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 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 543. 1891. 1031 otherwiseappropriated, in the manner and for the pur ose as hereinafter specifically stated the following sums, to wit; lllbr the first in— D*'*¤*°¤- stallment of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, as provided for 111 article six of the nrst of said agreements, thirty thousand dollars, to be expended for the building and erection on said Coeur d’Alene Indian eservation of a saw and grist mill, to be operated by steam, m"- and for the payment of the wages of the engineer and miller to be employed in S8.1d mill, respectively, the remaining ortion of said thirty thousand dollars, if any, to be exlpended in the purchase of such useful and necessary articles as shal best promote the progress, N°°°“““’·Y °"**°‘°•· comfort, improvement, education, and civilization of said Coeur d’ Alene Indians all of said articles to be purchased, and said engineer and miller tohe employed as near as may be in strict conformity 4M¢·¤-10*8- with articles mne an ten of the first of said agreements. And for the purpose of meeting the requirements of articles two and three P¤>r¤¤¤1¤¤ym¤¤¤. of the second agreement aforesaid the sum of five hundred thousand Ante,p.102?. dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any mone in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be paid by the  States to the · said Coeur d’A.lene tribe of Indians upon their compliance with all the provisions of the said second agreement hereinbefore recited, the same to be paid to the said tribe of Indians pro rata, or share and share alike, for each and every member of the said tribe as recognized by said tribe now living on said reservation. Snorroiv 22. That all lands so sold and released to the United ,,,§§,°g*°,*'},”_;‘,f,§yPgg,§,° States, as recited or described in both of said agreements, and not ' heretofore granted or reserved from entry or location, shall, on the p-laéssage of this act, be restored to the public domain, and shall be ' posed of by the United States to actual settlers only, under the provisions of the homestead law, except section twenty-three hun- B.S..s¤c.¤¤01.p.m. red and one of the Revised Statutes of the UnitedStates, which shall not apply, and under the law relative to town sites or to locators or purchasers under the mineral laws of the United States: Pro- 'Prmnbos. vided, That each settler or purchaser under and in accordance with the provisions of said homestead act, shall pay to the United States, Ad<1i¤i<>¤¤11>¤yme¤¤. for the land so taken by him, in addition to the fees provided by law, and within five years from the date of the first original entry, the sum of one dollar and fifty cents per acre, one-half of which shall be paid within two years; but the rights of honorably discharged ¤<>l<**°¤ Md ¤¤“<>¤- Union soldiers and sailors, as dened and described in sections g·.¤¢¤¤·2¢3<>4.2=3¤¤. twenty-three hundred and four and twenty-three hundred and five °‘ ‘ of the Revised Statutes of the United States shall not be abridgled, except as to the said sum to be paid as aforesaid: Provided furt er, That the Secretary of the Interior shall cause to be surveyed for and patented to Frederick Post, upon his making final proof of all P°¤;g¤¢¤¤¤¤ F~<i¤¤¢k thereof before the register and receiver of the proper United States ` land office, and to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of the General Land Office and Secretary of the Interior, and paying therefor Payment. two dollars and fifty cents per acre and the cost of ma ing such survey of such portion of said reservation as is recited in the agreement in word and ngures as follows, to wit: " Know all men by these presents that I, Andrew Seltice chief of Agreement. the Coeur d’Alene Indians, did on the iirst day of June, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy-one, with the consent of mv people, when the country on both sides of the Spokane River be onged to me and my people, for a valuable consideration sell to Frederick Post the place now known as Post Falls, in Kootenai County, Description Idaho, to improve and use the same (water-power); said sale included all three of the river channels and islands, with enough land on the north and south shores for water-power and improvements; and have always protected the said Frederick Post, for eighteen years, in the rights there and then conveyed, and he has always done right with meand my people. We, the chiefs of the Coeur