Chapter CDXLIX. *to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to settle the Claims of Messrs
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CHAP. CDXLIX.— An Act *to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to settle the Claims of Messrs. Durfee and Peck and E. H. Durfee for Supplies furnished the Indians in Montana in the Winter of eighteen hundred and sixty-nine—* March 3, 1873. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Interior Claims of Durfee and Peck and E. H. Durfee to be settledbe, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to settle, upon such terms as he shall think just and proper, all claims of Messrs.
Durfee and Peck and E. H. Durfee, late Indian agents, for supplies furnished the Crows, Gros Ventres, Assinaboines, and other Indians of Montana Territory, in the winter of eighteen hundred and sixty-nine upon the recommendation of the Honorable James Tufts acting governor of said Territory, and ex-officio superintendent of Indian affairs: *Provided,* That he shall be satisfied as to the quantity of supplies so furnished, and the amount shall not exceed thirteen thousand four hundred and forty dollars and seventy-three cents, which sum shall be in full of all claims against the government.
Approved, March 3, 1873.