Chapter 59. to enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay certain creditors of the Pottawattomie Indians out of the funds of said Indians
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CHAP. 59.— An Act to enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay certain creditors of the Pottawattomie Indians out of the funds of said Indians.April 4, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,E. John Ellis.To be paid from appropriation for Pottawattomie Indians.Vol. 24, p. 272. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of moneys appropriated for the Pottawattomie Indians by the act of August third, eighteen hundred and eighty-six. entitled “An act making appropriations to supply deficiencies,” and so forth, a sum not exceeding three thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars, being ten per centum of the amount or proportion of said appropriation due the Citizens’ band of Pottawattomie Indians, to E.
John Ellis, for professional service rendered said Citizens’ band in the collection of said claim: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the*Proviso*.Proof of good faith required. Interior shall first determine that the said services were rendered to said Indians by said Ellis, and were contracted for in good faith by persons authorized to represent said Indians. Approved, April 4, 1888.