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1036 PROCLAMATION. 1%.34. concluded with said Indians, December twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and ratified by Congress March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and to pay the necessary and actual expenses of said commissioners: Provided, That no such modiiication shall be valid unless assented to by a majority of the male adult members of the Crow tribe of Indians, and be approved by the Secretary of the Interior," which said agreement was assented to by a majority of the male adult members of the Crow tribe of Indians, as attested by their signatures thereto, and has been duly approved by the Secretary of the interior; and Whereas, it is stipulated and agreed in the first clause or section of said agreement of August twentyseventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, that the persons named in a schedule attached toand made a part of said agreement, marked “schedule A" include all the members of said Crow tribe who are entitled to the beneiits of the eleventh section of said agreement of December eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety and that each of said persons is entitled to the land therein described as his selection, in full satisfaction of his claim under said section; and that the persons named in a schedule attached to and made a part of said agreement of August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, marked ‘* schedule B," include all the members of said tribe who are entitled to the benefits of the twelfth section of said agreement of December eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and of the proviso of the thirty-fourth section of the Act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, extending the privilege of making selections on the ceded lands for a period of sixty days, and that each of the said persons therein named is entitled to retain the tract of land theretofore selected by him within the limits of the tract of land therein described as containing his selection of his claim under the said section (or the said proviso): and Whereas, it is stipulated and agreed by the second clause or section of said agreement of August twenty seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, that all lands ceded by said agreement may be opened to settlement, upon the approval of the said agreement, by proclamation of the President: •‘ Provided, That all lands within the ceded tract selected or set apart tor the use of individual indians, and described in the aforesaid schedules •A’ and * 1%.* shall be exempt from cession and shall remain a part of the Crow Indian l te-servation, and shall continue under the exclusive control of the interior lbcpartment until they shall have been surveyed and certificates or patents issued therefor, as provided in the agreement of December eighth, 1890, or until relinquished or surrendered by the Indian or Indians claiming the same. l’rovided, further, that such lands shall be described as set forth in schedules °‘A" and “B," and shall be exempted from settlement in the proclamation of the President opening the ceded lands, and that where lands so set apart are not described by lcgul subdivisions then the township or section, or tract of land, within whose limits such Indians selections are located, shall not beopened to settlement until the I ndian allotments therein contained shall have been surveyed and proper evidence of title issued theiefor." _ Now, Theretbre, I, Bcujaniin Harrison, President Of The United ,,°f{f§,'f§'f,‘},',f“ B’°°°"‘ States, by virtue of the power in me vested by the agreements and md! mm, Omg statutes hereinbefore mentioned, and by other the laws of the United smimsm. States d ~ hereby declare and make known that all of the lands within that portion of the Crow Indian Reservation in Montana ceded to the United States by the said agreement of December eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and hereinbefore described, except those hereinafter mentioned and described, are open to settlement, under the terms of and subiect to all the conditions, limitations, reservations, and restrictions. contained in the thirty-tburth section of the Act of Congress approves] March third, ei ghteen hundred and ninety-one,and l161`6l1).b8· tore quoted. and other laws applicable thereto.