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 PROCLAMATIONS. No. 2. 1545 Whereas,  release and conveyance, bearing date the sixteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, has been duly and fulyhexecuted, approved and delivered, and, _ _ v¤|.¤,p.m•n. . Said l§Ir3:s,P§$1til<;n gpmmsf the Act last aforesaid, relating to f‘ Sec. 13. That the lands acquired by the United States_ under said agreement shall be a part of the public domam, to be disposed of only as herein provided, and sections sixteen and thirty-six of each township, whether surveyed or unsurveyed, are hereby reserved for the nse and beneiit o the public schools, to be established within the limits of said lands under such conditions and regulations asgnay be hereafter  by Congress.” _ _ That the lands acquired by conveyance from the Seminole Indians hereunder, except the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections shall be disposed of to actual settlers under the homestead laws only, except as herein otherwise provided (exscgept that section two thousand three hundred and one of the Revi Statutes shall not apply): And provided further, That any person who having attempt to, but for any cause, failed to secure a title in fee to a homestead under existing law, or who made entry under what is known as the commuted provision of the homestead law,  be qualified to make a_ homes entry upon said lands: And provided further, That the rights of honora ly-ndischargied Union soldiers and sailors in the late civil war as de ed and escribed in sections twenty-three hundred and four and twenty-three hundred and Eve of the Revised Statutes shall not be abridged: And provided further, That each entry shall be in square form as nearly as practicable, and no pteyson be permitted to enter more than one-qzpgrter section thereof, anti! saod a for_settlet;r)ne;ot; T p*rocla;‘ndatzon;)>g’/ pike , no 8 perm- e e a occu I e same, and no person violating this provision shdld ever be permitted to enter any of said lands or acquire any right the·ret0.” " The Secretary of the Interior may, after said proclamation and not before, permit entry of said lands for town—sites, under sections twenty-three hundred and eighty-seven and twenty-three hundred and)eighty-eighlt of thehligvised Staqufaesh but no such entry shall em race more t an one- a section o an ." " That all the foregoing revisions with reference to lands to P be acquired from the Seminole Indians, including the (provisions pertaining to forfeiture shall apply to and reglulate the isposal of the lands acquired from the Muscogee or Cree Indians by articles of cession and agreement made and concluded at the city of Washmm OI].: thergénetefnthhday of January in the year of our Lord 61 n un an 91 -mne." ` New therefore, I, Benjagniil Harrison, President of the United States, 0 mygggzglem b virtue of the ower in me vested by said Act of Congress, approved °° ° J P. . . E arch second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, aforesaid, do ereby declare and make known, that so much of the lands, as aforesaid. acquired from or conveyed by the Muscogee (or Creek) Nation of Indians, _and froué or lgy tlile Seminole Niationbofl I)n)diarl1s, respectively, as is containe wit in e 0 owin escribe un aries, viz: Beginnigg at a ppint whergegie dielgree of lonptudelpineltiyéaighg Bmmiiu-ie: west rom reenwic, as surve in e ears eig teen un an fifty-eight and eighteen hundreld and sevehty-one, intersects the Canadian River ; thence, north alon and with the said degree to a point where the same intersects the Cdmarron River; thence, up said river, along the right bank thereof,to a point where the same is intersected by the south line of what is known as the Cherokee lands lying west 0 the Arkansas River or as the “Cherokee Outlet," said line being the north line of the lands ceded by the Muscogee (or Creek) Nation of Indians to the United States y the treaty of June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six; thence, east along said line to a