1362 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ons. 449, 450. 1899. customhouse, and other Government offices, at the city of Tampa, Limit: ms. Florida. The site and building thereon, when completed upon plans and specifications to be previously made and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall not exceed the cost of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, nor shall any site be purchased until estimates for the erection of a building which will furnish sufficient accommodations for the transaction of the public business, and which shall not exceed in cost the balance of the sum herein limited after the site shall have been purchased and paid for, shall have been approved by the Secretary of the Treasury; and no purchase of site nor plan for said building shall be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury involving an expenditure exceeding the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for site Pmem. and building: Provided, That no money to be appropriated for this Tm°· purpose shall be available until a valid title to the site of said building shall be vested in the United States, to be approved by the Attorney- General, and until the State of Florida shall have ceded to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over the same, during the time the United States shall be or remain the owner thereof, for all purposes except the administration of the criminal laws of said State and the service of any Fmspm. civil process therein: Provided, That the site shall leave the building unexposed to danger from fire in adjacent buildings by an open space of not less than forty feet, including streets and alleys, around the same. Approved, March 3, 1899. ' CHAP. 450.- n Act To ratif a ee nts with the Indi ns the L Brule
and Rosebmd rasgisvations in SohtheI)a1:>(ta, and making anaappibpriatiddvtb carry
0 581110 1D 0 0 00 . di:gr:;mI:¤M¤vi¢i}¤r}11¤· Whereas James McLaughlin, United States Indian inspector, did on md Bum,',;:}' ,,,8: the first day of March, eighteen· hundred and ninety-eight, make and
- ¤¤•>¤¤- conclude an agreement with the male adult Indians of the Lower Brule
band of the Sioux tribe, occupying or belonging on the Lower Brule Reservation in South Dakota, which said agreement is as follow : AGREEMENT. _This Agreement made and entered into on the first day of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, by and between James McLaughlin, U. S. Indian Inspector, on the part of the United States, and the Lower Brule band of the Sioux tribe of Indians occupying or belonging on the Lower Brule reservation, in South Dakota, witnesseth: ARTICLE 1. The said Indians belonging on the Lower Brule Reservation hereby consent and agree that those of their tribe now south of the White River on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota may remain thereon; that they may take with them and have converted ‘ into the permanent hind of the Indians belonging upon the Rosebud Reservation their proportional or pro rata share of the funds now in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Indians belong- 1.ng_upon the Lower Brule Reservation; and that the Lower Brule Inéliagii fvléo havefscilrelmoveid (meg become and are hereafter to be consi er n ians o the ose u eservation. Lands relinquished. ARTICLE 2. In consideration of the lands upon the Lower Brule Reservation abandoned by the Indians who have removed to the Rosebud Reservation, and in order that the United States may reimburse itself for the lands purchased for the Indians last mentioned upon the Rosebud Reservation, the said Indians of the Lower Brule Reservation do hereby cede and relinquish to the United States a tract of territory constituting a portion of the Lower Brule Reservation, and estimated go conbtfuin ahogt one hundred and twenty thousand (120,000) acres, escri as o ows: Townships 107, 108 and 109, N. Range 79 W. of the 5th Principal Meridian; also Sections 5, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 27, 28, 29, 80, 31, 32, and 34, and west half of Sections 2, 11, 14, 23, 26 and 3e, in Township 109 N. Range 78 W. of 5th Prin. Mer.; also
