The Springdale news., 1889-04-05

discharged Union soldiers and sailors
 in the late civil war as defined and de- scribed in sections g ,04 and 23,0o5 ot the Revised Statutes, shall not be abridged; and provided further. that each entry shall be i'll square form as nearly as practicable and no person be permitted to enter more than one-qur- ter section thereof, but until said lands are opened for settlement by proc lamation of the President, no person shall be permitted to enter upon and occupy the same, and no person Ylolat- ing this provision shall ever be permit ted to enter of said lands or acquire any right thereto: the Secretary Of the Interior may. after sald proclamation and not before. permit entry Of said
 lands for town sites under sections 7 387 and 2,388 of the Revised Statut, but no entry shall embrace more than one half section of land. That al: the fore going provisions with reference to lands to be acquired from the Nemino'e Indians, including the provisions per taining to forfeiture, shall apply to and regulate the disposal of the lands ae- ouired from the Musgokee or Creek In- dians by articles of cession and agree ment made and concluded at the city of Washington on the 18th day of Janu- ary. in the year of our Lold 1889
 Now, therefore, I, Benjamin liar rison, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by said acts of Congress, approved March ?, 1889, aforesaid, do hereby declare and make known that so much of the lands as afore- said acquired from or conveyed by the Ausgokee Cor Creek Nation of Indians and from or by the Semn- ole. Nation of Indians respectively as is contained within the following described boundaries, VIZ:
 Beginning at Il point where the degree of longitude 9S west from Greenwich, as surveyed In the years 1858 and l61l, intersects the Cana dian river, thence north along and with the said degree to point where the same intersects the Cim- aron river, thence up said river along the right bank thereof to q a point where the same is interseet- ed 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 the north line of tho lands ceded by the Musgokee Cor Creek Nation of Indians to the Unite States by the treaty of June If, 1876, thence east along said line to point where the same luterssets the west line of lands set apart as a reservation for the Pawnee Indians by act of Con gress, approved April 6, 1876, being the range line between ranges 1 and , east of the Indian meridian ]; thence south on said line to point where the same intersects the md dls of the main channel of the Cim
 aron river, thence up said r,ver, along the middle of the high chan
 nel thereof to point where the same intersects the range line be tween range east and range west (be1ng Indian merldiaR), which line forms the western boundary of the reservations set apart respectively for the Iowa and Kickapoo Indians by executive or ders, dated respectively August l5, 1883; thence south along said range line or meridian to 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 tho reservation oc- cupied by tho citizen band of the Pottawatomies and the absentee Shawnee Indians, set apart under the provisions of the treaty of Feb ruary 27, 1867, between the United States and the Pottawatomies tribe of Indians and referred to in the act of Congress approved May g, 1872; thence south along the said west line of the aforesaid reserva- ton to point where the same in tcrsects the middle of the main channel of the Canadian river; thence up the said river along the middle of tho mann channel thereof, to point opposite to the place ot beginning, and thence north to the place of beginning Saving and eA- cepting one acre of land in square form in the northw est corner oi section 9, in township l5 north,