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 1546 PROCLAMATIONS. NO. 2. point where the same intersects the west line of the lands set apart as a reservation for the Pawnee Indians by act of Congress approved April tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, being the ran e line between ranges four and five east of the Indian Meridian; iience, ( south on said line to a point where the same intersects the middle of the main channel of the Cimarron River ; thence, up said river, along the middle of the main channel thereof, to a poin where the same intersects the range line between range one east and range one west, (being the Indian Meridian), which line forms the western boundary of the reservations set apart respectively for the Iowa and Kickapoo Indians, by Executive Orders, ated, respectively, August fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three; thence, south along said range line or meridian to a point w ere the same intersects the right bank of the North Fork of the Canadian River; thence, up said river, along the right bank thereof, to a point where the same is intersected by the west ine of the reservation occupied b the Citizen Band of Pottawatomies, and the Absentee Shawnee Indians, set apart under the (provisions of the treaty of February twenty-seven, eighteen hun red and sixgy-seven, between the United States and the ottawatomie tribe o Indians, and referred to in the act of Congress approved May twenty-three, eighteen hundred and seventy-two; t ence south along the said west line of the aforesaid reservation to a point where the same intersects the middle of the main channel of the Canadian River; thence, up the said river, along the middle of the main channel thereof, to a point opposite to the place of be-. ginning; and thence north to the place o beginning, (saving and excepting one acre of land in square form in the northwest corner of section nine, in townshiprsixteen north, range two west, of the Indian Meridian in Indian erritory, and also one acre of land in the southeast corner of the northwest quarter of section nfteen, township sixteen north, range seven west, of the Indian Meridian in the Indian Territory; which last described two acres are hereby reserved for Government use and control), will, at and after the 0v¤¤Ax>¤‘¤ 22»1889· hour of twelve o’clock, noon, of the twenty-second day of April, next, and not before, be open for settlement, under the terms of, and subject to, all the conditions, limitations and restrictions contained in said Act of Congress, approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and the laws of the United States applicable thereto. h§,‘}_°,f*‘.f.;r*@QQj,r"; And it is hereby expressly declared and made known, that no open. other parts or portions of the ands embraced within the Ind1anTerritory than those herein specifically described, and declared to be open to settlement at the time above named and fixed, are to be considered as open to settlement under this proclamation or the Act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, aforesaid; and Waming is hereby again expressly given, that no person entering · upon and occupying said lands before said hour of twelve o’clock, noon, of the twenty-second day of A ril, A. D. eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, hereinbefore fixed,  ever be permitted to enter any of said lands or acquire any rights thereto; and that the officers of the United States will be required to strictly enforce the provision of the Act of Congress to the above eifect. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington this Twenty-third day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and [SEAL.] eighty nine, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirteenth. ‘ Bam. Hnnmson. By the President: Jnmms G. Bnnmn, Secretary of State.