The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-07-08

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| the payment Of $1-25 per acre. And pro-
vided further, that the rights of hon
orably. discharged union soldiers and
sailors OF the late civil war, as defined
and described IN sections 2304 and 900
Of the Revised Statutes, shall not be
abridged And provided further. that
any qualified entryman having lands
adjoining the lands herein cededs
whose original entry embraced less
than 16O acres, may take sufficient lana
from said reservation to make his hcme-
stead entry not to exceed 160 acres IN
all said land to be taken upon the
same conditions as are required OF
other entrymen- Provided, that sald
lands shall be opened to settlement
within one year after said alIotments
are made to the Indians
THAT the laws relating to the min
eral lands of the United States are here
by extended over the lands coded bJ the
foregoing agreement
THE NEUTRAL STRIP SETTLERS.
And whereas in the act Of congress
ratifying the said Comanche, Kiowa ana
Apache agreement, it is provided
That the lands acquired by this
agreement shall be opened to settlement
by proclamation of the president within
six months after allotments are made
and be disposed of under the general
provision of the homestead and town
site laws of the United States Pro-
vided, that in addition to the land office
fees prescribed by statute for such en-
tries the entryman shall pay $l2b per
acre for the land entered at the time
of submitting his final proof. And pro-
Vided further, that in all homestead en-
tries where the entryman has resided
upon and improved the land entered IN
good faith for the period of fourteen
months he may commute his entry TO
cash upon the payment or $l.zo per acre
And provided further, that the right OF
honorably discharged Union soldiers
and sailors of the late Civil war, as de-
fined and described in sections 2 304 and
2 sos of the Revised Statutes, shall not
be abridged. And provided further, that
any person who, having attempted 10
but for any cause failed to secure
title in fee to a homestead under exist
ing laws, or who made entry under
what is known as the committed pro
vision of the homestead law, shah be
qualified to make a homestead enLry
upon said lands. And provided further,
that any qualified entryman having
lands adjoining the lands herein ceded,
100 acres in all, shall have the right to
enter so much of the lands by TINS
agreement ceded lying contiguous to
his said entry as SHALL with the laho
already entered, make in the aggregate
$50 acres said land to be taken upon
the same conditions as are REQUIRED OF
other entrymen. And provided IurIner,
that the settlers who located on tuaI
part Of said lands called and known as
the Neutral Strip shall have preference
right for thirty days on the lands upon
which they have located and improved
THAT should any of said lands allot-
ted to said Indians. or opened to settle
nent under this act. contain valuable
mineral deposits. such mineral deposits
shall be open to location and entry,
under the existing mining laws OF the
United States, upon the passage Of TINS
act and the mineral laws Of the IhlLed
States are hereby extended over SAID
lands.".
THE OPENING LAW
And. whereas, by the act Of congress
approved January 4, 1901, (Sl Stat, fzD.
the secretary Of the interior was auth
orized to extend. for a period not eX-
ceeding eight months from December
6. 1900 the time for making allotments
to the Comanche, Kiowa and Apache
Indians and opening to settlement the
lands so coded by them;
And. whereas, in pursuance Of the act
of congress approved March 3, 1871, (51
Stat, 1O93), the secretary of the interior
has regularly subdivided the lands so
as aforesaid respectively coded to the
United States by the Wichita and ar
hliated bands of Indians and the Co
rnanche, Kiowa and Apache tribes Of
Indians into counties, attaching por-
tions thereof to adjoining counties IN
the territory of Oklahoma, has regular
" designated the place for the county
seat of each new county, has regularly
set aside and reserved at such county
seat land for a tOWnsite to the dtsposej
of in the manner provided by the act OF
congress last named, and has regularly
caused to be surveyed, subdivided and
plated the lands so set aside and re-
served for disposition as such town
sites;
TO AVOID THE OLD BUSHES.
And, whereas, by the act of congress
last named, it is provided:
''The lands to be opened to settlement
and entry under the acts of congress
ratifying said agreements respectively
shall be so opened by proclamation of the
president, and to avoid the contests and
oTofv soh he
fore resulted from opening similar pub
lie lands to settlement and entry, the
presidents proclamation shall prescribe
the manner in which these lands may
be settled upon. occupied and entered
by persons entitled thereto under the
acts ratifying said agreements, respec-
lively; and no person shall be permit
ted to settle upon, occupy or enter any
of said lands except as prescribed in
such proclamation until after the ex-
piration of 60 days from the time when
the same are opened to settlement and
entry"
And. whereas. by the act of congress
last named, the president was authoriz-
ed to establish two additional United
States land districts and land offices IN
the territory of Oklahoma, to include
the lands so coded as aforesaid. which
land districts and land offices have
been established by an order OF even
date herewith;
And. whereas. all of the conditions
required by law to be performed prior
to the opening Of said tracts of lands
to settlement and entry have been. and
hereby declare. duly performed:
FORMALLY OPEN AUGUST 6.
Now, therefore, I, William Mckinley.
president Of the United States Of Amer
lea, by virtue of the power vested in
me by law, do hereby declare and make
known that all of the lands so as afore-
SAID ceded by the Wichita and affiliated
bands of Indians. and the Conanche
floWa and Apache tribes of Indians
respectively, saving and excepting sec