TREATIES, LAWS, ETC., RELATING TO INDIAN AFFAIRS. Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That there be printed and bound three thousand copies of Senate Document Numbered Four hundred and fifty-two, Fifty-seventh Congress, first session, entitled Treaties, Laws, Executive Orders, and so forth, Relating to Indian Affairs, as revised, three hundred of which shall be for the use of the Senate, eight hundred for the House of Representatives, two hundred for the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, fifty for the House Committee on Indian Affairs, fifty for the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, one hundred for the Department of the Interior, and the remaining one thousand five hundred shall be sold by the Superintendent of Documents. Passed, January 28, 1904. IV PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. It is both gratifying and encouraging that the large demand for the Compilation of Treaties, Laws, Executive Orders, etc., relating to Indian Affairs induced the Congress to provide for the printing and binding of three thousand additional copies. The new edition has afforded the compiler an opportunity to make such typographical and other corrections as were discovered in the first print, to insert several treaties and documents which were heretofore unobtainable, and to add the signatures subscribed to each treaty which were omitted in the first edition to save space. With these additions and corrections it is believed the compilation is as perfect as practicable. It is not generally known that from 1778 to 1871 treaties were made by the United States with the Indian tribes, and that by the act of March 3, 1871 (16 Stats., 566, "Laws"-8), Congress provided "that hereafter no Indian nation or tribe within the territory of the United States shall be acknowledged or recognized as an independent nation, tribe, or power with whom the United States may contract by treaty." Since 1871 the United States have entered into agreements with the Indian tribes, which agreements must pass both Houses of Congress and be signed by the President; whereupon they become laws. In consequence, a division of treaties and agreements is made in the compilation by arranging the former in the volume entitled "Treaties" and the latter in the volume entitled "Laws." Acknowledgment of valuable suggestions is hereby accorded to the officials of the Indian Office and to a number of prominent lawyers versed in Indian legislation. Especial acknowledgment is made to William E. Richardson, of the bar of the District of Columbia, and to James D. Finch, jr., assistant clerk of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 2, 1904. CHARLES J. KAPPLER. V TABLE OF CONTENTS. I. PERMANENT GENERAL LAWS RELATING TO INDIAN AFFAIRS.. B. Laws subsequent to the Revised Statutes. Acts of Forty-third Congress, first session Acts of Forty-third Congress, second session. Acts of Forty-fourth Congress, first session Acts of Forty-fourth Congress, second session Acts of Forty-fifth Congress, third session.. Acts of Forty-sixth Congress, second session. Acts of Forty-seventh Congress, first session Acts of Forty-seventh Congress, second session .. Acts of Forty-eighth Congress, first session............... Acts of Forty-eighth Congress, second session Acts of Forty-ninth Congress, second session Acts of Fiftieth Congress, first session... Acts of Fiftieth Congress, second session Acts of Fifty-first Congress, first session. Acts of Fifty-first Congress, second session Acts of Fifty-second Congress, first session Acts of Fifty-second Congress, second session. Acts of Fifty-third Congress, second session Acts of Fifty-third Congress, third session.. PART II. PERMANENT ACTS RELATIVE TO PARTICULAR TRIBES-Continued. Acts of Fiftieth Congress, second session. Acts of Fifty-first Congress, first session.. Acts of Fifty-first Congress, second session Acts of Fifty-second Congress, first session Acts of Fifty-second Congress, second session.. Acts of Fifty-third Congress, first session.. Acts of Fifty-third Congress, second session Acts of Fifty-third Congress, third session... Acts of Fifty-fourth Congress, first session. Acts of Fifty-fourth Congress, second session. Acts of Fifty-fifth Congress, first session Acts of Fifty-fifth Congress, second session.. Acts of Fifty-fifth Congress, third session Acts of Fifty-sixth Congress, first session |