Congressional township, which shall be reserved for common-school
purposes and be subject to the laws of the State of South Dakota:
_Provided_, That each settler on said lands shall, in addition
to the fees provided by law, pay to the United States for the land so
taken by him the sum of $3.75 per acre, of which sum he shall pay 50
cents at the time of making his original entry and the balance before
making final proof and receiving a certificate of final entry; but the
rights of honorably discharged Union soldiers and sailors as defined
and described in sections 2304 and 2305 of the Revised Statutes of the
United States shall not be abridged except as to the sum to be paid
as aforesaid.

That the Secretary of the Interior, upon proper plats and description
being furnished, is hereby authorized to issue patents to Charles
Picotte and Felix Brunot and W.T. Selwyn, United States interpreters,
for not to exceed 1 acre of land each, so as to embrace their houses
near the agency buildings upon said reservation, but not to embrace any
buildings owned by the Government, upon the payment by each of said
persons of the sum of $3.75.

That every person who shall sell or give away any intoxicating liquors
or other intoxicants upon any of the lands by said agreement ceded, or
upon any of the lands included in the Yankton Sioux Indian Reservation
as created by the treaty of April 19, 1858, shall be punishable by
imprisonment for not more than two years and by a fine of not more than
$300.

And whereas all the terms, conditions, and considerations required by
said agreement made with said tribes of Indians and by the laws relating
thereto precedent to opening said lands to settlement have been, as I
hereby declare, complied with:

Now, therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, by
virtue of the power in me vested by the statutes hereinbefore mentioned,
do hereby declare and make known that all of the lands acquired from the
Yankton tribe of Sioux or Dakota Indians by the said agreement, saving
and excepting the lands reserved in pursuance of the provisions of said
agreement and the act of Congress ratifying the same, will, at and after
the hour of 12 o'clock noon (central standard time) on the 21st day of
May, 1895, and not before, be open to settlement under the terms of
and subject to all the conditions, limitations, reservations, and
restrictions contained i