March 2, 1895
[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 third session in 1895. The following text is from Chapter 188 (28 Stat. 907). The text references a Quapaw National Council act approved on March 23, 1893.]
That the allotments of land made to the Quapaw Indians, in the Indian Territory, in pursuance of an act of the Quapaw National Council, approved March twenty-third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, be and the same are hereby ratified and confirmed, subject to revision, correction and approval by the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, however, That any allottee who may be dissatisfied with his allotment shall have all the rights to contest the same provided for in said Act of the Quapaw National Council subject to revision, correction, and approval by the Secretary of the Interior. And the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to issue patents to said allottees in accordance therewith: Provided, That said allotments shall be inalienable for a period of twenty-five years from and after the date of said patents: And provided further, That the surplus lands on said reservation, if any, may be allotted from time to time, by said tribe to its members, under the above entitled act.
That the expenditure of the money appropriated for school purposes in this Act shall be at all times under the supervision and direction of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and in all respects in conformity with such conditions, rules, and regulations as to the conduct and methods of instruction and expenditure of money as may from time to time be prescribed by him, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior.
Approved, March 2, 1895.