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 FIFTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 1624. 1904. 355 But in case any prefer to move they may select land elsewhere on that · portion of said reservation not hereby ceded granted or relinquished, and not occupied by any other Indians, and should they decide not to move their improvements, then the same may be sold for their benefit, M6 ¤f imvmvcsaid sale to be approved by the Secretary of the Interior, and the cash mmm proceeds shall be paid to the Indian or Indians whose improvements shall be so sold. AR'1'ICLE IV. That for the purpose of segre tin the ceded lands S¤¤’¤Y¤· from the diminished reservation the new boundgry Iines described in ` Article I of this agreement shall, when necessary be properly surveyed and permanently marked in a plain and substantial manner by prominent and durable monuments, the cost of said survey to be paid by the United States. ARTICLE V. The water from streams on that portion of the reserva— Water sunny_ retion now sold, which is necessary for irrigating on land actually culti- °°"°d fm 1mg“"°°‘ vated, and in use, shall be reserved for the Indians now using the same so long as said Indians remain where they now live. ARTICLE VI. It is further a reed that a statement of all expenditures Expenditures. under the various provisions 0% this agreement shall be sent to the agent of the Crow Indians twice a year, or at such times as the Secretary of the Interior may direct, showing the amounts expended and the balance remainin on hand in each of the several funds. ARTICLE VII. The existing provisions of all former treaties with M1?-=¤¤;¤r6¤§¤¤;;¤g]¤; 3; the Crow tribe of Indians not Inconsistent with the provisions of this euiggd. 0 agreement, are hereby continued in force and effect, and all provisions t ereof inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. ARHCIJE VIII. This agreement shall take effect and be in force when Mwsigned by the commissioners and amajoritly of themale Indians of the Crow tribe over eighteen years of age, an ratified by the Congress of the United States, and should any article in the agnieement fail of confirmation by Congress, then the whole shall be nu and void. Signed on the part of the United States Government by the commissioners aforesaid and by the following Indians of the Crow tribe having rights on the Crow Reservation in the State of Montana. C110W AGENGY, IVICNTANA, August 14, 1899: CHARLES G. HOYT, Commissioner. JAM1·:s H IVICNEELY, Commissioner. BENJAMIN F. BARGE, Commissioner. PRETTY (x mark) EAGLE. PRETTY Coos. · ' Two (x mark) Lneems. (And 535 others.) ` Witness: FRED. E. MHILER. _ _ I hereby certify that I was chosen, by the IndIans  act as Interpreter during the councils held to discuss the foregoing agreement; that I truly interpreted for the commissioners and for the In Ians, and that they thoroughly understand the entire matter. CARL LEI1>I·:x, Interpreter. Witness: C. N. Cuorseumme. We hereby certify that we were present at the councils held to discuss the foregoing agreement; that we understand the Crow language and that the provisions of this agreement were correctly Interpreted to the Indians, and that they understood the entire matter. FRANK SHANE. W. M. LE1onToN. GEORGE H. PEASE. Witnesses: H. J. Snoma. F. G. MA·rTooN. Caow Aenscr, Mom., August 14, 1899.