194 FIIBTY-EIG HTH oononnss. sm. 11. on. 1402. 1904. _ pa of commissioners and their expenses, and for removal of Indians and for their allotments, to be reimbursed to the United States out of the proceeds of sale of their lands, one hundred and fifty thousand _ dollars. m{{ggr¤**¤¤¤*N¤¤h _ omrrnwss or Nomar DAKOTA. -*g¤¤*m¤¤*‘Y**h*h€ Whereas the Turtle Mountain band of Chi pewa Indians did on the 'ii¤f;¤ii1ll1°»fi¤i¢i°:]»iiiixf¢In(l second day of October, eighteen hundred arid ninety-two, enter into an agreement with the United States through the commissioners of the _ United States duliy appointed for that purpose, and
- "”m*’I°- Whereas it is eemed for the best interests of the said Indians that
the said agreement be in some respects modified and amended, it is peachy enacted that said agreement be amended so as to read as 0 ows: m{';_{,gQg,j*,;g: °* LLARHOIE I. The friendly relations heretofore existing between the Turtle Mountain band of Chippewa Indians and the United States shall me ·>¤ 1-¤¤···· b°i°Ar°¤·¤V°m°1i°t°rIil°d'1m` me M an me 1 my · B _ , ‘ y cm: . e oun o " a_ ‘ lll lh Umm mm consideration of the covenants and stipulations herei fter contained,. do hereby cede, alienate, and conveyto the United States all the claims, ‘ estate rgght, title, and interest of the Turtle Mountain band of Chippewa In ians or any of them as members of said band of Indians, m and to all lands, tenements, and hereditaments situate, lying, and being 1’~<>¤m¤¤i¤¤— in- the State of North Dakota, excepting and reserving from.this conveyance, for the urposes mentioned in Article III hereof, that tract of land particularly mentioned and set apart by an Executive order of the President of the United States bearing date the third day of June, anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty-four, to which reference is hereby had for more particular description, the said reserve being twelve miles in len th and six miles in breadth and now occupied as a reservation by the Turtle Mountain band of Chippewa Indians. S°°°°1*°t°"l‘“°”‘ "It being expressly stipulated that the land now occupied and used for school, church, and government purposes shall be so held at the pleasure of the United States, and may, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior of the United States, he patented, when the interest of the United States, the Indians thereon, or the efhcient school conduct requires. The Secretary of the Interior ma 1, as occasion requires, set apart other land in said reserve for schools and other public uses. ,,§,‘j,_’;‘g’,_°“‘* *PP°" "Aa·no1.m III. The land, woods, and waters above reserved for the Turtle Mountain band of Chippewa Indians, subject to the stipulations contained in Article II of this treaty and agreement, shall he held as the common property of the Turtle Mountain hand of Chippewa Indians; and it is agreed that the United States shall, as soon as it can convenientllylbe done, cause the land hereby reserved and held for the use of the rtle Monmtain band of Chippewa Indians to be surve ed,' as public lands are surveyed, for the purpose of enabling such Indians as esire to take homesteads, and the selections shall be so made as to include in each case, as far as possible, the residence and im rovements of the Indians making selection, `ving to each an equitahle proportion of natural advantages, and wdien it is not practicable to so apportion the entire homestead of land in one body it may be set apart in separate tracts, not less than forty acres in any one tract, un css the same shall abut uppn a lake; but all assignments of land in severalty ufljggf °P°¤ *° 5*** shall conform to the Government survey. And lands in said reserva- ` tion which shall not be taken by said Indians within such time as may he fixed by the Secretary of the Interior after the ratification of this E"°“‘°°*'“"°*`- agreement may he opened for settlement as other public lands. The survey of this land shall be made as Government surveys and at no expense to the Indians.
