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 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. C11. 3. 1897. 95 Done at Shoshone Agency, in the State of Wyoming, on the twenty- iirst day of April, A. D. eighteen hundred and ninety-six. JAMES MCLLUGHLIN. [SEAL.] U. S. Indian Inspector. (Here follow the signatures of Washakie, chief of the Shoshones, Sharp Nose, chief of the Arapahoes, and two hundred and seventy-one other male adult Indians over eighteen years of age, belonging on the Shoshone Reservation.) I certify that, at the request of Indian Inspector James McLaughlin, I read the foregoing agreement to the Indians in joint council, and that it was explainedto the interpreters, paragraph by paragraph. JOHN S. LOUD, Captain 9th Cavalry, U. S. Army _ Commanding Fort Washakie, Wyo. We certify that the foregoing agreement was fully explained in joint council to the Shoshone7s and Arapahoe’s tribes, that they fully understand the nature of the agreement, and agree to the Same. Enmo. LE Cnlun, NOBKOK, his x mark, Shoshone Interpreters, HENRY LEE Wumuu SHAKESPEARE Arapahoe Interpreters. Witnesses: Tnos. B. BEAsoN, JNO. W. Twmes, Jr. _ I certify that the foregoing names, though in some cases duplicates, in every instance represents different individuals. . Enuo. LE Crnm, Special Interpreter. Witnesses to the foregoing agreement and signatures of the Indians. J onN S. Loon, Captain 9th Cavalry. JOHN F. McB1..uN, 1st Lt. 9th Cavalry; JNO. W. Twmos, Jr. Tnos. R., BENSON. JNO. W. CLAEK, Allotting Agent. J OHN Ronmzrs, Missionary of the Protestant Episcopal Church to the Indians. I certify that the Indians, Shoshones and Arapahoes, numbering two hundred and seventy-three (273) persons, who have signed the foregoing agreement, constitute a majority of all male Indians over eighteen (18) years of age, belonging on the Shoshone Reservation, Wyoming. Brcunnn H. W11.soN, Captain 8th Inity., Acting Ind. Agent. That for the purpose of making the payment stipulated for in the A1>1>r¤vri¤¤¤¤- first paragraph of article three of the foregoing agreement, the same to be paid to the Indians belonging on the Shoshone Reservation per capita in cash, or expended for them by their agent in the purchase of stock cattle, as in said article provided, the sum of ten thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.