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1964 1>R0oLAMAT1oNs. NO. 12. of said reservation to the lace of beginning, containing by estimation one million five hundred thousand acres, the same being a portion of the Colville Indian Reservation, created by executive order dated July second, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, ·be, and~is hereby, vacated and restored to the public domain, notwithstanding any executive order or other proceeding whereby the same was set apart as a reservation for any Indians or bands of Indians, and the same shall be ppen to settlement and entry by the proclamation of the President of the nited States and shall be disposed of under the general laws applicable to the disposition of public lands in the State of Washington," an . - Whereas it is provided by section three of said act, "That each entryman under the homestead laws shall, within five years from the date of his ori inal entry and before receiving a final certificate for the land covered by his entry, pay to the United States for the land so taken by him in addition to fees provided b law the sum of one dollar and fifty cents er acre, one third of which shall be paid within two years after the Hate of the original entry; but the n.s.,sees.23o4,2s0s, rights of honorably discharged Union soldiers and sailors, as defined P‘422‘ and described in sections twenty-three hundred and four and twenty- three hundred and five of the Revised Statutes of the United States, shgll not be abridged, except as to the sum to be paid as aforesaid," an VVhereas by section six of said act it is provided: "‘That the land used and occupied for school pur oses at what is known as Tonasket school, on Bonaparte Creek, andp the site of the sawmill, gristmill, and other mill pro erty on said reservation, is hereby reserved from the operation of this act, unless other lands are ‘selected in lieu thereof: Provided, That such reserve lands shall not exceed in the aggregate two sections, and must be selected in legal subdivisions conformably to the public surveys, such selection to be made by the Indian Agent of the Colville Agency, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior and subject to his approval: Provided, however, That said Indians may, in lieu of said sites or either of them, select other lands of equal quantity, for such purposes, either on the vacated or unvacated (portions of said reservation, the same to be designated in legal sub ivisions by said Indian Agent, under the direction of and subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, in which case said first-designated tracts shall not be exempt from the operation of this act; such selection to be made and approved within six months after the survey of said lands and the proclamation of the President," U and V<>1-30.1>-571- Whereas, in a clause in the Indian Appropriation Act of July 1, 1898 (30 Stat., 571), it is rovided: “That the mineral lands only in the Colville Indian Reservation, in the State of Washington, shall be subjected to entry under the laws of the United States in relation to the entry of mineral lands: Provided, That lands allotted to the Indians or used by the Government for any . purpose or by any school shall not be subject to entry under this provision,” and in another clause that, "The Indian allotments in severalty provided for in said act shall be selected and completed at the earliest practicable time and not later than six months after the proclamation of the President opening the vacated portion of said reservation to settlement and entry, which proclamation may be issued without awaiting the survey of the unsurveyed lands therein. Said allotments shall be made from lands which shall at the time of the selection thereof be surveyed, excepting that any Indian entitled to allotment under said act who has improvements upon