Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-12
the l4th day of June, 1866, and also
granted and released to the United States

the l4th day of June, 1866, and also
granted and released to the United States
all and every claim, estate, right or inter-
est of any and every description in and to
any and all land and territory whstever,
except so 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 agree
ment we're duly accepted, ratified and con-
ton Of Indians by act of it's Council, APP
proved on Jan. 81, 1889, and by the United
States, by act of Congress approved
March !, 1885, and
WHEREAS, By Section II of the act
entitled An act making appropriations
for the current and ,ntingent expenses of
the Indian Department, and for fulfilling
treaty stipulations with various Indian
tribes, for the year ending June 80, 1890,
and for other purposes. approved March
Z, 1889, sum of money was appropriated
to pay in full the Seminole Nation of In
dams for all the right, title, interest, and
claim which said nation of Indians might
nave IN and to certain lands coded by Ar
hcle ) of the treaty between the United
states and said nation of Indians, con-
Guided June IA, 1866, and proclaimed
Aug. lG, 1865. said appropriation to be-
come operative upon the execution, by the
duly appointed delegates Of said nation
specially empowered to do SO, Of release
conveyance to the United States of all
nation Of Indians in and to said lands in
manner and form satisfactory to the Pres
ldent OF the United States; and,
WHEREAS, Said release and convey
ance, bearing date the 10th of March,
1881, has been duly and fully executed,
approved and delivered; and,
WHEREAS, Section Ii of the act last
aforesaid relating to said lands provides
as follows:
Section 10. That the lands acquired
by the United States under said agree
ment shall be part of the public domain,
TO be disposed Of only as herein provided,
and sections 16 and 36 of each township,
whether surveyed or unsurveyed. are here
by reserved for the use and benefit of the
pubic schools to be established within
me ;!'. limits of said lands, under such con-
ast'ons and regulations as may be here
utter enacted by Congress.
That the lands acquired by convey
ance from the Seminole Indians hereun-
uer, except the sixteenth and thirty sixth
sections. shall be disposed of to actual
settlers, under the homestead laws, only
except as herein otherwise provided lex
eept that section 30l of the Revised Stat
. utes shall sh not apply; and provided, fur
eler. That any person who having attempt
co to, but from any cause failed to, secure
= utie IN fee to homestead under exist
ing laws, or who made entry under what
!, !, known as the committed provision Of
ene homestead laws, shall be qualified to
make homestead entry upon said
lands. ian and provided, further, That
me me rights of honorably discharged
ohion soldiers and sailors in the
siVli war, as defined and described in Sec
IONS 2504 and 1905 of the Revised Stat.
s YES, Shall not be abridged; and provided
ifurtner, that each entry shall be in square
iorm as nearly as practicable, and no per.
son TO be permitted to enter more thar
H 1 e,quarter section thereof, but until sale
anus are opened for settlement by procla.
h na.lon OF the President, no person shall
W permitted to enter upon and occupy thu
, ,alne' and no person violating this pro
o o1slon Shall ever be permitted to ente
thereto" "
os. me Secretary of the Interior may
aiter said proclamation and not before
permit entry Of said lands for town sites
unoer sections 1887 and 23sS of the Re
siseo Statutes, but no such entry shal
sand 0 'n"n ono- nalA ee'''sA '