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and enforced. Monogamy is insisted upon. Clothing is furnished undei 

 judicious regulations of the Indian Department. Schools for the young 

 and medical attendance are provided by the Government, and the relig- 

 ious denominations are free to teach and instruct their creeds. It is the 

 policy of Congress that the Indians shall become citizens of the United 

 States upon renouncing their tribal relations. Depredations upon 

 whites by Indians are compensated for out of annuities. The benefit 

 of the Indian homestead law has also been extended to them, but the 

 land so acquired cannot be alienated without the consent of a United 

 States judge for twenty-five years.* No tribal government recog- 



*THE NEW "LANDS IN SEVERALTY TO INDIANS" ACT. 



[Public— No. 43.] An act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various 



reservations, and to extend the protection of the laws of the United States and the Territories over 



the Indians, and for other purposes. [Approved February 8, 1887.] 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress 

 assembled, That in all cases where any tribe or band of Indians bas been, or shall hereafter be, located 

 upon any reservation created for their use, either by treaty stipulation or by virtue of an act of Con- 

 gress or executive order setting apart the same for their use, the President of the United States be, 

 and he hereby is, authorized, whenever in his opinion any reservation or any part thereof of such 

 Indians is advantageous for agricultural and grazing purposes, to cause said reservation, or any part 

 thereof, to be surveyed, or resurveyed if necessary, and to allot the lands in said reservation in sever- 

 alty to any Indian located thereon in quantities as follows : 



To each head of a family, one-quarter of a section ; 



To each single person over eighteen years of age, one-eighth of a section ; 



To each orphan child under eighteen years of age, one-eighth of a section ; and 



To each other single person under eighteen years now living, or who may be born prior to the date 

 of the order of the President directing an allotment of the lands embraced in any reservation, one- 

 sixteenth of a section: Provided, That in case there is not sufficient land in any of said reservations 

 to allot lands to each individual of the classes above named in quantities as above provided, the lands 

 embraced in such reservation or reservations shall be allotted to each individual of each of said classes 

 pro rata in accordance with the provisions of this act : And provided further, That where the treaty or 

 act of Congress setting apart such reservation provides for the allotment of lands in severalty in 

 quantities in excess of those herein provided, the President, in making allotments upon such reserva- 

 tion, shall allot the lands to each individual Indian belonging thereon in quantity as specified in such 

 treaty or act: And provided further, That when the lands allotted are only valuable for grazing pur- 

 poses, an additional allotment of such grazing lands, in quantities as above provided, shall be made to 

 each individual. 



Sec. 2. That all allotments set apart under the provisions of this act shall be selected by the Indians, 

 heads of families selecting for their minor children, and the agents shall select for each orphan child, 

 and in such manner as to embrace the improvements of the Indians making the selection. Where the 

 improvements of two or more Indians have been made on the same legal subdivision of land, unless 

 they shall otherwise agree, a provisional line may be run dividing said lands between them, and the 

 amount to which each is entitled shall be equalized in the assignment of the remainder of the land to 

 which they are entitled under this act: Provided, That if any one entitled to an allotment shall fail to 

 make a selection within four years after the President shall direct that allotments may be made on a 

 particular reservation, the Secretary of the Interior may direct the agent of such tribe or band, if such 

 there be, and if there be no agent, then a special agent appointed for that purpose, to make a selection 

 for such Indian, which selection shall be allotted as in cases where selections are made by the Indians, 

 and patents shall issue in like manner. 



Sec. 3. That the allotments provided for in this act shall be made by special agents appointed by 

 the President for such purpose, and the agents in charge of the respective reservations on which the 

 allotments are directed to be made, un^er such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior 

 may from time to time prescribe, and shall be certified by such agents to the Commissioner of Indian 

 Affairs, in duplicate, one copy to be retained in the Indian Office and the other to be transmitted to 

 the Secretary of the Interior for his action, and to be deposited in the General Land Office. 



Sec. 4. That where any Indian not residing upon a reservation, or for whose tribe no reservation 

 has been provided by treaty, act of Congress, or executive order, shall make settlement upon any sur- 

 veyed or unsurveyed lands of the United States not otherwise appropriated, he or she shall be entitled, 

 upon application to the local land-office for the district in which the lands are located, to have the same 

 allotted to him or her, and to his or her children, in quantities, and manner as provided in this act for 

 Indians residing upon reservations ; and when such settlement is made upon unsurveyed lands, the 



