Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-11-18

price to be paid therefor by actual set
tiers which price shall in no case exceed
one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre,
and the proceeds shall be held for the
benefit Of the Indians concerned, as pro-
vided in sections five and SIX OF this act
Sec. IL. That the President of the Uni
ted States is hereby authorized and direct
ed to appoint commission, TO De COM
posed of five persons, not more than three
of whom shall be members Of one politi-
cal party, whose duty it shall be to open
negotiations with the Greeks Seminoles
and Cherokees, for the purpose OF secur-
ing the consent of said Indians, SO far as
it may be necessary, to the provisions Of
section five and section six OF this act.
The commission is authorized to enter In
to such agreements with said Indian
tribes as it may deem necessary to accom-
plish the purposes of this act, and shall
submit the same to the President for his
approval or rejection. The compensation
of the members of said commission shall
be at the rate of ten dollars per day; and
they shall also be allowed, IN addition
there %, their actual necessary travelling
expenses, stationery, and postage hey
shall have power to appoint secretary,
who shall receive compensation OF SIX
dollars per day, and such allowances for
travelling expenses as he may actually In
cur.
Sec. r. 1t shall be unlawful for any
person. for himself or any company, as
ISOLATION, or corporation to directly or
indirectly procure any person TO settle
upon any lands open to settlement by
this act with view to their afterward ac-
quiring title TO said lands from said occu-
pants; and the parties to such fraudulent
settlement shall severally be gul ity OF
misdemeanor, and shall be punished, up
on Indictment, by Imprisonment not ex-
ceedlng twelve months. or by line not ex-
ceeding one thousand dollars, or by both
such fine and imprisonment, IN the dis
cretion of the court.
Sec 49, That all leases of lsnd belong
ing TO lie United States or held IN co -
mon y any o the Indian tribes WI I'm
the Territory Oklahoma, IS orga liz
by this &C including the Cherokee srp
west # the ninety-siXth degree Of west
longitude, whethe controlled by persons
cor orat rs, or others, exec such leases
as are reid for the purpose Of cultivatl g
the soil strictly TO farming pup, scs are
hereby declared void and CO. trary to pub
lie policy; and 1t is hereby made the duty
OF tn President, Immediately after the
passage of this act, o cause the lessees Of
said lands. an any other persons illegal
ly occupying III same, t. be rem we'd
from said lands.
Sec. IA. That thu act of Congress ap-
red and sixty-siX granting la DIS to he
State of kan-a as to aid In he constrac-
ton of the Kansas and Neosho Wiley
Railroad and its ex ension to Red River,
and an act of Congress or nting lands to
the stare Of Kansas to aid in the constr c.
ii n f the puthern branch of the Union
Pacific Railway, and telegraph from
Fort Riley, Kansas, to For Smith Ar
kansas, approved July TWEEN y-slxth.
z Oh cen hundred and sixt six or any
othe. ats Of Congr IS SO far as tn re-
late to lands gran ed in said Indian Ter l.
tory and Public Land Strip. except for the
right of way and necessary static ns pro-
V ded for law, are here y repe led; and
a | or any rights 10 said lands are Hereby
f rfei ed to the Uni d States, and no
railroad company now organized, or he e.
after to be organIzed s. all ever acquire
any lands to aid N the construction of is
road, in couseque ce Of any railroad
al ady constructed either fir the Uni
ted Sta es, or from any | dian tribe, or
from any Territorial government, within
the limits of the Territory organized by
this act.
Sec Is. That neither the legislative
assembly of said Territory, nor any coun-
ty, township, town, or city therein, shall
have power to create or contract any in
debtedness for any work of public i'm
provement, or in aid of any railroad con
strncted or to be constructed nor to sub
scribe for or purchase any shares of stock
in any railroad company or corporation.
Sec. 49, That the provisions of this
act shall not be applicable to lands lying
within the limits of what is knownsI
Greer County until the question of title
thereto between the United States and
the State of Texas shall have been finally
determined in favor of the United States.
Sec II. That so much of the lands en-
braced in the Indian Territory as have
not yet been surveyed shall be surveyed,
and the incomplete surveys of the lands
in the tract commonly known as the
"Public Land trip or ''No Mans Land"
shall be completed, as soon as practical
BILE after the passage of this act, accord
ing to the terms of existing laws for the
survey of the public lands of the United
States, and to enable the Secretary of the
Interior to carry out the provisions of
this section, at the rates now allowed by
law for the survey of such lands, the sum
of $4,000 be, and the same is hereby, APP
propriated out of any money in the Treas
airy not otherwise appropriated; the sur
veys to be executed under the direction of
the Commissioner of the General Land
Office.
Sec 49, That the laws of the State of
Colorado which are not locally inapplica-
bic or inconsistent with this act are here
by enacted for and put in force in the
Territory of Oklahoma, and the governor
of said Territory is authorized to appoint
all officers for said Territory where ap-
pointment or election is provided for ~
der said laws until the Legislative Assem-
bly, of said Territory shall otherwise pro-
vide.
Sec. 10. That the Territorial govern
ment hereby established shall not extend
to or exercise any jurisdiction over any
part of said Territory of Oklahoma ex-
cept as to what is known as the Public
Land trip, until the President shall issue
his proclamation, as provided IN section
of this act.