THATall the reservations to or for any person or persons named in the treaty of the twentieth day of October, eighteen hundred and thirty two, made at Camp Tippecanoe, in the State of Indiana, between the United States, by their commissioners, Jennings, Davis, and Crume, and the chiefs and headmen of the Pottowatomie tribe of Indians of the Prairie and Kankakee, shall be so construed and held to convey to and vest in said reservees, their heirs and assigns forever, and estate in fee simple in and to the reservations so made by said treaty to or for said reservees, respectively.

Sec. 2. And it be further enacted, That said reservees, or their heirs, may sell and convey all or any part of his, her, or their respective reserves; and such sale and conveyance shall vest in the purchaser, his or her heirs and assigns, such title as is described in such deed of conveyance, to such lands so sold and conveyed: Provided, That all deeds of conveyance, made before the passage of this act, shall stand upon the same footing as those made after the passage of this act, and the rights of the

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parties shall be the same in one case as in the other: Provided, That such deed of conveyance for any of said lands, made before or after the passage of this act, shall not be valid for such purpose until the same shall have been approved by the President of the United States.