August 15, 1894
[Editor's Note: This is an excerpt from the United States Statutes at Large, Volume 28, which contains the public laws passed by the Fifty-Third Congress during its second session in 1894. The following text is from Chapter 290 (28 Stat. 301).]
Whereas there is due the Wyandotte Indians from the Government of the United States, as ascertained and reported by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs in his letter to the Secretary of the Interior of February seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety four, a balance of fifteen thousand six hundred and eighty-six dollars and eighty cents; and
Whereas there are absentee Wyandotte Indians, who are poor and homeless, numbering between one hundred and fifty and two hundred persons, and for whom no provision has been made:
Therefore, the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to purchase for said absentee Wyandotte Indians eighty acres of land per capita, or so much thereof as said sum of fifteen thousand six hundred and eighty-six dollars and eighty cents will purchase, at a sum not to exceed one dollar and fifty cents per acre; such lands to be purchased from the Quapaw Indians in the Indian Territory, or, if this be found impracticable, then such lands shall be purchased of other Indians in the Indian Territory, where the land may be most conveniently and advantageously obtained by the Secretary of the Interior; said lands to be taken in allotments, as provided for in the severalty Act of Congress of February, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and amendments thereto. And the said sum of fifteen thousand six hundred and eighty-six dollars and eighty cents, so due to said Wyandotte Indians, is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of making the purchase of the lands herein and hereby provided for.
Approved, August 15, 1894.