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Compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler. Washington : Government Printing Office, 1904.
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| Chap. 139 | Preamble. 1891, c. 65. ante, p. 383. |
| Chap. 139 | Mission Indians, Cal. |
| Chap. 139 | Exchange of lands occupied by private persons. |
| Sec. 2 | Appropriation to purchase lands for Indians. |
Whereas the act approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled “An act for the relief of the Mission Indians in the State of California,” made it the duty of the commissioners therein authorized to be appointed “to select a reservation for each band or village of the Mission Indians residing within said State, which reservation shall include, as far as practicable, the lands and villages which have been in the actual occupation and possession of said Indians, and which shall be sufficient in extent to meet their just requirements;” and
Whereas said commissioners were authorized to appraise the value of the improvements belonging to any person to whom valid existing rights had attached under the public-land laws of the United States, where such improvements were situated within the limits of any reservation selected by the commissioners, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior; and
Whereas it was further provided in said act that, in case any land should be selected to which any railroad company should be entitled to receive a patent, such railroad company should, upon releasing all claim and title thereto and on the approval of the President and Secretary of the Interior, be allowed to select an equal quantity of other land in lieu thereof; and
Whereas no provision was made whereby lands claimed by private persons through titles derived or sought to be derived from railroad companies or other sources than the public-land laws could be so released and exchanged; and
Whereas the commissioners appointed under said act have reported, among other things, that certain lands are in the occupation of Indians and are needed for their use which certain persons have improved, and on which they have developed valuable water rights, expecting to obtain title from the railroad companies or to which they had obtained title from the State of California, and that said persons are willing to exchange said lands for other lands heretofore reserved for the use of the Mission Indians, but which lands are no longer needed for such purpose; and
Whereas the report and recommendations of said commissioners have been approved by the Secretary of the Interior and the President, “except so much thereof as relates to the purchase of lands from and exchange of lands with private individuals which is also approved subject to the condition that Congress shall authorize the same:” Therefore,
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he hereby is, authorized and empowered to carry into effect the recommendations of the said Mission Indian commissioners relating to the exchange of lands with private individuals, as the same has been approved by the President, and to cause patents in the usual form to issue for the lands recommended to be given to such individuals in exchange for lands and improvements released and relinquished for the use of the Indians.
That the sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to enable the Secretary of the Interior to purchase certain lands and improvements for the use and benefit of said Mission Indians, as approved by said Secretary and the President, and to be applied to such purposes in accordance with the said report of said Mission Indian commissioners as the same has been approved by the President.
Approved July 1, 1892.
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