April 6, 1876. Sioux Indians. 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 supplying 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. Post, p. 224. 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. Use 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 Advertisement. chase. Subdivisions. Place of sale. Selling price. Patents, when Improvements, said public sale: Provided, That said lands shall not be sold for less 1872, ch. 436, 17 Stat., 391, re Appropriation. Subsistence and Application of 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 reinoval 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 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 agricultu ral 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 invested and applied. 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 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, twenty, 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. okees. 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 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. 14 Stat., 785. Allotments to etc. Certificates. 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 issued, 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. Approved, April 10, 1876. tions of April 10, 1876. Corporators. Name. Route. Extension. Track. Horse-power. Fares. Road to be real estate. Taxation. Grade; repairs. 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. Linn, 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 Rock ville turnpike road, and along said road to Tennallytown, 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 ten 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 and in good repair. Nothing in this act shall prevent the Government or other competent authority from at any time altering the grade, or otherwise improving all streets and roads occupied Change of grade. by said railway; and, in such event, it shall be the duty of said company to change said railway so as to conform to such grade and pave meut. SEC. 4. That each of the stockholders in the said railway company shall be liable individually for all the debts and liabilities of the said company to an amount equal to the value of stock held by such stockholder. SEC. 5. That the said railroad company shall, by the fifteenth of January, after the completion of said road, and annually on or before that day thereafter, transmit to Congress a full report of the affairs, business and condition of the said company for the year terminating December thirty-first preceding such report; and such report shall be signed and sworn to by the President and the treasurer of the company, and by a majority of the directors. SEC. 6. That all articles of value that may be inadvertently left in any of the cars or or other vehicles of said company shall be taken to its principal depot, and entered in a book of record of unclaimed goods, which book shall be open to the inspection of the public at all reasonable hours. SEC. 7. That this act may be altered, amended, or repealed by the Congress of the United States at any time; and the said company is not authorized to issue any note, token, device, or scrip, or other evidence of debt, to be used as a currency. SEC. 8. That the capital stock of said company shall be not less than twenty-five thousand dollars nor more than fifty thousand dollars, and shall be divided into shares of twenty-five dollars each, and shall be deemed personal property, transferable in such manner as the by-laws of said company may direct. Passenger-cars. Offices, stables, SEC. 9. That the company shall place first-class cars on said railway for the convenience and comfort of passengers, and shall run cars thereon as often as every thirty minutes during the day; and the company shall procure such ticket-offices, stables, and depot's at such points as the business of the railroad and the convenience of the public may require; and the said company is hereby authorized to purchase or lease such lands or buildings as may be necessary for the ticket-offices, stables, and of lands. depots above-mentioned. &c. Purchase or lease Board of direct SEC. 10. That the stockholders of the said company shall annually elect seven directors, who shall have full power to make and prescribe ors. such by-laws, rules, and regulations, and create such offices, as they By-laws. shall deem needful and proper, touching the disposition and management of the stock, property, estate, and effects of the company, not contrary to the charter or to the laws of the United States, and the ordinances of the District of Columbia; and there shall be no regulation excluding any person from any car on account of color. No distinction on account of color. Organization. SEC. 11. That the incorporators of said road shall, within thirty days after the passage of this act, meet and organize and open books of subscription, at some place made known by advertisement in at least one daily paper published in the District of Columbia, to the capital stock of said company; and the said company shall organize and complete the line of said road within one year from the passage of this act, oth- pleting road. erwise no right shall be acquired under this act. Approved, April 10, 1876. CHAP. 53.-An act donating the military road running from Astoria, Oregon, to Time for com April 11, 1876. from Astoria to Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the military road from Military road Astoria to Salem, in the State of Oregon, constructed under the follow- Salem, Oregon, doing acts of Congress, to wit, acts approved February seventeenth, eight- nated to counties. 1855, ch. 104, 10 Stat., 608. 1857, ch. 61, 11 Stat., 168. 1858, ch. 161, 11 Stat., 337. April 11, 1876. cut. een hundred and fifty-five; March second, eighteen hundred and fiftyseven; and June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, be, and the same is hereby, donated to the several counties in said State through which it runs, to wit, Clatsop, Washington, Yam Hill, and Polk, to each such portion as runs through it; said counties hereafter to own and control the same; and such road is hereby abandoned as a military road. Approved, April 11, 1876. CHAP. 54.-An act for the sale of the Arsenal and lot, at Stonington, Connecticut. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Sale of arsenal States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, grounds in Ston- and he is hereby, authorized and directed to sell for cash, after such ington, Connectiadvertisement for at least one month as he may deem necessary, either by public auction or by inviting proposals for the purchase thereof, and in either case to the highest responsible bidder, a certain lot and parcel of land, with the buildings thereon, in the town of Stonington, Connecticut, belonging to the United States and formerly used for arsenal purposes; and the Secretary of War is empowered and required, on receiving the purchase money in full, to execute the necessary deeds of such property to the purchaser or purchasers thereof, conveying all the right, title and interest of the United States therein. Deed. Proceeds. SEC. 2. That the proceeds of said sale, after paying the necessary expenses thereof, shall, upon receipt of the same, be paid by the Secretary of War into the Treasury. Approved, April 11, 1876. April 11, 1876. Judgments of court, sale of bonds 1873, ch. 261, 17 Stat., 601. 1874, ch. 459, § 15, 18 Stat., 248, repealed. CHAP. 55.-An act to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay judgments provided for in an act approved February fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, entitled "An act providing for the payment of judgments rendered under section 11 of chapter 459 of the laws of the First session of the Forty-third Congress." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury, for the purpose of paying the judgments provided for in an act approved February fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, entitled "An act providing for the payment of judgments rendered under section eleven, of chapter four hundred and fifty-nine of the laws of the first session of the Forty-third Congress," is hereby authorized to convert into coupon-bonds, and to sell, after five days' notice, so many as may be necessary for this purpose of the five per centum registered bouds of the United States now held subject to the disposition of Congress under the provisions of the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, chapter two hundred and sixty-one. SEC. 2. That so much of section fifteen of the act approved June twenty-third, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, chapter four hundred and fifty-nine, as conflicts with this act, is hereby repealed. Approved, April 11, 1876. April 13, 1876. amended. CHAP. 56.-An act to amend section 1044 of the Revised Statutes relating to limitations in criminal cases. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United R. S., 1044, p. 193, States of America in Congress assembled, That section one thousand and forty-four of the Revised Statutes of the United States be amended so as to read as follows: Limitation in cases of offenses not capital. No person shall be prosecuted, tried, or punished for any offense, not capital, except as provided in section one thousand and forty-six, unless |