Chapter 245. For the relief of Silas P
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CHAP. 245.— An Act For the relief of Silas P. Keller. February 17, 1897. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Silas P. Keller.Claim for supplies furnished Indians to be examined. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and hereby is, authorized and directed to examine and adjudicate the claim of Silas P. Keller, late licensed Indian trader with the Pottawatomie Indians in Kansas, for supplies furnished said Indian band for their subsistence, and to determine the amount thereof, justly due said Silas P.
Keller, and whether there is any fund belonging to said Indians which can be applied to the payment of such claim, aud, if so determined, then to report and certify the amount found due to said Silas P. Keller, without interest, to be paid from the funds of said Indians to the Secretary of the Treasury, to be so paid by him. Received by the President, February 5, 1897. [Note by the Department of State.—The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.]