Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 34 Part 1.djvu/397

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FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 3504. 1906. 367 For support and civilization of the confederated tribes and bands Aggycg? SPNHSS ginger Warm Springs Agency, and for pay of employees, four thousand diggppérr, em., or ino ars. S' For support and civilization of the Walla Walla, Cayuse, and Uma- §[,*;},§*,Q"§}g*·°*°· tilla tribes, Oregon, includin pay of employees three thousand dollars.` Whereas James McLaugh%n, an Indian inspector for and on behalf mf§“‘“““‘ R°“°"'“‘ of the Secretary of the Interior, under and by virtue of an Act of Vdl.30,P·592. Congress gpproved July first, eighteen hundred and nin -eight C°°“i°“ °‘¥‘“” °*· (Thirtieth nited States Statute Laws, page five hund venty*— one), entitled "An Act making a propriations for e current and contingent expenses of the Indian Igepartment and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and for other purposes," did, on the seventeenth day of June, nineteen hundred and one, make and conclude an agreement with the Klamath and Modoc tribes and Yahooskin band of Snake Indians, residing on the Klamath Indian Reservation, in the State of Oregon, which agreement is as follows: This agreement, made and entered into on the seventeenth day of AH¤“>€¤°¤*- June, nineteen hundred and one, by and between James McLaughlin, U. S. Indian inspector, on the part of the United States, and the Klamath and Modoc tribes and Yahooskin band of Snake Indians, belonging to the Klamath Indian Agency, in the State of Oregon, witnesseth : .__ Akrrcna I. The said Klamath and other Indians belonging to the I·°¤"” °°*’°d· Klamath Agency, Oregon, for the consideration hereina er named, do hereby cede, surrender, rant, and convey to the United States all their claim, right, title, and interest in and to all that part of the Klamath Indian Reservation lying between the boundaries described in the treaty with said Indians concluded October fourteenth, eighteen V°l·1“’P- W'- hundred and sixtv-four, and proclaimed February seventeenth, eighteen hundred and seventy, as confirmed by the Klamath boundary commission in their report to the Secretary of the Interior, dated December eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and the reservation boundary lines as established by the survey a proved in eighteen hundred and eighty-eight by the General Land) Office, the tract of land hereby ceded and relinquished comprising six hundred and twenty-one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four acres. Aurora II. ln consideration of the land ceded, relinquished, and d§§’”°“° *° I“‘ conveyed by Article I of this a_ reement, and in full of all claims and demands of said Klamath and oder Indians arisin or growing out of the erroneous survey of the outboundaries of tieir reservation in eighteen hundred and seventy-one, the United States stipulates and agrees to pay to and expend for said Indians, in the manner hereinafter provided, the sum of five hundred and thirtv-seven thousand and seven dollars and twenty cents ($537,007.20), being at the rate of eighty-six and 7;*,}*,, (.86;%;*5) cents per acre, the price awarded for said lands by the Klamath boundary commissioners in their report to the Sccretar of the Interior, dated December eighteenth, eig teen hundred andyninety-six. _ Arrritnnn lll. lt is agreed that of the amount to be id to the said mf;?' ‘f“P“" °‘““'“’“‘ Klamath and 'other Indians, as stipulated in Article Ilubf this agreement, the sum of twenty-five thousand ·dollars shall be paid in cash pro rata, share and share alike, to each man, woman, and c ild belongin to said Klamath, and other tribes and under the jurisdiction of the _ Kliimath Indian Agency, within one hundred and fifty days from and after the date of the ratification of this agreement, and the sum of three hundred and fifty thousand dollars shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of said Indians, and shall draw interest at the rate of live per centum per annum, which interest _ _ _ shall be paid to said Indians annually per capita in cash, and that the ,ig}2,ili>e¤ii°2iidi»,i;°i¤}f remainder of said sum of five hundred and t irty-seven thousand and