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FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 290. 1894. shall send to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs his certificate that such consent has been voluntarily given before such child shall be ¤¤r¤;>v(=_¤;d2;i¤¤¤· removed from such reservation. And it shall be unlawful for any me °!Indian agent or other employe of the Government to induce, or seek. to induce, by withholding rations or by other improper means, the parents or next of kin of any Indian to consent to the removal oi any Indian child beyond the limits of any reservation. AGREEMENT WITH THE YANKTON s1oUx OR DAKOTA INDIANS, IN SOUTH DAKOTA. agi-t•¤•¤¤ wan. Sec. 12. The following agreement, made by J. C. Adams and John J. §$,f,‘;_‘;k°$}__°,l'_§,,,e}{f Cole, commissioners on the part of the United St3»b0S,-Wlth the cmefs, headmen, and other male adults of the Yankton tr·1be of Sioux or Dakota Indians upon the Yankton Reservation, in the State of South Dakota, on the thirty-iirst day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and now on tile in the Department of the Interior, and signed by said commissioners on behalf of the United States, and by Charles Martin, Edgar Lee, Charles Jones, Isaac Hepikigan, Stephen Cloud Elk, Edward Yellow Bird, Iron Lingthing, Eli Brockway, Alex Brunot Francis Willard, Louis Shunk, Joseph Caje, Albion Hitika, John Selwyn, Charles Rec, Joseph Cook, Brigham Young, William Highrock, Frank Felix, and Philip Ree, on behalf of the said Yankton tribe of Sioux Indians, is hereby accepted, ratified, and conlirmed. ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT. ¤·¤¤¤¤*••i¤¤¤•- Whereas J. C. Adams and John J. Cole, duly appointed commissioners on the part of the United States, did, on the thirty-nrst day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, conclude an agreement with the chiefs, headmen, and other male adults of the Yankton tribe of Sioux or Dacotah Indians upon the Yankton Reservation, in the State of South Dakota, which said agreement is as follows: vox 2v.p.m. Whereas a clause in the act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fullilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth (30th), eighteen hundred and ninety-three (1893), and for other purposes, approved July 13th, 1892, authorizes the “Secretary of the Interior to negotiate with any Indians for the surrender of portions of their respective reservations, any agreement thus negotiated being subject to subsequent ratification by Congress; " and Whereas the Yankton tribe of Dacotab—now spelled Dakota and so spelled in this agreement-or Sioux Indians is willing to dispose of a portion of the land set apart and reserved to said tribe, by the first article of the treaty of April (19th) nineteenth, eighteen hundred and iit‘ty-eight (1858), between said tribe and the United States, and situated in the State of South Dakota: Now, therefore, this agreement made and entered into in pursuance of the provisions of the act of Congress approved July thirteenth 13th), eighteen hundred and ninety-two (1892), at the Yankton indian Agency, South Dakota, by J . C. Adams of Webster, S. D., John J. Cole of St. Louis, Mo., and I. W. French of the State of Neb., on the part of the United States, duly authorized and empowered thereto, and the chiefs, headmen, and other male adult members of said Yankton tribe of Indians, witnesseth: ARTICLE I. °_§·'_;j·¤i·>¢¢¢¤¤¤¤¤• The Yankton tribe of Dakota or Sioux Indians hereby cede, sell, relinquish, and convey to the United States all their claim, right, title, ‘ and interest in and to all the unallotted lands within the limits of the reservation set apart to said Indians as aforesaid.