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Printer's No., 6378.

48TH CONGRESS, 1ST SESSION. 

H.R. 5778

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
March 10, 1884

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

Mr. VALENTINE  introduced the following bill:

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 Nebraska]]
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 follow, 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 the sixth principal meridian; thence south along
12 said range-line to the south line of said reservation; thence
13 west along the south line of said reservation to the west line