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 1034 PROOLAMATIONS. N0. 23. In testimony 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 18th day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, and [SEAL.] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventeenth. b BENJ HARRISON By the President: JOHN W. FOSTER, Secretary of State. [No. 34.] oewimis, 1892. BY THE PRESIDENT or THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. P'°*'°"’°· Whereas, by a written agreement made on the eighth day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety, the Crow tribe of Indians, in the State of Montana, agreed to dispose of and sell to the United States, cr=:vg¤i>:£:';* with ior certain considerations in said agreement specified, all that portion ' of the Crow Indian reservation, in the State of Montana, lying west and south of the following lines, to wit: “ Beginning in the mid—channel of the Yellowstone River, at a point which is the northwest corner of section Number thirty-six, township Number two north, of range twenty-seven east, of the principal meridian of Montana, thence running in a southwesterly direction, following the top of the natural divide between the waters tlowin g into the Yellowstone and (]larke’s Fork Rivers upon the west and those flowing into Pryor Creek and West Pryor Creek on the east, to the base of West Pryor Mountain. Thence due south and up the north slope of said Prior Mountain on a true meridian line to a point fifteen miles due north from the established line between Montana and Wyoming; thence in a due easterly course on a parallel ot latitude to a point where it intersects the mid—channel of the Big Horn River, thence iollowing up the mid-channel of said river to a point where it crosses the Montana and Wyoniing State 1ine," and Wlnerezis it is stipulated in the eleventh clause or section of said agreement that all lands upon that portion of the reservation by said agreement ceded, which, priorto the date thereof, had been allotted in severalty to Indians of the Crow tribe, shall be retained and enjoyed by them ; and Wliereas it is provided in the twelfth clause or section of said agree- V¤¤· li v· 65** ment, that, in accordance with the provisions of article six of the treaty of May seventh, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, said cession of lands shall not be construedtodeprive without his or her V°‘·”· 1*-*2- consent, any individual Indians of the Crow tribe of his or her right to any tract of land selected by him or her in conformity with said treaty, or as provided by the agreement approved by Congress April eleven, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty-two ; and Whereas it is further provided in said twelfth clause or section, that in ratifying said agreement the Congress of the United States shall cause all such lands to be surveyed and certificates duly issued for the same to said Indians, as provided in the treaty of May seventh, eight een hundred and sixty-eight, before said ceded portion of the reservation shall be opened for settlement; and \¤Vhereas by the thirteenth clause or section of said agreement of December eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety it is made a condition