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 1026 r1rrY-r1nsr conennss. sms. 11. on. 513. 1891. immodsomy avail- this appropriation to be immediately available and to become opera- “b]°· five upon the execution by the duly appointed delegates of said respective nations specially authorized thereto by law of releases and conveyances to the United States of all the right, title, interest, and claim of said respective nations of Indians in and to said land (not including Grier County, which is now in dispute) in manner and Indian use mm- form satisfactory the the President of the United States; and said reg'“"’h°°· leases and conveyances, when fully executed and delivered, shall operate to extinguish all claim of every kind and character of said Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations of Indians in and to the tract of country to which said releases and conve ances shall apply. Lands opened to Sec. 16. That whenever any of the lands acquired by either of the 2§,‘§f’“""“ “"‘l°“‘°“° three foregoing agreements respecting lands in the Indian or Oklahoma Territor shall b operation of law or proclamation of the President of the United, States be open to settlement they shall be 1z.s.,¤oe.zm,p.u1. disposed of to actual settlers only, under the provisions of the homestead and town site laws (except section twenty-three hundred and one of the Revised States of the United States which shall not Promo. apply): Provided, however, That each settler, on said lands shall · be ore making a iinal proof and receiving a certificate of entry, pay Additiomlpayment. to the United States for the land so taken by him, in addition to the fees provided by law, and within five years from the date of the iirst original entry, the sum of one dollar and fifty cents per acre, onehalf of which shall be paid within two years; But the rights of honor- Soldiers and muon. ably discharged Union soldiers and sailors as defined and described 1z.s.,¤oo.¤04-sans, in Sections twenty-three hundred and four and twenty-three hun- ¥’·“*· dred and five of the Revised Statutes of the United States shall not be abridged except as to the sum to be paid as aforesaid, and all the lands in Oklahoma are hereby declared to be agricultural lands, and proof of their non-mineral c aracter shall not be required as a conition precedent to Hnal entr Division mso oouu. Sec. 17. That before any llands in Oklahoma are open to settle- ¤~*=gmh0m8 mm ment it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior to divide ' the same into counties which shall contain as near as possible not less than nine hundred square miles in each county. In establishing said county line the Secretary is hereby authorized to extend the lines of the counties already located so as to make the area of said counties equal, as near as may be, to the area of the counties meouoo. provided for in this act. At the first election for county officers the people of eachcounty may vote for a name for each county, and the name which receives the greatest number of votes shall be the name Prwiwm of such countiy; Provide, further, That as soon as the county lines County SGM!. ‘ are designate by the Secretary, he shall reserve not to exceed onehalf section of land in each county to be located near the center of n.s.,¤oo¤.2ssv,2sss, said county, for county seat purposes to be entered under sections ’•‘°7‘ twenty-three hundred and eighty-seVen and twenty-three and eighty- eight of the Revised Statutes: Provided, That in addition to the jurisdiction granted to the probate courts and the jud es thereof in Oklahoma Territory by Legislative enactments which enactments are hereby ratified, the Probate Judges of said Territory are hereby granted such jurisdiction in town site matters and under such regulations as are provided by the laws of the State of Kansas. m132m of school Sizc. 18. That the school lands reserved in the Territory of Okla- ' homa by this and former acts of Congress ma be leased for a period not exceeding three years for the benefit of the school fund of said Territory by the Governor thereof, under regulations to be presciéibed by $1; ieqpetary of the Interior. . Agreement with Ec. 19. e 0 owing agreement entered into on the art of the E,°ff§§§l_A*°"” mam United States by John V. Wright, Jared W. Daniels End Henry W. Andrews, Commissioners with the Coeur d’Alene Indians in Idaho Territory signed on the part of said Indians by Chief Andrew Seltice, and others which bears date March twenty-sixth, eighteen