334 FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 398. 1896. material, per eighth article of same treaty, one thousand six hundred dollars· S¤!¤¤·1¤· For support and maintenance of day and industrial schools, including purchase, erection, and repairs of school buildings, in accordance with ven. is. v-W- article seven of the treaty of April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, which article is continued in force for twenty years by sec- "¤¤·‘*5·v·*°*· tion seventeen of the Act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, twenty-five thousand dollars; in all, one million three hunfjlqmw ,0 Sm dred and iortyeight thousand five hundred dollars: Provided, That me and rnnamin the provisions of section seventeen of the Act entitled “An Act to divide igdiilzdmiillgiidi In B portion of the reservation of the Sioux Nation of Indians in Dakota into separatereservationsaiid to secure the relinquishment of the Indian title to the remainder, and for other purposes," approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, shall be construed to extend and apply to each head of a family or single person over the age of eighteen years of the Flandreau band of Sioux Indians and of the Santee Sioux v¤1.25.p.¤w. in Nebraska, who was entitled under section seven of said Act to take · an allotment or not, at his or her option, and who accepted one dollar per acre in lieu of such allotment, and each head of a family or single person over the age of eighteen years shall be entitled to all the rights and benefits of said section seventeen, except that of taking an allotment, in the same manner as though he or she had taken an allotment thereunder. m§“{§;:j_°§,,m§ The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to pmouslpropervr ascertain the number of Sioux and Ponca Indians in South Dakota and v°"°°·"°°°‘ Nebraska who would not be benefited by the fulfillment of the proviso of section seventeen of an Act entitled “An Act to divide a portion of the reservation of the Great Sioux Nation of Indians in Dakota into separate reservations and secure the relinquishment of the Indian title to the remainder, and for other pnrposes,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, by the receipt from the United States of the articles of personal property therein mentioned and who desire to have the same converted into money, and in lien of such articles of ‘ personal property, or any part thereof he may think proper, the Secretary of the Interior shall convert or commute the same, or so much thereof as he may think proper, into money, and pay the amount thereof to such Indians; and the payment under the provisions of this Act shall be held to be a liquidation of the obligation of the United States to said Indians under that portion of said section seventeen, so far as the articles of personal property therein named are concerned. xpomgngw Live: That the Lower Brulé Indians who were living on the Rosebud Reser- §§$$.,{’,,,,,_ °'° °‘ vation, in South Dakota, south of White River, prior to the third day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety, are hereby allowed to return and ' select the allotments of land occupied by them prior to July third, eighteen hundred and ninety; and said lands shall be surveyed and patented to said Indians under the provisions of the Acts of Congress in relation to the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians.
- ·¤¤<=¢i<·¤- That such of the Lower Brulé Indians as desire to do so may take
allotments of land on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, south of White River, in South Dakota, the same as they might have done prior to h$p¢;=·¤}tj_·:ui¤Ij:;g:: March , eighteen hundred and eighty-nine; and the Secretary of B;·n\(, fund; the Interior is hereby directed to pay to the Rosebud Indians the sum of one dollar per acre for all lands so taken and allotted, and the money to make such payment is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and charged against any funds belonging to said Lower Brulé Indians now in the Treasury of the United States. ms,;}" *· Y ° ¤ *° ° ¤ sroux, Ynrxron rams. For eighth of twenty installments (last series), to be paid to them or v¤1.n,p.·n4. expended for their benefit, per fourth article of treaty of April nineteenth, eighteen hundred and fiftyeight, fifteen thousand dollars; S“*•*•*•*·°¤°** For subsistence and civilization of two thousand Yankton Sioux,
