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PROCLAMATIONS. NO. 12. 1965 unsurveyed land may select the same for his allotment, whereupon the Secretary of the Interior shall cause the same to be surveyed and allotted to him. At the expiration of six months from the date of the proclamation by the President, and not before, the non-mineral lands within the vacated portion of said reservation which shall not have been allotted to Indians as aforesaid, shall be subject to settlement, entry and disposition under said act of July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-two: Provided, That the land used and occupied for school purposes at what is known as Tonasket School, on Bonaparte Creek, and the sight of the sawmill, gristmill and other mill property on said reservation, are hereby reserved from the operation of this act, unless other lands are selected in lieu thereof as provided in section six of thel aforesaid act of July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, an Whereas, all the terms, conditions and considerations required by ,,§,Q",$§§mDg§gS€¤V¤· said Acts of July 1, 1892, and July 1, 1898, precedent to the issuancen' of the Proclamation provided for therein, have been, as I hereby declare, complied with: Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United 0p§$ggi{·0 Smléluy dj States, by virtue of the power in me vested by the statutes herein- m' before mentioned, do hereby declare and make known that all of said lands hereinbefore described, restored by the said Act of July 1, 1892, will, at and after the hour of twelve o’clock noon (Pacific standard time) six months from date hereof, to wit: the 10thday of October, nineteen hundred, and not before, be open to settlement and entry under the terms of and subject to all the conditions, limitations, reservations, and restrictions contained in the statutes above specified, and the laws of the UnitedStates, applicable th reto, saving and exceptin such tracts as have been or may be allotted to or reserved or selected for, the Indians, or other purposes, under the laws herein referred to. Sections sixteen and thirt -six in each township will be subject to $@001 midssuch right of the State of Vyashington thereto as may be ascertained and determined by the land department in the administration of the grtant of lands in place to that State for the support of common sc ools. The lands which have been allotted to the Indians are for reater Indian aimtmems. convenience particularly described in the accompanying scgedule, entitled “Schedule of lands allotted to the Indians in restored portion of Colville Reservation, Washington, and withheld from settlement and entry by proclamation of the President, dated April 10, 1900," and which schedule is made a part hereof. Notice, moreover, is hereby given that it is by law enacted that at Op§g{ELg${g;1€Lg¤d¤ the expiration of six mon,ths from the date of the proclamation by the “ President, and not before, the non-mineral lands within the vacated portion of said reservation which shall not have been allotted to or reserved or selected for the Indians, or for other purposes, shall be subject to settlement, entry and disposition under said Act of July 1, 1892; and all persons are hereby warned from attempting to make settlement on any of said lands prior to the date fixed for the opening thereof. o In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the ` seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington, this tenth day of April, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred, and of the Independ- [SEAL.] ence of the United States the one hundred and twenty- fourth. WILLIAM MoK1N1.11Y By the President, J orm HAY Secretary of State.