Wichita eagle., 1889-04-06
By the President of the United ...s
America
PROCIAMATI0N

the current and contingent expenses of the
Indian department, and for fulfilling
treaty stipulations with various Indian
tribes, for the year ending June thirteenth.
eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and for
other purposes certain articles of cession
and agreement were made and concluded
at the City Of Washington on the nine
teenth day of January, in the year OF our
Lord, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine,
by and between the United States of
America and the Muscozee Tor Creek
Nation of Indians, whereby the said
Muscogee Tor Creek Nation of Indians, for
the consideration therein mentioned,
without reservation Or condition, full and
complete title to the entire west
ern half of the domain of the
said Muscogee (or Creek Nation, in the
Indian Territory, lying west of the
division line surveyed and established I'M
der the treaty with said nation, dated the
18th day of June, 1866, and also granted
and released to the United States all and
every claim, estate, right or interest of any
and every description in and to any and
all land and territory whatever. except so
much of the former domain of said Mus
cogee Tor Creek nation as lies east of said
line of division surveyed and established
as aforesaid. and then used and occupied
as the home of said nation, and which ar
ticles of cession and agreement were duly
accepted, ratified and confirmed by said
Muscogee (or Creek nation of Indians by
act of its council approved on the thirty
first day of January, eighteen hundred and
eighty-nine, and by the United States by
act of congress approved March first, eigh
teen hundred and eighty-nine: and
Whereas, by section twelve or the act en-
titled IAN act making appropriations for
the current and contingent expenses of the
Indian department, and for fulfilling
treaty stipulations with various Indian
tribes for the year ending June 30, 1890,
and for other purposes" approved March
2, 1889, a 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
article three of the treaty between the
United States and said nation of Indians,
concluded June IA, 1885, and proclaimed
August 16, 1866, 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 conveyance to the United States of all
right, title, interest, and claim of said
nation of Indians, in and to said lands, in
manner and form satisfaction to the persi
dent of the United States, and
Whereas, Said release and conveyance,
bearing date the sixteenth day OF March,
has been duly and fully executed, approv-
ed, and delivered, and
Whereas, Section thirteen of the act
last aforesaid, relating to said lands, pro-
vides as follows:
SEC. IS. That the lands acquired by the
United States under said agreement shall
be a part of the public domain, to be dis
posed of only as herein provided. and sec
tons sixteen and thirty-siX of each town
ship. whether surveyed or unsurveyed are
hereby reserved for the use and benefit of
the public schools to be established within
the limits of said lands under such condi-
lions as may be hereafter enacted by con-
gress.
That the lands acquired by conveyanc
from the Seminole Indians hereunder, ex
cept the sixteenth and thirty-six sections,
shall be disposed of TO actual settlers I'M
der the homestead laws only, except as
herein otherwise provided Except that
section two thousand three hundred and
one of the Revised Statutes shall
not apply.) And provided further.
That any person who have attempted to,
but for any cause failed to secure title in
fee to homestead under existing laws
or who made entry under what is known
as the commuted provision of the home
stead laws shall be qualified to make
homestead entry upon said lands: Ana
provided further. That the rights of
honorably discharged union soldiers and
sailors in the late civil war rs defined and
described in sections twenty-three hun
dred and four and twenty-three hundred
and five of the revised statutes shall not
be abridged; And provided further, that
each entry shall be in square form us
practicable, and no person be permitted 10
enter more than one-quarter section there
of but until said lands are opened for set
Element by proclamation of the president.
no person shall be permitted to enter upon
nd occupy the same, and no person vioiat-
ing this provision shall eyer be permitted
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 twenty-three hundred and eighty
seven and twenty-three hundred AMI
lightweight 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 disposal of the lands acquired
from the Muscogee or Creek Indians by
articles of ceSsion and agreement made
and concluded at the city of Washington
on the nineteenth day of January, in the
eighty-nine.
Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison,
president of the United States. by virtne
of the power in me vested by the said act
of congress. approved March second,
eighteen hundred and eighty-nine afore-
said, do hereby declare and make known,
that so much of the lands. as aforesaid,
acquired from or conveyed by the Musco-
gee Tor Creek Nation of Indians. and from
or by the Seminole Nation of Indians. re-
spectively, as is contained within the fol-
lowing-described boundaries, to-wit:
Beginning at point where the degree
of longitude ninety-eight west from Green
wlch, as surveyed in the years eighteen
hundred and fifty-eight and eighteen hum
dred and seventy-one, intersects the Cana
dian River; thence north along and with
the said degree to a point where the same
intersects the Cimarron River; thence up
said river; along the right bank thereof, to
a point where the same is intersected 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 the
lands ceded by the Muskogee Tor Creek |
Nation of Indians to the United States by
ne treaty of June a. 1866: thence east |
along said line to a point where the same
iutersects the west line of the lands SET |
apart as reservation for the Pawnee In !
dians by act of congress April tenth, eigh- |
teen hundred and seventy-six, being the 1
range line between ranges four and five /
east OF the Indian meridian; thence south /
on same line to point where the same /
intersects the middle of the main channel |
Of the Cimarrou river; thence up said river /
along the middle of the channel Thereof, to /
a point where the same intersects the |
range line between range one east and I.
range one west being the Indian meridian( |
which line forms the western boundary of |