Chapter 829. to grant a pension to “Muck-a-pec-wak-keu-zah,” or “John,” an Indian who aided in saving the lives of many white people in the Indian outbreak in Minnesota in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-two
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CHAP. 829.— An Act to grant a pension to “Muck-a-pec-wak-keu-zah,” or “John,” an Indian who aided in saving the lives of many white people in the Indian outbreak in Minnesota in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-two.August 9, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Muck-a-pec-wak-keu-zah, or John.Pension. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, directed to place on the pension-roll, at the rate of fifteen dollars per month, the name of Muck-a-pec-wak-keu-zah, or “John”, an Indian of the Dakota or Sioux tribe, now residing near the city of Hastings, in the county of Dakota, in the State of Minnesota, and who rendered valuable services in behalf of the white settlers, and who was instrumental in saving the lives of many white people during the Sioux outbreak and war in the State of Minnesota in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-two. and who then served the United States as a scout, subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws.
Approved, August 9, 1888.