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 FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 188. 1895. 895 agreement with the Wichita and affiliated bands of Indians in Okla- · homa Territory, formerly a part of the Indian Territory, which said agreement is as follows: "Articles of agreement made and entered into at Anadarko, in the Indian Territory, on the 4th day of June, A. D. 1891, by and between David H. Jerome, Alfred M. Wilson, and Warren G. Sayre, commissioners on the part of the United States, and the Wichita and affiliated bands of Indians in the Indian Territory. “The said Wichita and afiiliated bands of Indians in the Indian L""“°°‘°"· Territory hereby cede, convey, transfer, relinquish, forever and absolutely, without any reservation whatever, all their claim, title and interest of every kind and character in and to the lands embraced in the following—described tract of country in the Indian Territory, to wit: “C0mmencing at a point in the middle of the main channel of the _ Washita River, where the ninety-eighth meridian of west longitude crosses the same, thence up the middle of the main channel of said river to the line of 98° 40’ west longitude, thence on said line of 980 40’ due north to the middle of the channel of the main Canadian River, thence down the middle of said main Canadian River to where it crosses the ninety-eighth meridian, thence due south to the place of beginning. "ARTICLE II. —" ¢* In consideration of the cession recited in the foregoing article, the ,°·*If,*°d§;‘,,§{" °’ 1"‘°‘ United States agrees that out of said tract of country there shall be allotted to each and every member of said Wichita and aliiliated bands of Indians in the Indian Territory native and adopted, one hundred and sixty acres of land, in the manner and form as follows: grazing and grain-growing land, and when so classified each of said Indians shall be required to take at least one—half in area of his or her allotment in grazing land, subject to the foregoing and other restrictions hereinaiter recited. Each and every member of said Wichita and affiliated bands of Indians in the Indian Territory over the age of eighteen years shall have the right to select for himself or herself one hundred and sixty acres of land, to be held and owned in severalty, but to conform to legal surveys in boundary as nearly as practicable; and that the father, or if he be dead the mother (if members of said tribe or bands of Indians), shall have the right to select a like amount of land, under the same restrictions, for each of his or her children under the age of eighteen years; and that the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, or some one appointed by him for the purpose, shall select a like amount of land, under the same restrictions, for each orphan child belonging to said tribe or bands of Indians under the age of eighteen years. “ It is hereby further expressly agreed that no person shall have the right to make his or her selection of land in any part of said tract of country that is now used or occupied, or that has been or may hereafter be set apart for military, agency, school, school farm, religious, town site, or other public uses, or in sections sixteen (16) and thirty-six (36) in each Congressional township, except, in cases where any member of said Wichita and affiliated bands of Indians has heretofore made improvements upon and now occupies and uses a part of said sections sixteen (16) and thirty-six (36), such Indian may make his or her selection, according to the legal subdivisions, so as to include his or her improvements. It is further agreed that wherever in said tract of country any one of said Indians has made improvements and now uses and occupies the land embracing such improvements, such Indian
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 * 5 Said tract of country shall be, by the United States, classified into