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 332 FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. C11. 290. 1894. ` agreement; •‘ out of which sum the Secretary of the Interior shall pay f°¤m*"" G· I"‘$' to the heirs, administrator, or legal representatives of W lll18m G. 1’¤y¤¤¤¤=¤1¤¤ir•· Langford, deceased, the sum of twenty thousand dollars, upon a release and relinquishment to the United States by said heirs,_administrator, or legal representatives of all right, title, interest, or claim, either legal »or equitable, in and to the tract of land described in article two of said MM- _ agreement as therein provided: Provided,, That none of the money D°‘”°°°'°°agreed to be paid said Indians, nor any of the interest thereon, shall be, or become, liable to the payment of any judgment or claim for depredations committed by said tribe or any member thereof before the date ‘ of said agreement. I·•¤¢i¤*¤b¤ ¤r¤¤¤1 That immediately after the issuance and receipt by the Indians of mg mst pawns. P5 a P ST the lands so ceded, sold, relinquished, and conveyed to the United States shall be opened to settlement by proclamation of the President, and shall be subject to disposal only under the homestead town-site stone and timber, and mining laws of the United States, excepting tht; sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections in each Congressional township, _o whitih shall be reservgd for conmaon-school purposes and be `signject. tp - · the laws of Idaho: rowidcd ’ at each settler on said lan s shal 1 I · m:¤€¤dr»iL;]dig¤?°y before making ilnal proof and receiving a certilimte of entry, pay td . the United States for the lands so taken by him, in addition to the fees provided by law, the sum of three dollars and seventy-five cents per acre for agricultural lands one-half of which shall be paid within three years from the date of original entry; and the_ sum of five dollars_per acre for stone, timber, and mineral lands, subject to the regulations prescribed by existing laws; but the rights of honorably discharged Umon soldiers and sailors, as denned and described in sections twenty- three hundred and four and twenty-three hundred and five of the Revised Statutes of the United States, shall not be abridged except as to the sum to be paid as aforesaid. $¤¤*•!°*· _ That the Commissioner of Indian Affairs be, and he hereby is,. authorized to employ a competent surveyor for a period not exceeding two years, at a compensation not exceeding one thousand two hundred dollars per annum, for the purposes stipulated in article four of said agreementhaiild he is msc; authorized to purchase two portable sawmills, as _ pl‘0V1 e in artic e our. b_‘§;';*,¤*j,{,f°°°** *° That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to examine the claim of those Indians who served the United States under General O.  Howaad in the late wap witlli ·loseph’s biind of said tribe as scouts, couriers an messengers. re erre o in artic e ten of said agreement and alsd as to the claim of Abraham Brooks, mentioned in said article; and report lns iiudmgs and recommendations to Congress. AGREEMENT wrrn run YUMA 1NmANs IN cALu=on1v1A. r Indians! .~ . · . ouston John A. Gorman d mm. nite5i- Peter R. Brady, duly appointed commissioners on the part of the Uiiijtzd States, did on the fourth day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety. three, conclude an agreement with the principal men and other male adults of tlielpfuma Indians in the State of California, which said agreemen is as o ows: Articles of agreement made and entered into this 4th dayof Decemb A. D. ISQ3, at Fort Yuma, on what is known as the Yuma Intliiilii Reservation, in the county of San Diego, State of California, by Washington J. Houston, John A. Gorman, and Peter R. Brady, commission- ¥s on phel part of the United States appointed for the purpose, and the uma n ians. Ancricnu I. ummm. d Tlhe said Yuma Indians, upon the conditions hereinafter expressed, o ereby surrender and rehnquish to the United States all their right,
 * °“°°°°"‘°"° °“ *"“‘ trust tents for the allotted lands as rovided for in said a eement
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