The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-28
The Long Deferred Proclamation
issued To-day.
NOON THE 22d DAY OF APRIL
Appointed as The. Time When Pos.
session May Be Obtained
THE MEXICAN MISSION F!
Tom Ryan to Represent Uncle Sam
in The ST. ter Republic.

lamation opening the Oklahoma lands.
By the president of the United
States Of America, a proclamation:
Whereas, Pursuant to section eight
Of the act Of congress approved
March %, 1885, entitled An act max
ing approx riations for the current and
contingent expenses of the Indian de-
partment and for fulfilling treaty slip
ulations with various Indian tribes for
the year ending June 80, 1886 and for
other purposes" certain articles of
ceSsion and agreement on the nine
teenth day Of January in the year of
our Lord, Eighteen Hundred and Eigh-
ty-nine, by and between the United
States of America and the Mus
cogee Tor Creek nation of
Indians, whereby the said Mus
cogee Tor Creek nation of indians
for the consideration thereon mention
ed ceeded and granted to the United
States without reservation or condi-
tion full and complete title to the en-
tire western half of the domain of the
said Muscago Tor Creek nation in the
Indian territory lying west of the de-
vision line surveyed and established
under the treaty with said nation
dated the 4th day of June 1866, and
also granted and released TO the United
States, all and every claim. estate
right or interest of any and every de-
scription in and to any and all land and
territory whatever except as much
of the former domain of said
Muscogee Tor Creek nation as
lies east of said line of
division surveyed and established as
aforesaid, and then used and occupied
as the home of said nation, and which
articles of cession and agreement were
duly accepted, ratified and confirmed
by said Muscogee Tor Creek nation of
Indians by act of its council, approved
on the 31st day of January, Eighteen
Hundred and Eighty-nine and by the
United States by an act of congress
approved March 1st. 1889, and
Whereas, BY section II of the act
entitled IAN act making appropriations
for the current and contingent eX-
penses of the Indian department and
for fulfilling treaty stipulations with
various Indian tribes for the year end
ing June Both, 1890, and for other pur-
poses," approved March End, 1889. a
sum of money was appropriated to pay
in full the Seminole nation of Indians
for all the right, title, interest and
claim which said nation of indiana
might have in the Greek
lands by article 3 of the
treaty between the United States and
said nation of Indians concluded
June Nth, 1855, and proclaimed Au-
gust 18th, 1866, said appropriation to
become operative upon the execution
by the duly appointed delegates of said
nation, specially empowered to do so,
of a release and conveyance to the
United States of all right, title, inter-
est and claim of said nation of Indians
in and to said lands in a manner and
form satisfactory to the president of
the United States: and
Whereas, said release and conveyance
| bearing date of the 10Th of March 1889
| has been duly and,fully executed approx
ed ana delivered, and
Whereas. section IA of the act last
aforesaid relating to said deeds pro-
vides as follows:
Section ID, That the lands acquired
by the United States urder said agree
ment shall be part of the public do
mains to be disposed of only as herein
provided and sections Is and SO of each
township, whether surveyed. or I'M
surveyed are hereby reserved
for the use and benefit of
public schools TO be established within
| the limits of said land, under such con-
| ditions and regulations as may be here
after enacted by congress.
That the lands acquired by convey
ance from the Seminole Indians here
| under, except the 18th and 36th sec
| tons, shall be disposed of to actual set
tiers under the homestead laws, only
except as herein otherwise provided
| Except that section two thousand
| three hundred and one of the revised
statutes shall not apply. And pro
vided further,
That any person who having at
tempted to, but for any cause failed
to secure title in fee to homestead
under the the existing laws, or who
made entry under what is known as
the committed provision Of the home
steam law shall be qualified to make a
homestead entry upon said lands; and
provided further,
That the rights of honorably dis
charged Union soldiers and sailors in
the late civil war as defined and des-
cribed in section $4,000 and 3,005 of
the revised statutes shall not be
abridged; and provided further,
That each entry shall be in square
form, as nearly as practicable, and nc
person be permitted to enter more than
one quarter section thereof. But until
said lands are opened for settlement
by proclamation of the president, nc
person shall be Permitted to enter up
on and occupy the same, and no person
violating this proposition shall ever bC
l p6EmlEC0U 20 SnCSE any o. SdlU IdQuS
Il or gain any right thereto.
The secretary of the interior may
after said proclamation and not before
! permit entry of said lands for town
sites under section 2 ,3S7 and 1886 Of
the revised statutes, but no such entrN
shall embrace more than one half sec
| ton OF land,
"That all the foregoing provision
, with reference to lands to b.
4 he III
Indians including the provis
, ions pertaining to forfeiture shall
apply to and regulate thetdisDosal o
{ | the LANDS acquired from the MnScoge.
: Tor Creek indians by treaty of session
] and agreement. made and concludes
Z at the treaty of Washington, on tn
18th day of January in the Year O
T our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Eigh
! ty-nine.'
Now. therefore, I, Benjamin Harri
son, president of the United States
by virtue of the power in me vested b
: these acts of congress. March I'd, 1885
: aforesaid, do hereby declare and max
: known, that 50 much of the lands a
aforesaid acquired from or conveyed b
0 the Muscogee Tor Creek nation of In
8 dians, and from or by the Seminole ns
/ tanned within the following describe
q | boundary, viz:
+ Beginning at point where the d.
o gree of longitude 50 west from Greer
witch as surveyed in the year 1853 an
1871 intersects the Canadian rive
thence along and with said degree
e point where the same intersects Il
q CfmaETOn river, thence up sand riv'
along tklS right bank thereof TO
g point WizeEe the said river is intersec
le ed BIZ Ubae fg known as the Cherokt
y lands. lying west of the Arkansas riy
De or The Cherokee outlet, said line beiI
the north line OF the lands coded
I'd the EuEkoee Tor Creek nation of 1
a. dams 60 She United States by Il
ae treaty g Jene 18th. 1858;
Al Thzr8 ea along said line TO poi
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