An Act relative to the Puyallup, 1896

An Act relative to the Puyallup, 1896

June 10, 1896

[Editor's Note: This is an excerpt from the United States Statutes at Large, Volume 29, which contains the public laws passed by the Fifty-Fourth Congress during its first session in 1896. The following text is from Chapter 398 (29 Stat. 341).]

For completing the work of the Puyallup Indian Commission appointed under the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, to select and appraise such portions of the allotted lands within the Puyallup Indian Reservation, Washington, as are not required for homes for the Indian allottees; and also that part of the agency tract exclusive of the burying ground not needed for school purposes, and for the purpose of defraying the expenses of said commission, four thousand dollars to be reimbursed to the United States out of the proceeds of the sale of the agency tract and allotted lands, as provided in said Act, to be immediately available, and said commission shall conclude its work and terminate on or before the first day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-six.

Approved, June 10, 1896.

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