The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-05-01
NOT OPEN FOE SETTLERS.
Cleveland Revokas the Order
Opening the WlunebaGo and Grow Creek
Observations IF
TEXT OF THE PROCLAMATION.

opening Che epaEO ana crow Creek
Reservations. "
TEXT OF HI PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, By an executive order bearing date
the 9th Of February, 1885, it was ordered that
sall that tract of country in the territory of
Dakota. known as the old Winnebago reserva-
ton and the Sioux or Crow Creek reservation,
and lying on the east bank of the Missouri river,
set apart and reserved by executive order dated
Jan. IL, 1915, and which is not covered by the
executive order dated Aug. 8, 1873, restoring
certain of the lands reserved by the order of Jan.
II, 1876. except the following described tracts:
Township No. 10S north, range Il west; los
north, range q west; fractional TOWNSHIP los
4, sections So, Z, S, 8, 16, II, Is, 10, 20, q, IS,
20, 80, 81, SO and SO, Of township lT north,
range Il west; l07 north, range 72 west; 107
north, range % west; the west half OF town
f frapption asG nor5 u range fes ~ north hes'' range ana
Il west; and except, also, all the
tracts within the limits of the aforesaid Winnie
bago res %srvation and the Sioux or Crow Greek
reservation, which sre outside of the limits of
the above-described tracts, and which may have
heretofore been allotted to the Indians residing
upon said reservation, or which may have
heretofore been selected or occupied by the
said Indians under and in accordance with
provisions of article & of the treaty with the
Sioux Indians Of April Is, 1868, be and the same
is restored to the public domain. And, where
as, upon the claim being made that said order is
illegal, and in violation of the plighted faith and
obligations of the United States, contained in
sundry treaties heretofore entered into with
the Indian tribes or bands occupants of said
reservation, and that the further execution of
said order with not occasion much distress and
suffering to the peaceable Indians, and en-
gender amongs them a distrust of the national
government, l have determined after a careful
congress and other official data, bearing on
the subject, aided and assisted therein by the
advice and opinion of the attorney general
of the United States, duly rendered in
that behalf, that the lands SO proposed
to be restored to the public domain by said ex-
existing Indian reservations on the east bank
of the Missouri river, by the terms of the sec
ond article of the treaty with the Sioux Indians,
concluded April 80, 1868, and that consequently
without lawful power to restore them to the
public domain by said executive order, which
is therefore deemed and considered to be
whollylnoperative and void. And whereas, the
laws of the United States provide for the
removal Of all persons residing or be;
territory without permission expressly
and legally obtained of the interior depart
ment: Now, therefore, in order to maintain
i~nviolate the solemn pledges and plighted
faith Of the government, as given in the trea-
ties in question, and for the purpose of prop
erly protecting the interest of the Indian
tribes as well as of the United States in the
premises, and to the end that no person or per-
sons may be induced to enter upon said lands,
where they will not be allowed to remain with
out the perm,ssion of the authority aforesaid, I,
Grover Cleveland, president of the United States,
do hereby declare and proclaim the said execu-
tive order of Feb. "a, 1885, to be in contraven-
ton of the treaty obligations of the United
States with the Sioux tribe of Indians, and
therefore to be imperative and Of no effect.
And 1 further declare that the lands intended
to be embraced therein in existing reservations,
alone, and subject to the Indian intercourse
acts Of the United States. 1 do further warn
and admonish all and every person or per-
sons now in the occupation of said lands,
under color of said executive order,
and all such person or persons
tie upon tho same Hereunder, that they will
neither DE permitted to remain or enter upon
said lands, and such persons as are already
there are hereby requested to vacate and re-
move therefrom with their effects within sixty
days from the date hereof, and in case a due
regard for and voluntary obedience to the
laws and treaties of the United States and this
admonition and warning be not sufficient to
effect the purposes and intentions az herein
dsclared, all the power of the government will
be employed to carry INTO proper execution the
treaties and laws of the United States herein
referred to.
IN testimony thereof, ] hereunto set nv hand
and cause the seal of the United States to be
affixed. 1
Done at the city of Washington, this 18th day
of April, 1855, and in the independence of the
United States of America the llgth.
(Sisned1 GROVER CLEVELAND.
I. I. BAYARD, Secretary of State.