Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-03-09
Tidings
OPENING OKLAHOMA.
Provision Made for the Purchase OF q
Portion-Feature OF the Scheme.

WASHINGTON, March 9.-In the con
fusion attendant upon the closing hour
of congress the exact nature and effect o
the amendments made to the Indian ap
preparation bill have not been clearl,
understood.
The impression has gained currency
that all the provisions of the bill organ
izing the territory of Oklahoma in ehec
were embodied in the Indian appropria
ton bill, but this is not the case.
A PURCHASE PROVIDED.
The amendments agreed to relate to thu
Seminole and Cherokee lands and are N
follows:
The sum of 1912 ,943 is appropriated
to pay in full the Seminole nation for al
the rights, title, interest and claim they
may have in and to certain lands cedeC
by the treaty of 1865, containing 2,037,
4l5 acres. Of this sum $l,5O0,O00 shal
remain in the treasury at 5 per cent In
terest, to be paid semi-annually to the
treasurer OF the nation, and $4l2, ,84t
shall be Immediately available for dis
tribution.
WHEN THE MONEY Is AVAILABLE.
This appropriation is to become oper
ative upon the execution, by the duly ap.
pointed delegates OF said nation, of re.
lease and conveyance to the United
States Of all right, title, interest and claim
of said nation of Indians in and to sale
lands, in a manner and form satisfactory
to the president Of the United States.
1t is further provided that such release
conveyance and extinguishment shall moi
inure to the benefit Of or cause to vest in
any railroad company any right, title o,
interest whatever in or to any of sale
lands, and laws or parts of laws, so far az
they conflict with the foregoing, are re-
pealed, except as to the rights of way anC
depot grounds. The land so acquired
shall be part OF the public domain.
Two sections in each township are tt
be reserved for the use and benefit OF pub
lie schools to be erected within the limits
Of said townships.
FOR ACTUAL SETTLEMENT ONLY.
The lands thus acquired, except schoo
sections, are to be disposed OF to actua
settlers under the homestead law, only
except as herein otherwise provided; and,
provided further, that any person who
having attempted, but for any cause
failed, to secure title in fee to a homestead
under the existing law, or who has made
entry under what is known as the com
muted provision OF the homestead law
shall be qualified to make homestead
entry upon such lands; and, provided
further, that the rights OF honorably dis
-, pval s,rsar c~(J.n~a Nd In hf
late civil war, rs defined and described ir
the Revised Statutes, shall not bt
abridged; and, provided further, that eacf
entry shall be in square form as nearly al
possible, and no person shall be permitted
to enter more than one-quarter section
thereof.
NO TREsPAss.
But until such lands are opened TO
settlement by proclamation of the presi
dent, no person shall be permitted Il
enter upon and occupy the same, and n
person violating this provision shall eve
be allowed to enter any OF said lands o
acquire any right thereon.
The secretary of the interior may, afte
said proclamation, and not before, per
init the entry Of said lands for town sites
but no such entry shall embrace NOR
than one-half section of land.
All the foregoing provisions shall ar
ply to and regulate the disposal Of land
acquired from the Muskogee or Creek In
dians by the articles of cession and agret
ment, January 10, 1889.
A COMMISSION PROVIDED.
The president is authorized to appoir
three commissioners to negotiate Wit
the Cherokees and all other Indians OWL
ing or claiming lands lying west Of tn
ninety-sixth degree Of longitude in tn
Indian Territory, the Cherokee outlet,
tor cession to the United States Of all it'll
claim or interest.
The commission is further authorize
to submit to the Cherokee nation pro-
osition that said nation shall cede !
lands to the United States upon the san
basis as to payment as provided In X
agreement with the Creeks.
PUBLIC LAND.
If the Cherokees shall accept, sa
lands thereupon shall become public d
main for the purpose of such dispositic
as provided, and the president is autho
lied as soon thereafter as he may dee
advisable, by proclamation to open So
lands to settlement in the same mann
and to the same effect as provided CO.
cerning lands acquired from the Creek
The president may, whenever he deem
necessary, create not to exceed two lai
districts, embracing lands which he m,
open to settlement by proclamation
hereinbefore provided, and is empower
to locate land offices fos the same, q