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On the recordApril 10, 1892
The cession, sale, relinquishment, and conveyance of the lands described in Article 1 of this agreement shall not take effect and be in force until the sum of $342,778.37, together with the sum of $18,400, shall have been paid to said bands of Indians.
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Ben Harrison
Republican · Indiana

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Proclamation 326—Opening to Settlement Lands Acquired from the Sisseton and Wahpeton Bands of Dakota or Sioux Indians

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