Chapter VII. *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 Minnesota, and for their Domestication and Civilization.* Dec. 19, 1854. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
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Chap. VII.— 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 Minnesota, and for their Domestication and Civilization.* Dec. 19, 1854. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the President be, and he Negotiations authorized to extinguish Chippewa titles in Wisconsin and Minnesota.is hereby, authorized to cause negotiations to be entered into with the Chippewa Indians, for the extinguishment of their title to all the lands owned and claimed by them in the Territory of Minnesota and State of Wisconsin, which treaties shall contain the following provisions, and such others as may be requisite and proper to carry the same into effect:— First.
Granting to each head of a family, in fee simple, a reservation of eighty acres of land, to be selected in the territory ceded, so soon as Terms of treaties authorized.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 treaties, 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 President shall be invested with THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 10, 15. 1854.599power 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 bis 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 execution; and that the act 1884, ch. 161.passed thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, “to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes,” etc., be inoperative over the said ceded territory, except the twentieth section, which prohibits the intro duction and sale of spirituous liquors to Indians.
Fifth. The President shall have power to prescribe and enforce such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the foregoing provisions, as he may deem necessary for the effectual execution of the purposes of this act, which said rules and regulations shall be annually reported to Congress. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That, for the purpose of defraying Appropriation.the expenses of said negotiations, the sum of ten thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, December 19, 1854.