ion and southerly along the east
boundary thereof to the point where said boundary line will be
intersected by the unsurveyed fourth (4th) standard parallel north;
thence easterly along said unsurveyed parallel to the point for the
southeast corner of township seventeen (17) north, range seven (7) west;
thence northerly along the unsurveyed range line to the point for the
northeast corner of said township; thence westerly along the unsurveyed
township line to the point for the northwest corner of said township;
thence northerly along the unsurveyed range line to the point for the
northeast corner of township eighteen (18) north, range eight (8) west;
thence westerly along the unsurveyed township line to the point for the
southeast corner of township nineteen (19) north, range nine (9) west;
thence northerly along the unsurveyed and surveyed range line between
ranges eight (8) and nine (9) west, subject to the proper offsets on the
fifth (5th), sixth (6th), and seventh (7th) standard parallels north,
to the point of intersection with the south boundary of the Blackfeet
Indian Reservation, the place of beginning.
Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which
may have been prior to the date hereof embraced in any legal entry or
covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States
land office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant
to law and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of
record has not expired, and all mining claims duly located and held
according to the laws of the United States and rules and regulations not
in conflict therewith.
_Provided_, That this exception shall not continue to apply to any
particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant
continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing,
settlement, or location was made.
Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to enter or make
settlement upon the tract of land reserved by this proclamation.
The rights and privileges reserved to the Indians of the Blackfeet
Indian Reservation by Article I of the agreement set forth in and
accepted, ratified, and confirmed by the act of Congress approved June
10, 1896, hereinbefore referred to, respecting that portion of their
reservation relinquished to the United States by said Article I shall be
in no way infringed or modified by reason of the fact that a part of the
area so relinquish
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