Feb. 17, 1873. tory attached to supplies, to report to the Indian bureau the number of Indians present and actually receiving the same; said reports to be embodied by the Indian commissioner in his annual report. APPROVED, February 14, 1873. CHAP. CXLVII. — An Act to readjust the western Boundary of Dakota Territory. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Certain portion States of America in Congress assembled, That all that portion of Dakota of Dakota Terri- Territory lying west of the one hundred and eleventh meridian of lonMontana Terri-gitude which, by an erroneous definition of the boundaries of said Territory by a former act of Congress, remains detached and distant from Dakota proper some two hundred miles, be, and the same is hereby, attached to the adjoining territory of Montana. tory. APPROVED, February 17, 1873. Feb. 17, 1873. CHAP. CXLVIII. bia. Penalty. · An Act prohibiting Gift Enterprises in the District of Columbia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Gift enterprises States of America, in Congress assembled, That so much of the act of the prohibited District of Colum-legislative assembly of the District of Columbia, entitled "An act imposing a license on trades, business, and professions practiced or carried on in the District of Columbia," approved August twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, as authorizes gift enterprises therein and licenses to be issued therefor, is disapproved and repealed; and hereafter it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to engage in said business in any manner as defined in said act or otherwise; and any person or persons so doing, on conviction thereof in the police court of said District, on information filed for and on behalf of said District, in the manner provided for in the sixteenth section of the act creating the police court in said District, for the enforcement of laws or ordinances of the late corporations of Washington, Georgetown, and the levy court, shall pay a fine of not exceeding one thousand dollars, or be imprisoned in the jail of said District for a period of not less than one nor more than six months, or both, in the discretion of the court: Provided, That any party deeming himself aggrieved by the judgment of said court may appeal therefrom to the criminal court of said District, in the manner provided for in other cases of convictions in the said police court, and the judgment of said criminal court shall be final. Appeal. Feb. 17, 1873. of public lands legalized. 1854, ch. 244. Vol. x. p. 574. APPROVED, February 17, 1873. CHAP. CXLIX. — An Act to confirm certain Entries of Lands therein named. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Certain entries States of America, in Congress assembled, That all entries of public lands under the act to graduate and reduce the price of the public lands subject to entry to actual settlers and cultivators, approved the fourth day of August, eighteen hundred and fifty-four; made prior to the passage of this act, in which the purchaser has made the affidavit and paid, or tendered, the purchase-money as required by said act, and the instructions issued and in force, and in the hands of the register at the time of making said entry, are hereby legalized, and patents shall issue to the parties, respectively, provided that in case of tender the money shall be paid, excepting those entries under said act which the commissioner of the general land office may ascertain to have been fraudulently or evaEntries hereto- sively made: Provided, That this act shall not be so construed as to fore annulled not confirm any of said entries which have heretofore been annulled and vacated by said commissioner on account of fraud, evasion of law, or other special cause: And provided further, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to deprive any actual settler and cultivator of Patents. confirmed. Rights of actual settlers. fund. sixty-three, now invested or in the custody of the Secretary of the Inte- be retained as a rior, shall be retained by the Secretary of the Interior as a permanent permanent trusttrust-fund, on which shall be paid to said Indians, semi-annually, interest at the rate of five per centum per annum: Provided, That the consent of Proviso. said Indians shall first be given to the foregoing provision. Indian in duties. Examination of agencies. Books, papers, &c. SEC. 6. That there shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a sufficient number of Indian spectors to be appointed; inspectors, not exceeding five in number, to perform the duties herein required. Each inspector shall hold his office for four years, unless term of office; sooner removed by the President, and he shall receive an annual salary salary, &c.; of three thousand dollars and his necessary travelling expenses, not exceeding ten cents a mile for actual travel while in the discharge of his duty, a statement of which expenses as to each inspector shall accompany the annual report of the Secretary of the Interior. Each Indian superintendency and agency shall be visited and examined as often as twice a year by one or more of the inspectors. Such examination shall extend to a full investigation of all matters pertaining to the business of the superintendency or agency, including an examination of accounts, the manner of expending money, the number of Indians provided for, contracts of all kinds connected with the business, the condition of the Indians, their advancement in civilization, the extent of the reservations, and what use is made of the land set apart for that purpose, and, generally, all matters pertaining to the Indian service. For the purpose of making such investigations, each inspector shall have power to examine all books, papers, and vouchers, to administer oaths, and to examine on oath all officers and persons employed in the superintendency or agency, and all such other persons as he may deem necessary or proper. The inspectors, or any one of them, shall have power to suspend Any inspector any superintendent or agent or employé, and to designate some person in may suspend any superintendent, his place temporarily, subject to the approval of the President, making &c. immediate report of such suspension and designation; and, upon the conclusion of each examination, a report shall be forwarded to the President without delay. The inspectors, in the discharge of their duties, Enforcement jointly and individually, shall have power, by proper legal proceedings, legal proceedof the laws by which it shall be the duty of the district-attorney of the United States ings. for the appropriate district duly to effectuate, to enforce the laws, and to prevent the violation of law in the administration of affairs in the several agencies and superintendencies. So far as practicable, the examinations of the agencies and superintendencies shall be made alternately by different inspectors, so that the same agency or superintendency may not be examined twice in succession by the same inspector or inspectors: Provided, That after the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and seventy- ents of Indian three, the offices of four of the superintendents of Indian affairs, and of affairs abolished the clerks of such superintendents are hereby abolished, and the amount after, &c. herein before appropriated for salaries of said officers, or so much thereof Alternate examinations. Certain offices of superintend Proviso. as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to pay the salaries and Remaining su travelling expenses of said inspectors, and the President may assign the perintendents remaining four superintendents to jurisdiction over such agencies as he &c., or dispensed may be assigned, may deem proper, or, in his discretion, dispense with any, or all, of the with. said superintendents and their clerks: Provided, That there shall not be paid or allowed to any person whatever any fees or reward for services in connection with the subject-matter referred to in the third section of this act, either on account of the United States, or of the Choctaws, until further action of Congress in the matter, and providing for such allowance and payment. Number of SEC. 7. That whenever by the terms of this act the issue of food, clothing, or supplies of any kind is provided for, it shall be the duty of Indians present and receiving the agent or commissioner issuing the same, at such issue thereof, whether food, &c., to be it be both of food and clothing, or either of them, or of any kind of reported." supplies, to report to the Indian bureau the number of Indians present and actually receiving the same; said reports to be embodied by the Indian commissioner in his annual report. APPROVED, February 14, 1873. Feb. 17, 1873. CHAP. CXLVII. - An Act to readjust the western Boundary of Dakota Territory. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Certain portion States of America in Congress assembled, That all that portion of Dakota of Dakota Terri- Territory lying west of the one hundred and eleventh meridian of lonMontana Terri-gitude which, by an erroneous definition of the boundaries of said Territory by a former act of Congress, remains detached and distant from Dakota proper some two hundred miles, be, and the same is hereby, attached to the adjoining territory of Montana. tory attached to tory. bia. APPROVED, February 17, 1873. Feb. 17, 1873. CHAP. CXLVIII. Penalty. · An Act prohibiting Gift Enterprises in the District of Columbia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Gift enterprises States of America, in Congress assembled, That so much of the act of the prohibited in the District of Colum- legislative assembly of the District of Columbia, entitled “An act imposing a license on trades, business, and professions practiced or carried on in the District of Columbia," approved August twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, as authorizes gift enterprises therein and licenses to be issued therefor, is disapproved and repealed; and hereafter it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to engage in said business in any manner as defined in said act or otherwise; and any person or persons so doing, on conviction thereof in the police court of said District, on information filed for and on behalf of said District, in the manner provided for in the sixteenth section of the act creating the police court in said District, for the enforcement of laws or ordinances of the late corporations of Washington, Georgetown, and the levy court, shall pay a fine of not exceeding one thousand dollars, or be imprisoned in the jail of said District for a period of not less than one nor more than six months, or both, in the discretion of the court: Provided, That any party deeming himself aggrieved by the judgment of said court may appeal therefrom to the criminal court of said District, in the manner provided for in other cases of convictions in the said police court, and the judgment of said criminal court shall be final. Appeal. Feb. 17, 1873. Certain entries of public lands APPROVED, February 17, 1873. CHAP. CXLIX. An Act to confirm certain Entries of Lands therein named. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That all entries of public lands under the act to graduate and reduce the price of the public lands subject to entry to actual settlers and cultivators, approved the fourth day of Vol. x. p. 574. August, eighteen hundred and fifty-four; made prior to the passage of this act, in which the purchaser has made the affidavit and paid, or tendered, the purchase-money as required by said act, and the instructions issued and in force, and in the hands of the register at the time of making said entry, are hereby legalized, and patents shall issue to the parties, respectively, provided that in case of tender the money shall be paid, excepting those entries under said act which the commissioner of the general land office may ascertain to have been fraudulently or evaEntries hereto- sively made: Provided, That this act shall not be so construed as to fore annulled not confirm any of said entries which have heretofore been annulled and vacated by said commissioner on account of fraud, evasion of law, or other special cause: And provided further, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to deprive any actual settler and cultivator of Patents. confirmed. Rights of actual settlers. his right to any land on which he resided at the time of an entry by CHAP. CL.- An Act for the Erection of a public Building for the Use of the United Feb. 17, 1873. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- Building to be yhe, and hereby is, authorized and directed to cause to be constructed built at Covington, Ky., for a suitable brick in with a fire-proof brick vault extending to each courts and govstory in the city of Covington, etcky, for the accommodation of the erniment offices United States circuit and district courts, post-office, and other government offices; and the sum of one hundred and thirty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for the purpose aforesaid, out of any money in Appropriation. the treasury not otherwise appropriated, of which not more than thirty thousand dollars shall be used in payment for the site; and the Secretary mates. Money not to be used until of the Treasury shall cause the proper plans and estimates to be made, Plans and estiso that no expenditures shall be made or authorized, for the full completion of said building, beyond the sum herein appropriated: Provided, That no money hereby appropriated shall be used or expended until a valid title to the land for a site, independent and unexposed to danger jurisdiction is from fire in adjacent buildings, shall be vested in the United States, nor ceded and the until the State of Kentucky shall cede its jurisdiction over the same, and right to tax also duly release and relinquish to the United States the right to tax or in any way assess said site, or the property of the United States that may be thereon, during the time that the United States shall be or remain the owner thereof. APPROVED, February 17, 1873. CHAP. CLIX. An Act in Relation to mineral Lands. released. Feb. 18, 1873. Mines of iron mineral lands in consin, not in Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That within the States hereinafter named deposits or mines of iron and coal be, and they are hereby, and coal and excluded from the operations of an act entitled "An act to promote the Michigan, Mindevelopment of the mining resources of the United States," approved May nesota, and Wistenth eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and said act shall not apply to cluded in act the mineral lands situate and being within the States of Michigan, Wis- 1872, ch. 152, consin, and Minnesota, and that said lands are hereby declared free and ante, p. 91. open to exploration and purchase, according to the legal subdivisions thereof, as before the passage of said act; and that any bona-fide entries Bona-fide of such lands within said States, since the passage thereof, may be patented without reference to the provisions of said act. APPROVED, February 18, 1873. CHAP. CLX.-An Act creating an additional Land District in the Territory of Arizona. may be entries Feb. 18, 1873. Gila land dis established. Boundaries. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That all that portion of the Territory of Arizona embraced in the following-described limits, to wit: trict in Arizona commencing at the eastern boundary of the Territory, at the intersection of the first standard line north; and running thence west on that line to the western boundary of the Territory; thence south with said boundary line to the southern boundary of the Territory; thence east on said line to the eastern boundary of the eastern boundary of the Territory; and thence Lorth on said line to the place of beginning, shall constitute a separate land district, to be called the Gila land district, the office of which shall Land office. be located at such place in said district as the President of the United States may direct, which may be changed from time to time as the public interest may require. VOL. XVII. PUB - 30 Register and receiver. their residence, powers, and pay. SEC. 2. That the President shall appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate or in the recess of the Senate, a register an receiver of public moneys for said district; and said officers shall resi the place where said land office is located; and they shall have the same powers, perform the same duties, and receive the same emoluments as are, may be prescribed by law in relation to land offices of the United States 1 other Territories. ཉ་འ APPROVED, Fel.uary 18, 1873. Τι Feb. 19. 1373. CHAP. CLXVI. - An Act to provide for obtaining Information of the Coon of Banks Comptroller of the currency to report annually to Congress the con dition of State banks, &c.; may employ an additional organized under Laws. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That it shall be duty of the comptroller of the currency to report annually to Congress, under appropriate heads, the resources and liabilities, exhibiting the condition of the banks, banking companies, and savings-banks organized under the laws of the several States and Territories, such information to be obtained by the comptroller from the reports made by such banks, banking companies, and savings-banks to the legislatures or officers of the different States and Territories. And where such reports cannot be obtained, the deficiency shall be supplied from such other authentic sources as may be available. SEC. 2. That, in order to carry the provisions of the first section of this act into effect, the comptroller of the currency is hereby authorized, clerk if necessary. if it should be necessary, to employ one clerk of class four, who shall be appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury in the manner now provided by law. APPROVED, February 19, 1873. Feb. 19, 1873. CHAP. CLXVII. Certain settlers upon and occupants of certain New York Indian lands in Kansas may purchase them. Value, how ascertained Patents. Entries to be made within two years. Purchase money to be held in trust for the Indians, &c. - An Act to provide for the Sale of certain New York Indian Lands in Kansas. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That those persons being heads of families or single persons over twenty-one years of age who have made settlement and improvement upon, and are bona-fide claimants of, and Occupants of, either in person or by tenants, the lands in Kansas which were allotted to certain New York Indians, and for which certificates of allotment, dated the fourteenth day of September, eighteen hundred and sixty, for three hundred and twenty acres of land each were issued to thirty-two of said Indians, shall be, and hereby are, authorized and permitted to enter and purchase at the proper land-office said lands so occupied by them, in tracts not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres, according to the government surveys, on paying therefor in lawful money of the United States the appraised value of said tracts respectively, to be ascertained by three disinterested and competent appraisers, to be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, who shall examine in person each tract and report under oath its value, exclusive of improvements; and patents shall issue to them therefor as in other cases, but no sale shall be made under this act for less than three dollars and seventy-five cents per acre; and the Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe such regulations as may be necessary to carry this act into effect according to the intent thereof, and such entries shall be made within two years from the time such regulations shall be promulgated, and the moneys that shall arise from such sales shall be paid into the treasury of the United States, in trust for, and to be paid to, said Indians respectively, to whom said certificates were issued, or to their heirs, upon satisfactory proof of their identity to the Secretary of the Interior, at any time within five years from the passage of this act; and in case such proof is not made within the time specified, then the proceeds of such sales, or so much thereof as shall not have been paid under the provisions of this act, shall become a part of the public |