The Globe-republican., 1892-01-07
HARVEY'S BILL.
Proposes Immediate Opening
of the Outlet to Settlement.
It Provides That Sooners May Not
be Barred; the Lands to be Sub
ject to Homestead Entry by Pay
ment of l.25 an Acre.

WASHINGTON, D. c., January Hon. d.
A. Harvey. delegate to congress from Okla
homa, will to- morrow introduce bill author
ling President Harrison to at once issue his
proclamation opening the Cherokee outlet to
settlement and attaching it to the territory
of Oklahoma. The government has been
for several months negotiating with the
Cherokee nation tor these lands, but the In
dams have stubbornly refused to accept the
propositions made by the government.
Mr.. Harvey's bill, after recitlng the treaty
history of the outlet, the negotiations with
the Cherokees, etc, in series of whereases,
then reads:
Section 1. That the said lands are hereby
attached to and made part of the territory
of Oklahoma, and subject to the laws and
jurisdiction thereof; and the president is
hereby authorized and empowered to issue
his proclamation declaring said lands part
OF the public DOMAIN and open to settlement.
Sec. 2. That the president is hereby au-
thoriZed to create an additional land district
for the territory of Oklahoma and with tho
advice and consent of the senate, to appoint
q register and receiver for each of said dis
tricts Who shall discharge like and similar
duties and receive the same amount of CON-
ing like duties in other land Offices IN said
territory.
Sec. 8. That whenever any of SAID land
shall BY operation of law or proclamation of
the president of the United States, be opened
to settlement, they shall be disposed of to
actual settlers only, under provisions of the
homestead and town site laws, except section
1901. which shall not apply; provided, how
ever, that each settler under and in accord
ance with the provisions of SAID homestead
laws. shall. before receiving patent for his
homestead, pay to the United States for the
land 30 taken by him, in addition to the fees
provided by law, the sum of $1.25 for each
acre thereof, and such person, having COM
piled with all the laws relating to such home
stead settlement. may at his option receive q
patent therefor at the expiration of twelve
months from the date of settlement upon
said homestead and any person otherwise
qualified who has attempted to, but for any
cause failed, to secure title in fee to
homestead under existing law, shall be quail
fed to make a homestead entry upon any of
said lands: And provided further, that sec
tons numbered sixteen and thirty-five in
each township, and where either of said Sec
tions, or any part thereof. has been sold or
otherwise disposed of, other lands equivalent
thereto shall be reserved to the territory of
Oklahoma for tho use of public schools. And
section six in each township of said lands
shall be reserved to said territory for the use
and support of public institutions, to be
available after said territory shall have be-
come state. An0 provided further, that 10
per cent. Of the net proceeds of the sales of
all lands IN said territory heretofore and
hereafter sold by the United States shall be
set apart by the secretary of the treasury and
paid to the proper authorities of said terri
tory for the use of public schools, and pro-
vided further, that proof showing that any
person has entered upon and occupied any
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proclamation of the president. shall not dis
qualify such person from making entry of
any of SAID lands or acquiring rights thereto.