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 FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 290. 1894. 317 have the right for two years from the date of the ratiiication of this agreement within which to purchase the land so occupied at a valuation fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, which shall not be less than the average price paid to the Indians for these surplus lands. Anrrcrn XI. If any member of the Yankton tribe of Sioux Indians shall within dL¤*j**¤.¤¤ ton tribe of Sioux Indians, under the provisions of this agreement, °°i ° ° ° "°t°d‘ shall be subject  the payment of debts, claims, judgments, or demands against said Indians for damages or depredations claimed to have been committed prior to the signing of this agreement. ARTICLE XIII. _ All persons who have been allotted lands on the reservation described '1`*i*··1 richmin this agreement and who are now recognized as members of the Yankton tribe of Sioux Indians, including mixed-bloods, whether their white blood comes from the paternal or maternal side, and the children born to them, shall enjoy the undisturbed and peaceable possession of their allotted lands, and shall be entitled to all the rights and privileges of the tribe enjoyed by full-blood Indians. Anrionn XIV. All allotments of lands in severalty to members of the Yankton cngjmmnw rv M tribe of Sioux Indians, not yet confirmed by the Government, shall be ` conlirmed as speedily as possible, correcting any errors in same, and Congress shall never pass any act alienating any part of these allotted lands from the Indians. Anricns XV. The claim of fifty-one Yankton Sioux Indians, who werebemployed *’*>"¤°¤° °* •°°“‘°· as scouts by General Ali Sully in 1864, for additional compensation at the rate of two hundred and twenty-five dollars ($225) each, aggregat- . ing the sum of eleven thousand four hundred and seventy-five dollars ($11,475) is hereby recognized as just, and within ninety days (90) utter the ratification of this agreement by Congress the same shall be paid in lawful money of the United States to the said scouts or to their heirs. Anrronn XVI. If the Government of the United States questions the ownership of ,,°*;fP°“‘°“° R°‘°"* the Pipestone Reservation by the Yankton Tribe of Sioux Indians, _ I b _ d_ under the treaty of April 19th, 1858, including the fee to the laud_as c,,§§{_° ‘° ° “°·’" " well as the right to work the quarries, the Secretary of the Interior shall as speedily as possible refer the matter_ to the Supreme Court of the United States, to be decided by that tribunal. And the United States shall furnish, without cost to the Yankton Indians, at least olpe competent attorney to represent the interests of the tribe betore t e conr ·.