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 1976 1>110oLAMAT1oNs. No. 6. V°*· ”’· P- °°"· And whereas, in the act of Congress ratifying the said Wichita agreement, it is provided- . “That whenever any of the lands acquired by this agreement shall, by operation of law or roclamation of the President of the United States be open to settlement, they shallpbe disposed of under thecgeneral provisions of the homestead and townsite laws of the United States: Provi, That in addition to the land office fees prescribed by statute for such entries the entry man shall pay one dollar and twenty- live cents per acre for the land entered at the time of submitting his final proof: And provided further, That in all homestead entries where the_entry man has remded upon and improved the land entered m good faith for the period of fourteen months he may commute his entry to cash upon the payment of one dollar and twentghve cents per acre: And provided further, That the rights of honorably_ discharged mon soldiers and sailors of the late civil war, as detined and described in sections twenty- three hundred and four and twenty-three hundred and live of the Revised Statutes, shall not be abridged: And provi d further, That any qualified entr man having lands adjoining the lands herein ceded, whose original entry embraced less than one hundred and o xty 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 oi other entsy men: Provided, That said lands shall be opened to settlement within one year er said allotments are made to the Indians. ·} * I· ·l· it- * * "That the laws relating to the mineral lands of the United States are hereby extended over the lands ceded by the foregoing agreement." V°‘·31·P·“’°· And whereas in the act of Congress ratifying the said Comanche, Kiowa and Apache agreement, 1t_ is provided—- That the lands acquired by this agreement shall be opened to settlement byxproclamation of the President within six months after allotments are made and dis- Eased of under the· general provisions of the homestead and town·site laws of the nited States: Provided, That in addition to the land-otiice fees prescribed by statute for such entries the entryman shall pay one dollar and twenty·6ve cents per acre for the land entered at the time of submitting his Hnal proof: And provided further, That in all homestead entries where the en(t‘riy·man has resided upon and improved the land entered in good faith for the peri of fourteen months he may commute his entry to cash ulpon the payment of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre: And pmvidedigtrther, hat the rights of houombly discharged Union soldiers and sailors of the te civil war, as de ned and described in sections twenty-three hundred and four and twenty-three hundred and five of the Revised Statutes shall not be abridged: Anéldprmrided further, That any person who, having attempted to but for any cause fail to secure a title in fee to a homestead under existing laws, or who made entry under what is known as the commuted provision of the homestead law, shall bequalified_ to make a homestead entry upon said lands: And provided further, That any qualified entryman having lands adjoining the lands herein ceded, whose original entry embraced less than one hundred an sixty acres in all, shall have the nght to enter so much of the lands by this agreement ceded lying contiguous to his said entry as shall, with the land already entered, make in the aggregate one hundred and sixty acres, said land to be taken upon the same conditions as are required of other entrymen: And provided further, hat the settlers who located on that part of said lands called and nown as the ‘nentral strip’ shall have preference right for thirty days on the lands upon which they have located and improved. as ·» ·» ·¤- ·| -1- g "'1‘hat should any of said lands allotted to said Indians, or opened to settlement under this Act, contain valuable mineral deposits, such mineral deposits shall be open to location and entry, under the existing mining laws of the United States, upon the passage of this Act, and the mineral laws oi the United States are hereby extended over said lands." voun, p. nv. _ And whereas, by the act of Congress approved January 4, 1901 (31 ‘ Stat., 72'Q, the Secretary of the nterior was authorized to extend, for a Period not exceeding eight months from December 6, 1900, the time or making allotments to the Comanche, Kiowa, and Apache Indians and olpening to settlement the lands so ceded by them; V0!-31- P- 10% And w ereas, in pursuance of the act of Congress approved March 3,1j901(31 Stat., 1093), the Secretary of the Interior has regularl subdivided the lands so as aforesaid respectively ceded to the United States Q the Wichita and amliated bands of Indians and the Comanche, iowa, and apache CI'1bBS'0f indians into counties, attaching portions thereof  a»d]o1ning counties in the Territory of Oklahoma, has re — larly demgnated the place for the county seat of each new county, hss