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 1>RocLAMAT1oNs. N0. 2. 1949 a majority of all the male adult Indians then located or residing upon the reservation, which acceptance should be at once obtained under such re ulations as the Secretary of the Interior might prescribe; and %Vhereas, allotments have been made as provided for in said act, and all the otherterms and considerations as required therein have been complied with, precedent to opening the unallotted and unreserved lands in said reservation to settlement and entr, except the sale of imgéovements on the N E1}: NW I, S1} NWI and I*I’Wi SVVI Sec. 1, T. 33 ., R. 9 W., belonging to Ignacio, an Indian, but said sale will be immediately ordered and the rights of the purchaser thereof will be protected for thirty days-from ate of this proclamation, as provided by the act, by instructions to’the register and receiver of the local land office having jurisdiction over the same, and as this exception is not considered a bar to the opening of the unallotted and unreserved lands to settlement; and Whereas, I issued a proclamation on the 29th day of March, last, intended to open the lands to settlement and entry as authorized in said act, but as some question has arisen as to the boundaries proclaimeid being sufhciently definite to cover the lands intended to be o ene, rv PN ow, Therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United Sakjggzugpened ""‘ States, for the purpose of removing any doubt and making the boundaries of said lands more definite, by virtue of the power in me vested by said act, do hereby issue this, my second proclamation, and do hereby declare and make known that all of the lands embraced in said reservation, saving and excepting the lands reserved for and allotted to said Indians, and the lan s reserved for other purposes in pursuance of the provisions of said act, will, at and after the hour of twelve o’clock noon (mountain standard time) on the 4th day of May A. D., eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and not before, be open to settlement and entry under the terms of and subject to all the conditions, limitations, reservations, and restrictions contained in said act, and the laws of the United States applicable thereto. The lands to be opened to settlement and entry are described as lying Boundaries, etc. within the following boundaries: Beginning at the point established by S. S. Gannett, Special Indian Agent, in June, 1897, at the intersection of the 107 th meridian and the 37th parallel of latitude; thence north 15 miles along the eastern boundary of the reservation; thence westerly along the north boundary of the Southern Ute Indian Reservation to its intersection with the range line between ranges thirteen and fourteen west of the New Mexico Principal Meridian; thence south fifteen miles on said range line to the south boundary of the State of Colorado; thence easterly along the south boundary of the State of Colorado to the lace of beginning. Tlife survey of the eastboundary of the above tract through townships 32, 33, and 34 N., R. 1 W., and of that part of the north boundary in Tps. 34 N., Rs. 1 and 2 W., being in process of correction owing to errors found in said survey, notice is hereby given to all parties who may elect to make entries of lands adjoining the boundary lines subject to correction, that their entries will be at their own risk, and subject to such changes as to the boundaries of the several tracts so entered as may be found necessary in the progress of the correction of the erroneous survey, and that without recourse to the United States for any damage that may arise as the result of the correction survey. ` The lands allotted to the Indians are for greater convenience particularly described in the accom an ying schedule entitled “Schedule of lands within the Southern Ute Indian Reservation allotted to the Indians and withheld from settlement and entry by proclamation of the President dated April 13, 1899,” and which schedule is made a part thereof. An error having been made in 187 3 in the survey and location of the