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C. Duncanson, W. B. Morgan, and their associates, are hereby created a body politic and corporate by the name of "The Citizens' Building Company of Washington City," and as such may make contracts, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, may have a corporate seal, and may exercise such other powers incident to corporations and usually enjoyed by them, as are requisite to enable them to purchase, take, hold, and convey square three hundred and sixty-three, in Washington City, District of Columbia, and to improve the same by dwelling-houses thereon, and to sell and convey them to stockholders or others, for the benefit of the stockholders: Provided, That the capital stock of the said company shall not exceed three hundred thousand dollars. SEC. 2. That the first meeting of said company shall be holden at the time and place at which a majority of the persons herein before named shall assemble for that purpose, and five days' notice of such meeting shall be given each of said corporators; at which meeting, and at all annual meetings, and at all meetings specially called for that object, said Constitution and company may adopt or amend a constitution, and enact, amend, or by-laws. repeal by-laws regulating the affairs of said company, prescribing the number, character, and duties of their officers and the manner of their election, and providing in all things for the management of the affairs of said company, or for securing its interests and welfare. SEC. 3. Board of direct- That the powers of this corporation shall vest in a board of directors, who shall be chosen as provided by the company's constitution or bylaws, and shall consist of thirteen persons and shall have perpetual succession, each one holding his office until his successor is chosen and qualified: Provided, That until an election by 'the stockholders of said company shall be had in accordance with the constitution and by-laws of said company, the persons herein before named shall Duration of constitute the board of directors of said company. SEC. 4. That when the improvement of said square three hundred and sixty-three shall have been completed, the dwellings sold, and the proceeds distributed to the stockholders in the manner provided by the constitution, then the said company shall cease to exist: Provided That the provisions of the Revised Statutes of the United States relating to the District Liability of offi- of Columbia relating to the liability of the officers and stockholders of cers and stockhold- corporations shall apply to the officers and stockholders of said corporation. SEC. 5. That the corporation hereby created shall have no authority to transact business outside of the District of Columbia and Amendment and Congress may at any time alter amend or repeal this act.

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repeal.

MICHAEL C. KERR
Speaker of the House of Representatives
T. W. FERRY
President of the Senate pro tempore.

Received by the President March 24, 1876.

[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.]

April 5, 1876.

CHAP. 44.-An act to amend the act entitled "An act giving the approval and sanction of Congress to the route and termini of the Anacostia and Potomac River Railroad, and to regulate its construction and operation."

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Anacostia and States of America in Congress assembled, That section two of the act givPotomac River ing the approval and sanction of Congress to the route and termini of Railroad, time for the Anacostia and Potomac River Railroad, approved February eightcompletion extended. eenth eighteen hundred and seventy-five, be, and is hereby, so amended as to extend the time for the completion of said road to six months from

1875, ch. 82, 18 Stat., 328.

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and after the completion of the streets now in process of improvement
along and upon which the chartered rights of the company extend.
SEC 2. That the privilege is hereby granted the company to change
their terminus at Fourteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue west, as
follows: Commencing at intersection of Twelfth street and Ohio avenue
northwest, along and upon Twelfth to D street, along and upon D
street to Fifteenth street, along and upon Fifteenth street west to Penn-
sylvania avenue, near the Treasury gates, being one square west of the
present terminus; also, that the company may extend their road from
the intersection of Twelfth street and Ohio avenue northwest, along and road.
upon Louisiana avenue to the south side of Pennsylvania avenue at a
point opposite Centre Market: Provided, That whenever the street-
pavement may be torn up and travel thereon interfered with by removal restored.
of the track of said road, said company shall, at its own expense, put
such street pavement in as good order as before the laying of the track
thereon. SECTION 3. That Congress may at any time alter, amend or
repeal this act.

MICHAEL C. KERR

Speaker of the House of Representatives
T. W. FERRY

President of the Senate pro-tempore.

Received by the President March 24, 1876.

[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.]

Pavements to be

Amendment and

repeal.

CHAP. 45.-An act to authorize the printing and distribution of the eulogies delivered in Congress on announcement of the death of the late Orris S. Ferry, a Senator from the State of Connecticut.

April 5, 1876.

printed.

Portraits.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That twelve thousand copies of Eulogies on Senthe eulogies delivered in the two Houses of Congress upon the late Orris ator Ferry to be S. Ferry, late United States Senator from Connecticut be printed; four thousand copies for the use of the Senate and eight thousand copies for the use of the House of Representatives; and that the Secretary of the Treasury have printed the portrait of Mr Ferry to accompany the same. And the amount necessary for the engraving and printing the portrait and also the portrait of Andrew Johnson, and the portrait of Henry Wilson, heretofore ordered, be and the same is appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, April 5, 1876.

Appropriation.

CHAP. 46.-An act to supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the manufacture of postal-cards for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventysix.

April 6, 1876.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Appropriation, States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of sixty-two thou- postal-cards. sand three hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the manufacture of postal-cards for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventysix.

Approved, April 6, 1876.

April 6, 1876.

CHAP. 47.-An act to supply a deficiency in the appropriations for certain Indians. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Appropriation, States of America in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of supply. Sioux Indians. ing the "Sioux Indians of different tribes, including the Santee Sioux of Nebraska," with necessary subsistence, namely, beef, bacon, flour and corn, and for the necessary transportation thereof, the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, April 6, 1876.

April 10, 1876.

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CHAP. 50.—An act to suspend the sale of the jail on Judiciary Square and for other

purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Sale of jail on States of America in Congress assembled, That the Chief Engineer of the Judiciary Square Army be and he is hereby directed to suspend the sale of the jail on suspended. Judiciary Square in the city of Washington, and that the same be turned over to the use of the authorities of the District of Columbia, temporarily or until other jail facilities are provided, and that it shall be lawful for the courts of said District of Columbia to order the confinement of prisoners therein.

Uso of jail.

Approved, April 10, 1876.

April 10, 1876.

reservation authorized.

Appraisement.

CHAP. 51.-An act to authorize the sale of the Pawnee Reservation.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Sale of Pawnee States of America in Congress assembled, That with the consent and concurrence of the Pawnee tribe of Indians, expressed in open council in the usual manner, the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause to be appraised and sold the entire reservation set apart for said Indians, in the State of Nebraska, by the provisions of the first article of a treaty with them, concluded September twenty fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, in the following manner: The said Secretary shall appoint three disinterested and competent persons, who, after being duly sworn to perform said service faithfully and impartially, shall personally examine and appraise said lands at their actual cash value, by legal subdivisions of one hundred and sixty acres, separately from the value of any improvements on the same, and shall also examine and appraise the value of said improvements, and make return thereof to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. After the appraisement of said lands as herein provided, the Secretary of the Interior shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to offer the same for sale on the following terms and conditions, to wit: After advertising the time of sale for three months in one newspaper published in each of the cities of New York, Washington, Chicago, Saint Louis, Cincinnati, Columbus, Nebraska, and Omaha, he shall offer the lands at public sale to the highest Terms of pur- bidder for one third cash in hand, the balance in two equal annual payments, drawing interest at the rate of six per centum per annum from the day of sale. Said land shall be sold in separate tracts of one hundred and sixty acres, and none of it shall be sold for less than its appraised value, or for less than two dollars and fifty cents per acre. Said sale to take place at some point in Nebraska as near as may be to said land, to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior. If any person Waste to forfeit shall commit waste or damage upon said lands before full payment purchase. therefor, his rights to the lands purchased by him shall cease, and the same, together with all of said lands not sold at said public sale, shall be sold under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, at private sale, on the same terms and subject to the same conditions as those sold at

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said publie sale: Provided, That said lauds shall not be sold for less
than their appraised value, or for less than two dollars and fifty cents
per acre. And patents in fee-simple shall be issued to the purchasers of
lands under the seals herein provided for upon the payment to the Secre. issued.
tary of the Interior in full of the purchase price of the same: Provided,
That if any of said tracts of land shall contain valuable improvements
thereon, made by or for the Indians, or for Government purposes, said how sold.
improvements may be sold separately from the lands on which they are
situated, or may be sold with the land, as the Secretary of the Interior
may deem best: And provided further, That the second section of the
act of Congress, approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy
two, making provision for the sale of a portion of these lands, be, and
the same is hereby, repealed.

1872, ch. 436, 17 Stat., 391, repealed.

Appropriation.

Subsistence and

SEC. 2. That there be, and hereby is, appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three hundred thousand dollars, out of which not more than one hundred and fifty thousand dollars shall be used in defraying expenses already incurred for the subsistance of said Pawnee tribe of Indians, and for their removal to the Indian Territory, and other necessary expenses connected removal of Pawwith their establishment and settlement therein: Provided, That the nees. accounts for said expenses heretofore incurred shall not be paid until Accounts for after they have been examined and approved by the Secretary of the past expenditures. Interior, who is directed to settle said expenses upon principles of equity and justice as between the claimants and the Indians. And the residue Application of of said three hundred thousand dollars after the payment of expenses residue of approheretofore incurred shall be applied to defray the expenses of appraise- priation. ment and sale of the lands referred to in the first section of this act, and to the settlement of said Indians, and to their further subsistence, until they can become self-sustaining, and also in the purchase of agricultural implements and live stock, and in establishing and supporting schools, and for other beneficial objects including expenditures made for the above mentioned purposes during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six; said sums to be available for the purposes herein before specified immediately after the approval of this act: Provided, That the said three hundred thousand dollars herein appropriated shall be reimbursed to the United States out of the of appropriation. funds arising from the sale of the lands described in the first section of this act: And provided also, That so much of the residue of the three hundred thousand dollars aforesaid as may be needed for the immediate necessities of the aforesaid Pawnee Indians may be expended in the purchase of supplies therefor in open market.

Re-imbursement

Purchase of immediate supplies.

Surplus of pro

SEC. 3. That any surplus that may remain from the proceeds of the sale of the lands described in said first section, after the reimbursement ceeds of sale, how to the United States of said sum of three hundred thousand dollars, and invested and applied. after the purchase of a suitable reservation in the Indian Territory for the Pawnee tribe of Indians, shall be placed to the credit of said Indians on the books of the Treasury of the United States, and bear interest at a rate not to exceed five per centum per annum, payable semi annually, except such portion thereof as the Secretary of the Interior, with the approval of the President of the United States, may deem necessary to be expended for their immediate use for subsistence or other beneficial objects.

New reservation

SEC. 4. That the following described reservation in Indian Territory be, and the same is hereby, set apart for the use and occupation of the for Pawnees. Pawnee tribe of Indians, namely: All that tract of country between the Cinuarron and Arkansas Rivers embraced within the limits of townships twenty one, twenty two, twenty three, and twenty-four north, of range four east, townships eighteen, nineteen, tweuty, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty three, and twenty-four north, of range five east, townships eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two, and twenty-three north, of range six east of the Indian meridian: Provided, That the terms of the sixteenth article of the Cherokee treaty of July nineteenth,

14 Stat., 804.

eighteen hundred and sixty-six, shall be complied with so far as the same may be applicable, thereto; And provided further, That the sum Payment to Cher- to be paid to the Cherokees by the Pawnees for such quantity of the

okees.

14 Stat., 785.

Allotments to

etc.

Certificates.

land herein described as may be within the limits of the Cherokee country west of the ninety-sixth meridian of west longitude shall not exceed seventy cents per acre: And provided also, That the portion of the reservation herein described lying within the territory ceded to the United States by the third article of the Creek treaty of June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, shall be paid for by said Pawnees at the rate of thirty cents per acre.

SEC. 5. That the Secretary of the Interior shall cause to be made to heads of families, each head of a family or single person over twenty-one years of age belonging to said Pawnee tribe, and residing upon said reserve, who shall so elect, an allotment within said reservation, of one hundred and sixty acres of land, as near as may be, to be governed by the lines of public survey; and upon the approval of the Secretary of the Interior of such allotments, certificates shall be issued therefor by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs: Provided, That whenever it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Interior that any allottee has occupied and cultivated any portion of his or her allotment for the period of five successive years, and has at least twenty-five acres of the same fenced and in crop, such allottee shall be entitled to receive Patents, when a patent for his or her allotment, with the condition that the same shall issned, and condi- not be aliened or conveyed within fifteen years from the date thereof, and then only with the consent of the Secretary of the Interior and under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe.

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Approved, April 10, 1876.

April 10, 1876.

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CHAP. 52.-An act to incorporate the Georgetown and Tennallytown Railroad Company.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Richard W. Carter, Major A. Nicholson, B. K. Swart, A. P. Fardon, Lewis D. Means, Isaiah Shoemaker, Joseph Weaver, Morris Addler, Jacob H. Kengla, John T. Varnell, James Hoffman, Samuel D. Linu, Philip Brooke, Charles Becker, Josiah Dent, and their associates and assigns, are created a body corporate under the name of the Georgetown and Tennallytown Railroad company, with authority to construct and lay down a single railwaytrack, with the necessary switches, and turn-outs, in the city of Georgetown and the county of Washington, in the District of Columbia, commencing at the corner of High and Bridge streets, Georgetown, along High street to Fourth street, along Fourth street to Fayette street, along Fayette street to High street, and to its intersection with the Georgetown and Rockville turnpike road, and along said road to Tennally town, with the privilege of extending the said railroad from Tennallytown (along the public road leading to Rockville) as far as the northern boundary line of the District of Columbia. The track shall be laid in the best manner, to be approved by the Secretary of the Interior, and shall be laid on the west side of the turnpike road leading from Georgetown to Tennallytown, so as not to interfere with the centre, or travel, of said road used by the turnpike company, with the right to run public carriages on the road hereby authorized, drawn by horse-power, receiving therefor a rate of fare not exceeding teu cents per passenger for any distance between the termini of said railroad.

SEC. 2. That the said road shall be deemed real estate, and, together with the other real estate and personal property of said company, shall be liable to taxation.

SEC. 3. That the said company shall conform to the grade of the streets and roads in laying rails thereon; and the said company shall keeps its track well paved aud in good repair. Nothing in this act shall

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