Public Law 40–CCXXXIV

That the Secretary of the Interior

Compromise and agreements with the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians adopted.

be, and is hereby, authorized and directed to adopt and ratify the compromise and agreements entered into and executed on the twentieth and twenty-first of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, between the legally authorized representatives of the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations of Indians, and the legally authorized representative of the loyal Choc taw and Chickasaw Indians, claimants under the forty-ninth article of the

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treaty of April twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, between the United States and the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians, as a full and final settlement of all claims under the aforesaid article of said treaty. And the amount as stipulated in the aforesaid agreements to be paid to

Amount to be paid out of funds held in trust for them.

the loyal Choctaw and Chickasaw claimants, to wit: To the Choctaw claimants the sum of one hundred and nine thousand seven hundred and FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 234, 235. 1868.forty-two dollars and eight cents, and to the Chickasaw claimants the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars shall be paid by the Secretary of the Interior to said claimants, out of any moneys in the treasury of the United States belonging to, or held in trust for, said nations of Indians; but in case there is not a sufficient amount of money in the treasury of the United States belonging to, or held in trust for, said nations of Indians to discharge their respective obligations to the loyal Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians, (claimants,) or in case the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations of Indians shall request it, then the Secretary of the Interior is

Bonds, &c. held in trust may be sold, if, &c.;

authorized and directed to sell such bonds or other securities held in trust by the United States for the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations of Indians as may be necessary to discharge their respective obligations to the afore said loyal Choctaw and Chickasaw claimants, as stipulated in the afore

but not for less than par.

Payments to be made only to whom.

said compromise and agreements: Provided, That no bonds or securities shall be sold for less than par: And provided further, That no payments shall be made nor bonds delivered under the provisions of this act except in every case to the person actually entitled in his own right to receive the

Certain powers of attorney to be held invalid.

Bonds of Indiana not to be sold.

same; nor shall any contract or power of attorney relating to the same be regarded or held as of any validity unless signed and executed after the passage of this act: And provided also, That the bonds of the State of Indiana held by the United States shall not be sold under the provisions of this act.