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 1016 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 543. 1891. mpm. the usual manner; and that he cause report_to be made_to Congress, at its next session thereafter, of his action under this provision. Bniwrivn of bids Sec. 6. That whenever, after advertising for bids_ for supplies in °°°‘ accordance with section three of this act, those received for any article contain conditions detrimental to the interest of the Government, the may be rejected, and the articles specified in such bids Purchases m open purchasedy in open market, at prices not to exceed those of the low- ¤”*°°- est bidder, and not to exceed he market price of the same until such time as satisfactory bids can be obtained, for which immediate advertisement shall be made. _ ¤¤¤¤¤» we- ¤f Pwr- Sec. 7. That at any of the Indian reservations where there is now °'°y°°°°°°d° on hand Government roperty not reqluired for the use and benefit of the Indians at said reservation the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to move such property to other Indian reservacppmuum or pro- tions where it may be required, or to sell it and applyxthe proceeds · of the same in the purchase of such articles as may needed for the use of the Indians for whom said property was purchased, and he shall make rgetport of his action hereunder to the next session of Congress there ter. ‘ A$zwsmca¤- Sec. 8. The followipg agreement, made by David H. Jerome, Al- mmm. of the United States, with the Citizen Band of Pottawatomie Indians in Oklahoma on the twentynftn day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety, and now on file in he Department of the Interior, and signed ` by said commissioners on behalt of the United States, and lg Alexander P. Peltier, J osegh Moose, Stephen Neg-a-hu-quit, John. Hambago and Alexander hodd, Business Committee and John L. Young an others, on behalf of the said Citizen Band of Pottawatomie Indians, is hereby accepted, ratified and confirmed, to wit: "Articles of agreement made and entered into at Shawnee Town, in the Indian erritory, on the twenty-fifth day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety, gy and between David H. Jerome, Al red M Wilson, and Warren . Sayre, Commissioners on the part of the United States, and the Citizen Band of Pottawatomie Indians, in the Indian Territory, ‘ wml- Airrxcmn I. Lnnsoma. The Citizen Band of Pottawatomie Indians of the Indian Territory, in consideration of the fulfillment of the promises hereinafter made, heregy cede, relinquish, and forever and absolutely surrender to the Unit States all their claim, title and interest of every kind and character in and to the followilnig described tract of country in the Indian Territory-according to orrill’s survey, under contract Description. of September third, eighteen hundred and seventy-two—to wit: Beginning at a point on the right bank of the north fork of the Canadian . iver, in section twenty-one, of township eleven north, range Eve east, where the western boundary line of the Seminole Reservation strikes said river; thence south with said boundary line to the left bank of the Canadian River; thence up said river along the left bank thereof, to a point on said left bank, in the northeast quarter of section thirty-six, township six north, range one west, thirty-nine chains and eighty-two links (by the meanders of the river west), from the point where the Indian meridian intersects said river, or thirty- eight chains and fift -two links due west from said Indian meridian; thence north as run by O. T. Morrill, under his contract of September third, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, to a point on the right bank of the north fork of the Canadian River; thence down said river, along the right bank thereof, to the place of beginning, comprising the following, viz: Fractional townshgp five north, ranges one, two, three, four, and five east, north of the Canadian River. Fractional township six
 * ,},1,7 ,,,,,,,f,;"'°',5‘,Q,',,$ fred M. Wilson, and arren G; Sayre, Commissioners on the part