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350 FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. C11. 398. 1896. kdm Bum`] or Indian, amount of compen ation paid, and out of what item or fund ` of the appropriation paid. Also the number of employees in the Indian Bureau in Washington, when employed, in what capacity employed, male or female, full name, amount of compensation paid and out of what fund paid, and under what law employed. AGREEMENT WITH THE INDIANS OF THE FORT BELKNAP INDIAN RESERVATION IN MONTANA. B·;ir¤•¤;¤`(f11vi¤F¤¤ Sec. 8. Whereas William C. Pollock, George Bird Grinnell, and '"'P ”`"‘ Walter M. Clements, commissioners on the part of the United States, did on the ninth day of October, anno Domini eighteen hundred and ninety-five, conclude an agreement with the Indians of the Fort Belknap Reservation in the State of Montana, which said agreement is in words and iigures as follows (Senate Document Numbered One hundred and seventeen, Fifty-fourth Congress, first session), to wit: Agreement concluded October ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety- five, with the Indians of the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana, by William C. Pollock, George Bird Grinnell, and Walter M. Clements, commissioners. °°¤¤*¤•*°’*°¤· This agreement, made and entered into this ninth day of October, anno Domini eighteen hundred and ninety-tive, by and between William O. Pollock, George Bird Grinnell, and Walter M. Clements, commissioners on the part of the United States, and the undersigned Indians, residing upon and attached to the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in the State of Montana, the same constituting a majority of the male adult Indians belonging upon said reservation, witnesseth that, Anrrorn I. 1·••¤»¤¤¤·n¤i¤¤•·¤- For and in consideration of the sum to be paid and the obligations assumed on the part of the United States, as hereinafter set forth, said Indians of the Fort Belknap Reservation hereby convey, relinquish, and release to the United States all their right, title, and interest in and to that portion of their present reservation, in the State of Montana, lying and being within the following-described lines, to wit: Beginning at the 54-mile boundary monument, at a point about the middle of the crest of Mission Butte, and following a straight line, bearing (magnetic) north 17 degrees 30 minutes west, to the highest point on a limestone ridge on the south side of the north fork of People’s Creek, and running at right angles to the course of said creek at this point; thence in a straight line, bearing (magnetic) north 2 degrees 45 minutes west, to a rounded, timbered knob ou the crest of the limestone reef on the north side of the north fork of People’s Creek, and parallel with its general course; thence easterly, ibllowing the crest of the last-mem tioned limestone reef north of the north fork of People’s Creek, to a low rounded hill on said limestone reef, where it dips down to the valley of Lodge Pole, or Red Mountain Creek; thence in a straight line, north 74 degrees east (magnetic) to the wooded limestone ridge known as Travois Butte, where a line drawn from the summit of Granite Butte (the peak south of the Gl; mile boundary monument) north 15 degrees east (magnetic) would intersect it; thence along said straight line to the southern boundary line of the present reservation; thence along said southern boundary line of the present reservation to the point of beginning. Aarxcmt Il. Ccncidvmicn- For and in consideration of the conveyance, eession, and relinquishment hereinbefore made, the United States hereby covenants and agrees to advance and expend during the period of four years, beginning from and after the expiration of the payments provided for in the