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 1500 PROCLAMATIONS. N0. 12. authorized by this act to be made upon the land described in the said act entitled ‘An act to extend the northern boundary of the State of N ebraska,’ shall be made within six months from the time this act shall take eifect;" and · Whereas, the State of Nebraska, by an act of its legislature, approved May twenty-third, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, entiled "An act declaringlthe assent of the State of Nebraska to an act of Congress of the nited States, entitled ‘An act to extend the northern boundary of the State of N ebraska’ approved March 28, 1882," assented to and accepted the provisions of said act of Congress, approved March twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty- · wo; an Whereas, allotments have been made to the Ponca tribe of Indians, under and in accordance with the provisions of said section thirteen, of the act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and no other Indians having selected or applied for allotments upon that portion of the reservation of the Sioux Nation of Indians described 1n the act of March twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty- two, aforesaid, and the six months limit of time within which said allotments were authorized to be made having expired on the tenth day of August, eighteen hundred and ninety; 1¤¤i•¤‘fg¤:x_dB¤x¢i¤- ow, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United W m,,,,,m,§’,," States, by virtue of the power in me vested by the act (section thir- 1*****- teen) of arch second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, aforesaid, and in pursuance of the act of March twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, aforesaid, do hereby eclare that the Indian title is extinguished to all lands described in said act of March twenty- eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, not allotted to the Ponca tribe of Indians as aforesaid an shown upon a schedule, in duplicate, of allotments made and certified jointly, b George P. Litchfield, U. S. Special Agent, and James E. Helms,  S. Indian Agent, July thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety, and approved by the Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs, October fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and by the Acting Secretary of the Interior, October twenty-second, eig teen hundred and ninety, one copzy of which schedule of allotments is now on file in the Office of the ommissioner of Indian Affairs and the other in the Office of the Com- _ missioner of the General Land Office, Department of the Interior. Be it known, however, that there is hereby reserved from entry or neserxuslcigcnpogs settlement, that tract of land now occupied by the Agency and school ¤¤¤¤1¤s¤-wz. buildings of the old Ponca Agency, to wit: The south half of the south-east quarter of section twenty-six and the south half of the south-west quarter of section twenty-five, all in township thirty-two north, range seven west of the sixt principal meridian. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be aiiixed. Done at the city of Washington, this twenty third $23d) day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousan eight hun- [smn.] dred and ninety, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and fifteenth., BENJ. Hnnmsori. By the President: Anvnr A. Annu, Acting Secretary of State.