Chapter CCCXXV. to quiet the Title to certain Lands in Dakota Territory
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CHAP. CCCXXV.— An Act to quiet the Title to certain Lands in Dakota Territory.June 7, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That it shall be the duty of theTitle of certain Sioux Indians to certain land in Dakota Territory to be inquired into.Vol. xv. p. 506. Secretary of the Interior to examine and report to Congress what title or interest the Sisseton and Wahpeton bands of Sioux Indians have to any portion of the land mentioned and particularly described in the second article of the treaty made and concluded with said bands of Indians on the nineteenth day of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and afterward amended, ratified, and proclaimed on the second day of May, of the same year, or by virtue of any other law or treaty whatsoever, excepting such rights as were secured to said bands of Indians by the third and fourth articles of said treaty, as a “permanent reservation;” and whether any, and, if any, what, compensation ought, in justice and equity,Equitable compensation. to be made to said bands of Indians, respectively, for the extinguishment of whatever title they may have to said lands.
Approved, June 7, 1872.