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 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 543. 1891. 1039 agents, attorneys or other persons, unless the same have been made, as provided by law, and are yet in force and have been approved by the Department of the Interior, or have been made by and between citizens of the United States are hereby declared null and void, and in such cases the Secretary of the Interior shall cause all moneys herein appropriated to be paid directly to the said Indians and shall pay no portion of the same, to their said agents or attorneys. And in Maximum m atno event shall a sum exceeding ten per cent. be paid to any a ent °°""°’“· or attorney, and the balance, a ter deducting the said five hundred and three thousand two hundred dollars, to wit, the sum of one million six hundred and ninety-nine thousand eight hundred dollars, Bglgngg ,,1,,,;;,,,; .,0 or so much thereof as may be necessary, to pay for lands by said £**°“· °*°··°* 1¤· agreement ceded, sold, relinquished, and conveyed at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per acre, shall be laced in the Treasury of the United States, to the credit of said Sisseton and Wahpeton bands of Dakota or Sioux Indians (parties to said agreement), and _the same, with interest thereof at five per centum per annum, shall be at all times subject to appropfiation by Congress or to application by order of the President or the education and civilization of said bands of Indians or members thereof. _ SEG 28. That any religious society or other organization now Lands tw ¤>H¢b¤¤ occupying under proper authority any of the lands by said agree- "°°“ ment ceded, sold, relinquished, and conveyed shall have the right for a period of two years from the date hereof, within which to purchase the lands so occupied not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres in any one tract at the price paid therefor by the United States under said a oment. ’ Sec. 29. Thlaft in order to further carry out the provisions of said Addi¤¢¤•1 •¤¤*· agreement and of this act, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed, as soon as practicable, to cause the additional allotment provided for in said agreement to be made in the manner and form as rovided in an act entitled "An act to provide for the allotments V¤¤·•4.1>.¤¤¤· of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservations, and to extend the protection of the laws of the United States and Territories over the Indians, and for other purposes,” and as provided in any existing amendments of said act, approved February eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and to pay the sums hereinbefore made immediately available, first to the parties to said agreement, or their proper representatives, and to appoint suitable officers for such A¤¤¢¤¤¤¤¤•z¤¤¤- purposes who shall furnish bonds usual in such cases, and whose compensation and ex enses shall be Ipaid out of said available funds as the Secretar of the Interior sha direct, and whose lawful acts, when approvedv by him, shall be final and conclusive. Sec. 30. That the lands by said agreement ceded, sold, re- n£·¤¤t:1zw\•=¤.¤F¤: linquished, and conveyed to t 19 Unite States shall immediately, 3,J¤.m.§"§'m.~y_ "' upon the payment to the parties entitled thereto of their share of the funds made immediately available by this act, and upon the completion of the allotments as provided for in said agreement, be subject only to entry and settlement under the homestead and townsite laws of the United States, excepting the sixteenth and thirty-sixth S°'*°°* '·¤·<'¤ sections of said lands, which ha be reserved for common school · urposes, and be subject to the laws of the State wherein located: lwovided, That patents shall not issue until the settler or entr man 1’r<>vf=<>. shall have paid to the United States the sum of two dollars and, fifty Addi¤¤¤¤1v¤r¤¤¤¤¤- cents per acre for the land taken up by such homesteader, and the title to the lands so entered shall remain in the United States until said money is duly paid b such entryman or his legal representatives. or his widow, who shall have the right to pay the money and complete the entry of her deceased husband in her own name, and shall)receive a patent for the same. _ Sec. 31. The following agreement entered into by J. Clifford Rich- Cr·gg’I;$,’§;::_ {gf} ai-dson, Charles M. Dole, and Rockwell J. Flint, commissioners on mm, mum.