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ARTICLE II. In consideration of the land ceded, relinquished, and conveyed by Article I of this agreement, and in full of all claims and demands of said Indians of Devils Lake Reservation, North Dakota, arising or growing out of the erroneous survey of the western boundary of their reservation in eighteen hundred and seventy-five, whereby about sixty-four thousand (64,000) acres were excluded therefrom; also in full for timber taken from their reservation for use of the military post of Fort Totten, from eighteen hundred and sixty-seven (1867) to eighteen hundred and ninety (1890) (covering the period from the time of its establishment to the time of its discontinuance), the United States stipulates and agrees to pay to said Indians, in the manner hereinafter provided, the sum of three hundred and forty-five thousand (345,000) dollars.

ARTICLE III. It is agreed that of the amount to be paid to said Indians, as stipulated in Article II of this agreement, the sum of one hundred and forty-five thousand (145,000) dollars shall be paid in cash per capita, share and share alike, to each man, woman, and child belonging on the said Devils Lake Reservation, within four months after the ratification of this agreement, and the remainder of the said sum of three hundred and forty-five thousand dollars, viz, two hundred thousand (200,000) dollars, shall be paid in cash, per capita, in ten annual installments of twenty thousand (20,000) dollars each, the first of which installments to be paid in the month of June following the said first payment of one hundred and forty-five thousand (145,000) dollars, and in the month of June of each year thereafter of the succeeding nine years covering the period of the said ten annual installments.

"ART. II. In consideration of the land ceded, relinquished, and conveyed by article one of this agreement, and in full of all claims and demands of said Indians of Devils Lake Reservation, North Dakota, arising or growing out of the erroneous survey of the western boundary of their reservation in eighteen hundred and seventy-five, whereby about sixty-four thousand acres were excluded therefrom; also in full for timber taken from their reservation for use of the military post of Fort Totten, from eighteen hundred and sixty-seven to eighteen hundred and ninety (covering the period from the time of its establishment to the time of its discontinuance), the United States stipulates and agrees to dispose of the said lands to settlers under the provisions of the homestead and town-site laws, except sections sixteen and thirty-six, or an equivalent of two sections, in each township, and except such lands as may be reserved, as hereinafter provided, and to pay to said Indians the proceeds derived from the sale of said lands; and also the United States stipulates and agrees to pay for section sixteen and thirty-six, or an equivalent of two sections, in each township, and for such lands as may be reserved for school, agency, church, and mission purposes, at the rate of three dollars and twenty-five cents per acre.

"ART. III. It is agreed that out of the funds accruing from the sale of the said lands there shall be paid to the said Indians, in cash, per capita, share and share alike, to each man, woman, and child belonging on the said reservation, within four months after the date of the proclamation of the President of the United States opening the said lands to settlement, the sum of one hundred and forty-five thousand dollars; or so much thereof as may have accrued from the sale of the said lands; and the remainder of the sums derived from the sale of the said lands shall be paid to the said Indians in annual installments not to exceed thirty thousand dollars in any one year, and the first of which installments to be paid in the month of June of the year following the first payment, and in the month of June of each year thereafter until the whole proceeds of the sale of the said lands shall have been disbursed.