Chapter 190.
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CHAP. 190.— An act to amend an act to provide for the sale of a portion of the reservation of the Confederated Otoe and Missouria and the Sac and Fox of the Missouri tribes of Indians in the States of Kansas and Nebraska. March 3, 1879. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section three of the act ofOtoe and Missouria and Sac ann Fox reservation in Kansas.1876, ch. 308,[19 Stat., 208](/us/stat/19/208).
August fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, chapter three hundred and eight, entitled “An act to provide for the sale of a portion of the reservation of the Confederated Otoe and Missouria and the Sac and Fox of the Missouri tribes of Indians”, be, and the same hereby is, amended so as to read, as follows : That after the survey and appraisement of said lands, the SecretaryPortion to be sold. of the Interior shall be, and is hereby, authorized to offer one hundred and twenty thousand acres from the western side of the same for sale, through the United States public land-office at Beatrice, Nebraska, in tracts not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres for cash, to actual settlers, or persons who shall make oath before the register or receiver of the land office at Beatrice, Nebraska, that they intend to occupy the land for authority to purchase which they make application, and who shall within three months from the date of such application make a permanent settlement upon the same, in tracts not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres to each purchaser : *Provided,* That if, in the judgment of*Proviso*.Terms. the Secretary of the Interior, it shall be more advantageous to sell said lauds upon deferred payments, he may, with the consent of the Indians expressed in open council, dispose of the same upon the following terms as to payments, that is to say, one third in cash, one third in one year, and one third in two years from date of sale, with interest at the rate of six per centum per annum: *And provided further,* That no portion of*Proviso*.Price. said land shall be sold at less than the appraised value thereof, and in no case less than two dollars and fifty cents per acre: *And provided further,**Proviso*.Fractional pieces.
That whenever a settler on any of the lands subject to sale under the act to which this is amendatory shall apply to purchase a tract containing a small excess over one hundred and sixty acres, owing to the legal subdivisions being made fractional by boundary-line of reservation, township or section-line his application shall not be rejected on account of such excess ; but, if no other objection exist the purchase shall be allowed as in other cases. *And provided further,* That bona fide claimants*Proviso*.Present occupants. at present occupying lands under the provisions of the act of which this is amendatory may in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior be allowed additional time for making the deferred payments required 472 FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 190, 191, 192. 1879. by said act for the lauds so claimed and occupied by them in good faith, not exceeding one year on each payment so required to be made. Approved, March 3, 1879.