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PROCLAMATIONS. N 0. 7. Q9[ and absolutely surrendered to the United States all their title and interest in and to the lands in said Territory, and particularly described in Article I of said agreement, and provided that all allotments of land theretofore made, or then being made or to be made to members of said Citizen Band of Pottawatomie lndians under the provisions of the general allotment act approved February eighth, eighteen hundred V<>l·24. 1>·388· and eighty-seven, shall be confirmed; that in all allotments to be thereafter made no person shall have the right to select his or her allotment in sections sixteen and thirty-six in any Congressional township; nor upon any land heretofore set apart in said tract of country for any use by the United States, or for schools, school-farm or religious purposes; nor shall said sections sixteen and thirty-six be subject to homestead entry, but shall be kept and used for school purposes; nor shall any lands set apart for any use of the United States, or for school, schoolfarm, or religious purposes, be subject to homestead entry, but shall be held by the United States for such purposes, so long as the United States shall see at to use them; and further, that the south half of section seven, and the north half of section eighteen, in township six north, range live east, theretofore set apart by a written agreement between said band of Indians and certain Catholic Fathers, for religious, school, and farm purposes, shall not be subject to allotment or homestead entry, but shall be held by the United States for the Sacred Heart Mission, the name under which said association of Fathers are conducting the church, school, and farm on said lands; and Whereas, by a certain agreement with the Absentee Shawnee Indmns, Agsgxggxjg in said Territory, made on the twentysixth day of June, eighteen hun- um., om dred and ninety, said lastnamed Indians ceded, relinquished, and surrendered, to the United States, all their title and interest in and to the lands in said Territory, and particularly described in Article I of said agreement, provided that all allotments of land theretofore made, or then being made or to be made to said Absentee Shawnees under the provisions of the general allotment act approved February eighth, V¤L2¢»1>·3¤8- eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, shall be coniirmed; that in all allotments to be thereafter made, no person shall have the right to select his or her allotment in sections sixteen and thirty-six in any Congressional township; nor in any land heretofore set apart in said tract of country for any use by the United States, or for school, schoolfarm, or religious purposes; nor shall said sections sixteen and thirty- six be subject to homestead entry, but shall be held by the United States for such purposes so long as the United States shall see iit to use them- and Vlfhereas, it is provided in the Art of Congress, accepting, ratifying, v¤1.2c,pp.xmc.1o1s, and confirming said agreements with the Citizen Band of Pottawotomie wm Indians and the Absentee Shawnee Indians, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one (26 Stats., pp. 989 to 1044), section 16, ·‘That whenever any of the lands acquired by either of the * * foregoing agreements respecting lands in the Indian or Oklahoma Territory shall by operation of law or proclamation of the President of the United States be open to settlement they shall be disposed of to actual settlers only, under the provisions of the homestead and townsite laws (except section twenty-three hundred and one of the Revised States [Statutes] of the United States, which shall not apply): Provided, honerer, that each settler on said lands shall before making a final proof and receiving a certificate of entry, pay to the United States for the land so taken by him, in addition to the fees provided by law, and within five years from the date of the first original entry, the sum of one dollar and fifty cents per acre, one-half of which shall be paid within two years; but the rights of honorably discharged Union soldiers and sailors as defined and described in sections twenty-three hundred and four and twentythree hundred and five of the Revised Statutes of the United States shall not be abridged except as to the sum to be paid as aforesaid, and all the lands in Oklahoma are hereby declared to be