The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-05-10

when the same are opened to settle
ment and entry; provided, that as to
the lands open under such proclama-
ton the rights of honorably discharg-
ed Union soldiers and sailors ct the
late civil or Spanish war Or Philip
pine insurrect.on, as defined and de-
scribed in sections 2304 and 1905 of
the revised statutes, as amended by
the act OF March l, 1901, shall not
be abridged; and provided further,
that the price Of said lands shall be 81
per acre, when entered under the
homestead laws, to be paid for as
follows:
Zone dollar per acre when entry is
made, and the remainder in four equal
annual installments, the first to be
paid at the end of the second year
'In addition to the price to be paid
for the land, the entryman shall pay
the same fees and commissions at the
time of Communication or final entry as
now provided by law where the price
of the land is $1.25 per acre.
LANDS entered under the townsite
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for in amount and manner as provided
by said laws, but IN no event at
less price than that fixed herein for
such lands, if entered under the home
stead laws, and in case any entryman
fails to make such deferred payments,
or any of them, promptly when due,
all rights in and to the land covered
by his or her entry shall at once
cease, and any payments heretofore
made shall oe forfeited, and the entry
shall be held for cancellation and
cancelled; provideu, that the lands
embraced within such cancelled entry
shall, after cancellation of such en-
| try, be subject to entry under the
provisions of the homestead law at
81 per sacre until otherwise directed
by the president, as herein provided;
and provided that nothing in this
act shall prevent homestead settlers
from committing their entries under
ing for the land entered the price
fixed herein, receiving credit for pay
ments previously made, except as to
lands entered under said reclamation
act; and provided further, that when,
in the judgment or the president, no
more of the land herein ceded can be
disposed of at said price, he may by
proclamation, to be repeated at his
discretion, sell from time to time the
,serlaiHing land subject to the provis-
ions of the homestead law or other
wise as he may deem most advan-
tageous, at such price or prices, in
such manner, upon such conditions,
with such restrictions, and upon such
terms as he may deem best for al
the interests concerned.
"Sec. 6. That the proceeds received
from the sale of said lands in con-
formity with this act shall be paid
into the treasury of the United States,
pended on their account only as pro-
vided in article two of said agreement
as herein amended.
"No lands in sections 16 and 81
now occupied, as set forth in article
three of the agreement herein rati-
fed, or withdrawn for irrigation un-
der the provisions of said reclamation
act, shall be reserved for school pur-
poses, but the state of Montana shall
} be entitled to indemnity for any lands
SO occupied; and the governor OF said
state, with the apprOval OF the secre
: tartary of the interior, is hereby au'
thoriZed in the tract herein ceded to
locate other lanas not occupied OF
withdrawn, which shall be paid fol
by the United States, as herein pro
} vided, in quantity equal to the loss
and such selections shall be made
prior to the opening of such lands te
: settlement, but no selection shall be
| in ceded except to compensate fol
) losses occurring therein.
' ''Sec. T. That there is hereby ap
: propriated out of any money in the
: treasury not otherwise appropriated
: the sum of 100000, or so much there
5 of as may be necessary, to pay the
: said Indians, at the rate of $1.25 pei
= acre, for the lands granted to the
' state of Montana as provided in sec
i Ition five of this act.
| "Sec. g. That nothing in this act
/ contained shall in any manner binc
;. the United States to purchase any por
i tion of the land herein described
$ except sections 16 and 80 or the equiv
s alent in each township, or to dispose
= of said land except as provided here
, in, or ito guarantee to find purchasers
t for said lands or any portion thereof
r it being the intention of this act tha
f the United States shall act as trustee
, for said Indians to dispose OF sait
d lands and to expend and pay over th'
t proceeds received from the sale there
d of only as received, as herein pro
e vided.