Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-04-06

said line OF division, surveyed and established q
said nation; and which articles Of ceesion an
agreement were duly accepted, ratified and con
frmed by said Muscoeee Tor Creek nation Of In
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act of congress approved March LIST, 1859; and
Whereas, By section II of the act entitled IA
act making appropriations for the current ant
contingent expenses Of the Indian department
and for fulfilling the treaty sipulations With tn
various Indian tribes for the year ending June 50
eighteen hundred and ninety, and for other pur
money was appropriated to pay in ful, the Semi
mole nation of Indians for all the right, title, in
terest and claim which said nation Of Indians
article Of the treaty between the United States
and said nation of Indians, concluded June II
1853, and proclaimed August l6. 1886, said appro
Priation to become operative upon the execution
by the duly appointed delegates of said nation
specially empowered to do SO, of q lease and con.
veyance to the United States, all right, title, in.
terest and claim of the nation of Indians, in anG
to said lands IN manner and forms satisfactory tS
the president of the United States.
Whereas, Said release and conveyance bearine
date OF the 18th OF March, 1883 has been duly and
Whereas. Section ii. of the act last Aforesaid
relating to said lands provides as follows Sec.
ton Is, that the land acquired by the United
States under said agreement shall be part Of the
public domain to be disposed of only as herein
provided, and sections Is and Sc of each township
whether surveyed or unsurveyed are hereby re-
served for the and benefit of the public schools
to be established within the limits of said land
under such conditions and regulations as may be
hereafter enacted by congress.
That the lands acquired by conveyance from
and S6th sections shall be disposed Of to actual
settlers under the homestead laws, only except as
herein otherwise provided Except that section
two thousand three hundred and one of the revised
Provided further, that any person who having
attempted to, but for any reason failed to secure
title in fee to a homestead under existing laws,
committed provision of the homestead laws, shall
be qualified to make a homestead entry upon said
lands, and. provided further, that the rights OF
in the late civil war as defined and described in
sectionf q ,O4 and % 05 of the revised statutes
shall not be abridged, and, provided further, that
each entry shall be in square form as nearly as
more than one quarter section thereof, but until
said lands are opened for settlement by proclama-
ton of the president, no person shall be permit
person violating this provision shall ever be per-
united to enter any OF said lands or acquire any
right thereto.
proclamation and not before, permit entry of said
lands for town sites under sections twenty-th three
hundred and eiShty-seven and twenty-three hum
0red ana q the revised statutes n1t
section of land; that all the foregoing provisions
with reference to lands to be acquired from the
Seminole Indians, including the provisions per-
tanning to forfeiture shall apply to and regulate
the disposal of the lands acquired from the Mus
kogee or Creek Indians by the treaty of cession
and agreement made and concluded at the city OF
Washington on the 18th day of January, in the
year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and eighty
nine.
Now, therefore, 1, Benjamin Harrison, presi-
dent OF the United States, by virtue of the power
in me vested by said acts of congress, approved
March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine
aforesaid, do hereby declare and make known
khotc< o$H 10 II. ,f.
from or conveyed by the Muskogee Tor Creek
nation of Indians, and from or by the Seminole
nation of Indians, respectively, as is contained
Beginning at the point where the degree of
longitude is IS west from Greenwich, survey in
the year 1858 and 1871, intersects the Canadian
river, thence along and with the said degree to a
river, thence up said river along the right bank
thereof to a point where the said river is inter-
sected by the south line of what is known as the
known as the Cherokee outlet" said line being
the north line of the lands coded by the Muskogee,
or Creek nation of Indians, to the United States
by the treaty of June H. 1856; thence east along
said line to point where the same intersects the
the west line of the lands set apart as reserves
ton for the the Pawnee Indians by act of con-
gress approved April 10th, 1870 being the range
dian meridian, thence south on said line to q
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 a Point where the same interests the
range line between range one, east, and range one
west, being the Indian meridian) which line
apart for the Iowa and Kickapoo Indians by ex-
ecutive orders dated respectively August To- 1893;
thence along said range line, or meridian, to a
he north fork of the Canadian river; thence up
said river along the right bank thereof to point
where the same is intersected by the west line of
occupied by the citizen band OF Pot
apart under the provisions of the treaty OF Febru-
ary q, 1867, between the United States and the
tribe of Indians, and referred to in
south along the said west line Of the aforesaid
to point where the same intersects
he middle of the main channel of the Canadian
II the main channel thereof to q point opposite
he place of beginning. and thence north to the
place of beginning, saving and excepting one
OF land IN square form N the
range two. west, of the Indian meridian, in
Indian Territory, and also one acre of land in
he southeast corner of the northwest quarter Of
,ection fifteen, township sixteen, north, range
even, west of the Indian meridian inthe Indian
Territory, which last described two acres are
hereby reserved for government use and con-
,oon, ON the 22nd day Of April. next. and not
before, be open for settlement under the terms
# and subject to all conditions, Limitations
congress, approved March md, 1889. and tho
avs of the United States. applicable thereto,
md it is hereby expressly declared and made
Known that no other parts or portions OF the
ards embraced within the Indian Territory than
hose herein specifically described and declared
% he opened to settlement at the time above
,amed and fixed are to be considered rs open to
settlement under this proclamation or the act Of
March 2, 1863 aforesaid. and warning is hereby
gain expressly given that NO person entering mp
IN or occupying said lands before said hour Of II
,'clock noon on the I'D day of April A. d. 1sse,
,er,,in l>pFs,-n f-~1 v'H he peruitted TO en-
r my OF said lambs 6r to aeQulre any n&nf, ana
hat the officers of the United States Will be no
,uired to strictly enforce the provisions Of the act
& couarees to the above fAct
In witness whereof. have hereunt0 Get my hand
nd Caused the seal of the United States to b
lffzed.
Dose at the city Of Washington. this twenty third
nv on March. in the year of our Lord, one thou
and e5ght hundred and eighty mine, and OF The
of the United States. the ono hum
lred ard thirteenth.
By the President.
CHeal.l BKxJASuN dARRTsoN.
JAxEs G. BLAINE. Secretary.
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