Chapter 467. Confirming two locations of Chippewa half-breed scrip in the State (then Territory) of Utah
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CHAP. 467.— An Act Confirming two locations of Chippewa half-breed scrip in the State (then Territory) of Utah. February 23, 1901. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Locations of certain Chippewa half-breed scrip in Utah confirmed. That the locations of the following scrip, namely, that known as Chippewa half-breed scrip numbered three hundred and seventeen for eighty acres, in the name of Antonie La Pierre, and that known as Chippewa half-breed scrip numbered three hundred and twenty-two for eighty acres, in the name of Antonie Bagage, issued by the Commissioner of the General Land Office under the Act of Congress approved December nineteenth,Vol. 10, p. 598. eighteen hundred and fifty-four (ratifying and giving effect to the802 treaty of September thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, with the tribe of Indians known as the Chippewas of Lake Superior, whereby certain territory was ceded to the United States, and granting to each head of a family of such tribe, in fee simple, a reservation of eighty acres of land, to be selected in the territory ceded by said treaty, situate within the States of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, and extending like benefits and privileges to the mixed bloods belonging to or connected with such tribe, who should permanently reside upon the ceded lands), made February ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, respectively, upon the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter and the northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section twenty-three, and upon the south half of the southeast quarter of said section twenty-three, in township one north, of range one west, in the Salt Lake City land district, in the Territory (now State) of Utah, and the patents issued by the land department January twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, in the names of said scrippees, respectively, for the lands embraced by said scrip locations, be, and the same are hereby, ratified and confirmed, and the title to said lands is hereby confirmed, in said patentees and their transferrees, immediate or remote, to the same extent as though said patents had been in all respects valid when issued.
Approved, February 23, 1901.