The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-04-04

! ko zee (or Oreek) nation of Indians, and
from or by the Seminole nation of In
dians, respectively, as is contained within
the following described boundaries, viz:
Beg inning at point where the degree of
longitude 9S west from Greenwich, as sur
veyed in the years 1858 and 1871, inter
scots the Canadian river; thence north
along and with said degree to the
point where the same intersects Cimarron
river; thence up said river along the right
bank thereof to the point where the same
is intersected by the south line of the
Cherokee land lying west of the Arkansas
river, or know as the Cherokee outlet, said
line being the north line of the lands
ceded by the Muskogee Tor Creek) nation
of Indians to the United States by the act
of June IA, 1856; thence east along said
line to point where the same intersects
the west line of the lands set apart as a
reservation for the Pawnee Indians by act
of congress approved April 10, 1876,
being the range line between ranges four
and five east of the Indian meridian;
thence south of said line to where the
| same interseots the middle of the main
channel of the CImarron river; thence up
said river along the middle of the high
channel thereof, to point where the same
intersects the range line between the range
on the east and the range on the west
(being the Indian meridian) which line
forms the western boundary of the reser-
| vations set apart respectively
for the Iowa and KickaYoo
Indians by executive order dated August
l5, 1888; thence south along said range line
of the meridian to point where the same
interseots the right bank of tho north fork
of the Canadian; thence up said river
along the right bank thereof to where the
same is intersected by the west line of the
reservation supplied by the citizen band
of Powattomies and absentee Pawnee In
dians, set apart under the pro-
visions of the treaty of February
81, 1867, between the United States and
the Powattomies tribe of Indians
and referred to in the act of
congress approved May %, 1872; thence
south along said west line of the aforesaid
reservation to the point where the same
intersects the middle of the main channel
of the Canadian river; thence up said
river along the middle of the main chan
mel thereof, to the point opposite the
place of beginning, and thence north to the
place of beginning, Saving except one
acre of land in square form in the north
west corner of section nine, in township
16, north range, west of the Indian merid-
ian in the Indian Terriytory, and also one
acre of land in the southeast corner
of the northwest quarter of
section Is, township 16 north, range
seven degrees west,o the Indian meridian
in the Indian Territory, which last de-
scribed two acres are hereby reserved for
government use and control until and
after the hour noon of the 22d day of
April, next, and not before, be open for
settlement under the terms of and subject
to all the conditions, limitations and re-
strictions contained in the said act of
congress, approved March 2, 1889,
and the laws of the United
States applicable thereto; and it
is hereby expressly declared and
made known that no other parts or, por-
ton of lands embraced within the Indian
Territory than those specifically described
and declared to be opened to settlement
at the time above named and fixed are to
be considered as open to settlement under
this proclamation or act of March 2,
1889, aforesaid; and warning is hereby
again expressly given that no person en-
tering upon and occupying said lands
before said hour of II O'Clock noon of
the 22d day of April, A. D. 1889, herein
before named, will be permitted
to settle on any of said lands or to acquire
any rights, and that the officers of the
United States will be required to strictly
enforce the provision of the act of con-
gress in the above fact.
In witness whereof, have hereunto set
my hand, and caused the seal OF the
United States to be affixed. Done at the
city of Washington, this 23d day of
March, in the year of our Lord 1889, and
of the independence of the United States
the one hundred and thirteenth.
BENJAMIN HARRI5O N.
By the president:
JAMES G. BLAINE, Secretary of State.