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OPEN, OKLAHOMA. i the 16th and 36th sections, shall be | disposed of to actual settlers uncer President Harrison's Formal and Offi- | the homestead laws only, except as cial! Proclamation Admitting Set- tlers to the Lands. The Boew Verbiage but no Less Effects all That. April 22 the Date of Entry. Washington, March ed the follow President to-day iss ing prociamation opening the Okla- homa lands: By vue Preswpent of tue Unsirep Srares or America—A Prociama- TION. on § of Whereas, Pursuant to se the act of congress approved Marc! 27, 1885, entitled “An Act making appropriations for the current ¢ contingent expenses of the Ludian department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Todi tribes, for the y 1886, and for other purposes,” ending June tain articles of cession and ment on the nineteenth cay ary in the year of our Lor hundred and cig between the United ‘star Ameri ca and the Muscogee (or Creck) na tion of Indians, whereby the Muscogee (or Creek) nations of dians for the co mentioned, ceded and ¢ United States without rv condition, full and complet: the western half of the dou the said Muscogee (or © in the Indian Territ: of the division line su: tablished under the treaty nation dated the 14th day of 1866, and also granted and re to the United States claim, estate, 1 and every description in and to any and all land and territory whatever except so much of the former do- main of said Muse servat and every ght ov interest of any ee (or Creek) udiin nation as lies east o f divin- jon surveyed and est ed as afore, and then use! and cece as the home of suid nation; id which articles of cession and 2ee ment were duly accepted, ratitied and confirmed by said Muskogee (or Creek) nation of Indians by act of its council, approved on the 31st day of January, 1889, and by the United States by act of congress, approved March 1, 1889; and Whereas, by section 12 of the act entitled, “An act making appropria- tions for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the year ending June 30, 1890, and for other purposes,” approved March 2, 1889, a sum of money was appropri- ated to pay in full the Seminole na- tion of Indians for all the right, ti- tle, interest and claim which said | nation of Indians might have in and to certain lands coded by article 3 af the treaty between the United States and said nation of Indians, concluded June 14, 1866, and pro- claimed August 14, 1866, said appre priations fo become operative upon the execution by the newly ap- pointed delegates of said nation, specially empowered to do so, of a oI release and conveyance to the Unit-! east of the Ind -ed States all right, title, interest and claim of said nation of Indians, in and to said lands in manner and form, Satisfactory to the Presiden of the United States; and Whereas, said release and convey- ance bearing date of the 16th of March, 1889, has been duly and fully executed, approved and delivered: and, Whereas, section 14 of the act last aforeaaid, relating to said lands pro- vides as follows: “Section 13, that the lands acquired by the United States under said agreement shall be apart of the public domain. to be disposed of only as herein provided, and sections 16 and 36, of each town- ship, whether surveyed or unsury ey- | ed, are hereby reserved for the use and benefit of the public schools to be established within the limits of aaidland under such conditions and Tegulations as may be hereafter en- acted by congress; that the lands acquired by conv Seminole Indians herein otherwise | that section 2,301 of the rev where the degree of longitude, ninty- | treaty of Februs ance : 1, yance from the} the United States and the Pottawat- hereunder, except | omies tribe of Ind provided (except provided all not apply utes ee | further, that any person having at- nt Phrased in Heavy Legal | 2 | tempted to but forany cause failed to secure a title in fee to a home- stead under existing laws, or who made entry under what is knov the commuted provision of the home stead laws, shall be qualified to mak a homestead entry upon said and, provided further, that ¢ of honorably dis arged Union s¢ diers and sailors ne late civil w as defined and desc tic 23,004 and 23,005, of the revise statutes shall not be abridged; and ibed in sé an provided further, that each « shall be in square for practicab'e and no person be ¥ ted to enter me section thereof; but until said lands re than one quarter are opened for settlement by j mation of the President no person | shall be permitted to enter mand j to occupy the same and no person | ,- Volating this provision shali ever | | be permitted to enter nds or may after said proclamation and not before permit entry of Tinnds for = a i town sites under sections 2387 and | 2388, of the revised statutes, but n such ent ing the p: feiture sh: from the Museouce Creek) Indie} ais by treaty of cession and agrec- ment 1 cy of Ja eightce i Now, therefore, rison. President of tt by virtue of the pow te vest by said acts oF proved Warch 2d, eighteen hundred and ighty nine, aforesaid, do hereby du- cla i ‘ y uch of t ds i vired from or conveys y the Muscogee (or Creek) of J s, and from or by aol i Tadians, respectively, as is wihin = th followin 1 boundaries, viz: beg! ¢ at a point eight west from Greenwich, as sui 1 1S7T1 in- thence veyed in the years 1858 : tersects the Can: along and y YT i desre: to apoint where the same interseets the Cim- arron river, the ice up said river along the right bank thereof to a point where the s: iuterse tie south lin rat “nh as the Cherokee lands lying west of the Arkansas river, or asthe “Cherokee outlet,” said line being the north line of the lands ceded by the Mus cogee (or Creek) nation of Indians the United States 1 a of dan. 14, 1866, thence cast alo line to point where the same inter- sects the west line of t! inds set apart as areseryatic Indians by a of co ved April 10, 1876 be the range | toin the act of congr | day of April next and not befo {herei before fixed, j mitted to ente line between ra four and five i thence | seuth on said line to a where the same main channel + thence up said river dle of the high chan point where the same range line between range and range ou dian meridian) w western boundary of the riv: set apart for the Iowa a Indians by the executive t Kickapoo xders dat ed respectively August, 13 1883, thence south along said or meridian to poi ge line t wher the same bank of the same is intersected by of the reservation ove: the citizen band of P. and ‘the absentee Shay set apart under the visions of the 7, 1867, between and referred May 1872; thence south along the said west line of the aforesaid lriver along the OC} ppt site g and excepting one aer id in square formin the north tion nine, in town west corner OF sé ship sixteen, north range two. west of the Indian m tory, and also one acre of land in the n ter southeast corner of th range 7, west of the Inc whic hlast described two acres are reserved for goverument use mntrol, will at and after the hour ef 12 0 on of the cloex — for settlement, under the te conditions, i contun act of cong , 1889, and the laws of the licable ess approve saat brac within the than those herein specitically described ndian Territ« i] to settle- siven that ne r occupying sai : the A. D. 1889, ver be pe y of said andes or ui y rights; and that the s of the United States will be 1 to strictly enfere to ae ottic re ihe pro- provision of the act of congress to the above fact. wh f T have ¢ hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Dose at the Citv of Washir weh 23; in the of » set ny Lord, 1889, and of the Independence of the United States, the one hun dred and thirteenth. Bensamiy Harrison, By the President. {seat | James G. Bearye, Secretary of State. Pabl Benetactor. Vho is H. H.W ester, N. Y. whose remedies, ‘specially Warner's Safe Cure, haye attained such suecess and celebrity at home and abroad?” The question is inspired as much by affection as curiosity, sinee through his instrumentality hun- lreds of thousands, in both hemi- spheres, have been restored to health and happiness. Hon. H. H. Warner, then, is a leading and honored resident of Rochester, not only, but a promi nent and influential citizen of the u nited States. 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