The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-04-05
TIE LANDS OPENED.
President Harrison Issues the
Welcomed Proclamation.
Oklahoma Coded Lands Can BE Entered
April 22-Boundarles Defined - Laws
Governing Settlement-Land Oh
fees Established.

April 2e-BoundarIes Defined - Laws
Governing Settlement-LandO Or
fees Established.
WASHINGTON, March 2S-President Har.
rison yesterday issued his proclamation
opening certain lands in Oklahoma to set
Element The date is set for April %
next
The following is the proclamation:
By the President Of the United States of America.
a Proclamation:
WHEREAS, Pursuant to section of the act
OF Congress approved March %. 1885, entitled
IAN act making appropriations for the current
and contingent expenses OF the Indian Depart
ment and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with
various Indian tribes for the year ending June
%, 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 eighty-nine, by
and between the United States OF America
and the Muskogee Tor Creek Nation Of Indians
we're entered into whereby the said Muskogee
Tor Creek Nation OF Indians for the considera-
lion therein mentioned ceded and granted to
the United States. without reservation or con-
aition, full and complete title to the entire
western half OF the domain OF the said Musko-
gee Tor Creek) Nation in the Indian Territory
lying west Of the division line surveyed and
established under the treaty with said Nation
lated the 14th dav OF June 1866, and also granted
and released TO the United States all and every
claim. estate, right or interest OF any and every
description in and to any and ali land
and territory whatever, except so much OF the
former domain OF said Muskogee Tor Creek
Nation as lies east of said line OF division sur
veyed and established as aforesaid. and then
used and occupied as the home of said Nation,
and which articles OF cession and agreement
we're duly accepted, ratified and confirmed by
said Muskogee tor Creek Nation of Indians by
act of its Council approved on the 3lst day of
January, 1889. and by the United States by
act Of Congress approved March /, 1889 and,
WHEREAS BY section IL of the act entitled
"An act making appropriations for the current
and contingent expenses of the Indian Depart
nent and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with
various Indian tribes for the year ending June
81. 1890, and for other purposes" approved
March 2, 1889, q sum of money was
appropriated to pay in full the Semi
mole Nation Of Indians for all the right
title, interest and claim which said Nation
Of Indians might have in and to certain lands
coded by article three Of the treaty be-
tween the United States and said Nation
OF Indians, concluded June IA, 1866. and pro-
claimed August 16. 1856, said appropriation to
become operative upon the execution by the
ally empowered to do so. of a release and con-
veyance to the United States of all 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
WHEREAS, Said release and conveyance, bear
ing date of March 16, lsS9, 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: Sec
o nv a
Stat under said agreement shall be a part of
the public domain, to be disposed of only
herein provided: and sections 16 and IS OF each
township whether surveyed or unsurveyed,
are hereby reserved for the use and benefit Of
the public schools to be established within
the limits OF said land, under such condi-
lions and regulations as may be hereafter en-
acted by Congress. That the lands acquired
by conveyance from the Seminole Indians
hereunder, except the sixteenth and thirty sixth
sections, shall be disposed Of to actual settlers
under the homestead laws, only except a here
in otherwise provided except that section
s,31 OF the Revised Statutes shall not
apply: and provided further, that any
person who having attempted to, but
for any cause failed to secure title in fee TO a
homestead under existing laws or who made
entry under what is known as the COM
muted provision of the homestead
laws, shall be qualified TO make 4
homestead entry upon salu ianuS. anu pro-
vided, further. that the rights OF honorably
discharged Union soldiers and sailors in the
late civil war; defined and de scribed in sec
tons D "a ami 23005 of the Revised Statutes,
shall not be abridged, and, provided, further
that each entry shall be in square form as
nearly practicable md no person be per-
mitted TO enter more than one quarter section
thereof But until SAID LANDS are open for set
Element by proclamation of the President no
OerSon shall he re-r,1iffed 10 enter nDon 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" The Secretary OF the Interior may
after said pr camation and not before permit
entry of said lands for townsites under sections
2,3S7 and 2.3ss OF the Revised Statutes, but no
such entry shall embrace more than one-half
section of land. That all the foregoing provls-
ions with reference to lands to be acquired
from the Seminole Indians, including tine pro-
visions pertaining to forfeiture shall apply to
and regulate the disposal OF lands acquired
from the Muskogee Tor Creek Indians by
treaty of cession and agreement made and con-
cluded at the City of Washington on the 18th
day OF January in the year OF our Lord eighteen
hundred and eighty nine
Now, therefore, I. Benjamin Harrison, Presi-
dent Of the United States, by virtue OF the
power in me vested by said acts of Congress-
approved March 2. 1889, aforesaid, do hereby
declare andsmake known that so much of the
lands as aforesaid acquired from or conveyed by
tie Muskogee Tor Creek Nation of Indians, and
from or by the Seminole Nation of Indians.
respectively, as is contained within the follow
ing described boundaries, viz: Beginning at
point where the degree of longitude g. west
from Greenwich, as surveyed n the year
1855 and ISL. intersects the Canadian
river; thence along and with the said
degree 10 point where the same intersects the
(iroay prix viz fhp
right bank thereof to a point where the
said river is intersected by the south
line OF what is known as the Cherokee lands
lying west OF the Arkansas river or as the
Cherokee outlet" said line being I north
line Of the lands ceded by the Muskogee Tor
Creek Nation of Indians 10 the United State>
by the treaty of June IA, 1866; thence east along
said line to a point where the same intersects
the west line of lands set apart as a reservation
for the Pawnee Indians by act of Con-
gress approved April 10 1876, being
the range line between ranges four
and five east of the Indian meridian,
thence south on said line to a point where the
same intersects the middle Of the main channel
Of the Cimarron river; thence up said river along
the middle of the high channel thereof to
point where the same intersects the range line
between range one east and range one west
ibeing the Indian meridian, which line forms
The western boundary OF the rlyer land set apart
Tor the Iowa and klcllapoo Indians by executive
order dated respectively August Is, 1888; thence
south along SAID range line of meridian 10 a
point where the same intersects the right bank
Of the north fork of the Canadian river, thence
up said river, along the right bank thereof, to a
point where the same is intersected by the west
line OF the reservation occupied by the citizen
band OF Pottawatomies and the absentee Shaw
nee Indians set apart under the provisions of
the treaty Of February "a, 1867, between the
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