of
said agreement; and

Whereas a written agreement was concluded with said Crow Indians on the
27th day of August, 1892, under and by virtue of the following clause in
the Indian appropriation act of Congress approved July 13, 1892, to wit:

* * * To enable the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion, to
appoint a commission to negotiate with the Crow Indians of Montana for
a modification of the agreement concluded with said Indians December 8,
1890, and ratified by Congress March 3, 1891, and to pay the necessary
and actual expenses of said commissioners: _Provided_, That no such
modification shall be valid unless assented to by a majority of the
male adult members of the Crow tribe of Indians and be approved by the
Secretary of the Interior.

Which said agreement was assented to by a majority of the male adult
members of the Crow tribe of Indians, as attested by their signatures
thereto, and has been duly approved by the Secretary of the Interior;
and

Whereas it is stipulated and agreed in the first clause or section of
said agreement of August 27, 1892, that the persons named in a schedule
attached to and made a part of said agreement, marked "Schedule A,"
include all the members of said Crow tribe who are entitled to the
benefits of the eleventh section of said agreement of December 8, 1890,
and that each of said persons is entitled to the land therein described
as his selection in full satisfaction of his claim under said section;
and that the persons named in a schedule attached to and made a part of
said agreement of August 27, 1892, marked "Schedule B," include all the
members of said tribe who are entitled to the benefits of the twelfth
section of said agreement of December 8, 1890, and of the proviso of the
thirty-fourth section of the act of Congress approved March 3, 1891,
extending the privilege of making selections on the ceded lands for a
period of sixty days, and that each of the said persons therein named is
entitled to retain the tract of land theretofore selected by him within
the limits of the tract of land therein described as containing his
selection of his claim under the said section (or the said proviso); and

Whereas it is stipulated and agreed by the second clause or section
of said agreement of August 27, 1892, that all lands ceded by said
agreement may be opened to settlement, upon the approval of the said
agreement, by proclamation of the President:

_Prov