Chapter 128.
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CHAP. 128.— AN ACT for the relief of Catharine and Sophia GermainMarch 1, 1879. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Catharine and Sophia Germain.Trust fund for benefit of.Disposition in case of death, etc. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed to reserve from that portion of annuities due, or to become due, to Cheyenne Indians, the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars tor Catharine Germain, aged eighteen years, and two thousand five hundred dollars for Sophia Germain, aged thirteen years, two white children, who were captured in Kansas by said Cheyenne Indians while an route from Georgia to Colorado, and cause the same to be placed to the credit of the said Catharine and Sophia Germain on the books of the Treasury of the United States, to bear interest at the rate of five per centum per annum, and use from time to time the income from the same in such manner as he may deem expedient for their maintenance, education, and support until they attain the age of twenty-one years, when the principal and all unexpended interest shall be paid to them : *Provided,* That if, before attaining the age of twenty-one years, either said Catharine Germain or Sophia Germain should die without issue, the whole sum due the decedent shall revert to the survivor; and should both die without issue, the whole sum shall revert to the United States ; but if either said Catharine Germain or Sophia Germain, or both, have lawful issue, then, at the death of either parent, the amount due to her in her own right, or which she may have inherited, shall become the inheritance of her own issue.
Approved, March 1, 1879.