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PROCLAMATION. No. 34. 1035 of said agreement that it shall not be binding upon either party until ratified by the Congress of the United States, and when so ratitied that said cession of lands so acquired by the United States shall not be opened for settlement until the boundary lines set forth and described in said agreement have been surveyed and deiinitely marked by suitable permanent monuments, erected every half mile, wherever practicable, along the entire length of said boundary line; and Whereas said agreement was duly ratified and confirmed by the V·>L¤¤l¤1°¤°· thu·ty·lirst section of the Act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one; and Whereas, it is provided in section thirty-four of said Act of March v¤1.¤mp1m. third, eighteen hundred and ninetyzone; “'I‘hat whenever any of the lands acquired by the agreement with said Crow Indians hereby ratified and confirmed shall by operation of law or the proclamation of the President of the United States be open to settlement, they shall, except mineral lands, be disposed of to actual settlers only, under the provisions of the homestead laws, except section twenty-three hundred and one of the Revised Statutes, which shall not apply; Provided, however, That each settler, under and in accordance with the provisions of said homestead laws, shall, before receiving a patent for hi homestead, pay to the United States for the land so taken by him, in addition to the fees provided by law, and within tive years from the date of the first original entry the sum of one dollar and fifty cents for each acre thereof one-half of which shall be paid within two years; and any person otherwise qualified who has attempted to, but for any cause failed to secure a title in fee to a homestead under existing law, or who made entry under what is known as the commnted provision of the homestead law, shall be qualified to make a homestead entry upon any of said lands in conformity with the provisions of this section. That any person who may be entitled to the privilege of selecting land in severalty under the provisions of article six of the treaty of May seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty eight, with the Crow Indians, and which provisions were continued in force by the agreement with said Indians ratified and confirmed by the act of Congress, approved April eleventh, eighteen hundred and eighty- two, or any other act or treaty, shall have the right for a period of sixty days to make such selections in any part of the territory by said agreement ceded, and such locations are hereby confirmed: Provided, further, That all white persons who located upon said Crow Reservation by reason of an erroneous survey of the boundary and were attorwards allowed to file upon their location in the United States Land Oiiice, shall have thirty days in which to renew their tllings and their locations are hereby confirmed, and that in all cases where claims were located under the mining laws of the United States, and such location was made prior to December tlrst eighteen hundred and ninety, hy a locator qualitied therefor who believed that he or she was so locating on lands outside the Crow Indian Reservation, such locator shall be allowed thirty days within which to relocate the said mining claims so theretolbre located by them, within the limits of the ceded portion of said Crow Indiana Reservation, and upon such re-location such proceedings shall be had as are conformable to law and in accordance with the provisions of this act;" and Whereas the boundary lines of said ceded lands have been duly surveyed and marked as stipulated in the thirteenth clause or section of said agreement; and Whereas a written agreement was concluded with said Crow Indians on the twenty-seventh day of August, eighteen hundred and A 1 7 ninety-two, under and by virtue of the thllowing clause in the Indian ""· P' 3 ‘ Appropriation Act of Congress, approved July thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-.two, to wit; * * *·'l`o enable the Secretary ot the Interior in his discretion, to appoint a commission to negotiate with the Crow Indians of Montana, thr a modification of the agreement