Chapter 288. For the relief of Kate Eberle, an Indian woman
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CHAP. 288.— An Act For the relief of Kate Eberle, an Indian woman. May 30, 1896. Whereas Kate Eberle, an Indian woman of the Sac tribe, Preamble.when a child of six or seven years of age, was separated from that Indian nation in its Hight after the defeat of Black Hawk in the battle of Bad Axe, in eighteen hundred and thirty-two, and was thereby prevented from receiving her pro rata share by virtue of several treaties made between the United States Government and the Sac and Fox tribe of Indians subsequent to the period of the Black Hawk war, in eighteen hundred and thirty-two; and Whereas she was an Indian, poor, and ignorant of the English language and the laws and treaties of the United States, and incapable of bringing herself within the protection of the treaty of eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, wherein it was provided “That those who did not rejoin and permanently reunite themselves with the tribe within one year from the date of the ratification of said treaty should not be entitled to any of the benefits of its provisions”:
Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Kate Eberle.Payment to.That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, required to pay to the said Kate Eberle, her heirs and representatives, the sum of six hundred and seventy-two dollars and eight cents out of the trust fund held and credited by the Government to that tribe of Indians, the same being the approximately estimated cash value rightfully due the said Kate Eberle instead of her pro rata share of the provision in land or otherwise made by the Government according to said treaties, which would have accrued to her had she remained with the Sac tribe.
Approved, May 30, 1896.