of Agriculture and all
importations of hides shall be made under proper regulations prescribed
by the Secretary of the Treasury.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of
the United States to be affixed.

[SEAL.]

Done at the city of Washington, this 8th day of November, 1895, and of
the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and
twentieth.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

By the President:
RICHARD OLNEY,
_Secretary of State_.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas, pursuant to section 5 of the act of Congress approved February
8, 1887 (24 U.S. Statutes at Large, p. 388), entitled "An act to provide
for the allotment of lands in severalty to the Indians on the various
reservations and to extend the protection of the laws of the United
States and the Territories over the Indians, and for other purposes,"
certain articles of cession and agreement were made and concluded at
the Nez Perce Agency, Idaho, on the 1st day of May, 1893, by and between
the United States of America and the Nez Perce Indians, whereby said
Indians, for the consideration therein mentioned, ceded and conveyed to
the United States all their claim, right, title, and interest to all the
unallotted lands set apart as a home for their use and occupation by the
second article of the treaty between said Indians and the United States
concluded June 9, 1863 (14 U.S. Statutes at Large, p. 647), and included
in the following boundaries, to wit:

Commencing at the northeast corner of Lake Wa-ha and running thence
northerly to a point on the north bank of the Clearwater River 3
miles below the mouth of the Lapwai; thence down the north bank of
the Clearwater to the mouth of the Hatwai Creek; thence due north to
a point 7 miles distant; thence eastwardly to a point on the North Fork
of the Clearwater 7 miles distant from its mouth; thence to a point on
Oro Fino Creek 5 miles above its mouth; thence to a point on the North
Fork of the South Fork of the Clearwater 1 mile above the bridge on the
road leading to Elk City (so as to include all the Indian farms now
within the forks); thence in a straight line westwardly to the place
of beginning.

Saving and excepting the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections of each
Congressional township, which shall be reserved for common-school
purposes and be subject to the laws of Idaho, and excepting the tr