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 642 FII<`TY—SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. Il. Ch. 209. 1893. relinquishment and extinguishment of all their title, claim, and intermtB•g¤¤¤b<; gpg est in and to said lands; but such relinquishment and extinguishment ea. ’ shall not inure to the beneiit of any railroad company nor vest in any railroad company any right title or interest in or too any of said lands : w§;;‘;;’g§Q;°,f)“,¥,§;jf Provided, said railroad shall be relieved from any further payments of one Nam. compensation to said Cherokee Nation as required by law for running said railroad across said Cherokee outlet. b,2,',§‘§‘,}°,ff,{*,c*_‘;‘§,‘},'f,,f,‘f And said lands, except the portion to be allotted as provided in said agreement, shall, upon the payment of the sum of two hundred and ninety Eve thousand seven hundred and thirty-six dollars, herein appropriated, to be immediately paid, become and be taken to be and treated as a part of the public domain. But in any opening of the s°"°°, ‘ °°°“°’** "’ same to settlement, sections sixteen and thirty six in each township, whether surveyed or unsurveyed, shall be, and are hereby reserved for the use and benefit of the public schools to be established within the limits of such lands, under such conditions and regulations as may ¤hqr¤k¤¤ <§·>¤¤;>_i1 be hereafter enacted by Congress: Provided, That if the legislative §':{,£?§.§’ §,,i,°‘§'§,,§f Council of the Cherokee Nation shall deem it more advantageous to M- their people they may issue a loan for the principal and interest of the deferred payments pledging said amounts of interest and principal to _ secure payment of such debt. d,f§f§§,°°g’c{,';‘],}“§‘,,},{'; Sections thirteen, fourteen, fifteen sixteen, twenty-one, twenty-two, reserved from public twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty-seven, twen- '°m°'°°”°' ty-eight and the east half of sections seventeen, twenty and twenty- nine, all in township numbered twenty-nine north, of range numbered two east of the Indian Meridian, the same being lands reserved by Executive order dated July twelfth eighteen hundred and eighty-tour, for use of and in connection with the Chilocco Indian Industrial School, in the Indian Territory, shall not be subject to public settlement, but shall, until the further action of Congress, continue to be reserved for the purposes for which they were set apart in the said Ex- 0¤:_r ecutive order. And the President of the United States, in any order {{.,*5.; ,,,,,,;H,,,,,,,,_ or proclamation which he shall make for the opening of the lands for settlement, may make such other reservations of lands for public purposes as he may deem wise and desirable. Pw¤h;:ia¤t¤g¤*¤ make The President of the United States is hereby authorized, at any time £LY$,w,m,;?YK“ within six months after the approval of this act and the acceptance of the same by the Cherokee Nation as herein provided, by proclamation, to open to settlement any or all of the lands not allotted or reserved, in the manner provided in section thirteen of the act of Congress approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, entitled “An act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred v01.zs,p.10¤¤. and ninety, and for other purposes" Sfwenty-fifth United States Statutes, page ten hundred and five); an also subject to the provisions of the_act of Congress approved May second, eighteen hundred and ninety, Egg-’{,v-¢2{vl_i0¤_ entitled “An act to provide a temporary government for the Territory cm ’ ‘ of Oklahoma to enlarge the jurisdiction of the United States court in S°'*°°'·*¤¤•* ***8**- the Indian Territory, and for other purposes ;" also, subject to the ’~’¤¤-26·r·¤026· second proviso of section seventeen, the whole of section eighteen of the act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled “An act making appropriations for the current expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety- . Hxcevrinns- two, and for other purposes ;” except as to so much of said acts and Addidonulpgyments sections as may conflict with the provisions of this act. Each settler g§,.‘§f,g ;§'{,,,,,_°“’ ‘°‘ on the lands so to be opened to settlement as aforesaid shall, before receiving a patent for his homestead, pay to the United States for the lands so taken by him, in addition to the fees provided by law, the sum of two dollars and fifty cents per acre for any land east of ninety- seven and one half degrees west longitude, the sum of one dollar and