o Indians; and

Whereas it is provided in the act of Congress accepting, ratifying, and
confirming said agreement, approved August 15, 1894 (28 U.S. Statutes at
Large, pp. 286-338), section 16--

That immediately after the issuance and receipt by the Indians of trust
patents for the allotted lands, as provided for in said agreement, the
lands so ceded, sold, relinquished, and conveyed to the United States
shall be opened to settlement by proclamation of the President and shall
be subject to disposal only under the homestead, town-site, stone and
timber, and mining laws of the United States, excepting the sixteenth
and thirty-sixth sections in each Congressional township, which shall be
reserved for common-school purposes and be subject to the laws of Idaho:
_Provided_, That each settler on said lands shall before making
final proof and receiving a certificate of entry pay to the United
States for the lands so taken by him, in addition to the fees provided
bylaw, the sum of $3.75 per acre for agricultural lands, one-half of
which shall be paid within three years from the date of original entry,
and the sum of $5 per acre for stone, timber, and mineral lands, subject
to the regulations prescribed by existing laws; 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.

And whereas all the terms, conditions, and considerations required by
said agreement made with said tribe of Indians hereinbefore mentioned
and the laws relating thereto precedent to opening said lands to
settlement have been, as I hereby declare, provided for, paid, and
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
and by said agreement, do hereby declare and make known that all of the
unallotted and unreserved lands acquired from the Nez Perce Indians by
said agreement will, at and after the hour of 12 o'clock noon (Pacific
standard time) on the 18th day of November, 1895, and not before, be
opened to settlement under the terms of and subject to all the
conditions, limitations, reservations, and restrictions contained in
said agreement, the statutes above specified, and the laws of the United
States applicable thereto.

The lands