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Volume 21

Public Law 46–61

to amend an act entitled “An act for the removal of certain Indians in New Mexico”, approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight.

Approved April 23, 1880

Statutory text

An Act

to amend an act entitled “An act for the removal of certain Indians in New Mexico”, approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the proviso to the act approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, making an appropriation for the removal of the band of Apaches at Cimarron, New Mexico, to the Mescalero Apache Reservation at Fort Stanton, New Mexico, requiring the removal of said Indians within thirty days after the passage of the act, and forbidding the issue of rations and annuities to said Indians, except at the Mescalero Apache Agency, New Mexico, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and the Secretary’ of the Interior is authorized and directed to issue to said Indians their supplies and

Supplies to issue at Abiquiu agency, N. Mcx.

annuities at the Abiquiu Agency, New Mexico.

Approved, April 23, 1880.

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