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In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the city of Washington, this eighteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord, one thousand, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and of the independence of the United States, the one hundredth and sixteenth. BENJ. HARRISON,

(SEAL)

By the President.

WILLIAM F. WHARTON,

Acting Secretary of State.

30th, 1890, and for other purposes," approved March 2, 1889, and by other laws of the United States and by said several agreements, do hereby declare and make known that all of the lands acquired from the Sac and Fox Nation of Indians, the Iowa tribe of Indians, the Citizen Band of Pottawatomie Indians, and the Absentee Shawnee Indians, by the four several agreements aforesaid saving and excepting the land allotted to the Indians as in said agreements, provided, or otherwise reserved, in pursuance of the provisions of said agreements and the said acts of Congress, ratifying the same, and other, the laws relating thereto, will, at and after the hour of twelve o'clock noon (central standard time,) Tuesday, the twenty-second day of this, the present month of September, and not before, be open to settlement, under the terms of and subject to all the conditions, limitations, reservations and restrictions contained in said agreements, the Statutes above specified, and the laws of the United States applicable thereto.

The land to be so opened for settlement are for greater convenience particularly described in the accompanying schedule, entitled "Schedule of lands within the Sac and Fox, Iowa, Pottawatomie (and Absentee Shawnee) Reservations in Oklahoma Territory, opened to settlement by proclamation of the President, dated September 18, 1891" and which schedule is made a part hereof.

Each entry shall be in square form as nearly as practicable, and no other lands in the Territory of Oklahoma are opened to settlement under this proclamation or agreement ratifying the same.

Notice moreover, is hereby given that it is by law enacted that until said lands are opened to settlement by proclamation no person shall be permitted to enter upon and occupy the same, and no person violating this provision shall be permitted to enter any of said lands, or acquire any right thereto. The officers of the United States will be required to enforce this provision.

And further notice is hereby given that it has been duly ordered that the lands in the Territory of Oklahoma mentioned and included in this proclamation be, and the same are attached to the eastern and Oklahoma land districts in said Territory, severally as follows:

1. All that portion of the Territory of Oklahoma, commencing at the southwest corner of township 14 north, range 1 east; thence east on town line between townships 13 and 14 to the west boundary of the Creek country; thence north on said boundary line to the middle of the main channel of the Cimarron river; thence up the Cimarron river, following the main channel thereof to the Indian Meridian; thence south on said meridian line to the place of beginning is attached to the eastern land district in Oklahoma Territory, the office of which is now located at Guthrie.

2. All that portion of said Territory commencing at the northwest corner of township 13 north, range 1 east; thence south on Indian meridian to the north fork of the Canadian river; thence west up said river to the west boundary of the Pottawatomie Indian Reservation, according to Morril's survey; thence south, following the line as run by O. T. Morrill, under his contract of September 3, 1872, to the middle of the main channel of said river to the west boundary of the Seminole Indian Reservation; thence north with said west boundary to the north fork of the Canadian river; thence east down said north fork to the west boundary of the Creek Nation; thence north with said west boundary to its intersection with the line between townships 13 and 14 north of the Indian base; thence west on town line between townships 13 and 14 north to the place of beginning is attached to the Oklahoma land district in said Territory, the office of which is now located at Oklahoma City.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the city of Washington, this eighteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord, one thousand, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and of the independence of the United States, the one hundredth and sixteenth. BENJ. HARRISON,

(SEAL)

By the President.

WILLIAM F. WHARTON,

Acting Secretary of State.

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Articles of agreement made and entered into by and between David H. Jerome, Alfred M. Wilson and Warren G. Sayre, Commissioners on the Part of the United States, and the Pawnee Tribe of Indians in the Indian Territory.

ARTICLE I.

The Pawnee Tribe of Indians in the Indian Territory, for the considerations hereinafter set forth, hereby cedes, conveys, releases, relinquishes and surrenders to the United States all its title, claim, and interest, of every kind and character, in and to the following described reservation in the Indian Territory, to-wit:

All of that tract of country between the Cimarron and Arkansas rivers, embraced within the limits of Townships Twenty-one. (21), Twenty-two (22), Twenty-three (23), and Twenty-four (24) North, of Range Four East; Townships Eighteen (18) Nineteen (19), Twenty (20), Twenty-one (21), Twentytwo (22). Twenty-three (23), and Twenty-four (24) North, of range Five (5) East; Townships Eighteen (18), Nineteen (19), Twenty (20), Twenty-one (21), Twenty-two (22), and Twenty-three (23) North, of Range Six (6) East, of the Indian Meridian.

ARTICLE II

Whereas, the President of the United States, by virtue of the authority conferred upon him by law, has directed that the individual members of said tribe of Indians shall take allotments of lands in said reservation and hold the titles thereto in severalty; and,

Whereas, an allotting agent has been appointed to set apart such allotments, and is now engaged in the prosecution of that work:

It is agreed that the allotments of land made and to be made under such direction of the President shall in all things be confirmed. The title to the allotments so made shall in all things, except as herein otherwise expressly provided, be governed by all the conditions and limitations contained in the law of Congress entitled, "An act to provide for the allotment of land in severalty to Indians on various reservations, and to extend the protection of the laws of the United States over the Indians, and for other purposes," approved Febraury 8, 1887, and an act amendatory thereof,

approved February 28, 1891: Provided, however, that said Indians shall be diligent in selecting their said land, and all allotments shall be selected and designated within four months after this agreement shall be ratified by the Congress of the United States, unless the Secretary of the Interior in his discretion shall extend said time:

And Provided Further, Such allotments shall be selected by the allottee, himself or herself, when over the age of 18 years of age; but for allottees of said tribe under the age of 18 years, the father, if living, but if dead then the mother shall select such allotment; and if neither father nor mother be living, then such allotment shall be made by the agent, for the time being in charge of the affairs of said tribe; Provided, Further, That all members of said tribe shall be born prior to the final completion of the allotttintg of said lands as herein provided for shall have the right to allotments under this agreement, and that allotments made or to be made by said allotting agent shall continue in force and be confirmed even if the allottee shall die before the final completion of such allotting, and in such cases the law of partition and descent of the state or territory wherein such land is situated shall govern; And Provided Further, That no allotment shall be taken on land being used for church or educational purposes, or for public use by the United States or on Sections Sixteen (16) and Thirty-six (36) in each township, except where the allottee may have heretofore made improvements on said sections and in that case the allottee may take his or her allotment on such sections, to cover his or her improvements, but according to legal subdivisions; And Provided Further, That in all cases where members of said tribe have already taken allotments of land in said reservation, in pursuance of and according to the provisions of Section 5 of an act of Congress entitled, "An act to authorize the sale of the Pawnee reservation," approved April 10, 1876, such allotments shall be confirmed, if the allottee shall so select and the titles thereto held according to the provisions of this agreement. In such cases, however, the allottee shall have no right to any additional allotment under the law or this agreement.

ARTICLE III

It is further agreed that Article 2 of the treaty between the United States and the chiefs and headmen of the four confederate bands of Pawnee Indians, viz,: Grand Pawnees, Pawnee Loups, Pawnee Republicans, and Pawnee Tappahs, and generally known as the Pawnee tribe, proclaimed May 26, 1858, so long as the name may be in force is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

"The United States agrees to pay to the Pawnee the sum of thirty thousand dollars per annum, as perpetual annuity, to be distributed annually among them per capita, in coin, unless the President of the United States shall from time to time otherwise direct. But it is further agreed that the President may, at any time in his discretion, discontinue said perpetuity by causing the value of a fair commutation thereof to be paid to or expended for the benefit of said Indians in such manner as to him shall seem proper."

ARTICLE IV.

As an additional and only further consideration for such cession and conveyance the United States agrees to pay to said tribe the sum of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre for all surplus land in said reservation, after the allotments herein provided for shall have been taken and approved by the Secretary of the Interior, payable as follows: Eighty thousand dollars in coin, to be distributed among them per capita at the Sig. 30.

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