The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1872-08-16
CIRCULAR.
Disposal Of the Cherokee Strip,
Act Of Mey II, 1879.

Act Of Mey II, 1879.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE,
August Z, 1872.
Registers aaJ Rsce;yers at Lndeptndence, Kansas
and Wichsta:
GENTLEMEN The following is al
act Of congress approved May II, 1872
to carry out certain provisions Of Tho
Cherokee treaty Of 1866, and for tho
relief of settlers on the Cherokee land:
in the state Of Kansas:
WHEREAS. in order that certain pro.
visions of the treaty of July ninetccth
eighteen hundred and sixty-six, be.
tween the United States and the CherO.
kec nation, may be rendered clear and
made more satisfactory to settlers
/ upon the lands known as the 'CherO-
! kce strip" in the state of Kansas, said
settlers having moved thereon since
the date of said treaty, and for the
purpose of facilitating the sale of said
lands; therefore,
BE 1t enacted by the Senate and House
Of Representatives. Of the United
States Of America IN Congress as
semJled:
That the strip of land lying west of
the NcoshO river, and included in
the state Of Kansas, conveyed to
the Cherokee nation Of Indians by
the United States and now belonging to
said nation, shall be surveyed, under
the direction of the commissioner of
the general land Office, in the same
manner as the public lands of the
United Statee are surveyed, and shall
be by him offered for sale under the
provisions and restrictions of this act,
and all the lands in said tract living
east Of the Arkansas river shall be sold
at two dollars per acre, and all lands in
said tract lying west of said river shall
be sold at one dollar and fifty cents per
acre, except as hereinafter provided:
PrOrided, That when there is frac-
ton of land less than forty acres, the
same shall be sold with the cOntigu-
Gus tract, expense Of survey TO be paid
out of the proceeds of said lands in ac-
cordancc with the treaty ofJuly ninth,
eighteen hundred and sixty-six.
SEC. 2. That each person being the
head of a family or over twenty-One
years of age, who has made bOna-fide
settlement and improvement upon any
portion of said lands, and is now occu-
pying the same, or, in case Of his or
her death, the heirs of such, or, if such
heirs are minors, their guardians for
them. shall be entitled to enter and
purchase the lands so settled upon and
occupied. not exceeding one hundred
and sixty acres, at the price fixed in
the first section of this act, payment
for which shall be made at any time
within one year from the date of the
approval by the secretary Of the into
riOr of the acceptance of the prOvis-
ions of this act, as provided for in the
fifth section hereof; and all persons,
heads of families or over twenty-Onc
years Of age, who may settle upon said
lands at any time within one year from
the date Of the passage Of this act, may
purchase the land SO settled upon. not
one hundred and sixty acres,
at the price fixed in the first section of
this act, and shall make payment there
for within one year from the date of
said settlement: PrOrided, That all
lands not sold under the foregoing pro-
visions of this section, and all lands
settled upon but unpaid for at the cx-
piration of the limitation named in the
provisions of this act, shall,
unless such payment be suspended by
reason of contest or appeal, be sold by
the secretary of the interior, Oh sealed
bids, after due advertisement, in tracts
not exceeding one hundred and sixty
acres. and at not less than the price
fixed i'm the first section of this act:
PrOrided further, That proof settle
mcnt, entry and payment shall be made
at the land Office of the proper district.
under such regulations as the commits
sioner of the general land office shall
prescribe: And prOrided. further, That
the town site laws shall be, and hereby
are, extended TO and made applicable
TO said lands, subject to the provisions
Of this act: Ind PrOrided further,
That the secretary of the interior may
,ausc public advertisement to be made
Of the provisions this act.
SEC. 3. That any Cherokee citizen,
,r the heirs at law of such who had
lights under the Cherokee laws to any
portion of said lands, and whose titles
we're valid at the date of the treaty of .
eighteen hundred and sixty-siX, and
who may be able to establish such va .
idity within one year from the date of .
he passage of this act, under such .
'ules as the secretary of the interior
nay prescribe, shall receive the pro- I
,ecds of the sale of such identical (
ands, not exceeding one hundred and
ixty acres. instead of their being in
rested as hereinafter provided for in
he fourth section of this act.
SEC. 4. That all moneys accruing
rom the sales of land under this act
hall. without unnecessary delay, be
invested i'm the registered five per cen
UNI bonds of the United States. as pro-
'idcd in the twenty-third article of
he treaty of eighteen hundred and
ixty-six.
SEC. ). That the sale of said lands,
IS hcreinbefore provided for. shall not
axe place until the provisions of this
ct are accepted by the Cherokee ma
ional council. or by delegation duly
thereby. which acceptance
hall be filed with the secretary of the
Interior. and when approved by him,
he same shall be made final and con-