The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1910-05-20
Opening Of Reservation
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direct; and he shall not more
than twenty per centum of the net
proceeds arising from SUCH sales to
be set apart and expended under his
direction in the construction of school
houses or other public buildings or
improvements in the town sites in
which such lots are located. The net
proceeds derived from the sale of
such lots, less the amount expended
in the construction of school houses
or other public buildings or improve.
ments, as hereinbefore provided,
within the town sites aforesaid, shall
be credited to the Indians as herein
after provided.
Section z. That the President of
the United States shall appoint a
sons, to inspect, classify, appraise,
and value all of the lands described
in section n of this Act that shall
not have been allotted in %severalty
to said Indians or granted or reserved
by the terms of this Act, said com
mission to be constituted as follows:
One of the commissions shall be a
person holding tribal relations with
said Indians, one a representative of
the Interior Department, and n a
resident citizen of the state of North
Dakota. That within twenty days
after their appointment said commits
sioners shall meet and organize by
the election of one of their number
as chairman. The said commission
ers shall then proceed to personally
inspect and classify and appraise, in
one hundred and sixty acre tracts, all
of the remaining lands described in
section one of this Act, except Sec
tons sixteen and sections %thirty-six.
In making such classification and ap-
praisement said lands shall be divid.
ed into the following classes: First,
agricultural land of the first class;
second, agricultural land of the sec
ond class; third, grazing land; fourth,
timber land; fifth, mineral land, if
any, but the mineral and timber lands
shall not be appraised. That said
commissioner shall be paid a salary
of not to exceed ten dollars per day
each while actually employed. in the
inspection and classification of said
lands and necessary expenses, ok
elusive of subsistence, to be approved
by the SECRETARY of the Interior; such
inspection and classification to be
completed within six months from
the date of the organization of said
commission.
Sec. 8. That when said commits
sioners shall have completed the elias.
sification and appraisement of all of
said lands, and the same shall have
!. been approved by the Secretary OF
Z the Interior, the lands shall be dis
posed of under the provisions of the
homestead, mineral and townsite laws
=, of the United States except as here
! matter otherwise provided and ex-
' cepting sections sixteen and thirty
six of each township, which sections
are hereby granted to the State of
North Dakota for school purposes;
and in case either of said sections
or parts thereof should be lost to
the state by reason of the allotment
thereof to any Indian or Indians, or
otherwise, the governor of said
state, with the approval of the Secre-
tary of the Interior, is hereby author.
lied within the area described in sec
ton one of this Act, to select other
~unoccupied, unreserved, nonmineral
lands, which selections must be made
at least thirty days prior to the date
fixed by the Presidents proclama
ton opening the surplus lands to
settlement: Provided, that in any
event not more than two sections
shall be granted to the state in any
one township, and lands must be Sc
lected in lieu of sections sixteen and
t%hirty-six, or any part thereof, with
in the township in which the loss oc.
ours, except in any township where
unallotted lands, in which event what
. ever is required to make two sections
may be selected in any adjoining
township: Provided further, that the
United States shall payto the said
Indians for the lands in said sections
sixteen and thirty-six SO granted, or
s the lands within said reservation Sc
lected in lieu thereof, the sum of
two dollars and fifty cents per acre.
Sec. 9. That said lands shall be
opened to settlement and entry by
proclamation of the President, which
proclamation shall prescribe that all
applications for registration must
show the applicants name, %postoftice
address, age, height and weight, and
be sworn to by him before any Judge
or clerk of any court of record Of the
county where such applicant resides,
and the time when and the manner in
which the lands may be settled upon.
occupied and entered by persons en-
titled to make entry tehreof, and
no person shall be permitted to
settle upon, occupy or enter
any of said lands except as
prescribed in said proclamation:
Provided, That the rights of honor
ably discharged union soldiers and
sailors of the late civil and Spanish
wars and Philippine i%nsurrection. as
defined and prescribed in sections
twenty-three hundred and four and
twenty-three hundred and five Of the
Revised Statutes, as amended by the
act Of March first, nineteen hundred
and one, shall not be abridged:
Provided further, That the price of
said agricultural lands shall be the
appraised value thereof as approved
the agricultural lands shall be dis
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