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FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 290. 1894. 329 east side and the other on the west of said Lapwai Creek; along the foothills of each side of said creek; up the same sufficiently far so that a line being drawn east and west to intersect the aforesaid lines shall embrace within its boundaries, together with the first above-described tract of land, a sufficient quantity of land as to include and comprise six hundred and forty acres;" for which described tracts of land the United States stipulates and agrees to pay_to William G. Langford, his gilhm G. Laugheirs or assigns, the sum of twenty thousand dollars, upon the execu- f°p.;m,m of 1,,,.; tion by said Langford, his heirs or assigns, of a release and relinquish- fw'"- ment to the United States of all right, title, interest, or claim, eithe1· legal or equitable, in and to said tracts of land, derived by virtue of a quit-claim deed of February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty- eight, to the said William G. Langford, from Langdon S. Ward, treasurer of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, which release and relinquishment shall be satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior, and it is stipulated and agreed by said Nez Perce Indians that upon the execution and approval of such release and relinquishment the right of occupancy of said Indians in said described tracts shall terminate and cease and the complete title thereto immediately vest in the United States: Provided, That any member of the said Nez d,$};°*¤°¤*¤ *0 I¤· Perce tribe of Indians entitled to an allotment now occupying and ` having valuable improvementsupon any of said lands not already occupied or improved by the United States may have the same allotted to him in such subdivisions as shall be prescribed and approved by the Secretary of the Interior. in lieu of an equal quantity of agricultural land allotted to him elsewhere; and for this purpose shall relinquish any patent that may have been issued to him before the title to said . “Langford" tracts of land shall vest in the United States, and shall have a new patent issued to him of the form and legal effect prescribed by the nfth section of the act of February eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven (twenty-fourth Statutes, three hundred and eighty- eight), covering the new allotment and thatiportion of the former allotment not surrendered. It is further agreed hat five acres of said tract, upon which the Indian Presbyterian Church is located, as long as same shall remain a church, shall be patented to the trustees of said church; that the said five acres shall not include improvements made by the United States; the said five acres to be selected under the direction of the Commissioner of Indian Aflairs. Anricrn III. In consideration for the lands ceded, sold, relinquished, and conveyed 0·•¤·*¤·¤¤¤¤· as aforesaid the United States stipulates and agrees to pay to the said Nez Perce Indians the sum of one million six hundred and twenty-six thousand two hundred and twenty-two dollars, of which amount the sum of six hundred and twenty-six thousand two hundred and twenty- ru capita mututwo dollars shall be paid to said Indians per capita as soon as prac- *“'“‘ ticable after the ratification of this agreement. The remainder of said sum of one million six hundred and twenty-six thousand two hun- Fund. dred and twenty-two dollars shall he deposited in the Treasury of the _ United States to the credit of the “N es Perces Indians, of Idaho,” and shall bear interest at the rate of live per centum per annum, which principal and interest shall be paid to said Indians per capita as fol- P¤r¤¤¤¢¤· lows, to wit: At the expiration of one year from the date of the ratification of this agreement the sum of fifty thousand dollars, and semiannually thereafter the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars with the interest on the unexpended portion of the fund of one mnllion dollars until the entire amount shall have been paid, and no part of the funds to be derived from the cession of lands by this agreement made shall be diverted or withheld from the disposition made by this article on account of any depredation or other act committed by any Nez Perce