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 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 206. 1888. 103 hundred and five of the Revised Statutes of the United States, shall not be abridged, except as to said fifty cents per acre; and any conveyance of said lands so taken as a homestead, or any contract touching the same, or lien thereon, created prior to the date of Hnal entry, shall be null and void: And provided, That lands entered for town-site purposes shall be paid for at the rate of '*`°w¤·¤i*° budsone dollar and twentyfve cents per acre: And provided further, That nothing in this act contained shall be so construed as to affect the right of Congress or of the Territorial overnment of Dakota to establish public ighways or to grant to railroad companies the right HiShW¤Y¤· M- of way t rough said lands, or to exclude the said lands, or any thereof, from the operation of the general laws of the United States now in force granting to railway companies the right of way and depot grounds over and upon the public lands. American Island, ®%6Ig6£‘g;Is%*;lgad0 an island in the Missouri iver, near Chamberlain, in the Territory mk., rm- mil yiubiié of Dakota, and now a part of the Sioux Reservation, is hereby do- Wknated to the said city of Chamberlain: Provided further, That said city of Chamberlain shall formal] accept the same within one year from the passage of this act, upon the express condition that the same shall be preserved and used for all time entire as a public park, and for no other purpose, to which all persons shall have free access; and said city shall have authority to adopt all proper rules and regulations for the improvement an care of said park; and upon the failure of any of said conditions the said island s all revert to the United States, to be disposed of by future legislation only. Farm Island, wFg:¤nI:l¤§’géi¤g¤M an island in the Missouri River near Pierre, in the Territory of public pa}:. " °° ° Dakota, and now a part of the Sioux Reservation, is hereby donated to the said city of Pierre: Provided further, That said city of Pierre shall formally accept the same within one year from the passage of this act, u on the express condition that the same shall be preserved and used for all time entire as a public park, and for no other plurpgse, to which all persons shall have free access; and said cityls aH ve authority to ado t all proper rules and regulations for the improvement and care ofp said park; and upon the ailure of any of said conditions the said island shall revert to the United States, to be disposed of by future legislation only. Niobrara Island, an island in Iiiogmag llglaréd dothe Nicbi-ara River, near Niobrara, and now a Npart of the Sioux hgh? for 8‘°p'Q‘l,’€5 Reservation, is hereby donated to the said city of iobraraz Provided Park further, That the said city of Niobrara shall formally accept the same within one year from the passage of this act, upon the express condition that the same shall be preserved and used for all time entire as a public park, and for no other purpose, to which all persons shall have free access; and said city shall have authority to a opt all proper rules and regulations for the improvement and care of said par ; and upon the failure of any of said conditions the said island shall revert to the United States, to be disposed of by future le islation only; And provided further, That if any full or mixed blood Ididian of f  1¤di¤¤¤ the Sioux Nation shall have located upon Farm Island, AIH€1'lC3l1 mm Island, or Niobrara Island before the date of the passage of this act, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior, within three months from the time this act shall have taken elfect, to cause all improvements made by any such Indian so located upon either of said islands, and all damage that may accrue to him by a removal therefrom, to be appraised, and upon the payment of the sum so determined, within six months after notice thereof. by the city to which the island is herein donated, to such Indian, said Indian shall be required to remove from said island, and shall be entitled to select instead of such location his allotment according to the provisions of this act upon any of the reservations herein established. or upon any land opened to settlement by this act not already located upon. Sec. 22. That all money accruing from the disposal of lands in Disposition of re conformity with the foregoing section shall, after deducting the Y§,§{’§f f'°'“ “°" °’