Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-04-04
THE PROMISED LAND.
The Presidents Proclamation Open
ing Oklahoma to Settlement.
Noon of April 22 the Time Set When
Pilgrims May Enter and Possess
No Lend for Those Who An
ticipate That Time.


ing is the Presidents Oklahoma procla-
nation promulgated yesterday:
PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS Pursuant to section eight of the
act of Congress approved March third, eighteen
hundred and eighty-five, entitled AN Act max.
ing appropriations for the current and contin
gent expenses of the Indian Department, and
for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various
Indian tribes, for the year ending June
thirt1eth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six. and
fo other purposes" certain articles of cession
Ind agreement were made and con
GUIDED at the City of Washington
on the nineteenth day of January, in the
year of our Lord eighteen hundred and eighty
nine, by and between the United States OF
America and the Muscogee Cor Creek Nation
of Indians, whereby the said Muscogee {or
Creek Nation of Indians, for the consideration
therein mentioned, ceded and granted to the
United States without reservation condi.
ton, full and complete title to the entire west
err half of the domain of the said Muscogee {or
Creek Nation, in the Indian Territory, lying
west of the division line surveyed and estab.
lished under the treaty with said nation. dated
hundred and sixty-six. and also grant
ed and released to the United States
all and every claim. estate, right
or interest of every description in and to any
and all land and territory whatever except SO
much of the former domain of said Muscogee
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 were duly accepted. ratified and confirmed
by SAID Muscogee Tor Creakl Milton OF Indians
by act of its Council, approved on the thirty
first day of January, eighteen hundred and
eighty-nfne and the United States by Act of
Congress approved March first, eighteen hun
dred and eighty nine; and
WIFE EAs, By section twelve of the act en-
titled IAN Act making appropriations for the
current and contingent expenses of the Indian
Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipua-
tons with various Indian tribes, for the year
ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and
ninety, and for other purposes" approved
March second eighteen hundred and eighty
nine. a sum of money was appropriated to pay
in full the Seminole Nation of Indians for all
the right, title, interest and claim which said
nation OF Indians might have in and to GER
tain lands coded by article three of the
treaty between the United States
and said nation OF Indians, concluded
June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty
six, and proclaimed August sixteenth. eighteen
hundred and sixty-six, said appropriation to be-
come operative upon the execution by the duly
appointed delegates of said nation, specially
empowered to do so, of a release and convey
ance to the United States of all right, tle in
terest and claim of said nation of Indians in
and to SAID lands, in manner and form salts
factory to the President Of the United States
and
WHEREAS, Said release and conveyance.
bearing date the sixteenth day OF March. eight
cen hundred and e:ghty-nine. has been duly
and fully executed, approved and delivered;
and
WHEREAS, Section thirteen of the act last
aforesaid, relating to said lands, provides
as follows: Section 10. That the
lands acquired by the United States
under said agreement shall be a part of
the nuh1ic domain tn he Of ooly
as herein provided. and sections 16 and 81
OF each township whether surveyed or unsur-
veyed are hereby reserved for the use and
benefit of the pubic schools to be established
within the limits of said lands under such con-
ditions and regulations may be hereafter
enacted ly Congress-" THAT the
lands acquired by conveyance from the Sem
mole Indians hereunder, except the sixteenth
and thirty sixth sections, shall be disposed of
to actual settlers under the homestead
laws only. except as herein other
wise provided Except that section 2311
of the Revised Statutes shall not apply; and
provided further. That any person who. having
attempted to, but for any cause failed to secure
q title in fee to q homestead under existing
laws, or who made entry under what is known
as the COMMITTED Provision OF the homestead
laws, shall be qualified to make Il hoI stead
entry upon said lands; and, provided further,
That the rights Of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Union
soldiers and sailors in the late civil war, as de-
IiHcu ana ueSCtiDcu IN SeclOQS S5u4 ana = I'D OF
the Revised Statutes, shall not be abridged;
and provided further, That each entry
shall be in square form, us nearly prac-
ticable, and no person be permitted to enter
more than one-quarter section thereof. But
until said lands opened for settlement by
proclamation OF the Pres dent, no person shall
be permitted to enter upon 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 proclamation. and not before, permit entry
of said lands for town sites under sections 1887
and 23SS of the Revised Statutes, but no such
entry shall embrace more than one-half
section of land. That all the foregoing
provisions with reference to lands to be
acquired from the Seminole Indians
including the provisions pertaining to
forfeiture, shall apply to and regulate the dis
posal OF the lands acquired from the Muscogee
Cor Creek Indians by articles of cession and
agreement made and concluded at the City of
Washington. on the nineteenth day of January,
in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and
eighty-nine.''
Now therefore, L Benjamin Harrison, Presi-
dent of the United States, by virtue of the
power in me vesteS by SAID act of Congress, ap-
proved March second, eighteen hundred and
eIghty-nIne. aforesaid, do hereby declare and
make known: That much of the
lands aforesaid acquired from or con-
veyed by the Muscogee (or Creek Ma
ton of Indians, and from by the
Seminole Nation of indians, respectively, as is
contained within the following described boun-
darles. viz: Beginning at n point where the
degree of longitude ninety-eight west from
Greenwich, as surveyed in the years eighteen
hundred and ffty-eght and eighteen hundred
and Seventy-one. intersects the Canadian river:
thence north along and with SAID degree to q
pc mt where the same lntersects the Cimarron
river: thence up said river. along the right bank
thereof, to point where the same is inter-
sected by the south line OF what is known as
the Cherokee lands, lying west of the Arkansas
river or, as the Cherokee Outlet said
coded by the Muscogee Cor Creek)
Nation of Indians to the United
States by the treaty Of June fourteenth. eight
cen hundred and sxty-six: thence east along
said line to d point where the same intersects
the west line of the lands set apart reserva-
ton for the Pawnee Indians by act of Congress
approved April tenth. eighteen hundred and
being the range line between
ranges four and five east of the Indian meri-
dian: thence south said line to point
where the same intersects the middle of the
main channel O. the Cnarron river: thence up
said river along the middle of the main chan
rel thereof to point where the same intersects
the range line between due east and due west
(beingthe Indian nleridian) which line forms the
western boundary of the reservations set apart
for the IOWA and kickapoo In
dians. by executive orders. dated respectively
August fifteenth. eighteen hundred and eighty
three: thence south along said range line, or
meridian. to point where the same ,ntcrsects
the right bank of the North Fork of the Cana
dian river thence up said river. along the right
bank thereof, to a point where the same is in
tersected by the west line of the reservation
occupied by the citizen band OF Pottawatomies
and the absentee Shawnee Indians, set apart