The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-06-26
KONA IND COAANCBE.
Full Text of the Bill Providing
for Allotment
STALKING MINERAL CLAIMS
Is Probably Not Authorized by
the Bill.

Guthrie, O. T. June 25.-The full text of
the law providing for the allotment Of the
Kiowas and Comanchees preliminary to
the opening Of that country has been
made public.
A curious discovery in the act Is TINS
regarding mineral lands. The law pro-
vides that should any of these lands al
Ioted to Indians or OPENED TO SET
ELEMENT under this act contain valu-
able mineral deposits, which mineral de-
posts shall be open to location and entry,
under the existing mining laws, UPON
THE PASSAGE OF THIS ACT.
Many believe that this clearly entities
men TO take mineral claims at once. In
all likelihood when the department is ask
ed for a ruling in the matter, it will hold
that mineral claims cannot now be
staked If the department did not, II
would complicate and embarrass the
allotment of lands and cause no end OF
trouble at the opening. The full law is
as follows:
whereas David H Perome, Alfred NJ.
Wilson and Warren G. Sayre. duly ap-
United States did, on the sixth day OF
October. eighteen hundred and ninety
two. conclude an agreement with the
Comanche, Kiowa and Apache tribes OF
Indians in Oklahoma, formerly part Of
the Indian territory, which said agree
ment is in the words and figures as fol-
lows:
Articles Of agreement made and en-
tered into at Fort Sill, in the Indian ter
ritory. on the twenty-frst day Of Octo-
Der eighteen hundred and ninety-tow, by
and between David H. Jerome, Alfred NJ
Wilson and Warren G. Sayre, commits
sioners on the part Of the United States,
and the Comanche Kiowa and Apache
tribes Of Indians in the Indian territory
ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT.
article L-Subiect Of the allotment Of
land, in severalty ia the individual mem
hers of the Comanche Kiowa and Apache
tribes OF Indians in the Indian territory
as hereinafter provided for, and subject
to the setting apart as grazing lands for
said Indians four hundred and eighty
thousand acres of land as hereinafter pro-
vided for. and subject to the conditions
hereinafter imposed and for the consider
alton hereinafter mentioned, the said
Comanche. Kiowa and Apache Indians
hereby cede. convey, transfer, relinquish
and surrender, forever and absolutely
without any reservation whatever ,ex-
press or implied all their claim. title and
interest of every kind and character in
and to the lands embraced in the fol-
lowing described tract of country in the
Indian territory to-wit: Commencing at
~ w, ~ Nv
the ninety-eighth meridian west from
Greenwich thence up the Washita river,
in the middle of the main channel there
Of to a point thirty miles, by river, west
Of Fort Cobb. as now established: thence
due west to the north fork Of Red river,
provided said line strikes said river east
of the one hundredth meridian of west
longitude; if not. then only to said meri-
dian line. and thence due south on said
Dmeridian line TO the said north fork Of
Red river; thence down said north fork,
IN the middle of the main channel there
of to point where il may be first inter
sected by the lines above described. to the
main Red river: thence down said Red
river, in the middle of the main channel
thereof, to its intersection with the nine
ty-eighth meridian of longitude west from
Greenwich; thence south on said meri-
dian to the place Of beginning.
ALLOTMENTS
Article 2-Out Of the lands ceded, con-
veyed, transferred, relinquished ana sur
rendered by article thereof. and in part
consideration for the cession thereof, II
is agreed by the United States that each
member of said Kiowa, Comanche and
Apache tribes Of Indians over the age OF
eighteen Q9 years shall have the right Il
select for himself or herself one hundred
and sixty $50 acres Of land to be held
and owned in severalty. 90 conform tc
the legal surveys in boundary; and that
the father. or If he be dead. the mother
If members Of either Of said tribe Of
Indians shall have the right to select a
like amount Of land fer each of his OF
her children under the age of eighteen rs
years, and that the commissioner Of In
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