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 FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 188. 1895. 897 homestead entry. That whenever said lands are abandoned for school _ purposes the same shall revert to said Indian Tribes and be disposed of for their benefit. "ARTICLE VIH. “ This agreement shall have effect whenever it shall be ratified by Betiikmtiou. the Congress of the United States. · “In witness whereof, the said commissioners on the part of the United States have hereunto set their hands, and the undersigned members of the said Wichita and aftiliated bands of Indians have set their hands, the day and year first above written.” That said agreement be, and the same hereby is, accepted, ratified, E {Q1 gdr6¤ ment comand confirmed as herein provided. ` The compensation to be allowed in full for all Indian claims to these Prim P°1‘¤¤¤>· lands which may be sustained by said court in the scrip hereinafter provided for shall not exceed one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre for so much of said land as will not be required for allotment to the Indians as provided in the foregoing agreement, subject to such reduction as may be found necessary under article five of said agreement: , That no part of said sum shall be paid except as herein- grgrsrczt r provided. · ‘ · That for the purpose of making the allotments provided for in said ·¤¤<>¤¤¤¤*¤¤1>¤¤¤¤•- agreement, including the pay and expenses of the necessary special agent or agents hereby authorized to be appointed by the President for the purpose and the necessary resurveys, there be, and hereby is, » appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. ’ That whenever any of the lands acquired by this agreement shall, D*'P°¤l °f ¤¤¤¤· by operation of law or proclamation of the President of the United States, be open to settlement, they shall be disposed of under the general provisions of the homestead and town-site laws of the United _ States: Provided, That in addition to the land·office fees prescribed by QQ_;';'""'- statute for such entries the entry man shall pay one dollar and twenty- ` five cents per acre for the land entered at the time of submitting his final proof: And provided further, That in all hoinestead entries where H¤¤w~w•·1 entries. the entry man has resided upon and improved the land entered in good faith for the period of fourteen months he may commute his entry to cash upon the payment of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre: And provided further, That the rights of honorably discharged Union $·>l¤*¤¤, ¤¢¤· soldiers and sailors of the late civil war, as defined and described in sections twenty-three hundred and four and twenty-three hundred and ·¤¤~·2°°•·¤°°¤ five-of the Revised Statutes, shall not be abridged: And provided jiir- p` ` ther, That any qualified entry man having lands adjoining the lands Adloininzkndnherein ceded, whose original entry embraced less than one hundred and sixty acres, may take sufficient land from said reservation to make his homestead entry not to exceed one hundred and sixty acres in all, said land to be taken upon the same conditions as are required of other entry men: Provided, That said lands shall be opened to settlement op¤¤i¤z- within one year after said allotments are made to the Indians. That sections sixteen and thirty-six, thirteen and thirty-three, of the E¤¤l l·¤¤·i¤- lands hereby acquired, in each township, shall not be subject to entry, but shall be reserved, sections sixteen and thirty-six for the use of the common schools, and sections thirteen and thirty-three for university, agricultural college, normal schools, and public buildings of the Territory and fixture State of Oklahoma; and in case either of said sections or parts thereof is lost to said Territory by reason of allotment under this Act or otherwise the governor thereof is hereby authorized to locate _ other lands not occupied in quantity equal to the loss: Provided, That f,:?;:; for the United States shall pay the Indians for Said reserved sections the ` same price as is paid for the lands not reserved. . sriwr-vox. xxvnr-——57