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FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 543. 1891. 1023 the one hundredth degree of west longitude; thence south on the l1ue of said one hundredth degree to the point where it strikes the North _Fork of the Red River; thence down said North Fork of the Red River to a ppint where it strikes the north line of the Kiowa and Comanche eservation ; thence east along said boundary to a gnnt where it strikes the Washita River; thence down said Washita iver, in the middle of the main channel thereof, to the place of begmnmg; and all other lands or tracts of couutr in the Indian Territory to which they have or may set up or adege any right, title, interest or claim whatsoever. Anrionn III mmm Out of the lands ceded, conveyed, trau ferred, relinquished, and seamen; in mm surrendered by Article II hereof, and in part consideration for the ‘°’°’ “""“‘“· cession of lan s named in the preceding article, it is agreed by the United States that each member of the said Cheyenne and Arapahoe tribes of Indians over the age of eighteen years shall have the right to select for himself or herself one hundred and sixty acres of land, to be held and owned in severalty, to conform to legal surveys in boundary; and that the father, or, if he be dead, the mother, if members of either of said tribes of Indians, shall have a right to select a like amount of land for each of his or her children under the age of eighteen years; and that the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, or some one by him appointed for the purpose, shall select a like amount of land for each orphan child be onging to either of said tribes under the age of eig teen years. Anmcm IV. mm rv_ "It is f1u·ther ageed that the land in said reservation shall be Clanilcstionof classed as bottom nd and grazing land; and, in making selection “§";,,m,,,_ of lands to be allotted in severa ty as aforesaid, each and every Indian herein rovided for shall be reguired to take at least onehalf in area, ofp his or her allotments, o gazing land. It is hereby further expressly agreed that no person all have the right to make his or her selection of land in any part of said reservation that is now used or occupied for military, agency, school, school-farm, re- Sébwlm mmm ligious, or other public uses, or in sections sixteen and thirty-six in " each Con essional township, except in cases where any Cheyenne or Arapahroe Indian has heretofore made improvements upon and now uses and occupies a part of said sections sixteen and t irty-six such Indian may make his or her selection within the boundaries so prescribed so as to include his or her improvements, or in that part thereof now occupied and claimed by the Wichita and atliliated bands of Indians escribed as follows, viz: Commencing at a point in the middle of the main channel of the Washita River, where the ninety-eighth meridian of west longitude crosses the same, thence up the middle of the main channel of the said river to the line of ninety-eight degrees forty minutes west longitude, thence up said line of ninety-eight degrees forty minutes due north to the middle of the main channel of the main Canadian River, thence down the middle of the main Canadian River to where it·crosses the ninety- eighth meridian; thence due south to the place of beginning. " It is further a reed that wherever in said reservation any Indian, summa on mm entitled to take hands in severalty hereunder, has made improve- ¤°”°°°¤P*¤¢ ments and now uses and occupiest e land embracing such improvements, such Indian shall have the undisputed right to make his or her selection within the area above provided for allotments so as to include his or her said improvements.