Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-02-11
Nine Million Acres of the
Sioux Reservation.
THE PRESIDENTS PROCLAMATION
A Valuable Addition to the Public
DOmain-The Bush of Boom
ers Begun.


ing the Sioux reservation. After setting
forth the provisions of the act of March
2, 1899, the proclamation says:
Satisfactory proof having been pre-.
sented that the acceptance and consent
by the different bands of the Sioux na.
ton has been obtained in the form re.
quired, DOW. therefore, I, Benjamin
Harrison, President of the United States
by virtue of the power in me vested, dc
hereby make known and proclaim the
acceptance of said act by the different
bands OF the Sioux nation of Indians, and
consent thereto by them as required by
the act, and said act is hereby declared
to be in full force and effect, subject to
all provisions, conditions, limitations and
restrictions therein contained. All per.
sons will take notice of the provisions OF
said act, and the conditions, limitations
and restrictions therein contained, and
be governed accordingly.
81 furthermore notify all persons to
particularly observe that by said act Ger.
tain tracts or portions OF the great reser-
vation of the Siohx nation in the Terri
| tory of Dakota are set apart as separate
and permanent reservations for the
Indians receiving rations and annuities
| at the respective agencies therein named
that any Indian receiving and entitled to
rations in, and annuities at, either of
the agences mentioned in this act at the
time the same shall take effect, but re-
siding upon any portion of said great res
ervation, not included in either of the
separate reservations herein established,
may, at his option, within one year from
the time when this act shall take effect,
and within one year after he has
been notified of his said right of option
in such manner as the Secretary of the
Interior shall direct, by recording his
election with the proper agent at
the agency to which he belongs,
have the allotment 10 which he
would be otherwise entitled on
one OF said separate reservations,
upon the land where such Indian may
then reside; that each member of the
Ponca tribe of Indians now occupying
part OF the old Poncs reservation, is enti-
tied to ellotrnents on said old Ponca res
sryation in quantities as therein set
forth, and when the sllotments to the
Ponca tribe of Indians, and to such other
Indians as allotments are provided
for by this act, shall have been
made upon that portion of said reser-
vation which is described in the
act entitled AN Act to Extend
the Northern Boundary of the State of
Nebraeka," approved March %, 1882,
the President shall, in pursuance of said
act, declare the Indian title extinguished
to sll lands described in said act not 60
allotted hereunder; and thereupon all
of said land not so allotted and included
in said act of March 2S, 1882, shall be
open to settlement as sprovided in Ghis
act.
"It is provided that if any land in said
great Sioux reservation is occupied
and used by any religious society at
the date of said act for the purpose of
missionary or educational work among
the Indians, the same, not exceeding
160 acres in any one tract, shall be
granted to said society, subject to the
conditions and limitations of the act.
1t is therein provided that all
lands in the great Sioux reservation out
side of the separate reservations described
la said act, except the American islands,
Farm island and Niobrara island (re-
garding which islands special provisions
are made) and sections 16 and SO in each
county thereof, which are reserved for
school purposes, shall be disposed of by
the United States to actual settlers only,
under the provisions of the Homestead
law Except section 2,301 thereof), and
under the law relating to townsites.
"Persons who in good faith, and being
legally entitled to do so, entered upon or
made settlements with the intent to enter
the same under the homestead or pre-
emption laws of the United States, upon
the Crow Greek and Winnebago reserva.
tions, under the Pl eaident's proclamation
of February 81, 1885. shall, for period
of ninety days after the proclamation of
the President, have the right to re-enter
upon said claims and procure title
thereto under the homestead or pre-
empiion laws of the United States,
and complete the same as re-
quired therein, and said claims shall
lor such time have preference over later
entries; provided that the pre-emption
claimants shall reside on their lands the
same length of time before procuring ii.
tie, as homestead claimants under the
act
The price to be paid for townsite en-
tries shall be such as is required by law
in other cases, and shall be paid into the
general fund provided for by tho act."
The proclamation further cites the
reservation:frem entry or settlement of
certain lands occupied by school build
inge, agencies, ETC., and concludes:
Warning is hereby also expressly
given to all persons not to enter or make
settlement upon any tracts of land
specially reserved by the terms of said
act, or by this proclamation, or any por-
tion of any tract of land to which any
individual member, either of the
bands of the great Sioux nation
or Ponca tribe shall have the
preference right under the provisions
Of said act, and farther, to in no wise in
terfsre with the occupancy of said tracts
by any of said Indians, or in any manner
to disturb, modest or prevent the peace
full possession of said tracts by them
The surveys required to be had of the
lands to be restored to the public do.
main under the provisions of said act and
in the proclamation set forth, will be
com ,nenced and executed as early as DOS.
sible."
The proclamation opens to settlement
1900, 900 acres of land, which will be
disposed of to settlers under the pro.
visions of the homestead law. In ad.
dition to the fee, each settler will be re-.
quired to pay $1.25 per acre, and upon
full payment to be entitled to a patent