The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-04-11
CREEKS AND sEMINoL Es
Extracts from Treaties and Acts Of
Congress Bearing on Their
T on6o Hn6nd

Indian Territory:
Whereas the Muskogee Tor Creek ma
ton of Indians has accepted, ratified and
confirmed SAID articles of cession and
agreement by act of it's national council,
approved by the principal chief of said
nation on the 31st day of January, A. d.
1889, wherein it is provided that the grant
and cession of land and territory therein
made shall take effect when the same shall
be ratified and confirmed by the congress
of the United States or America; Their
fore
Be it enacted by the senate and house Of
representatives of the United States OF
America in congress assembled, That said
articles of oession and agreement are
hereby accepted, ratified and confirmed.
Section 2-That the lands acquired by
the United States under said agreement
shall Re part of the public domain, but
they shall only be disposed of in accord
ance with the laws regulating homestead
entries, and to the persons qualified to
make such homestead entries, not exceed
ing 160 acres to one qualified claimant.
And the provisions of section 23O1 of the
Revised Statutes of the United States shall
not apply to any lands acquired under
enter upon any part of said lands in said
agreement mentioned prior to the time
that the same are opened to settlement by
act of congress shall not be permitted to
occupy or to make entry of such lands or
lay any claim thereto.
Extract from act making appropriations
for the year, June 80, 1890:
SEMINOLE LANDS.
Section 12--Thet the sum of 81, 912, 042.02
be and the same hereby is appropriated
out of any money in the treasury not
otherwise appropriated to pay in full the
Seminole nation of Indians for all the
right, title, interest and claim which
said nation of Indians may have in and
to certain lands ceded by article of the
treaty between the United States and said
nation of Indians, which was concluded
June IA, 1866, and proclaimed August 16,
1866, and which land was then estimated
to contain 2, 169, 080acres, but which is now,
after survey, ascertained to contain 2,037,-
Ala 62-l00 acres, said sum of money to be
paid as follows: $1,500000 to remain 10
the treasury of the United States to the
credit of said nation of Indians and to
bear interest at the rate of per centum
per annum from July l, 1889, said inter-
est to be paid semi-annually to the treas
urtr of said nation, and the sum of S412,-
1920, to be paid to such person or per-
Sous as shall be duly authorized by the
laws of said nation to receive the same, at
such times and in such sums as shall be
directed and required by the Legislative
authority of said nation, to be immedi-
ately available; this appropriation to be-
come operative upon the execution by the
duly appointed delegates of said nation,
especially empowered so to do, of re-
lease and conveyance to the United States
of all the right, title, interest and claim of
said nation of Indians in and to said lands,
in manner and form satisfactory to the
president of the United States, and said
release and conveyance, when fully exc
cuted and delivered, shall operate to ex-
tinguish all claims of every kind and
character of said Seminole nation
of Indians in and to the tract of country
o which said release and conveyance
shall apply, but such release conveyance
and extinguishment shall not inure to the
benefit of or cause to vest in any railroad
company any right title or interest what
ever in or to any of said lands, and all
laws and parts of laws 80 far as they con
flict with the foregoing, are hereby re,
pealed, and all grants or pretended grants
of said lands or any interest or right
therein now existing in or on behalf OF
any railroad company, except rights OF
way and depot grounds, are hereby de-
clared to be forever forfeited for breach
of condition.
Section 13-.That the lands acquired by
| the United States under said agreement
shall be part of the public domain, tc
| be disposed of only as herein provided
and sections 16 and 36 OF
each township, whether surveyed or IN.
surveyed, are hereby reserved for the use
and benefit of the public schools, to be
established within the limits of said
lands under such conditions and regula
tions as may be hereafter enacted by
congress.
That the lands acquired by conveyance
from the SemirOl Indians hereunder, ex.
cept the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sec
tions, shall be dis osed of' to actual set.
tiers under the homestead laws only, ex-
cept as herein otherwise provided Except
that section 23O1 of the Revised Statutes
shall not apply: And provided further,
That any person, who, having attempted
to, but for any cause failed to secure a
title fee to a homestead under the exist
ing law, or who made entry under what is
known IS the commuted provision of the
homestead law, shall be qualified to make
a homestead entry upon said lands: And
provided further, That the rights of hon
orabIy discharged union soldiers and sail
ors in the late civil war as defined and de-
scribed in sections 1904 and 1905 of the
Revised Statutes shall not be abridged;
And provided further, That each entry
shall be in square form as nearly as prac-
t1cable and no person be permitted to
enter more than one-quarter section
thereof but until said lands are opened for
settlement by proclamation of the presi-
dent no person shall be permitted to en-
ter upon and occupy the same, and NO
person violating this provision shall ever
be permitted to enter any of said lands
or acquire any right thereto.
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