shall be tried by a court-martial, and shall be dismissed from so the service, or, if an officer, reduced to the ranks, or suffer such other punishment as said court shall order, with the approval of the President of the United States.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That none of the provisions of this act shall apply to any lawful maritime prize by the naval forces of the United States.

Approved March 12, 1863.

doing.

This not to aptime prizes.

ply to lawful mari

Dec. 18, 1862.

Superintendent

of public printing

RESOLUTIONS.

[No. 1.]

A RESOLUTION for increasing the bond of the Superintendent of Public

Printing.

Whereas the amount of money which can be advanced to the to give bond in Superintendent of the Public Printing, under existing laws, is not sufficient to enable him to meet the current expenditures of his office, therefore

$40,000.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the said superintendent be required to furnish a new bond in the penal sum of forty thousand dollars. Approved December 18, 1862.

Jan. 6, 1863.

Public printer to

contract for litho

maps, &c.

[No. 2.]

A RESOLUTION in relation to certain maps.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, with a graphing, certain view of expediting the issue of the annual report of the General Land Office, the public printer is hereby authorized to contract for the lithographing of the maps of the several States and Territories which may accompany the same, except in regard to the connected map accompanying the last annual report of the public lands east and west of the Mississippi, in regard to which the Commissioner of the General Land Office is hereby authorized to Engraved plate procure an engraved plate thereof, to be perfected by adding from time to time the further surveys that may be made. Approved January 6, 1863.

for other map.

Jan. 13, 1863.

reading-room soldiers.

for

[No. 3.]

JOINT RESOLUTION to grant the use of a portion of Judiciary square for a free library and reading-room for soldiers.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Free library and United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and is hereby, authorized to grant to John A. Fowle and Elida B. Rumsey the use of a portion of the land owned by the United States, and known as "Judiciary square," to erect thereon, free from charge to the United States, a suitable building for a soldiers' free library and reading-room for soldiers: Provided, That the same can be done without pre

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