Chapter CLXXXI. to authorize the President of the United States to negotiate with certain Indians of Middle Oregon for a Relinquishment of certain Rights secured to them by Treaty
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Chap. CLXXXI.— An Act to authorize the President of the United States to negotiate with certain Indians of Middle Oregon for a Relinquishment of certain Rights secured to them by Treaty.June 30, 1864. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* ThatAuthority and appropriation to negotiate a treaty with Indians of Middle Oregon.Vol. xii. p. 963. the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to negotiate with the tribes known as the Confederated Indian Tribes of Middle Oregon, for the relinquishment of certain rights guaranteed to them by the first article of the treaty made with them April eighteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, by which they are permitted to fish, hunt, gather roots and berries, and pasture stock, in common with citizens of the United States, upon the lands and territories of the United States outside their reservations, and to defray the expenses of said treaty, and to pay said Indians for the relinquishment of said rights, that the sum of five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for that purpose.
Approved, June 30, 1864.