Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 26.djvu/1602

 PROCLAMATIONS. Ne. 9. 1555 act entitled "an act to extend the northern boundary of the State of v¤L¤.p.a¤. Nebraska," approved March twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, the President shall, in pursuance of said act, declare that the Indian title is extinguished to all lands described in said act not so allotted hereunder, and thereupon all of said land not so allotted and rncluded in said act of March twenty-eighth, eighteen ' plpndrdd and eighty-two, shall be open to settlement as provided in 4 is ac ; Thatprotection is gparanteed to such Indians as may have taken p.m¤mwmh¤_ allotments either wit in or without the said separate reservations under the provisions of the treaty with the Great Sioux Nation, concluded April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixt ·eight; and that provision is made in said act for the release of all, tit e on the part of said Indians receiving rations and amruities on each separate reservation, to the lands described in each of the other separate reservations, and to confirm in the Indians entitled to receive rations at each of said separate reservations, respectively, to their separate and exclusive use and beneiit, all the title and interest of every name and nature secured to the different bands of the Sioux Nation by said treaty of April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixt ·eight; and that said re ease shall not aifect the title of api individiial In- mucus. dian to his separate allotment of land not includ in any of said separate reservations, nor any ag-geement heretofore made with the Chicmo, Milwaukee and Saint aul Railroad Company or the Dakota eutral Railroad Company respecting certain- lands for right of Rights wwwway, station grounds, etc., regarding which certain prior rights and privileges are reserved to and for the use of said railroad companies, resrlpectively, upon the terms and conditions set forth in said act: hat it is therein provided that if any land in said Great Sioux rams rm- mmm. Reservation is occupied and used by any religious society at the date $,‘{,.kf" °°“°""°““ of said act for the purpose of missionary or educational work among the Indians, whether situate outside of or within the limits of any of the separate reservations, the same, not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres in any one tract, shall be granted to said societly fora the purposes and upon the terms and conditions therein name, an Subject to all the conditions and limitations in said act contained, I-¤¤·i•¤¤M¤¤¤¤w¤i it is therein provided that all the lands in the Great Sioux Reserva- °°m°"` tion outside of the separate reservations described in said act, except American Island, Farm Island, and N iobrara Island, regarding which Islands special provisions are therein made, and sections sixteen and thirty-six in each township thereof (Ghich are reserved for school p ses) shall be disiposed of by the nited States, upon the terms, at the price and in the manner therein set forth, to actual settlers only, under the provisions of the homestead law éexcept section two thousand three hundred and one thereof) and un er the law relating to town-sites. That section twenty-three of said act fprovides " that all persons n:ri¤r bg? {Mc wv who, between the twenty-seventh day 0 February, eighteen hun- Q5? °"°°° dyed and eighty-Eve, and the seventeenth day of April, eighteen v,,",, nm hundred ancfeighty-five, in good faith, entered upon or made settlements with intent to enter the same under the homestead or pre— emption laws of the United States upon any part of the Great Sioux Reservation lg east of the Missouri River, and known as the Crow Creek and Wiiliiliebago Reservation, which, by the Presidentgdproclamation of date February twenty-seventh, eighteen hundr and eighty-five, was declared to be oplen to settlement. and not included in the new reservation establis ed by section six of this act, and who. being otherwise legally entitled to make such entries, located or attempted to locate thereon homestead, pre-emption, or town-site claims by actual settlement and improvement of any portion of such lands, shall, for a period of ninety clays after the proclamation of