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 SIXTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 217. 1908. 459 and the manner in which these lands may be settled upon, occupied, and entered by persons entitled to make entry thereof; a11d no person shall be permitted to settle upon, occupy, or enter any of said lands except as prescribed in such roclamation. Sec. 3. That the price of the lands classified as agricultural shall be Price W mefive dollars per acre, and said price shall be paid in accordance with rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior upon the following terms: One—fifth of the purchase price to be Payments paid in cash at the time of entry and the balance in five equal annual installments to be paid in one, two, three, four, and five years, respectively, from and after the date of entry. In case any entryman fails Fnrfeitureto make the annual dpayments, or any of them, promptly when due, all rights in and to e land covered by his entry shall cease and an payments theretofore made shall be forfeited and the entry canceledl; and the land shall be reoffered for sale and entry under the provisions of the homestead laws at the same price at which it was first entered: Provided, That nothing in this Act shall prevent homestead settlers mhuou from commuting their entries under section twenty-three hundred and 1:. s.,m. m1,`p.m. one of the Revised Statutes of the United States by paying for the land entered the price iixed herein, receiving credit for payments previously made. In addition to the rice to be paid for the land the F°°'· °“°· entryman shall pay the same fees and commissions at the time of commutation or iina ent as now rovided by law where the price of the land is one dollar andtwenty-tiire cents per acre, and when an entr - man shall have complied with all the requirements and terms of tlie homestead laws as to settlement and residence and shall have made the required payments as aforesaid he shall be entitled to a patent for the lands entered: And provided further, That all lands classified as agri- beL;,'f§',{j,'},;{,';*,ff*° cultural remaining undisposed of at the expiration of four years from the opening of said lands to entry shall be appraised by the Secretary of the Interior from time to time and sold at public auction or under sealed bids to the highest bidder for cash at not less than the said S•=¤1¤<{¤i¤¤~ appraised value, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe: Provided, hat the rights of honorably discharged r,gS{;}j§g’:gQc*gg°”' Union so diers and sailors of the late civil and Spanish wars or the ` Philip ine insurrection as defined and described in sections twenty- three liundred and four and twenty-three hundred and five of the p_*},§··‘°°**·”°‘·’“°*’· Revised Statutes, as amended bv the Act of March first, nineteen hun- V<·r 31. p. 841 dred and one, shall not be abridged: Provided farther, That sections S°*‘°°l ‘““‘*·“· sixteen and thirty-six of the agricultural lands in each township shall not be dis sed of, but shall be reserved for the use of the common schools ando paid for by the United States at one dollar and twenpy-live cents per acre, and the same are hereby granted to the State of ashington for such purpose. Sec. 4. That the Secretary of the lnterior may reserve such lands _;;;g;?=_;g§;;°jwf“ as he may deem necessary for agency, school, and religious purposes,' to remain reserved so long as needed and so long as agency, school, or religious institutions are maintained thereon for the benefit of the Indians; and he is further authorized and directed to reserve and set Towusiws. aside such tracts as he may deem necessary or convenient for town—site urposcs, and he may cause any such reservations to be surveyed into lbts and blocks of suitable size and to be appraised and disposed of under such regulations as he may prescribe, and the net rproceeds D*’P°““°‘P"’°°°"“ derived from the sale of such lands shall be deposited in the reasury of the United States to the credit of the Indians of the Spokane Reservation. _ Timbeplmd Mme Sec. 5. That the lands so classified as timber lands shall remain fions. Indian lands subject to the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior until further action by Con ross, and no provision authorizing the sale of timber upon Indian lands shall apply to said lands unless they be