The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-02-19
EXISTING LAWS TO APPLY
Entries May Be Made Under Different
Acts School Sections Are
Reserved.

The treaty with the Grow Indians
to cede the northern part of their res
ervation as amended by the Dixon
bill and passed by the house Of repre-
%sentatives is as follows:
Sec. g. That the said agreement
be, and the same is hereby accepted,
ratified and confirmed, as herein
amended.
Sec. 3. That for the purpose of
surveying and marking SO much OF
the boundary line of the tract coded
and relinquished by the Indians as
may be necessary to segregate the
same from the lands reserved by them,
as provided in article four of said
agreement, the sum of $1,000, or so
much thereof as may be necessary,
be, and the same is hereby appropriat-
ed out of any money in the treasury
not otherwise appropriated.
Sec. 4. That the commissioner OF
Indian affairs shall cause allotments
to be made, in n and quantity
as provided by existing law, of the
lands occupied and cultivated by any
Indians on the portion of the reserva-
ton by said agreement coded and
relinquished, as required by article
three thereof; and where such Indian
occupants elect to remove to the di-
minished reservation he shall cause
a schedule to be prepared showing
the names of such occupants, the
descriptions Of the lands, and the
character of the improvements. there
on. Such improvements shall then be
appraised and sold under the direc-
ton of the secretary of the interior
to the highest bidder, no sale to be
for less than the appraised value, the
proceeds to be paid to the respective
Indian occupants as required by said
article three; provided, that the pur-
chaser of such improvements shall
have a preference right, if otherwise
entitled, of 80 days after the land be-
comes subject to entry within which
to enter the lands upon which the i'm
provements are located, not exceeding
100 acres, in compliance with the pro-
visions herein governing the dispo-
sition Of said coded lands.
"The secretary of the interior shall
fix a reasonable time within which
such Indian occupants shall elect
whether they will remain on the
coded tract or remove to the diminish
ed reservation, and where they elect
to remove he shall also fix a reason
able time within which such occupants
must remove their improvements it
they should choose to do so instead
of having the same appraised and
sold.
"Sec. 5. That before any of the
lands by this agreement coded are
opened to settlement or entry the
commissioner of Indian affairs shall
cause the allotments to be made and
the schedule to be prepared, as pro-
vided for in section 4 of this act, and
a duplicate of said schedule shall be
filed with the commissioner of the
general land office. Upon the compile
ton of such allotments and the fl
ings of such schedule the residue OF
such coded lands, except sections Ii
and SO, or lands in lieu thereof, which
shall be reserved for common school
purposes, and are hereby granted to
the state of Montana for such pur-
pose, shall be disposed Of under the
homestead, townsite and m~ineral-land
laws of the United States, and shall
be opened to settlement and entry by
proclamation of the president, which
proclamation shall prescribe the man
ner IN which these lands may be set
tied upon, occupied and entered by
persons entitled to make entry there
of; and no person shall be permitted
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 settle
ment and entry; provided, that the
rights of honorably discharged Union
soldiers and sailors of the late civil
and the Spanish wars, as defined ani
described in sections 1904 and 230!
of the revised statutes, as amended
by act of March 1, 1901, shall not b.
abridged; and provided further, tina
the price of said lands shall be 5;
per acre, when entered under tn
homestead laws, to be paid as follows