THE GEORGE CATLIN INDIAN GALLERY. 817 



person within the boundaries of any State of the United States, and within the limits 

 of any Indian reservation, shall be subject to the same 1 aws, tried in the same courts 

 and in the same manner, and subject to the same penalties as are all other persons 

 committing any of the above crimes within the exclusive jurisdiction of the United 

 States. 



Indian courts and police, hereinafter mentioned, have also been pro- 

 vided. 



The purchase of supplies for the Indian service is made in open market, 

 and contracts awarded to the lowest bidder. The proper placing and 

 distribution devolve on the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. 



Time has demonstrated that the civilizing o f the Indian is one thing, the 

 Christianizing another. For the purposes of health, labor, self-support, 

 cleanliness, love of order, and respect for the rights of others, and for 

 law, it should be immaterial to the State which channel of grace the 

 Indian elects to reach salvation. Still at one ti me the authorities thought 

 differently, and quite recently too, as late as 1869, and the reservations 



religious or educational work among the Indians, the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized 

 to coniirm such occupation to such society or organization, in quantity not exceeding one hundred and 

 sixty acres in any one tract, so long as the same shall be so occupied, on such terms as he shall deem 

 just; but nothing herein contained shall change or alter any claim of such society for religious or edu- 

 cational purposes heretofore granted by law. And hereafter in t he employment of Indian police, or 

 any other employes in the public service among any of the Indian tri bes or bands affected by this act, 

 and where Indians can perform the duties required, those Indians who have availed themselves of 

 the provisions of this act and become citizens of the United States shall be preferred. 



Skc. 6. That upon the completion of said allotments and the patenti ng of the lands to said allottees, 

 each aud every member of the respective bands or tribes of Indians to whom allotments have been 

 made shall have the benefit of and be subject to the laws, both civil and criminal, of the State or Ter. 

 ritory in which they may reside; and no Territory shall pass or enforce any law denying any such 

 Indian within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the law. And every Indian born within the 

 territorial limits of the United States to whom allotments shall have been made under the provisions 

 of this act, or under any law or treaty, and every Indian born within the territorial limits of the 

 United States who has voluntarily taken up, within said limits, his residence separate and apart from 

 any tribe of Indians therein, and has adopted the habits of civilized life, is hereby declared to be a 

 citizen of the United States, and is entitled to all the rights, privileges, and immunities of such citi- 

 zens, whether said Indian has been or not, by birth or otherwise, a member of any tribe of Indians 

 within the territorial limits of the United States without in any manner impairing or otherwise affect- 

 ing the right of any such Indian to tribal or other property. 



Sec. 7. That in cases where the use of water for irrigation is necessary to render the lands within 

 any Indian reservation available for agricultural purposes, the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is 

 hereby, authorized to prescribe such rules and regulations as he m ay deem necessary to secure a just 

 and equal distribution thereof among the Indians residing upon any such reservations ; and no other 

 appropriation or grant of water by any riparian proprietor shall be authorized or permitted to the dam. 

 age of any other riparian proprietor. 



Sec. 8. That the provision of this act shall not extend to the territory occupied by the Cherokees, 

 Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Seminoles, and Osages, Miamies and Peorias, and Sacs and Foxes, in 

 the Indian Territory, nor to any of the reservations of the Seneca Nation of New York Indians in 

 the State of New York, nor to that strip of territory in the State of Nebraska adjoining the Sioux 

 Nation on the south added by executive order. 



Sec. 9. That for the purpose of making the surveys and resurveys mentioned in section two of this 

 act, there be, and hereby is. appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropri- 

 ated, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, to be repaid proportionately out of the proceeds of the 

 eales of such land as may be acquired from the Indians under the provisions of this act. 



Sec. 10. That nothing in this act contained shall be so construed as to affect the right and power of 

 Congress to grant the right of way through any lands granted to an Indian, or a tribe of Indians, for 

 railroads or other highways, or telegraph lines, for the public use, or to condemn such lands to publio 

 uses, upon making just compensation. 



Sec. 11. That nothing in this act. shall be so construed as to prevent the removal of the Southern 

 Ute Indians from their present reservation in Southwestern Colorado to a pew reservation by and wifb, 

 the consent of a majority of the adult male members pf said tribe, 



Approved, February 8, 1887. 



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