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258 FIFTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 1484. 190é. after entry; fifty cents per acre within fonr years after entry, and fifty cents per acre within six months after the expiration of five years after entry. After the expiration of six months after the same shall be opened for settlement and entry the price shall be two dollars and fifty cents r acre, to be paid as follows: Seventy-five cents when entry is madid; fifty cents per acre within two years after entry; Efty cents per acre within three years after entry; fifty cents per acre within four years after entry, and twenty-five cents per acre within rorreicumonhnure six months after the expiration of five years after entry: Provided, °°"°" That in case any entryman fails to make such payment or any of them within the time stated all rights in and to the land covered by his o1· her entry shall at once cease, and any payments theretofore made shall be forfeited, and the entry shall be forfeited and held for cancellation 0¤¤Sr¤¤¤z¤;0¤{¤- 421 and the same shall be cancelled: And provided, That nothing in this R' "S°°` ’p'Act shall prevent homestead settlers from commuting their entries under section twenty-three hundred and one, Revise Statutes, by paying for the land entered the price fixed herein, receivingxpredit for rss. payments previously made. In addition to thefrice to paid for y the land, the entryman shall pay.the same fees an commissions at the time of commutation or final entry, as now provided by law, where the price of the land is one dollar and twenty-five centgper acre: And MS? of ¤¤<¤¤i>¤¤¤*¤¢¤¢¤¤- P Sec. 3. That the proceeds received from the sale of said lands in ’p'` conformity with this Act shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States, and paid to the Rosebud Indians or expended on their account only as provided in article three of said agreement as herein amended. m§gg‘g;¤¤¤ *0* ¤¢h*><>l Sec. 4. That sections sixteen and thirty-six of the lands hereby ' acquired in each township shall not be subject to entry, but shall be reserved for the use of the common schools and paid for by the United Dgggm *0 $0*1**1 States at two dollars and fifty cents per acre, and the same are hereby selecilonsinlieuoi granted to the State of South Dakota for such purpose; and in case ““°“°d 1'·“°" any of said sections, or arts thereof, of the land in said county of Gregory are lost to said State of South Dakota by reason of allotments thereof to any Indian or Indians, now holding the same, or otherwise, the governor of said State, with the approval of the Secretary of the interior, is hereby authorized, in the tract herein ceded. to locate other lands not occupied not exceeding two sections in any one township, which shall be paid for by the United States as herein provided in rppantity equal to the loss, and such selections shall be made prior to t e opening of such lands to settlement. Hj(£{{rg£g>cj;;¤jlg¤ f¤¤ Sec. 5. hat there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the ”` Treasury not otherwise appropriated. the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as map be necessary, to pay for the lands glpangad to the State of South Da ota, as provided in section four of t is ct. m;·xjg*{,Q,Q>,j‘f,yf?·°V°m· Sec. 6. That nothing in this Act contained shall in any manner bind the United States to purchase any portion of the land herein described, except sections sixteen and thirty-six or the equivalent in each township, or to dispose of said land except as provided herein; or to guar~ antee to find purchasers for said lands, or any portion thereof, it being the intention of this Act that the United States shall act as trustee for said Indians to dispose of said lands and to expend and pay over the procesds received from the sale thereof only as received, as herein provide . Approved, April 23, 1904.