Show The Sioux Cdnmissioners I 1Vsmnziorozc April 23The act under I J1V he Sioux commission was yesterday appointed Is similar in it general objects I revisions and forms to the act passed in the I I first session of the fiftieth Congress which the Indians rejected chiefly because of the unsatisfactory price and terms of the payments pay-ments that were offered them for lands to be ceded thereunder The points of difference are summarized as follows Pine Ridge agency to be extended ex-tended east eighteen or twenty miles and Rosebud reservation r be correspondingly reduced Flandrean Sioux who may elect not to take the allotments of to great Sioux reservation are t be paid 125 per resrvaton acre in lieu of allotments of r cents each as previously provided The quantity of land to be allotted to heads of families of the Sioux nation on their diminished reservation is double th quantity previously pre-viously provided Allotments in fare f-are not to b compulsory except to orphans or-phans without the consent of majority of the male adults of the tribe Every al te is made a citizen of the United States and is given the benefit of and made subject to the laws of the state or territory within which he resides Heads of families who desire to take allotments on the ceded lands will receive 320 acres instead of 100 and the Poncas get double the quantity on their own reservation they would have I lw rn entitled to under the former act Horses and mares are to be substituted for I oxen in the discretion of the secretary lof the interior in the distribution of articles and things to be given to allotees I and 50 in cash to b expended for their benefit I The permanent fund is increased from 1000010 to 3OOOUOO and at the end of ddf JI lg I fifty years the fund is to be expended for the banefit of the Indian or distributed among them Rcliiou societies must pay si 1 nor acre for juy laud they want instead in-stead of HO cents TIme ceded lands are to be sold to settlers for lii per acre for the first three years 75 cents for the next two years 5 cents for the next five years Then the government is to pay for the remainder re-mainder at the rate of 50 cents an acre The United States pays 8123 per acre for lands reserved for school purposes instead of 50 cents as proposed in the previous act Red Cloud and Leaf Buds are to be paid for the ponies taken from them in 1870 |