all be
reserved from said cession the land described as follows: "Commencing at
a point at the margin of Clearwater River, on the south side thereof,
which is 300 yards below where the middle thread of Lapwai Creek empties
into said river; run thence up the margin of said Clearwater River at
low-water mark 900 yards to a point; run thence south 250 yards to a
point; thence southwesterly in a line to the southeast corner of a stone
building partly finished as a church; thence west 300 yards to a point;
thence from said point northerly in a straight line to the point of
beginning; and also the adjoining tract of land lying southerly of said
tract, on the south end thereof, commencing at the said corner of said
church, and at the point 300 yards west thereof and run a line from each
of said points, one of said lines running on the east side and the other
on the west of said Lapwai Creek, along the foothills of each side of
said creek, up the same sufficiently far so that a line being drawn east
and west to intersect the aforesaid lines shall embrace within its
boundaries, together with the first above-described tract of land, a
sufficient quantity of land as to include and comprise 640 acres."

And excepting the land embraced in the William Craig donation claim, in
township 35 north, range 3 west. (See case of Caldwell _vs._
Robinson, Federal Reporter, vol. 59, p. 653); and

Whereas it is further stipulated and agreed by article 6 of the
agreement that any religious society or other organization now occupying
under proper authority, for religious or educational work among the
Indians, any of the lands ceded shall have the right for two years from
the date of the ratification of this agreement within which to purchase
the land so occupied, at the rate of $3 per acre, the same to be conveyed
to such society or organization by patent in the usual form; and

Whereas it is further agreed by article 9 of the agreement that the
lands by this agreement ceded, those retained, and those allotted to the
said Nez Perce Indians shall be subject for a period of twenty-five
years to all the laws of the United States prohibiting the introduction
of intoxicants into the Indian country, and that the Nez Perce Indian
allottees, whether under the care of an Indian agent or not, shall for a
like period be subject to all the laws of the United States prohibiting
the sale or other disposition of intoxicants t