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 F IFTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 1624. 1904. 357 the said Crow Indian Reservation; thence running due south to a point lying due east of the northeast corner of the Fort Custer Military Reservation; thence running due west to the northwest corner of said Fort Custer Military Reservation; thence due south to the southwest corner of said Fort Custer Military Reservation; thence due west to the intersection of the line between sections ten and eleven, township two south, range twenty-eight east of the principal meridian of Montana; thence due north to the intersection of the Montana base line; thence due west to the intersection of the western boundary of the Crow Indian Reservation; thence in a northeasterly direction, following the present ‘ boundary of saidreservation to point of beginning. ‘ "AR’r. II. That in consideration of the land ceded, granted, relin- S¤·1<*=<>* ceded 1¤¤d¤- quished, and conveyed by article one of this agreement the United States stipulates and agrees to dispose of the same as hereinafter provided un er the provisions of the reclamation Act approved June sev- V0]- 32 P- 38** enteenth, nineteen hundred and two, the homestead, town—site, and mineral land laws, except sections sixteen and thirty-six, or an equivalent of two sections in each township, at not less than four dollars per Minimum P¤*<=€- acre, subject to the provisions in section five, the United States to pay for sections sixteen and thirty-six, or an equivalent of two sections in each township, at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, and to pay Disposaiciproceeds the said Indians the proceeds derived from the sale of said lands, and for the said Sections sixteen and thirty-six, or an equivalent of two Sections in each township, as follows: "Ninety thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, I“'*¥°“°“· · shall be expended, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, in the extension and completion, including the necessary laterals, of the s stem of irrigation now being constructed on said reservation. “C7ne hundred thousand dollars shall be laced in the Treasury of T'“·““‘“‘d· the United States to the credit of the Crowlindiansas a trust fund, the — same to remain in the Treasury for fifteen years and shall draw interest at the rate of four per centum perannum, said interest to be expended by the Secretary of the Interior in maintaining and managing said irrigation system: Pr0m`cZed_f2n·l}¢w·, That at the expiration of the fifteen grqviwl I I years above mentioned such disposition shall be made of said fund as pisiiaiéiim Oro hiihiéit the Indians, with the consent of the Secretary of the Interior, may *’°“°d· determine. ` "Two hundred and forty thousand dollars shall be expended. under ""'“*"""‘“ ‘°'““°· the direction of the Secretary of the Interior in the purchase of two- _§ear—old Southern heifers, the same to be placed upon the Crow Indian eservation and added to the present herd now owned in common by the Crow tribe of Indians. " Additional amounts may he expended for cattle from time to time, A<1¤i¤<>¤¤¤ ¤¤¢¤¤· at the request of the Indians, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior. " Fifteen thousand dollars shall be spent in the purchase of jackasses J**°’***~‘****y °'*· or Stallions, either or both, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, the same to be placed upon the Crow Reservation for the benefit of the Crow Indians. " Forty thousand dollars shall he expended under the direction of the E""*’· Secretary of the Interior in the purchase of two—year-old ewes, the same pn be placed upon the Crow Reservation for the benelit of the Crow ndians. "Forty thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, F*’“°°”· shall be expended by the Secretary of the Interior in fencing the Crow Reservation, said fence to be built of six strands of galvanized barbed cattle wire, with either cedar posts not less than four inches in diameter at the small end or iron posts set sixteen feet apart, with three metallic stays between each two posts; said fence to be well built and properly braced and anchored. v