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 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 182. 1890. 9] the Indians, shall not be open for settlement, but are hereby granted to the respective educational societies or missionary boards for whose use the same has been set apart. No part of the land embraced within the Territory hereby created shall inure to the use or beneiit of any railroad corporation, except the rights of way and land for _R¤11¤>¤d corpora stations heretofore granted to certain railroad corporations. Nor iL§°,§1?,gr§2£g,°Z?°S °° shall any provision of this act or any act of any officer of the United States, one or performed under the provisions of this act or otherwise, invest any corporation owning or operating any railroad in the Indian Territory, or Territory created by this act, with any land or right to any lan in either of said Territories, and this act shall not apply to or affect any land which, upon any condition on becoming a part of the public domain, woul inure to the benefit of, or become the Ilproperty of, any railroad corporation. Sec. 19. hat portion of the Territory of Oklahoma heretofore Public Land Strip known as the Public Land Strip is hereby declared a public land g?§L,‘$§,°fi "’ °°“““ district, and the President of the United States is hereby em wered to locate a land office in said district, at such place as he shahoselect, oem. and to appoint in conformity with existing law a register and receiver mkvsimr ¤¤<1 reof said and office. He may also, whenever he shall deem it neces- `""°°b°°"°i"“ sary, establish another adwional land district within said Territory, Aamuom um dislocate a land office there, and in like manner a point a re `ster E',l§§g§f,°,;jm“’°°°* and receiver thereof. And the Commissioner of the Genera1Tand MTV- wm ¤f Office shall, when directed by the President, cause the lands within ' the Territory to be properly surveyed and subdivided where the same has not already been done. Sec. 20. That the procedure in ap lications, entries, contests, and ur§°,Qc°S*¤¤d P¤‘<>¤¤d- _adjudications in the Territorylof (lklahoma shall be in form and ’ ` manner prescribed under the omestead laws of the United States, 41g-S-,Ti¤1¤IX1¤¤1.n and the general (principles and provisions of the homestead laws, ' except as modiiie by the provisions of this act and the acts of Con- youuu. _ gress approved March nrst and second, eighteen hundred and °‘2°· pp" 75** 758* eighty-nine, heretofore mentioned, shall be applicable to all entries made in said Territory, but ngbpatent shall be issued to any person ummm. who is not a citizen of the nited States at the time of making iinal proof. All persons who shall settle on land in said Territory, under the Lsuds mmm. provisions of the homestead laws of the United States, and of this act, shall be required to select the same in square form as nearly as umu of form. may be; and no person who shall at the time be seized in fee simple R°°°'*°*°d °¤°'*°* of a hundred and sixty acres of land in any State or Territory, shall hereafter be entitled to enter land in said Territory of Oklahoma. The provisions of sections twenty-three hundred and four and PE-.¤ecs.¤304, ms, twenty three hundred and live of the Revised Statutes of the United` States shall, except so far as modified by this act, apply to all homestead settlements in said Territory. _ Sec. 21. That an person, entitled by law to take a homestead in ·g;>;;<a•_i¢:_g¤d1¤<¤¤ic¤s said Territory of Oklahoma, who has a ready located and Bled upon, ‘ or shall hereafter locate and file upon, ahomestead within the limits described in the President’s proc amation of April first, eighteen P<»¢.p.1544. hundred and eighty nine, and under and in pursuance of the laws applicable to the settlement of the lands opened for settlement by such proclamation, and who has complied with all the laws relating to such homestead settlement, may receive a patent therefor at the P¤¤¢¤¤- expiration of twelve months from date of locating upon said homestead upon payment to the United States of one dollar and twenty- Fee. cents per acre for land embraced in such homestead. Sec. 22. That the provisions of title thirty-two, chapter eight of '1'¤*¤·*§¤¤~ Hm the Revised Statutes of the United States relating to "reservation c,,E,,%;P'{;°§,“_ _ and sale of town sites on the public la11ds" shall apply to the lands open, or to be opened to settlbment in the Territory of Oklahoma,