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 FIFTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. IH. Ch. 1452. 1905. 1017 entry and twenty-fivc cents per acre each year thereafter until the price per acre hereinbefore provided shall have been fully paid; that lands entered under the town-site, coal and mineral land laws shall be paid for in an amount and manner as provided by said laws; and in case any entrymen fails to make the pa ments herein provided for or any of them., within the time stated, allvrights of the said entryman to the lands covered by his or her entry shall at once cease and any payments therebefore made shall be forfeited, and the 'entry shall be forfeited and canceled, unless the Secretary of the Interior shall in his discretion, and for good cause, excuse for not exceeding six months, the said failure, application for which must be made by the settler on or before the date of the payment which would bring him or her in default, and all lands except mineral and coal lands herein ceded, remaining undisposed of at the expiration of five years from the openin of said lands to entry, shall be sold to the hi hest bidder for cash at notdess than one dollar per acre under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, That any lands remaining m·m“ unsold eight years after the said lands shall have been opened to entry _ may be sold to the highest bidder for cash without regard to the above minimum limit of rice; that lands dis osed of undert etown—site, coal, and mineral land llaws shall be paid for at the prices provided for by law, and the United States agrees to pay the said Indians the roceeds derived from the sales of said lands, and also to pay the saidplndians the sum of one dollar and twenty-tive cents per acre for sections sixteen and thirty-six, or an equivalent of two sections in each townshgg of the ceded lands, the amounts so realized to be to and expend for said Indians in the manner hereinafter rovi · Aurrcmu III. It is further agreed that of) the amount to be derived El’“°*°” °* P’° from the sale of said lands, as stipulated in article II of this agreement, the sum of eighty-five thousand dollars shall be devoted to making a per capita payment to the said Indians of fifty dollars each in cash within sixty days after the 0 ening of the ceded lands to settlement, or as soon thereafter as such sum shall be available, which per capita payment shall be from the proceeds of the sale of sections sixteen and thirt -six or an equivalent of two sections in each township within the ceded territory, and which sections are to be paid for by the United States at the rate of one dollar and twenty-tive cents per acre: Andpwvi<Ze:I_fl¢:·t}¢»¢v·, That upon the completion of the said fifty dollars per capita payment, any balance remaining in the said fund of eighty-hve thousand dollars, shall at once become available and shall he devoted to surveying, plattin, making of maps, (payment of the fees, and the performance of sucg acts as are require by the statutes of the State of Wyoming in securing water rights from said State for the irrigation of such lands as shall remain the property of said Indians, whether located within the territory intended to be ceded by this agreement or within the diminished reserve. 'Airricna IV. It is further agreed that of the moneys derived from “""“"°"· the sale of said lands the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior for the construction and extension of an irrigation s stem within the diminished reservation _ for the irrigation of the lands of the said Indians: Provided, That in €{§§ff·m,,,,_ the employment of persons for the construction, enlargement, reémir and management of such irrigation system, members of the said hoshone and Arapahoe tribes shall be employed wherever gracticable. An·rici.a V. It is agreed that at least fifty thousand ollars of the u'°*"°°* moneys derived from the sale of the ceded lands shall be expended, under the direction of the Secretary of the Inferior, in the purchase of live stock for issue to said Indians, to he distributed as equally as