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FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 543. 1891. 1025 any rules or regulations of the Interior Deplartment, taken an allot- ` ment, such an allotment, at the option of the allottee, shall be confirmed and governed by all the conditions attached to allotments taken under this agreement. "ARTICLE IX. hmm 11 " This agreement shall have effect whenever it shall be ratified by meet. the Congress of the United States. "In witness whereof the said Commissioners on the part of the United States have hereunto set their hands, and the undersigned members of said tribes, for themselves and their tribes, set their hands the day and year first above written. “DAVID H. Jmzomc, S¤z¤¤¤¤r¤¤. "ALFRED M. WILSON, "WARREN G. Savmz, " C'0mwnissione#rs." Left Hand, his x mark, and five hundred and sixty-four others. Sec. 14. That for the purpose of making the allotments rovided Expenses ot mee.- for in said agreement, including the pay and expenses of the neces- "‘°""*· sary special agent or agents hereby authorized to be appointed by the President for the purpose, and the necessary resurvelys, there be, and hereby is, appropriated, out of any money in the reasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereofp as may be necessary. Sec. 15. That for the purpose of carrying the provisions of fore- mmm puma m going agreement into eifect there is hereby appropriated, out of any °’ I"°"‘”“"‘ money in the Treasur not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one million five hundred thousand dollars, of which amount the sum of one million dollars shall be placed in the Treasury to the credit of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians, parties to the foregoing agreement, to bear interest at the rate of five per centum per annum, which interest shall be paid to them per capita annually; the balance of five hundred thousand dollars to e expended as provided for in article seven of said agreement, to be immediately available. And the sum of two million nine hundred and ninety-one thousand Payment to omefour hundred and fifty dollars be, and the same is hereby, appro- §Q}"’},,‘,§}.‘_§,"‘f,,““f;,°,}§,‘g priated out of any mon? in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, xgged gg to ay the Choctaw an Chickasaw Nations of Indians or all the _ ` right, title, interest, and claim which said nations of Indians may have in, and to certain lands now occupied by, the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians under executive order; said lands (lying south of the Canadian River, and now occupied by the said heyenne and Arapahoe Indians, said lands have been ceded in trust bg article three of the treat between the United States and said hoctaw v,,L,4_,,_-W and Chickasaw Nlations of Indians, which was concluded April twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and proclaimed on the tenth day o August of the same year, and whereof there remains, after deducting allotments as provided by said agreement, a residue ascertained by survey to contain two mil ion three hundred and ninety-three thousand one hundred and sixty acres; three- Divisicnorpuymeut. fourths of this appropriation to be paid to such person or persons as are or shall be duly authorized by the laws of said Choctaw Nation to receive the same, at such time and in such sums as directed and reuired b the legislative authority of said Choctaw Nation, and one- Iourth oz this a propriation to be paid to such person or persons as are or shall be d)uly authorized by the laws of said Chickasaw Nation to receive the same, at such times and in such sums as directed and required by the legislative authority of said Chickasaw N ation; s*rA*r L-—voL XXVI-—-65