Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-03-28

.Jyherokee Outlet salo me pelng the north
line of the lands ceded by the Muskogee Tor
Creek Nation of Indians to the United States
by the treaty Of June IA, 1856; thence east along
said line to point where the same intersects
the west line Of lands set apart as reservation
for the Pawnee Indians by act Of Con-
gress approved April TO- 1876, being
the range line between ranges four
and five east of the Indian meridian,
thence south on said line to 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
point where the same intersects the range line
between range one east and range one west
Ooeing the Indian meridian), which line forms
the western boundary of the rlver land set apart
for the Iowa and Kickapoo indians by executive
order dated respectively August Is, 1888; thence
south along said range line of meridian to
point where the same intersects the right bank
of the 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 the reservation occupied by the citizen
band of Pottawatomies and the absentee Shaw
nee Indians set apart under the provisions OF
the treaty of February %, 1867, between the
United States and the Pottawatomie tribe
of Indians, and referred to in the act of Con-
along the said west line of the afore-
said reservation to point where the same in
tersects the middle of the main channel of the
Canadian river; thence up the said river along
the middle OF the main channel thereof to
point opposite the place Of beginning; and
thence north to the place of beginning; saving
and excepting one acre of land in square form
IN the northwest corner OF section nine, in
township sixteen, north range two, west of the
T-1s nrad
one acre Of land IN the southeast corner
of the northwest quarter of section
fifteen, township sixteen, north range
seven west of the Indian meridian, in the In
dian Territory (Which last two acres are here
by reserved for Government use and controD,
will at and after the hour OF twelve o'clock
noon Of the twenty-second day Of April next,
and not before, be opened for settlement, under
the terms of and subject to all conditions, linn
itations and restrictions contained in 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 portions Of the
lands embraced within the Indian Territory
than those herein specifically described and de-
clared to be open to settlement at the time
above named and fixed are to be considered as
open to settlement under this proclacamation,
or the act of March 2, 1899, aforesaid; and
warning is hereby again expressly given that no
person entering upon or occupying said
lands before said hour Of twelve o'clock, noon,
on the twenty-second day Of April, A. D.
1889, hereinbefore fixed, will ever be per-
mitted to enter any of said lands
or to acquire any rights; and that the
officers of the United States will be re-
quired to strictly enforce the provisions Of the
act of Congress to 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 twenty-third day of March, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-nine, and of the independence of the
United States the one hundred and thirteenth.
BENJAMIN HARRISON.
BY the President.
[sEAL-1 JAMES G. BLAINE, Secretary of State.