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55TH CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIV ES. REPORT
3d Session. No. 1660.
CHIPPEWA INDIANS, MINNESOTA.
DECEMBER 6, 1898.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Mr. EDDY, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted the
following
REPORT.
[To accompany H. R. 1885.]
The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the bill
(H. R. 1885) to amend An act entitled 'An act for the relief and civili-
zation of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota,' approved
January 14, 1889, have had the same under consideration and report
as follows:
This bill was referred by the Committee on Indian Affairs to the Sec-
retary of the Interior for his opinion and advice in respect to the same.
His response thereto is hereto attached and made a part of this report,
including a letter from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. The sub-
stance of the Secretary's recommendation is that he recommends the
adoption of the following substitute' for the foregoing bill, to wit:
A BILL to provide for allotments to Indians on White Earth Reservation in Minnesota.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America
in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby,
authorized to allot to each Chippewa Indian now legally residing upon the White
*Earth Reservation under treaty with or laws of the United States, in accordance with
the express promises made to them by the commissioners appointed under the act of
Congress entitled An act for the relief and civilization of the Chippewa Indians in
the State of Minnesota, approved January fourteenth, eighteen hundred and
eighty-nine, and to those Indians who may remove to the said reservation who are
entitled to take an allotment under article seven of the treaty of April eighteenth,
eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, between the United States and the Chippewa
Indians of the Mississippi, one hundred and sixty acres of land; and said allotments
shall be made, and patents issued therefor, in the same manner, and having the
same effect, as is provided in the general allotment act entitled An act to amend
and further extend the benefits of the act approved February eighth, eighteen hun-
dred and sixty-seven, entitled 'An act to provide for the allotment of land in sev-
eralty to Indians on the various reservations, and to extend the protection of the
commissioners of the United States over the Indians, and for other purposes,'
approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one: Provided, That
any allotments of less than one hundred and sixty acres heretofore made and not
accepted by the Indians may be canceled by the Secretary of the Interior and new
allotments of one hundred and sixty acres to each Indian entitled thereto may be
issued in lieu of those canceled.
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