Speech #450074419

I ask that the bill be road. The bill wit read. as follows: A bill to legalize certain patents Issued to menbers of the Pottawatomie tribe of Indians. ie it enacted. &e.. That the patents issoed April 15. 1871. to certain Pottawato. mis Indians in the State of Kansas. under the third article of the treaty between the United States and the Pottawatomie tribe of Indians. of November 15. 1861. and the sixth and eighth articles of the treaty between the United States and said tribe of Indians. concluded February 27.187. be. and the same are hereby. declared to be valid and in full force and effect to the same extent as they would have been had said patentees become naturalized citizens of the United States prior to the issuing ot said patents: Provided. That this act shall only apply to patents for lands for which conveyanecs have been made in good faith by the patentees subsequent to the issuing of their patents. There being no fnrther objection. the bill was taken from the Speakers table. read three times. and passed.