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1018 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ou. 543. 1891. east, heretofore set apart by a written agreement between said Citizen Band of Pottawatomie Indians and certain Catholic Fathers, for religious, school, and farm purposes, shall not be subject to allotment or homestead entry, but shall be held by the United States for the Sacred Heart Mission, the name under which said association of Fathers are conducting the church, school, and farm on said land. And in any lawful manner, to be provided by Congress, shall be conveyed to said Fathers for the uses above expressed. Aimcu m. Anrrcnm III. ¤mM<»ul1¤w·¤=•· It is further agreed that the number entitled to take and who shall take allotments, including those who have already taken allotments, is fourteen hundred. But if it shall be ascertained that a greater number than fourteen hundred shall be entitled to and sha take allotments hereunder, then there shall be deducted from the sum hereinafter agreed, to be paid to said Pottawatomie Indians the sum of one dollar for each acre of land allotted to those in excess of said number. www- Anrrcnn IV. P•!¤¤¤!¤¤¤¤¤‘¤>¤f¤¤· It is further agreed, as a further and only additional consideration h°°"°h°°°m°d‘ for such relinquishment of all title, claim, and interest of every kind and character in an to said lands, that the United States will pay to said Citizen Band of Pottawatomie Indians, in said tract of country, within four months after this agreement shall have been ratified by Congress, the sum of one hun ed and sixty thousand dollars for making homes and other improvements on the said allotments. And if it shall be ascertained that said Citizen Band of Pottawatomie Indians did purchase and pay the United States for the tract of country

e¤trorm¤ds above described in accordance with the provisions of a treaty between

the United States and said Citizen Band of Pottawatomie Indians, proclaimed August seven, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and that the United States did retain and yet retains and s all continue to retain of said Indians’ funds the sum of one hundred and nineteen thousand seven hundred and ninety dollars and seventy-nve cents on account of such purchase, then the United States agrees to pay to said Citizen Ban of Pottawatomie Indians the ad itional sum of one hundred and nineteen thousand seven hundred and ninety dollars and seventy-five cents. Pwuwnmymmw. All payments of money herein provided for shall be made per capita to said Indians. •¤¤-·V· Aizrrcmz V. UM- This agreement shall have eifect after it shall have been ratified by the Congress of the United States. “‘¤"*°°'°* In witness whereof, the day and year first above written, the said David H. Jerome, Alfred M. Wilson and Warren G. Sayre, have hereunto set their hands for and on behalf of the United States, and Alexander B. Peltier, Joseph Moose, John Anderson, Stephen Negahriquet, John B. Pambogo, Alexander Rhodd and Davis Hardin, the _ Business Committee of said Citizen Band of Pottawatomie Indians authorized by law and custom and by General Council now and here present and in session, so to do have hereunto set their hands an the adult male members of said Band present representifrilg in their families the number set opposite their names, respectly have hereunto set their hands. " ,,{,,,€'F“E-j'§‘,Y,L,*P§§_' Spc. 9. The following agreement entered into on behalf of the ¤f¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¢ United States with the Absentee Shawnee Indians, on the twenty- sixth day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety, and si ed bv said Commissioners on the part of the United States, and-nby White