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 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHQ 543. 1891. 1043 Sec. 34. That whenever an of the lands ac uired b the a ee- cmu mma e en ment with said Crow Indians liereby ratified and coniirnled shall. b ‘,f,‘.,*§'°°"°'“°"°“l’°"' operation of law or the proclamation of the President of the United States be open to settlement, they shall, except mineral lands, be disposed of to actual settlers only, under the dprovisions of the home- - stead laws, except_section twenty-three hun red and one of the ,.Re- R- S-. sw- M1. p- . vised Statutes, which shall not apply; Provided, however, That each mmm, settler, under and in accordance with the provisions of said homestead laws shall, before receiving zpatent or his homstead, pay to the United States for the land so en by him, in addition to the Additicnslpaymuit. fees prov1ded by law, and within five years from the date of the iirst original entry the sum of one dollar and fifty cents for each acre thereof one half of which shall be paid within two ears; and any » person otherwise qualihed who has attempted to, but for any cause ailed to secure a title in fee to a homestead under existing law, or who mad under what is known as the commuted provision of the hom _ law, shall be qualified to make ahomestead entry upon any of said lands m conformity with the piovisions of this section. That any person who may be entitled to e privilege of selectin ¤¤¤&¤¤g¤¤ in mw land m severalty under the (provisions of artic e six of the treaty 0%  m'°° h °° May seventh, eighteen hun ed and sixty-eight, with the Crow In- °'· le P- '°°· dI1I11B, and whic dprovisions were continued in force by the agree- V°l·”·P·**- ment with said In mus ratified and confirmed by the act of Congress, approved April eleventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, or any other act or treaty, shall have the right for a peri of sixty days to make such selections in any part of the territory by said agreement omnn ummm ceded, and such locations are hereby confirmed: Pro·v·ided, further, ‘°°‘“°"“°°"“"“°"· That all white persons who located ugn said Crow Reservation b reason of an erroneous survey of the undary and were afterward}; allowed to file upon their location in the United States Land Oihce, - shall have thirty days in which to renew their filings, and their locations are Y heregy confirmed, and that in all cases where claims were lllnlngchims. located under e mining laws of the United States, and such location was made prior to December first eighteen hundred and ‘ ninety, by a locator qualified therefor who believed that he or she was o locatin on lands outside the Crow Indian Reservation, such locator shall ge allowed thirty days within which to re-locate the said mining claims so theretofore located by them, within the limits of the ceded portion of said Crow Indian Reservation, and upon such re—location such proceedings shall be had as are conformable to law and in accordance with the provisions of this act. Sec. 35. That whenever under and by reason of the provisions unda for mmm herein contained, ratifying and confirming agreements with any In- “”" dian tribe, the right is reserved to any religious society or organization to purchase Iands the subject of such algreement the price and time and terms of payment thereof may be xed by the Secretary of the Interior, but not ess than that at which the other lands subject to said agreement are sold for. Sec. 36. That the school lands reserved in the Territory of Okla- upreucctmbwnmnds homa by this and former acts of Congress, maybe leased for a period °u°l‘°""` not exceeding three years for the benefit of the school fund of said Territory by the governor thereof, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior. Sec. 37. That before any lands in Oklahoma are open to settlement mvaieu or ominit 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 seven 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 provided for in this act. At the first election for county officers the people of each Naminsccnnth-