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 rnocrxnitrioxs. woe. 3201 (33 Stat.. 352), said Indians ceded, granted, and relinquished to the United States all their right, title, and interest in and to the unallotted lands within the following boundaries, to wit : Beginning at the northeast corner of the said Crow Indian Reservation ; thence Lands ceded. running due south to a point lying due east of the northeast corner of the Fort Custer military reservation; thence running due west to the northwest corner of said Fort Custer military reservation: thence due south to the southwest corner of said Fort Custer military reservation; thence due west to the intersection of the line between sections ten and eleven, township two south. range twenty-eight east of the Principal Meridian of Montana; thence due north to the intersection of the Montana base line: thence due west to the intersection of the western boundary of the Crow Indian Reservation; thence in a northeasterly direction following the present boundary of said reservation to the point of beginning; AND, IVHEREAS, Under the Act of Congress ratifying said agreement, among other things, it was provided: That the unallotted lands, except such lands as may have been ,{»a¤?¤ $0 bi Sold I withdrawn for reclamation under the act of June seventeen, nineteen gi;] éigcd, fliwuzlilii hundred and two  Stat., 388), and such tracts as may have been “°g;0fj*Y.§§; p_ 388_ reserved for thirty days after the date of opening as subject to the preference right of entry of the purchasers of the improvements of the former Indian claimants thereon, and except sections sixteen and thirty-six, or lands selected in lieu thereof, which are reserved for common school purposes and are granted to the State of Montana for such purposes, shall be disposed of under the homestead, townsite, and mineral land laws of the United States, and shall be opened to Pmciamatnm settlement and entry by proclamation of the President, which proc- §§,f}’{2,',§§*i.,ut{““°“ t° lamation shall prescribe the manner in which the lands may be settled upon, occupied, and entered by persons entitled to make entry thereof; and no person shall be permitted to settle upon, occupy, or enter any of said lands, except as prescribed in such proclamation, until after the expiration of sixty days from the time when the same are open to settlement and entry: Provided, That as to the lands ggimfg and Sai, opened under such proclamation, all rights of honorably discharged our ngms not ar- Union soldiers and sailors of the late Civil and the Spanish war, or feclifdg, Sm, 2304, the Philippine insurrection, as defined and described in sections 233% l§14Y-'2· 84, twenty-three hundred and four and twenty-three hundred and five of p` ` the Revised Statutes, as amended by the act of March first, nineteen hundred and one (31 Stat., 847), shall not be abridged: NOXV, THEREFORE, I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, Presi- Ce:] sqdtglguxlegts dent of the United States, by virtue of the power vested in me by the opeu 0 `Q " ` said act of Congress, do hereby declare and make known that all of the unallotted lands in said reservation, except such as may at that time have been withdrawn for reclamation under said act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, and such lands as may have been reserved as subject to the preference right of entry of the purchasers of the improvements of the former Indian claimants thereon, and except sections sixteen and thirty-six, or lands selected in lieu thereof, which are reserved for common school purposes for the State of Montana, will, on and after the sixteenth day of July, nineteen Open to entry hundred and six, in the manner hereinafter prescribed, and not other- July 16* NOS wise, be opened to settlement, entry, and disposition under the general ~ provisions of the homestead, townsite, and mineral land laws of the United States. And it is further provided that, commencing at 9 o`clock a. m. on B,-,gm,.,m,,,,_ Thursday, June 14, 1906. and ending at 6 o’clock p. m., Thursday, June 28, 1906, a registration will be held at Miles City and Billings, State of Montana, and Sheridan, State of \Vyoming, for the purpose of ascertaining what persons desire to enter, settle upon, and acquire title to any of said ceded lands under the homestead law, and of ascertaining their qualifications so to do. To obtain registration each