Chapter CXXII. to confirm the Sale of the Reservation held by the Christian Indians, and to provide a permanent Home for said Indians
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Chap. CXXII.— An Act to confirm the Sale of the Reservation held by the Christian Indians, and to provide a permanent Home for said Indians.June 8, 1858. Whereas, by the thirteenth article of a treaty made and concluded atPreamble. Washington on the sixth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, between the United States of America and the Delaware Indians, a grant of four sections of land was made to the Christian Indians, forVol. x. p. 1051. which a patent was to be issued to the said Indians, “subject to such restrictions as Congress may provide;” and whereas a patent was so issued to them on the twenty-first day of May, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven; and whereas it fully appears, by the evidence and papers on file before the Committee on Indian Affairs, that the four sections of land set apart by said treaty was, on the twenty-ninth day of May, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, sold and conveyed by said Christian Indians to one A.
J. Isacks for the consideration of forty-three thousand four hundred dollars, which sum was a fair consideration for said lands: Therefore— *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That upon the payment of theSale of land confirmed to A. J. Isacks, on his paying $43,400. said sum of forty-three thousand four hundred dollars by the said A. J. Isacks to the Secretary of the Interior, for the use and benefit of said Christian Indians, within ninety days from the passage of this act, it shall then be the duty of the President of the United States to confirm said sale.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the Secretary of the InteriorProceeds, how to be applied. be, and he hereby is, authorized and required to receive the proceeds of the sale of the said four sections of land, and apply the same as follows: that is to say, so much thereof as may be necessary to the purchase of a suitable tract of land for a permanent home for the Christian Indians, the erection of the necessary buildings for their accommodation, and the purchase of stock, agricultural implements, and whatever else may be necessary to establish them thereon; the balance of the said fund to be invested by the Secretary of the Interior in safe and profitable stocks, the interest whereof shall be applied to the support of a school among the said Christian Indians.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That, whenever the Christian IndiansLand bought, as by preceding section, to be divided among the Indians when they desire.Proviso. desire it, the tract purchased under the provisions of the preceding section shall be divided among them, under the direction of the President of the United States, to be held in severally and with all the rights incident to a fee-simple estate: *Provided,* That the said tracts, when so divided, shall be forever inalienable by the grantees or their heirs, except with the consent and approval of the President of the United States.
Approved, June 8, 1858.