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PROCLAMATION S. N0. 5. 1225 eighteen hundred and ninety-two, said tribe ceded, conveyed, released, relinquished, and surrendered to the United States all its title, claim, and interest, of every kind and character, in and to the lands particularly described in Article I of the agreement, Provided, That the allotments made or to be made to said Indians in the manner and subjecg to the conditions contained in said agreement, shall be confirmed; an Whereas, it is provided in section thirteen of the act of Congress, accepting, ratifying and confirming said agreements with the Tonkawa · Indians and the Pawnee Indians, specitled in sections eleven and twelve of the same act, approved March third, eighteen hundred and V·¤·¤7· 1--*44- ninety-three, entitled “An act making appropriations for current and contingent expenses, and fulfilling treaty stipulations with Indian tribes for fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four", “'1‘hat the lands acquired by the agreements specified in the two preceding sections are hereby declared to be a part of the public domain. Sections sixteen and thirty-six in each township, whether surveyed or unsurveyed, are hereby reserved from settlement for the use and benefit of public schools, as provided in section ten relating tolands acquired from the Cherokee Nation of Indians And the lands so acquired by the agreements specfiled in the two preceding sections not so reserved shall be opened to settlement by proclamation of the President at the same time and in the manner and subject to the same conditions and reg·ulations provided in section ten relating to the opening of the lands acquired from the Cherokee Nation of Indians. And each settler on the lands so to be opened as aforesaid shall, before receiving a patent for his homestead, pay to the United States for the lands so taken by him, in addition to the fees provided by law, the sum of two dollars and fifty cents per acre; and shall also pay interest upon the amount so to be paid for said land from the date of entry to thei date of iinal payment at the rate of four per centum per annum"; an Whereas, the thirteenth section of the act approved March second, "°*·”· P- 1*5- eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, the act approved May second, **26- ¤>· 81- eighteen hundred and ninety, and the second proviso of section seventeen, and the whole of section eighteen of the act approved March V°*·2“·P·*°’°· third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, are referred to in the tenth section of the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety- Vol.21', p.o42. three, and thereby made applicable in the disposal of the lands in the

  • ‘Cherokee Outlet" hereinbefore mentioned, the provisions of which

acts, so far as they aflect the opening to settlement and the disposal of said lands, are more particularly set forth hereinafter in connection with the rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior for the occupation and settlement of the lands hereby opened, according to said tenth section; and, Whereas, the lands acquired by the three several agreements herein~ wei? ·>f t!¤¤¤• before mentioned have been divided into counties by the Secretary of ° m ° °°" `"' the Interior, as required by said lastmentioncd act of Congress, before the same shall be opened to settlement, and lands have been reserved for county-seat purposes to be entered under sections twenty-three R._s., sm. mas, hundred and eiglityseven and twenty-three hundred and eighty-eight *"‘°" of the Revised Statutes of the United States as therein required as follows, to wit: , For County K, the southeast quarter of section twenty-three and the county K. northeast quarter of section twenty-six, township twenty-eight north, range two east of the Indian Meridian, excepting four acres reserved for the site of a court house to be designated by lot and block upon the oilicial plat of survey of said reservation for county-seat purposes hereafter to be issued by the Commissioner of the General Land Office; said reservation to be additional to the reservations for parks, schools and other public purposes required to be made by section 22, of the act _"<>¤- ze r- *2 of May 2, 1890.