Chapter CCLIX. *to transfer to the Department of the Interior certain Powers and Duties now exercised by the Secretary of the Treasury in Connection with Indian Affairs.* July 27, 1868. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the powers
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Chap. CCLIX.— An Act *to transfer to the Department of the Interior certain Powers and Duties now exercised by the Secretary of the Treasury in Connection with Indian Affairs.* July 27, 1868. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the powers and duties devolving The supervisory and appellate powers as to Indian affairs, &c. now vested in the Secretary of the Treasury, to be exercised by the Secretary of the Interior. 1848, ch. 118, § 4.
Vol. ix. p. 264.upon the Secretary of the Treasury, under and by virtue of the fourth section of the act entitled “An act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with the various Indian tribes for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, and for other purposes,” approved July twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, and the powers and duties devolving upon him under and by virtue of the laws relating to the investment of the moneys in behalf of the Cherokee Indians, from the sales of land under the treaties concluded at Pontotoc, Vol. vii. p. 385.
Vol. vii. p. 454.October twentieth, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, and at Washington City, May twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, as also all other supervisory and appellate powers and duties in regard to Indian affairs, which may now by law be vested in the said Secretary of the Treasury, shall from and after the passage of this act be exercised and performed by the Secretary of the Department of the Interior. Census to be taken of Eastern Cherokees, on which payments shall be made.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the Secretary of the Interior shall cause a new roll or census to be made of the North Carolina or Eastern Cherokees, which shall be the roll upon which payments due said Indians shall be made. Commissioner of Indian affairs to supervise Eastern Cherokees. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That hereafter the Secretary of the Interior shall cause the commissioner of Indian affairs to take the same supervisory charge of the Eastern or North Carolina Cherokees as of other tribes of Indians.
Approved, July 27, 1868.