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management, as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe
the Indians and Indian reservations in that district.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That whenever from
any cause any of the Indian reservations in California shall,
in the opinion of the President, be no longer needed for the
purposes originally intended, it shall be the duty of the Secretary
of the Interior to cause an reservation released by
order of the President to be surveyed into lots or parcels of
suitable size, and to fix, by appraisement of disinterested
persons, their cash value, and to offer the same at public
outcry to the highest bidder, and thence afterward to be held
subject to sale, at private entry, according to such regulations
as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe: Provided,
That no lot shall be disposed of at less than the appraised
value thereof: And provided, further, That said sale shall
be conducted by the register and receiver of the land office
in the district in which said reservation or reservations may
be situated, in accordance with the instructions of the department
regulating the sale of public lands.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all acts of
parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act be, and
the same are hereby, repealed.

That from and after the first day of April, anno Domini
eighteen hundred and sixty-four, the State of California shall,
for Indian purposes, constitute one superintendency, for which