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 SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 257.’ 1910. 441 Sec. 2. That the lands shall be disposed of under the general pro- mgxgfnig, **;0c§§£}:j visions of the homestead and town-site laws of the United States, tion. P and shall be opened to settlement and entry by proclamation of the President, which proclamation 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 an of said lands except as prescribed in such proclamation: Promded`, That prior to said proclamation Qygfgghm to be the allotments within the portion of the said Pine Ridge Reservation compares. to be disposed of as described herein shall have been completed: Provided further, That the rights of honorabl discharged Union mlfiiglgglogj gyigg soldiers and sailors of the late civil and Spanisli wars or Philippine mem. _ insurrection, as defined and described in sections twenty-three and p_1§§"°°°‘23°‘**23°°· four and twenty-three hundred and five of the Revised Statutes, V°]·¤1»l>·847· as amended by the Act of March first, nineteen hundred and one, shall not be abridged. Sec. 3. That before any of the land is disposed of, as hereinafter  mr be provided, and before the State of South Da ota shall be permitted me mimi serectism to select or locate any lands to which it may be entitled y reason by S°““’ D“"°°"· of the loss of sections sixteen or thirty-six, or anlvuportions thereof, by reason of allotments thereof to any Indian or dians, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to reserve from said lands such ° tracts for town-site purposes as in his opinion may be required for the future public interests, and he may cause same to be surveyed into S¤rv<=>v¤.¤¢¤· _ lots and blocks and disposed of under such regulations as he may prescribe, in accordance with section twenty-three hundred and F—S··¤¢°- ¤*31·P·'*$°· eighty-one of the Revised Statutes of the United States; and he is hereby authorized to set apart and reserve for school, park, and other public purposes not more than ten acres in any town-site, and patents shall be issued for the lands so set apart and reserved for school, park, and other public purposes to the municipality legally charged with the care and custody of lands donated, or such purposes. The purchase price of all town lots sold in town-sites, as *’“>"¤°“*·°"~‘- ereinafter provided, s all be plaid at such time and in such installments as the Secretary of the terior may direct, and he shall cause not more than twenty per centum of the net proceeds arising from such sales to be set apart and expended under is direction in aiding the construction of schoolhouses or other public buildingls or in improvements within the town-sites in which such lots are ocated. The net proceeds derived from the sale of such lots and lands within U“° °‘“°‘¥"°°°°"“· the town-sites as aforesaid, less the amount set aside to aid in the construction of schoolhouses or other public buildings or im(prove- ‘ ments, shall be credited to the Indians as hereinafter provide . Sec. 4. That the rice of said lands entered as homesteads under the §}g;'},°”,§$,°e‘},’·by W provisions of this ribt shall be fixed by appraisement as herein pro- pmisemenr. vided. The President shall appoint a commission to consist of t ree C°“‘“’*’°*°“°'°°'°"· persons to classif, appraise, and value all of said lands that shall not have been allbtted in severalt to said Indians, or reserved by the Secretary of the Interior, or officrwise disposed of, and excepting sections sixteen and thirty-six or other lands which may be selectc rn_lieu thereof by the State of South Dakota, in each of said townships, said commission to be constituted as follows: One resident citizen of the State of South Dakota, one representative of the Interior Department, and one person holding tribal relations with said tribe of Ind1ans. That within twenty days after their appointment the °"g"‘“““°"· said commissioners shall meet and organize by the election of one of their number as chairman. The said commissioners shall then C!¤¤¤i6°•*i°&· ¤1>- proceed to personally inspect, classify, and appraise, in one hundred Pm°°m°m"‘ ° ' and srxty acre tracts each, all of the remamiag unallotted lands embrace ·Wll}l1iI1 that portion of the reservation escribed in section one of this Act. In making such classification and appraisement