Aug. 30, 1852. No. 1837.-AN ACT to create an additional land office in the Territory of MinVol. 10, p. 40. Sauk River stituted. nesota. Be it enacted, &c., That so much of the public lands of the United land district, in States, in the Territory of Minnesota, east of the Mississippi River, and Minnesota, con- west of the range line between ranges twenty-seven and twenty-eight west, and that portion west of the Mississippi River in said Territory, lying north of the nearest township line where the above-mentioned range line intersects the east bank of the Mississippi River, be formed into a land district, to be called the Sauk River district; the land office Location of the for which shall be located at such point as the President may direct, and shall be removed from time to time, to other points within said district, whenever in his opinion it may be expedient. land office. Appointment SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President be and he is hereof officers for by authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the said land disSenate, a register and receiver for said district, who shall respectively trict. be required to reside at the site of said office, and who shall have the same powers, perform the same duties, and be entitled to the same compensation, as are or may be prescribed by law in relation to other land offices of the United States. And in case it shall be found necessary or expedient to establish said district during the recess of Congress, the President shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint the necessary officers during such recess, and until the end of the next session of the Senate of the United States. (a) (a) See Nos. 630, 1833, 1836, 1839, 1849, 1850, 1858, 1884, 1885, 1897, 1899. March 3, 1853. School lands in Proviso. No. 1838.-AN ACT to appropriate lands for the support of schools in certain townships and fractional townships in the Territory of Minnesota, not before provided for. Be it enacted, &c., That in those townships and fractional townships in the Territory of Minnesota where sections numbered sixteen and thirtysix, or either of them, directed to be reserved for school purposes by the eighteenth section of the act approved third of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, entitled "An act to establish the Territorial government of Minnesota," shall be found fractional in quantity, and in those or fractional townships where no section sixteen or thirty-six shall be found therein, there shall be reserved and appropriated other land for such school purposes, to make up, in the first case, the deficiency in the quantity of said fractional sections sixteen and thirty-six, or either of them, and to give, in the second case, an equivalent for the loss of either or both said sections: Provided, That the mode and manner of selection and approval in both cases, and the quantity selected in the second case, shall be in accordance with the principles settled by the act approved twentieth [of] May, eighteen hundred and twentysix, entitled "An act to appropriate lands for the support of schools in certain townships and fractional townships not before provided for.” (a) (a) See Nos. 1834, 1835, 1842, 1851, 1852, 1855, 1856, 1860, 1863. nesota. April 12, 1854. No. 1839.-AN ACT to establish additional land districts in the Territory of Min- Be it enacted, &c., That, for the sale of the public lands to which the land districts Indian title has been extinguished by the recent treaties, or which may created for sale hereafter be extinguished within their limits in the Minnesota Terriof public lands. tory west of the Mississippi River, there is hereby created four additional land districts, bounded as follows, to wit: All that portion situated between the northern boundary of the State of Iowa, and the line which divides townships one hundred and five and one hundred and six of the fifth principal meridian, and extending from the Mississippi to the Big Sioux rivers, shall comprise one of said districts, to be called Root River dis- the Root River district. All that portion lying between the township line last mentioned, and the line dividing townships one hundred and ten, and one hundred and eleven, and between said rivers, shall constiWinona dis-tute another of said districts, to be called the Winona district. trict. trict. All that portion situated north of the district last mentioned, and south of the line which divides townships one hundred and fifteen, and one hundred and sixteen, and between the rivers above mentioned, except the townships recently surveyed west of the Mississippi River from the 1 fourth principal meridian, to include the reservation at Fort Snelling, designated the Red Wing district; and all that portion situated north Red Wing dis of the limits last described, south of the line dividing townships one trict. hundred and twenty and one hundred and twenty-one, between the Mississippi River and the treaty line which runs from the Big Sioux River to Lake Travers, together with all the fractional townships one hundred and twenty-one situated east of the range line dividing ranges twenty-four and twenty-five west, shall comprise the fourth district, to Lands subject be known as the Minneapolis district. And all the residuary portion Minneapolis of said lands situated north of the line which divides townships one district. hundred and twenty and one hundred and twenty-one, and west of range twenty-four west of the fifth principal meridian, and west of the to sale at Sauk Mississippi River, extending to the Drift-Wood and the Red River of the Rapids. North, shall be, and is hereby attached to the district of lands subject to sale at Sauk Rapids. for each district. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United President to States be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint, by and with the appoint a regisadvice and consent of the Senate, a register and receiver of the public ter and receiver moneys for each of the said new districts hereby created, who shall respectively be required to reside at the site of their offices, and who shall have the same powers, perform the same duties, and be entitled Powers, duties, to the same compensation, as are or may be prescribed by law in rela- and compensa tion to other land officers of the United States. (a) tion. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the President is authorized Public lands in to cause the public lands in said districts, with the exception of such as said districts, exhave been or may be reserved for other purposes, to be exposed to sale cept, &c., to be in the same manner and upon the same terms and conditions as the other exposed to sale. public lands of the United States. (b) au SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the President is hereby author- President ized to designate the location of the offices for said new districts, and thorized to rechange the same whenever in his opinion the public good shall require it. (a) (a) See Nos. 630, 1833, 1836, 1837, 1849, 1850, 1858, 1884, 1885, 1897, 1899. move said land offices. No. 1840.—AN ACT to aid the Territory of Minnesota in the construction of a railroad therein. June 29, 1854. railroad. When other Be it enacted, &c., That there be, and is, hereby granted to the Territory Alternate secof Minnesota for the purpose of aiding in the construction of a railroad tions of land from the southern line of said Territory, commencing at a point between granted for township ranges nine and seventeen, thence by the way of St. Paul, by the most practicable route to the eastern line of said Territory in the direction of Lake Superior, every alternate section of land designated by odd numbers for six sections in width on each side of said road within said Territory, but in case it shall appear that the United States have, when the line of said road is definitely fixed by the authority sections may be aforesaid, sold any section or any part thereof granted as aforesaid, or taken in lieu of the alternate that the right of preemption has attached to the same, then it shall be law- ones. ful for any agent or agents to be appointed by the governor of said Territory, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, to select from the lands of the United States nearest to the tier of sections above specified, so much land in alternate sections or parts of sections, as shall be equal to such lands as the United States have sold, or to which the right of preemption has attached as aforesaid, which lands (thus selected in lieu of those sold, and to which preemption has attached as aforesaid, together with the sections or parts of sections designated by odd numbers as aforesaid, and appropriated as aforesaid) shall be held by the Territory of Minnesota for the use and purpose aforesaid: Provided, That the lands Proviso. to be so located shall in no case be further than fifteen miles from the line of the road in each case, and selected for and on account of said road: Provided further, That the lands hereby granted shall be exclu- Further prosively applied in the construction of that road for which it was granted viso. and selected, and shall be disposed of only as the work progresses, and the same shall be applied to no other purpose whatever; And provided Further pro farther, That any and all lands heretofore reserved to the United States viso. 50 L 0-VOL II Price of lands United States. aforesaid. United States. by any act of Congress, or in any other manner by competent authority, for the purpose of aiding in any object of internal improvement, or for any other purpose whatsoever, be, and the same are hereby reserved to the United States from the operation of this act, except so far as it may be found necessary to locate the route of said railroad through such reserved lands, in which case the right of way only shall be granted, subject to the approval of the President of the United States. (a) SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sections and parts of secremaining to the tions of land, which by such grants shall remain to the United States, within six miles on each side of said road, shall not be sold for less than double the minimum price. (b) Lands granted SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said lands hereby granted to be used only to the said Territory shall be subject to the disposal of any legislature for the purposes thereof, for the purpose aforesaid and no other, nor shall they enure to the benefit of any company heretofore constituted and organized, and Railroads to be the said railroad shall be and remain a public highway for the use of free for use of the Government of the United States, free from toll or other charge Government of upon the transportation of any property or troops of the United States, When subject nor shall any of said lands become subject to private entry until the to private entry. same shall have been first offered at public sale at the increased price. Manner in SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the lands hereby granted to which said lands said Territory, shall be disposed of by said Territory only in manner folare to be disposed lowing, that is to say, no title shall vest in the said Territory of Minnesota, nor shall any patent issue for any part of the lands herein before mentioned, until a continuous length of twenty miles of said road shall be completed through the lands hereby granted, and when the Secretary of the Interior shall be satisfied that any twenty miles of said road are completed, then a patent shall issue for a quantity of land not exceeding one hundred and twenty sections, and included within a continuous length of twenty miles of said road, and so from time to time, patents If road not shall be issued in like manner upon the completion of each additional completed in ten twenty miles of said road until it shall be completed, and if said road sold reverts to is not completed within ten years, no further sale shall be made, and United States. the land unsold shall revert to the United States. (a) of by said Territory. years, land un Transportation mail. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the United States mail shall of United States be transported at all times on said railroad under the direction of the PostOffice Department at such price as Congress may by law direct: ProPrice for same. vided, That until such price is fixed by law, the Postmaster-General shall have the power to determine the same. (a) See Nos. 1844, 1853, 1865, 1871, 1872, 1873, 1874, 1875, 1876, 1877, 1878, 1881, 1882, 1886, 1889, 1892, 1896, 1902, 1906, 1911, 1915, 1917. (b) See Nos. 1836, 1839, 1841, 1845, 1847, 1850, 1853, 1856, 1866, 1868, 1869, 1871, 1873, 1874, 1875, 1879, 1880, 1887, 1890, 1895, 1898, 1900, 1901, 1904, 1905, 1909, 1917. July 17, 1854. on West side of River. No. 1841.-AN ACT to authorize the President of the United States to cause to be surveyed the tract of land in the Territory of Minnesota, belonging to the halfbreeds or mixed-bloods of the Dacotah or Sioux nation of Indians, and for other purposes. Authority to Be it enacted, &c., That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized, exchange lands to exchange with the half-breeds or mixed-bloods of the Dacotah or Lake Pepin and Sioux nation of Indians, who are entitled to an interest therein, for the Mississippi tract of land lying on the west side of Lake Pepin and the Mississippi River, in the Territory of Minnesota, which was set apart and granted for their use and benefit, by the ninth article of the treaty of Prarie du Chien, of the fifteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty; and for that purpose he is hereby authorized to cause to be issued to said persons, on the execution by them, or by the legal representatives of such as may be minors, of a full and complete relinquishment by them to the United States of all their right, title, and interest, according to such form as shall be prescribed by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, in and to said tract of land or reservation, certificates or scrip for the same amount of land to which each individual would be entitled in case of a division of the said grant or reservation pro rata among the claimants - which said certificates or scrip may be located upon any of the lands within said reservation not now occupied by actual and bona-fide settlers of the half-breeds or mixed-bloods, or such other persons as have gone into said Territory by authority of law, or upon any other unoccupied lands subject to pre-emption or private sale, or upon any other unsurveyed lands not reserved by Govern ment, upon which they have respectively made improvements: Pro- Proviso. rided, That said certificates or scrip shall not embrace more than six hundred and forty, nor less than forty acres each, and provided that the same shall be equally apportioned, as nearly as practicable, among those entitled to an interest in said reservation: And provided further, That Further prono transfer or conveyance of any of said certificates or scrip shall be viso. valid. (a) issue. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President be, and he is When certifihereby authorized, to cause to be ascertained the number and names of cates or scrip to the half-breeds or mixed-bloods who are entitled to participate in the benefits of the said grant or reservation as aforesaid, before the issue of the certificates or scrip provided for in the preceding section. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passage of this act, the President is authorized to have the lands within the said reserve surveyed (b) and exposed to public sale at the land offices for the districts in which said lands may lie, according to the boundaries of the several land districts recently established by Congress, in the same manner as other public lands. (c) (a) See Nos. 1843, 1848, 1859. (b) See Nos. 1836, 1854, 1869, 1873, 1892. (c) See Nos. 1836, 1839, 1840, 1845, 1847, 1850, 1853, 1856, 1866, 1868, 1869, 1871, 1873, 1874, 1875, 1879, 1880, 1887, 1890, 1895, 1898, 1900, 1901, 1904, 1905, 1909, 1917. No. 1842.—AN ACT authorizing a patent to be issued to Peter Poncin for certain lands therein described. Lands to be surveyed; how exposed to sale. which was can July 27, 1854. Vol. 10, p. 798. Be it enacted, &c., That the entry by Peter Poncin, of the north half Peter Poncin's of the southeast quarter, and the south half of the northeast quarter entry of land, of section thirty-six, in township number twenty-nine, of range twenty- celed, to be so three, in the Stillwater land district, Minnesota, cancelled by the Com- reinstated as to missioner of the General Land Office, be, and the same is hereby, al- give title to his lowed, and reinstated as of the date of said entry, so that the title to grantees. said lands may enure to the benefit of his grantees as far as he may have conveyed the same: Provided, That the money paid for said lands shall not have been withdrawn, or if withdrawn, shall be again paid at said land offices, and that thereupon a patent shall issue in the name of said Peter Poncin for said lands. Proviso. Patent to issue. Certain other lands to be se SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the superintendent of public, schools in said Territory of Minnesota be, and he is hereby, authorized lected for public to select other lands in lieu of said section thirty-six, as far as the same schools. has been granted or sold. (a) (a) See Nos. 1834, 1835, 1838, 1851, 1852, 1855, 1856, 1860, 1863. That the President be authorized to confirm to the Sioux of Minne A reserve confirmed to the sota, forever, the reserve on the Minnesota River now occupied by them, Sioux of Minneupon such conditions as he may deem just. And further, that it be sota. agreed between the United States and the Sioux bands of Indians, that should it, at any time hereafter, be considered by the United States as a proper policy to establish farms among and for the benefit of said Indians, it shall be discretionary with the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to change the annuities herein provided for, or any part thereof, into a fund for that purpose. * * * Sioux half-breeds SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the President be, and he is Reservations of hereby, authorized and required to cause to be fulfilled the stipula- in Minnesota, tions of the ninth and tenth articles of the treaty with the Sacs and and half-breeds Foxes, and other tribes of Indians, concluded on the fifteenth of July, of other tribes in one thousand eight hundred and thirty, by causing said reserved tracts Nebraska, to be to be surveyed and allotted to the persons properly entitled to the same, lotted in fee-sim surveyed and alin fee-simple, in such manner and under such rules and regulations as ple. he may prescribe; and to defray the expenses of the same, there be, and is hereby, appropriated the sum of ten thousand nine hundred and twenty-two dollars and twenty-nine cents. (a) * [NOTE.-Articles 9 and 10 of the treaty mentioned in this act provide for a reservation for Sioux half-breeds in Minnesota, and for Omahas and other half-breeds in Nebraska, vol 7, p. 330.] (a) See Nos. 1841, 1848, 1859. No. 1844.-AN ACT for the relief of Thomas Bronaugh, and for the repeal of the "Act to aid the Territory of Minnesota in the construction of a railroad therein,” approved the twenty-ninth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-four. Act of 1854, SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the bill entitled "An act to aid granting land to the Territory of Minnesota in the construction of a railroad therein," Minnesota for railroads, re- which passed the House of Representatives on the twentieth day of pealed. June, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and which was approved by the President of the United States on the twenty-ninth day of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. (a) sota. (a) See Nos. 1840, 1853, 1865, 1871, 1872, 1873, 1874, 1875, 1876, 1877, 1878, 1881, 1882, 1886, 1889, 1892, 1896, 1902, 1906, 1911, 1915, 1917. Aug. 4, 1854. No. 1845.-AN ACT to extend the right of pre-emption over unsurveyed lands in (a) See Nos. 1836, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1847, 1850, 1853, 1856, 1866, 1868, 1869, 1871, 1873, 1874, Dec. 19, 1854. No. 1846.-AN ACT to provide for the extinguishment of the title of the Chippewa Indians to the lands owned and claimed by them in the Territory of Minnesota, and State of Wisconsin, and for their domestication and civilization. Negotiations Be it enacted, &c., That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized authorized to ex to cause negotiations to be entered into with the Chippewa Indians, tinguish Chippewa titles in Wis- for the extinguishment of their title to all the lands owned and claimed consin and Min- by them in the Territory of Minnesota and State of Wisconsin, which treaties shall contain the following provisi ons, and such others as may be requisite and proper to carry the same into effect: nesota. Terms of trea First. Granting to each head of a family, in fee-simple, a reservation ties authorized. of eighty acres of land, to be selected in the territory ceded, so soon as surveys shall be completed, by those entitled, which said reservations shall be patented by the President of the United States, and the patent therefor shall expressly declare that the said lands shall not be alienated or leased by the reservees, or their heirs and legal representatives, until otherwise ordered by Congress, and no change of location shall be made without the assent of the President of the United States. Second. The annuities to which said Indians are entitled, under existing treat ies, with the consent of said Indians, together with such as may be allowed them for the cession, or cessions, under the provisions of this act, shall be equally distributed and paid them at their villages, or settlements, within the limits of the ceded territory; but the Presi dent shall be invested with power to cause said annuities to be commuted, from time to time, for such articles of goods, provisions, stock, cattle, implements of agriculture, the clearing and fencing of land, and the erection of buildings and other improvements, as, in his discretion, will conduce most to promote their comfort, civilization, and permanent welfare. Third. All the benefits and privileges granted to said Indians shall be extended to and enjoyed by the mixed-bloods belonging to or connected with the tribe, and who shall permanently reside on the ceded lands. Fourth. The laws of the United States and the Territory of Minnesota shall be extended over the Chippewa territory in Minnesota whenever the same may be ceded, and the same shall cease to be "Indian country," except that the lands reserved to said Indians, or other property owned by them, shall be exempt from taxation and execntion; and that the act passed thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and |