Chapter XVI. for the Relief of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
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Chap. XVI.— An Act for the Relief of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.April 11, 1860. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions be, and it hereby is, released fromAmerican Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions released from certain obligations. the obligation imposed on it by the fourth article of the treaty made between the United States and the nation of the Cherokee Indians, at New Echota, on the twenty-ninth day of December, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, which provides that the money allowed for the appraised value of the Union and Harmony Mission reservations, should be expended in schools among the Osages, and improving their condition:
Upon the terms however, and provided, That the said board shall expend the said money for the same purposes, among other tribes not provided adequately with835THIRTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 17, 18, 19, 20. 1860. schools, or means of improving their condition, which may seem proper in the judgment of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior. Approved, April 11, 1860.