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1230 FIFIY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 2536. 1907. M h2.1907- CHAP. 6.-h sale and dis osition of a ortion of the [Eck 24981] ur lus or 1IxIa=Il0tte¢Illaril:dii‘10thetR1dd`;eIJ‘l1dIlhdian Reservaltion, in the State of South [Public, Nc. 195.] Daklota, and making appropriation and provision to carry the same into effect. R _ Be it enacted the Senate and House ofR?l‘6867LtdZiU68 of the United Bm°“,‘@§‘j,‘},n,i,f‘I§l,Qk‘{“ States of America. in Cbngress assemhled, hat_ the Secretary of the hgsgsuvf ¤¤¤¤<>w=<! Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed, as hereinafter ° rovided, to sell or dispose of all that portion of the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota lying south of the Big White River and east of range twenty-tive west of the sixth principal meridian, except such portions thereof as have been, or may hereafter be, allotted to Prmmo. Indians: Provided, That sections sixteen and thirty-six of the lands in ,,£$§_°°1 mm m` each township shall not be disposed of, but shall be reserved for the use of the common schools and paid for by the United States at two _ dollars and fifty cents per acre, and the same are hereby granted to the State of South Dakota for such purpose. 0p¤¤w¤¤¢¢1·¤¤¢¤¢· Sec. 2. That the land shall be disposed of by proclamation, under the general provisions of the homestead and town—site laws of the United States, and shall be opened to settlement and entry by proclamation of the President, whic proclamation shall prescribe the manner in which these lands may be settled upon, occupied, and entered by persons entitled to make entry thereof, and no person shall be permitted to settle upon, occupy, or enter an of said lands except as Promos. _ prescribed in such proclamation: Provided? That prior to the said . .;i§{§,tL°{R€?°fI”°"° proclamation the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion, may permit Indians who have an allotment within the Rosebud Reservation to relinquish such allotment and to receive in lieu thereof an allotment A1I¤¤¤¢¤¤ w chil- anywhere within said reservation, and he shall also allot one hundred G""' and sixty acres of land to each child of Indian parentage whose father or mother is or was, in case of death, a. duly enrolled member of the Sioux tribe of Indians belonging on the Rosebud Reservation who is living at the time of the passage and approval of this Act and who Homestead qishrs of has not heretofore received an allotment: gre/virledjiw·t}ee1·, That the §°#3@,'Q'$?°d”l]°"°°t rights of honorably discharged Union soldiers and sailors of the late R.S..¤¤¤¤-2901. 2305. civil and Spanish wars or Philippine insurrection, as defined and P'? described in sections twenty-three hundred and four and twent_v—three l'°l‘m’°‘°"‘ hundred and five of the Revised Statutes, as amended by the Act of pn I h md March first, nineteen hundred and one, shall not be abridged. 1,,,.;,* ° °m°' ’ Sec. 3. That the price of said lands entered as homesteads under the provisions of this Act shall be as follows: Upon all land entered or led upon within three months after the same shall be opened for , settlement and entry, six dollars er acre, and upon all land entered or filed upon after the expiration ofp three months and within six months after the same shall have o ned for settlement and entry, four dollars and fifty cents per acre; aftbr the e iration of six months after the same shall have been opened for selllllement and entry the price shall T°"““· be two dollars and fifty cents per acre. The price shall be paid in accordance with rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior upon the following terms: One-fifth of the- purchase price to be paid in cash at the time of entry, and the balance in tive equal annual installments, to be id in one, two, three, four, and ‘ F—>rf¤i¤¤r¤· five years, respectively, from and aizer the date of entry. In case any entryman fails to make the annual payments, or any of them, promptly when due, all rights in and to the land covered by his entry shall cease, and any payments theretofore made shall be forfeited and the ent? canceled, and the lands shall be reotfered for sale and entry un er the provisions of the homestead law at the same price that g$<;¤£ud0n_ it was first entered: And That nothing in this Act shall prens.,sse.mo1,p.4z1. vent homestead settlers rom commutin their entries under section twenty-three hundred and one, Revised Rtatutes, b paying for the land entered the Iprice fixed herein, receiving credit fyor pa ments pre- ’°°'·€'°- viously made. n addition to the price to be paid for the land, the