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 1224 PROCLAMATIONS. No. 5. C¤•‘·¤·k¤° °¤¤¤*· make such other reservations of lands for public purposes as he may deem wise and desirable. _ "The President of the United States is hereby authorized, at any time 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 Con- V°*- 25 P· *°°5· gress 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 and ninety, and for otht purposes’, (Twenty-ntth United States Statutes, page ten hundred and tive); and also subject to the VM-26·r-B1- provisions of the act of Congress approved May second, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled ‘An act to provide a temporary government for the Territory of Oklahoma to enlarge the jurisdiction of the United States court in the Indian Territory, and for other pnrposes’; also, ‘ subject to the second proviso of section seventeen, the whole of section v¤1.zs,p.1ozs. 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 J u.ne thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety- two, and for other purposes’; except as to so much of said acts and sections as may conflict with the provisions of this act. Each settler 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 hfty cents per acre for any land east of ninety-seven and one half degrees west longitude, the sum of one dollar and a half per acre for any land between ninety seven and one-half degrees west longitude and ninety~eight and one-half degrees west longitude, and the sum of one dollar per acre for any land west of ninety- eight and one-half degrees west longitude, and shall also pay interest upon the amount so to be paid for said land from the date of entry to the date of final payment therefor at the rate of four per centum per annum. “No person shall be permitted to occupy or enter upon any of the lands herein referred to, except in the manner prescribed by the proclamation of the President opening the same to settlement; and any person otherwise occupying or entering upon any of said lands shall forfeit all right to acquire any of said lands. The Secretary of the Interior shall, under the direction of the President, prescribe rules and regulations, not inconsistent with this act, for the occupation and settlement of said lands, to be incorporated in the proclamation of the President, which shall be issued at least twenty days before the time tixpd for the opening of said lands,” and A ment with Vhereas, by a written agreement, made on the twenty-rst da f T°"¥::"‘ I“‘"“"“‘ October, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, the Tonkawa tride of Indidng, in the Territory of Oklahoma, ceded, conveyed, and forever relini quished to the United States all their right, title, claim and interest of every kind and character, in and to the lands particularly described in Article I of the agreement, Provided, That the allotments of land to said Tonkawa tribe of Indians theretofore made, or to be made under said agreement and the provisions of the general allotment act v¤i.z4,p.ass. approved February eight, eighteen hundred and eighty seven and an vti.2o,p.·1e»·r act amendatory thereof, approved February twenty-eighth eighteen hundred and ninety~one, shall be confirmed, and Provided, That in all cases where the allottee has died since land has been set oil' and schednled to such person, the law of descent and partition in force in Okla- slizagdapply thereto, any existing law to the contrary , 7 P;;g;‘é¤;¤}·;`g;msr¤¤¤ whereas, by a certain other agreement with the Pawnee tribe of Indians, in said Territory, made on the twenty-third day of November,