Chapter CLXXVII. to and in the Settlement, Subsistence, and Support of the Navajoe Indian Captives upon a Reservation in the Territory of New Mexico
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Chap. CLXXVII.— An Act to and in the Settlement, Subsistence, and Support of the Navajoe Indian Captives upon a Reservation in the Territory of New Mexico.June 30, 1864. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* ThatAppropriation to settle the Navajoe Indians. there be, and hereby is, appropriated, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, for the purpose of settling the Navajoe Indians, now captives in New Mexico, upon a reservation upon the Pecos River, in New Mexico, for the purchase of agricultural implements, seeds, and other articles necessary for such purpose, for breaking the ground, and for subsistence of said Indians to the end of the next fiscal year, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* ThatReservation may be extended, &c. the said reservation may, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, be so extended and enlarged on the south, as to include the entire valley of the Pecos River, known as the Bosqué Grandé, and that the whole of said reservation, so enlarged, shall be designated and known as the Navajoe and Apache reservation, and as such shall, until otherwise ordered by law, be exempt from sale, and free from all occupancy except by the said Indians for the purposes herein mentioned; excepting such portion of the said land as is now occupied by Fort Sumner, or as may be needed for the use of said post.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* ThatSouthern Apache agency abolished, &c. the southern Apache agency of New Mexico is hereby abolished, and that an agent for the Kioway, Apache, and Camanche Indians be appointed, at a salary of fifteen hundred dollars per annum. Approved, June 30, 1864.