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 1364 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 450. lS9.=. I certify that the total number of male Indians over eighteen (18) years of age belonging on this reservation, is two hundred and sixty- eight (268), of whom two hundred and forty-three (243) have signed the foregoing Agreement. B. C. Asn, U. S. Indian Agent. Lownn Bunn: Aennor, S. D. March 1st, 1898. I certify that the official records of the Lower Brule Agency show two hundred and sixty-eight (268) male adult Indians over eighteen (18) years of age, residing on or belonging to the Lower Brule Reservation, two hundred and torty-three (243) of whom have duly signed the foregoing Agreement. JAMES MCLAUGHLIN,. U. S. Indian Inspector. LOWER, BRULE Aennor, S. D. March 1st, 1898. And d,jng’g;*Qgg*,{'j:QbI;*d Whereas James McLaughlin, United States Indian inspector, did on the nsm·v¤mm,s.n¤k. tenth day of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, make and conclude an agreement with the.male adult Indians of the Sioux tribe, on or belonging on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in the State of South Dakota, which said agreement is as follows: AGREEMENT. This Agreement made and entered into on the tenth day of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, by and between James McLaughlin, U. S. Indian Inspector, on the part of the United States, and the Sioux { tribe of Indians belonging on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, in South Dakota, witnesseth: -¤»¤¤e¤s on to mot · ARTICLE 1. The Indians of the Rosebud Indian Reservation hereby $$*3 I°_§‘,'§3;,,E',§_ L`"'" give their permission and consent for the Indians of the Lower Brule A Reservation, in South Dakota, who have left the same and settled upon the Rosebud Reservation, to remain thereon and take allotments of Vvk 25,I>·890- lands in severalty as provided in Section eight of the Act of Congress, approved March two, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine modified as hereinafter provided. ¤·>¤¤id•¤¤¤¤· ARTICLE 2. In consideration for the permission and consent aforesaid it is hereby agreed that the United States shall pay the Indians of the Rosebud Reservation, as now constituted, excluding the said Indians who have removed to the Rosebud reservation from the Lower Brule Reservation, pro rata, in cash, at the rate of one dollar and twenty-five cents ($1.25) per acre for the lands allotted to the Indians of the Lower Brule Reservation, as provided in Article 1 of this agreementand it is understood and agreed that the Indians of the Rosebud ‘Reservation shall not be dependent upon the funds of the Lower Brule Indians for such payment, but the same shall be made to them directly by the Government of the United States. B£§g**f:d,gf" 81éQm ARTICLE 3. It is further provided and agreed that the Lower Brule im Rosebud Reserve Indians who have permanently located upon the Rosebud reservation “°“* shall have their pro rata or proportional share of the tribal funds, now in the Treasury of the United States, belonging to the Indians of the Lower Brule Reservation, transferred to and consolidated with the funds of the Indians belonging on the Rosebud Reservation, and that ' hereafter they shall be regarded in all essential respects as Indians of the Rosebud Reservation, and their annuities and other benefits from the Government, whether derived from treaty provisions, or otherwise, shall be distributed to them at the Rosebud Agency, or a subagency _5*·(jg: no further connected therewith; Provided, That the Lower Brule Indians who imma m Lower have so located upon the Rosebud Reservation shall have no further B""" B°“"°"°”· interest in the Lower Brule Reservation, or the lands comprising the same, after their interest in the tribal funds has been transferred to the Rosebud funds as above stipulated. ·