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 rirrrriuru conennss. sms. 1. cn. 3335. 1906. 27 3 for the dpreservation of objects of archaeological or ethnological interest; an nothing contained in this Act shall interfere with the rights · and ownership of the United States in any land hereafter set aside by Congress as national park, game preserve, or other reservation, or in the said Sulphur Springs Reservation, as it now is or may be hereafter defined or extended by law; but exclusive legislation, in all cases what- ,,,,i,"§g‘Qj§,§§dj“““*°‘ soever, shall be exercised by the United States, which shall have ` exclusive control and gurisdiction over the same; but nothing in this games of process, proviso contained shal be construed to prevent the service within said ° ' ulphur Sprin_gs Reservation or national parks, game reserves, and other reservations hereafter established by law, of civilland criminal processes lawfully issued by the authority of said State, and said State uludemlnjlty selecshall not be summa to aim indemnity Sami lands for the thirteenth, p3.“£.,°.;§_“ °‘ "°’“ sixteenth, thirty-third, and thirty-sixth sections that may be embraced within the metes and bounds of the national park, game preserve, and other reservation or the said Sul bur Springs Reservation, as now defined or may be hereafter definedi Sec. 8. That section thirteen in the Cherokee Outlet, the Tonkawa V*g_'°*¤**Y» ¤¤=·· Indian Reservation, and the Pawnee Indian Reservation, reserved by giiriii. 28, p. ms. the President of the United States by proclamation issued August nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, opening to settlement the said lands, and by any Act or Acts of Congress since said date, and section thirteen in all other lands which have been or may be opened to settlement in the Territory of Oklahoma, and all lands heretofore selected in lieu thereof, is hereby reserved and granted to said State ·*“°'·‘“°”‘· for the use and benefit of the University of Oklahoma and the Univer- - sit Preparatory School, one-third; of the normal schools now estab- *’°•*·PP-°”·°'”- lished or hereafter to be established one-third; and of the Agricultural and Mechanical College and the Colbred Agricultural Normal University, one-third. The said lands or the proceeds thereof as above apportioned shall be divided between the institutions as the legislature of said State may prescribe: Provided, That the said lands so reserved §gg"‘g- mm and or the proceeds of the sale thereof shall be safely kept or invested proceeds. and he d by said State, and the income thereof, interest, rentals, or otherwise, only shall be used exclusively for the benefit of said educational institutions. Such educational institutions shall remain under °°““'°’·°'*’· the exclusive control of said State, and no part of the proceeds arising from the sale or disposal of any lands herein granted for educationa purposes, or the income or rentals thereof, shal be used for the support of any religious or sectarian school, college, or university. That section thirty-three, and all lands heretofore selected in lieu st{;;gg;§¤;:gb{*;i{3; thereof, heretofore reserved under said proclamation, and Acts for ings. charitable and penal institutions and public buildings, shall be apportioned and disposed of as the legislature of said State may prescribe. Where any part of the lands granted by this Act to the State of hg*d;¤¤*¤* ¤¤<* 0** Oklahoma are valuable for minerals, whic terms shall also include ` gas and oil, such lands shall not be sold by the said State prior to Jan- Sm *’¤**'*°°°**· nary iirst, nineteen hundred and fifteen; but the same may be leased *·°¤¤°°¤¤***°*'**°** for periods not exceeding live years by the State officers duly authorized for that purpose, such leasing to be made by public competition after not less than thirty days’ advertisement in the manner to be prescribed by law, and all suc leasing shall be done under sealed bids and awarded to the highest responsible bidder. The leasing shall R°*'°“*"· °°°· require and the advertisement shall specify in each case a fixed royalty to be paid by the successful bidder, in addition to any bonus offered for the lease, and all proceeds from leases shall be covered into the fund to which they shall properly belong, and no transfer or assignment of any lease shall be valid or confer any right in the assiggze without theiconsent of the roper State authorities in writin : *"!"”"°-0, gum mkkd, hmwver, That agricultural lemees in possession of such lands wgfblgu vox. xxxrv, rr 1-—-18