The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-04-03

the l4th day of June, 1866, and also
granted and released to the United States
all and every claim, estate, right or inter
est of any aud every description in and to
any and all land and territory whatever,
except so much of the former domain of
said Muscogee Tor Creek Nation as lies
east of said line of divis on surveyed and
established as aforesaid and then used
and occupied as the home of said nation,
and which articles of cession and agl ee-
ment were duly accepted. ratified and con-
firmel by said Muscogee Tor Creek Ma
ton of Indians by act of its Council, APP
proved on Jan. 81, 1889, and by the United
States, by act of Congress approved
March /, 1889, and
WHEREAS, BY Section II of the act
entitled An act making appropriations
for the current and tontingent expenses of
the Indian Depart ment, and for fulfilling
treaty stipulations with various Indian
tribes. for the year ending June 30, 1890,
and for other purposes, approved March
2, 1889, n sum of money was appropriated
TO pay in full the Seminole Nation of In
dians for all the right, title, interest, and
claim which said nation of Indians might
have in and TO certain lands coded by Ar
ticle 3 of the treaty between the United
States and said natiol of Indians con-
Aug. lG, 1866, said appropriation to te-
come operative upon the execution, by the
duly appointed delegates of said nation
specially empowered 10 do so, of n release
conveyance to the United Stat s of all
right, title, interest, and claim of said
nation of Indians in and to said lands in
manner and form satisfactory 10 the Pres
ident of the United States and.
WHEREAS, Said release and convey
ance bearing date the 10th OF March,
1889, has been duly aud fully executed,
approved and delivered; and,
WHEREAS, Section Is OF the act last
aforesaid relating to said lands provides
rs follows:
Section Is. That the lands acquired
by the United States under said agree
ment shall be part of the public domain.
to be disposed of only as herein provided,
and sections l6 and SO of each township.
whether surveyed or unsurveyed. are here
by reserved for the use and benefit of the
public schools TO be established within
the limits of said lands, under such con-
ditions and regulations rs may be here
after enacted 10y Congress.
That the lands acquired by convey
ance from the Seminole Indians hereun-
der, except the sixteenth and thirty sixth
sections. shall be disposed of TO actual
settlers, under the homestead laws, only
except as herein otherw Sc provided lex
cept that section 30l of the Revised Stat
utes shall not apply; and provided, fur
Their, That any person who having attempt
ed to- but from any cause failed TO, S, cure
title in fee to homestead under exist
ing laws, or who made entry under what
| is known as the committed provision oil
the homestead laws. shall be qualified to
make homestead entry upon said
lands; and provided, further, That
the rights of honorably discharged
Union soldiers and sailors in the
civil war, as defined and described in sec
lions 1904 and 1905 of the Revised Stat
utes, shall not be abridged; and provided,
further, that each entry shall be In square
form as nearly as practicable, and no per-
son TO be permitted TO enter more than
one quarter section thereof, but until said
lands are opened for settlement by procla-
nation of The President, no person shall
be permitted 10 enter upon and occupy the
same, and no person viola ing this pro-
vision shall ever be permitted to enter
any of said lands er acquire any right
| thereto"
The Secretary of the Interior NAV,
after said proclamatica end not before
permit entry Of said lands for town sites
dnder sections 2387 and Z3sS of the Re
yised Statutes, but no such entry shall
embrace more than one-half section 81
land.