Chapter XL. *to provide Payment for Depredations committed by the Whites upon the Shawnee Indians in Kansas Territory.* May 9, 1860. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That for the purpose of paying claims of certain members of the S
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Chap. XL.— An Act *to provide Payment for Depredations committed by the Whites upon the Shawnee Indians in Kansas Territory.* May 9, 1860. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That for the purpose of paying claims of certain members of the Shawnee tribe of Indians, presented to Appropriation to pay the Shawnees in Kansas for wrongs done their property by citizens, &c., of the U. S.Congress, at its present session, for depredations committed upon their property by citizens or inhabitants of the United States, there be, and is hereby, appropriated, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of thirty-six thousand seven hundred and eleven dollars.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the whole or such part of said Claims to be adjusted &c. by the Secretary of the Interior. 1834, ch. 161. Vol. iv. p. 729. Proviso.claims as shall be proved to his satisfaction shall be adjusted and paid, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, under the rules and regulations prescribed in the “Act to regulate trade and intercourse with Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers,” approved June thirty, eighteen hundred and thirty-four: *Provided,* That it shall not be incumbent upon the parties claimant, from the peculiar condition of affairs in the Territory of Kansas at the time the spoliations were committed, to show that the offenders were apprehended and brought to trial.
Approved, May 9, 1860.