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 1-Boornmmrions. No. 3. 869 Whereas, allotments of land in severalty to said Kickapoo Indians A“°°’¤°¤**t have been made and approved in accordance with law and the provi- v°1`27'P'°57` sions of the before-mentioned agreement with them; and Whereas, it is provided by the act of Congress for the temporary Hifhw¤y¤- government of Oklahoma, approved May second, eighteen hundred and v° '2°‘ P' °°‘ ninety, section twenty-three (26 Stats., 92), that there shall be reserved public highways four rods wide between each section of land in said Territory, the section lines being the center of said highways; but no “ deduction shall be made where cash payments are provided for in the amount to be paid for each quarter section of land by reason of such reservation; and Whereas, it is provided in the act of Congress approved February A·iii¤i¤i¤z ¤¤¢ri¤¤· tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, (28 Stats., p. 37): v°28* P':"' "That every homestead settler on the public lands on the left bank of the Deep Fork River in the former Iowa Reservation, in the Territory of Oklahoma, who entered less than one hundred and sixty acres of land, may enter, under the homestead laws, other lands adjoining the land embraced in his original entry when such additional lands become subject to entry, which additional entry shall not, with the lands originally entered, exceed in the aggregate, one hundred and sixty acres: Provided, That where such adjoining entry is made residence shall not be required upon the lands so entered, but the residence and cultivation by the settler upon and of the land embraced in his original entry shall he considered residence and cultivation for the same length of time upon the land embraced in his additional entry; but such lands so entered shall he paid for, conformable to the terms of the Act acquiring the same and opening it to homestead entry." aud; Whereas, it is further provided in the act of Congress approved §7°*{°°2};*¤¤•};b¤*¤· March 2, 1895, (28 Stats. p. 899). °’_P` ' "'1`hat any State or Territory entitled to indenmity school lands or entitled to select lands for educational purposes under existing law may select such lands within the boundaries ofany Indian reservation in such State or Territory from the surplus lands thereot} purchased by the United States after allotments have been made to the Indians of such reservation, and prior to the opening of such reservation to settlement." and: Whereas, all the terms, conditions, and considerations required by said agreement made with said tribes of Indians and by the laws relating thereto, precedent to opening said lands to settlement, have been, as I hereby declare, complied with: Now, theretore, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, Kmd¤ cfg? JL! by virtue of the power in me vested by the Statutes hereinbefore men- ommm,0W¤i;.¤£ tioned, and by other the laws of the United States, and by the said *l°¤*°¤° MW 2* 18*- agreement, do hereby declare and make known that all of said lands lxereinbeibre described, acquired irom the Kickapoo Indians by the agreement aforesaid, will, at and after the hour of twelve o’clock, noon (central standard time), Thursday, the twenty third day of the month of May, A. D., eighteen hundred and ninetytive, and not before, be open to settlement under the terms of and subject to all the conditions, limita tions, reservations, and restrictions contained in the said agreement, the statutes above specified, and the laws of the United States appli— cable thereto, saving and excepting such tracts as have been alloted, reserved or selected under the laws herein referred to, and such tracts as may be properly selected by the Territory of Oklahoma under and in accordance with the provisions of the act of March second eighteen hundred and ninety-tive, hereinbeibre quoted, prior to the time herein fixed for the opening of said lands to settlement. 'I`he lands to be so opened to settlement are for greater convenience Schedulepm·ti<·uhu·ly described in the accompanying schedule, entitled •‘ Schedule of lands within the Kickapoo Reservation, Oklahoma Territory, to be opened to settlement by proclamation of the President/’ but notice is hereby given that should any of the lands described in the accompanying schedule be properly selected by the Territory of Oklahoma under and in accordance with the provisions of said act of Congress approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, prior to the time herein fixed for the opening of said lands to settlement such tracts will not be subject to settlement or entry.