PROCLAMATIONS. No. 18. 1997 [No. 18.] BY THE PRESIDENT or rm: UNITED Sums or Amzrucx. my 7~ *9**2- A PROCLAMATION. ` Whereas, by an agreement between the Shoshone and Bannock P'°‘"“"'“i Indians of the I*`ort all Reservation in Idaho, on the one part and certain commissioners of the United States on the other part, ratified _ _ by act of Congress ztpproved June 6, 1900 (31 Stat., 672), the said ‘°*· 3* P- 67* Indians ceded, grante , and relinquished to the United States all right, title, and interest which thely had to the following described land, the same being a part of the and obtained throng the treaty of Fort Bridger on the third day of July, eighteen hundred and sixtyegght, and ratified by the United States Senate on the sixteenth day of ebmary, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine: All that portion of the said reservation embraced within and lying east and south of the following described lines: Commencingat a point in the rsouth boundary of the Fort Hall Indian Reser— hI·¤¤d¤ ¢¢d¢<i by the vation, being the southwest cornerof township nine (9) south, range thirty-four zoghfsfhgfd B““‘ (34) of the Boise meridian, thence running due north on the range line between ` townships 33 and 34 east to a point two (2) mi es north of the township line between townships five (5) and six (1:3) south, thence due east to the range line between ranges 35 and 36 east, thence sont on said range line four (4) miles, thence due east to the east boundary line of the reservation; from this point the east and south boundaries of the said reservation as it now exists to the point of beginning, namely, the southwest corner of township nine (9) south, rang? thirty-four east, being the remainder gg ttheeigdescription and metes and bounds of the said tract of land herein proposed to And whereas, in pursuance of said act of Congress ratifying said V°‘· 3* ’· m agreement, allotments of land have been regularly made to each Indian occupant who desired it, and a schedule has been made of the lands to be a andoned and the improvements thereon appraised, and such ‘ improvements will be offered for sale to the hilghest bidder at not less than the alpprarsed price prior to the date fixe for the opening of the ceded lan s to settlement, and the classification as to agricultural and grazing lands has been made; And whereas, in the act of Congress ratrfying said agreement it is provided: That on the completion of the allotments and the preparation of the sclnedulgprm Lands opened to vided for in the preceding section, and the classification of the lands as provid for ’°(${5“l5“*· 6.6 herein, the residue of said ceded lands shall be olpened to settlement by the procla-' p mation of the President, and shall be subject to < isposal under the homestead, townsite, stone and timber, and mining laws of the United States only, excepting as to price and excepting the sixteenth and thirty~sixth sections in each Congressional township, which shall be reserved for common school purposes and be subyect to the laws of Idaho: 1’rm·id»=d, That all purchasers of lands lying under the canal of the Idaho Canal Companv, and which are susceptible of irrigation from the water from said canal, shall pay for the same at the rate of ten dollars per acre; all agricultural lands not under said canal shall be paid for at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per acre, and grazing lands at the rate of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, one—fifth of the respective sums to be paid at time of original entry, and four-fifths thereof at the time of making final proof; but no purchaser shall be permitted in any manner to purchase more than one undred and sixty acres of the land hereinbefore referred to; but the rights of honorably discharged Union soldiers and sailors. as defined and described in sections twenty-three hundred and four and twenty-three hundred and five of the Revised Statutes of the United States, shall not be abridged, except as to the sum to be paid as aforesaid. -)F 1- ·l * ·¥· ·¥· ·} No lands in sections sixteen and thirty-six now occupied, as set forth in article three of the agreement herein ratified shall be reserved for school purposes, but the State of Idaho shall be entitled to indemnity for any lands so occupied: Provided, That none of said lands shall be disposed of under the townsite laws for less than ten dollars per acre: And provided further, That all of said lands within five miles of the boundary line of the town of Pocatello shall be sold at public auction, payable as aforesaid, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior for not less than
