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FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. ISS. 1895. 889 srssuron AND wlmriaron mnmns. Si¤¤¤¢<>¤¤ ¤<1W¤1·- petons. For eighth of thirteen installments of eighteen thousand four hundred dollars each, to be paid per capita, as per third article of agreement with the Sisseton and Wahpeton Indians, dated September twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, ratified by Act of March V¤1·26.r-1037. » third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, eighteen thousand four hundred dollars. That for the purpose of paying to the scouts and soldiers of the Sis- €,f°¤gg;{¤; g>ug,<j¤¤*£· seton, Wahpeton, Medawaukanton, and Wapakoota bands of Sioux em? m ' Indians, who were enrolled and entered into the military service of the United States, and served in suppressing what is known as the Sioux outbreak of eighteen hundred and sixiytwo, or who were enrolled and served in the armies of the United States in the war of the rebellion, and are now living and to the descendants and members of the families of such scouts and soldiers as are now dead, who were not parties to the agreement entered into between the United States and the Sisseton and Wahpeton bands of Dakota and Sioux Indians on the twelfth day of V°1·“· P· M6- . December, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, for the reason that they were not residents of the said Sisseton Reservation, and did reside elsewere, their pro rata share of the amount found due said scouts and soldiers for annuities under the provisions of the fourth article of the V<>l·1°»P·95°- treaty of July twenty-third, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, which treaty was proclaimed on the twenty-fourth day of February, in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, and which annuities were to be paid to said Indians annually for the period of fifty years, commencing with the first day of July, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and have now been paid to the said scouts and soldiers and their descendants under the provision of the Act of Congress of March third, v°1- 2**- P- ***3*- eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and of March third, eighteen hun- V°I·2"·1>·°24· _ dred and ninety-three, to July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, _ leaving to be paid to said Indians, eight installments of said annuities °"P""’ “"°““‘“°”** still unpaid, amounting in the aggregate to the Indians aforesaid and their descendants to the sum of forty-nine thousand and sixty-six dollars and sixty-four cents, for the annuities due the iirst day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven; and the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety- ` nine, and the iirst day of July, nineteen hundred, and the first day of July, nineteen hundred and one, and the first day of July, nineteen hundred and two; which sum of forty-nine thousand and sixtysix dol- Di¤¢rib¤M¤¤ per lars and sixty-four cents is hereby appropriated, out of the money in °'”i°“' the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be paid in equal shares and per capita to said scouts and soldiers who are still living, who were not parties to the agreement aforesaid. and the share of any such scout or soldier should receive, if living, shall, in the event he is dead, be divided pro rata between his wife and children, who are not parties to said agreement; and the pay rolls upon which payments have been made to said scouts and soldiers and their wives and children, under the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, shall be conclusive in all cases where the name of the scout or soldier, or of his widow or children appear upon said roll, except in cases where deaths have subsequently occurred, and except in cases where names have been carried upon said roll of Indians who are parties to the said agreement of the twelfth day of December, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and have received annuities thereunder, which names shall be dropped from said roll: _ And provided, That the names of no children shall be enrolled who are Im chmmnto not the natural children of such scout or soldier, and the names of bsumppai. any adopted children heretofore placed upon said roll shall be dropped therefrom.