The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1901-07-09

and Apache agreement II Is provided.
That the lands acquired by this
agreement shall be opened 20 settle
ment by proclamation Of the president
within six months after allotments re
mained and bc disposed OF under the
general provisions Of the homestead
and townsite laws ofthe United States.
Provided That in addition to the
land office fees prescribed by statute
for such entries the cntryman shall
pay 81 per acre for the land entered
~ the time OF submitting his final
proof
And Provided Further. That IN all
homestead entries where the entrv.nan
has resided upon and improved the
land in good faith for the period OF
fourteen months lac may continue his
entry 20 cash upon the payment of
81 e3 per acre;
And Provided Further. That the
rights Of honorably discharged Union
soldiers aud sailors of the late Civil
War. as described In Sections e3ni aud
2305 Of the revised statutes shall not
be abridged
WHO CAS- TAKE LANDS
And, provided further that any per.
sou who having attempted TO. but for
any cause failed 20 secure title In fee
TO homestead under the existing laws,
or who made entry under what Is
known as The cOmmuted provision Of
the homestead entry upon said lands;
And, pro 'idci further, that any
qualified eutryman having lands adj
joining the lands herein coded, whose
original entry embraced less than 100
res in all, shall have the right 20 en-
ter so much of the lands 10y the agree
ment ceded lying contiguou, 10 his said
entry as shall, with the land already
entered, make In the aggregate, 100
acres, said land 10 be taken upon the
same conditions ns are required Of
other cntrymen;
Aud provided further. that the set.
tiers who locate on that part OF said
lands called and known as the neutral
strip, shall have preference right for
thirty days on 'hc lands upon which
they have located aud improved
MINERAL DEPOSIT LANDS.
That should any OF said lands allpt.
ted 20 said Indians. or opened To settle
ment under this act contain valuable
mineral deposits, such mineral deposits
shall be open to location and entry,
Unite I states upon the passage Of the
act. and the mineral laws Of the United
States are hereby extended over said
lands.
And. whereas. by the act Of congress,
approved january 4, 1901 (3i Stat
727l, the secretary of the interior was
authorized to extend, for period not
exceeding eight months from Decem-
ber 6, 1900, the time for making allot-
ments TO the Comanche kiowa and
Apache Indiana aud opening 10 settle.
ment the lands TO be ceded by them.
And, whereas, in pursuance OF the
net Of congress approved March 3. 1901
(3l stat. iOg3), the secretary of the in
terror has regularly undivided the
lands SO as aforesaid, respectively ceded
to the United States by the Wichita
and affiliated bands OF Indians and the
Comanche. Kiowa aud Apache tribes of
Indians into counties, attaching pOr-
tions there Of 10 counties in the terri
tory OF Oklahoma, has regularly de-
signated the place for the county seat
OF each new county, has regularly set
aside aud reserved at such county seat
land for a townsite 20 be disposed OF In
the manner provided by the act Of con-
g~ess last named, and has regularly
caused To be surveyed. subdivile and
plated the lands 20 be set aside and
reserved for position as such town
sites
DATE n AUo"er 9.
And, whereas, by the act OF congress
last named, il is provided;
"And, whereas, by the act Of con
gress last named the pres dent was uu-
thorized 10 establish two additional
United Stat'-3 land districts and land
Offices in the territory OF Oklahoma to
inc ude .he lands so ceded as aforesaid,
VIII ch land districts and land Offices
have been established 10y an order OF
even date herewith:
And, whereas, All OF the conditions
required by law to be performed prior
10 the opening Of said tracts OF land 10
settlement and entry have been, as l
hereby declare, IN ly performed;
Nov, therefore, /, William Mckin-
ley, president of the United states Of
America, by virtue of the power vested
In me by law, do hereby declare and
make known that all OF the tnds 30 as
aforesaid ceded by the WITCH ta ami AZ
dliated bands OF Indians, aud the Com
anche, kiowa and Apache tribes OF In
dians, respectively saving and except
ing sections sixteen, thirty-siX, tnir-
teen and thirty-three IA each township,
""d all lands located or selected by the
territory ot Oklahoma as indemnity,
school or educat onal lands and saving
aud excepting all la IDS allotted In sew
crafty TO individual Indians, aud saw
ing aud excepting all lands allotted and
confirmed 90 religious societies and
other organizations, and saving and
excepting the lands selected and set
aside as grazing lands for the use in
common for said COmauche, X lowl and
Apache tribes OF Indians, and saving
and excepting the lands set aiide and
reserved at each OF said county seats
for disposition as townsites, aud saw
ing and excepting the lands now used,
occupied, or set apart for military,
agency, school, school farm, religious,
Indian cemetery, wood reserve, forest
reserve, or other public uses, will, on
the 9th day Of August, 1901, at o o'clock
a. m, in the manner herein prescribed
and not otherwise. be opened To entry
ond settlement and to disposition under
the general provisions Of the home
stend and townsite laws Of the United
States.
Commencing at Q o'clock a. m, We'd
nesday, July 10, 1901, and endinv az 8
o'clock p m, Friday. July 20, 1901, n
registration will be had at the United
States land offices at III Reno and Law