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 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 412. 1889. JOO5 of any railroad company, except rights of wa and de ot rounds are mgm or way. hereby declared to be forever forfeited for bieach ofpconillition. ’ Sec. 13. That the lands acquired by the United States under said Lands fvbeconge agreement shall be a part of the public domain, to be disposed of only PM pubm d°"”"l‘ as herein provided, and sections sixteen and thirty-six of each township, whether surveyed or unsurveyed, are hereb reserved for the use and beneiit of the public schools, to be established within the sch0O1mwm¤¤¤s. limits of said lands under such conditions and regulations as may be hereafter enacted by Congress. That the lands acquired by conveyance from the Seminole Indians ro be amiposed of to _ hereunder, except the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections shall be “°"““] S"“°” °"1Y· disposed of to actual settlers under the homestead laws only, except as erein otherwise provided (except that section two thousand three R·S·*s°°·‘*°°‘#p·‘m· hundred and one of the Revised Statutes shall not a ply): And pro- Pmvem. [vided fu rihe r, That any person who having attem ted) to, but for any H°m*=s'*°¤d °¤¤¤¢¤- cause, failed to secure a title in fee to a homesteadp under existing law, or who made entry under what is known as the commuted provision ° of the homestead aw, shall be qualified to make a homestead entry upon said lands: And prov ided fu-rther, That the rights of honorably Rights or scldiexs discharged Union soldiers and sailors in the late civil war as defined ""1 S“‘"°"s‘ and described in sections twenty-three hundred and four and twenty- 1:g··S°¤¤··2*°*,¤¢*05- three hundred and five of the Revised Statutes shall not be abridged: p' ` And provided furiher, That each entry shall be in square form as Li¤¤i¢-ew nearly as practicable and no person be permitted to enter more than one-quarter section thereof, but until said lands are opened for settlement by proclamation of the President, no person shall be permitted Napa-spupermmeu to enter upon and occupy the same, and no person violating this pro-  l"°"l““‘“` vision slha ilhever be permitted to enter any of said lands or acquire an rig thereto. The Secretary of the Interior may, after said proclamation and ron mes. not before, permit entry of said lands for town-sites, under sections twenty-three hundred and eighty-seven and twenty-three hundred p` " and eighty-eight of the Revised Statutes, but no such entry shall embrace more than one-half section of land. That all the  provisions with reference to lands to be masons amimacquired from the Seminole Indians including the provisions per- "'°‘° C'°°k“‘“ · taining to forfeiture shall apply to and regulate the disposal of the lands acquired from the Muscogee or Creek Indians by articles of cession and agreement made and concluded at the city of Wash- mm, p.:;:. ington on the nineteenth day of J anuury in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and eighty-nine. Sec. 14. The President is hereby authorized to appoint three com- x»¤»•sma.m¤r..¤-(-.~. missioners, not more than two of whom shall be members of the QQ,§‘,,f"_]{{Ifj"g;;f{,}f,,Q;;, same political party, to negotiate with the Cherokee Indians and with 'rerricory. · all other Indians owning or claiming lands lying west of the ninety- sixth degree of longitude in the Indian Territory for the cession to the United States of all their title. claim, or interest of every kind or character in and to said lands, and any and all agreements resulting from such negotiations shall be reported to the President and by him Report. to Congress at its next session an to the council or councils of the nation or nations, tribe or tribes, agreeing to the same for ratification, and for this purpose the sum of twenty-ive thousand dollars, Expenses. or as much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated. to be immediately available; Pm vided. That said Commission is further zwrm. authorized to submit to the Cherokee nation the proposition that said Proposition to be nation shall cede to the United States in the manner and with the *"”“"“°d· effect aforesaid, all the rights of said nation in said lands upon the same terms as to payment as is provided in the agreement made with the Creek Indians of date January nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and ratified by the present Congress; and if said Chero- -4M¢· N60- kee nation shall accept, and by act of its legislative authority duly 0m passed, ratify the same, the said lands shall tthereupon become a part domain