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             Printer's No.,6378

18th CONGRESS,
   1ST SESSION.
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        H.R. 5778.
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  IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
              March 10, 1884

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, and ordered to be printed.
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         A BILL

To provide for the sale of a part of the reservation of the Winnebago tribe of Indians in the State of Nebraska, and for other purposes.

1.       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa
2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
3 That with the consent of the Winnebago tribe of Indians, ^[[in Schools?]]
4 expressed in open council, the Secretary of the Interior be,
5 and he hereby is, authorized to cause to be surveyed, if
6  necessary, and sold, all that portion of the reservation of said
7 tribe of Indians in the State of Nebraska as follows, to wit:
8 Commencing at the northwest corner of said reservation;
9 thence running east along the north line of the same, in town-
10 ship twenty-seven, to the range-line dividing ranges six and
11 seven east of thesixth principal meridian; thence south along
12 said range-line to the south line of said reservation;thence
13 west along the south line of sid reservation to the west line