The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-02-14
THE RESERVE OPENED.
OF PRESIDENT. MARRIsON,s
PROCLAMATION,

The Limitations of h New Land Open
to Settlement Set Out ana Vested Rights
P~rotected-Two New Land Districts. Pro-
vided For.
The president on the 10th issued the
proclamation opening the Sioux reserya-
tion. After setting forth tile provisions of
the act of March 2, 1889, the proclamation
says That satisfactory proof having been
pr. sented that the NC ptance and consent
by the different bands of the Sioux nation
were obtained in the form required:
Now, therefore. l.. Benjamin Harrison, presi-
dent OF the United States, by virtue Of the
power vested in me, do hereby make known
different b nds of the Sioux nation of Indians,
and the consent tn, rsto by them, as required
by the act: ard snid act is hereby declared to
visions, conditions, limitations !, nd restrictions
therein contained. All persons will take TO-
tice OF the 1ro,isicns of said act and the
contained q; d be governed accordingly.
y furthermole notify all persons to pn1 tic
niafly ohseiv We hat 10y said net certain tracts
or portions Of tle great :escryation of the
Sioux nation il the territory of Dakota
are set apart ns separate and permanent res
eryationa for indians receiving rntiors and
FAMED.
That any Irdian receiving and entitled
70 ra.ions and annu t cs OF either of
the a .encies mentioned in this act ut nc time
the same shall tnke effect, but residing upon
any portion of said great reservation not in
GUIDED IN either Of the SEPARATE reserv. items
ono year from III g time when tins net shall
tax" effect, and within one year after having
10 a notified OF his said right of opti III In such
mann. L as tho secretary OF the intcrio. shall
direct, by recording his election with the
proper agent Mt the ngtnry to which he belongs,
1--WE an allotment to which he would be other
Wlso entitled upon one of the said separate res-
may then reside.
That each member OF the Ponca tribe of In
dams, now occuaying u part of the old P.nca
reservation, shall be entitled to rliotments
upon said old Ponca reservation, in the guam
tity as therein set forth, and when allotlncnts
other Indiana us allotmcnts are provided for
by this act, shall have been made
T Wh;an that "a a portion Of said reservation
titled 'An act to extend the mort ern boundary
OF the state OF Nebrnska,' approved March IS.
49, ne president shall, in pursuance Of said
lands described I'M said not not SO allotted here
under, and thereupcn I'll of said land rot SO al
lo.ed and included in said act of March .8,
1889, shall be open to settlement as provided In
this net.
Protection is guaranteed to such Indians
as mayh We taken allotmcnts either within or
provisions CT the treaty with the great >ionX
nation, concluded April %, 1855; and provision
Is made in said act for the release of all title
on the part OF said Indians receiving rations on
each separate reservation to the lands de-
scrtbed in each of the separate reservations,
ana to confirm in tho Indians entitled to re-
celve rations at each said separate reservation,
resp ctlvcly, their separate and exclusive use
ana benefit TO all title and interest of every
name and mature secured to the different bands
Of tile Sioux nation by said treaty OF April 20.
la6S and said release shall not affect the title
OF any individual Indian to his sep rate roscr-
VatIon, nor any agreement heretofore made
Mi tho htsu,tn Milwaukee, p q D.,,1 l.:I
road company or Dakota Central iiuilroad COM
lany.
~ is therein provided that if any land in the
SAID great Sioux reservation is occupied and
useu by any religious society attho date of said
act for the purpos, OF missionary or educational
work among the same. not exceed 'ng 1G) acres
IN the tract. shall be granted to snid society,
subject TO The conditions and limitations act.
1T is therein provided that NIL lands in the
great Sioux reservation outside the Separate
reservations described in the snid act, except
tho American island, Form leland and <iobraru,
regardlng which islands special provisions
county thereof (which are reserved for
school purposes shall be disposed of by tho
Shi5ea states, upon the terms, at the price and
tiers only, under the provisions OF tn, home-
stead law Except section :s3o1 thereof and
under the Law relating to townsites. Persons
who, In good faith and being legally entitled to
40 so, entered upon or made settlements with
the intent to enter the same under the home
stesd Or u %prs,emp Ito, laws of tho United
NIN >ioh Slech HIu
Wlnnebngo reservations under the presi-
proclamation of February 81, 1925,
snail, Tor the period of ninety days after tie
proclamation of the pr sident, have a. right to
upon Said clutms and procure title.
thereto under the ho1ns stead or pr -empti.n
laws OF the unitod States, and complete tho
same us required therein and said CLAIMS she'll
for su n time have preference over later entries.
that ts,e pro.emptiou claimants shall
reside on their land the same length of time
before procuring title rs the homestead cluim-
anta!l under tho act. The price 10 be paid for
town site on'ries shall be the same Us is re-
CURED by law in other cases, and shall lie
act" o
The proclamation further cites the reserva-
tlon from entry or settlement of the land OccU-
pied by the agency and school buildings ut
Lower Brule and Cheyenne River agencies. and
also q tract Of land situated in Nebraska, be-
ginning ut q point on the boundary limo bntyee,
Nebraska nrd Dakota where the range line he.
tween ranges "A and IS. west eth princinnl
meridian. i'll Dakota. intersects the boundary
mi es thence due south five miles therce due
west zen lniles ;thcnce due north to said bound
AIRY lin thence due east along said boundary
line to the place of beginning. The sn,ne il
continued in IL state OF reservation so long ma II
may be needed for the use and protection Of
INDIANS receiving rations and annuities at Pine
Ridge agency.
The proclamation consludes: Warning ia
hereby also expressly given to all persons not
TO enter TO make settlement upon any tracts OF
land specially reserved by tie ternls of suid
act, or by this proclamation, or any portion Of
any tract O.. land to which any individual mem
per. either OF the bands OF the great Sioux M
ton or the Ponca tribe, shall have preference
lisht under the provisions OF said act; unf,
With the occupancy "0" Of any 13''e'f faiS
trncts by my of tho said IndiaIs, or in
any manner to disturb, modest or prevent a
peaceful possession of said tracts by them.
The surveys required to be made of the lands
to DO restored to the public domain under the
provisions Ct sa:d act, and in this proclamation
got forth, will be commenced and executed as
early MS possible .
The proclamation tn ows open to settlement
9cotGoo acres of land, which will be disposed
homestead law. III addition to til, fe,s ench
settler will DO required to pay $l.a5 per acre.
ana upon 1ull payment of the money will be On.
titled 10 a patent.