Reservation, in the
State of Washington, shall be subject to entry under the laws of the
United States in relation to the entry of minerals lands: _Provided_,
That lands allotted to the Indians or used by the Government for any
purpose or by any school shall not be subject to entry under this
provision,"
and in another clause that,
"The Indian allotments in severalty provided for in said act shall be
selected and completed at the earliest practicable time and not later
than six months after the proclamation of the President opening the
vacated portion of said reservation to settlement and entry, which
proclamation may be issued without awaiting the survey of the unsurveyed
lands therein. Said allotments shall be made from lands which shall
at the time of the selection thereof be surveyed, excepting that any
Indian entitled to allotment under said act who has improvements upon
unsurveyed land may select the same for his allotment, whereupon the
Secretary of the Interior shall cause the same to be surveyed and
allotted to him. At the expiration of six months from the date of the
proclamation by the President, and not before, the non-mineral lands
within the vacated portion of said reservation which shall not have been
allotted to Indians as aforesaid, shall be subject to settlement, entry
and disposition under said act of July first, eighteen hundred and
ninety-two: _Provided_, That the land used and occupied for school
purposes at what is known as Tonasket school, on Bonaparte creek, and
the site of the sawmill, gristmill and other mill property on said
reservation, are hereby reserved from the operation of this act, unless
other lands are selected in lieu thereof as provided in section six of
the aforesaid act of July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-two,"
and
Whereas, all the terms, conditions and considerations required by said
acts of July 1, 1892, and July 1, 1898, precedent to the issuance of the
Proclamation provided for therein, have been, as I hereby declare,
complied with:
Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, 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 said lands hereinbefore
described, restored by the said act of July 1, 1892, will, at and after
the hour of twelve o'clock noon (Pacific standard time) six months from
date hereof, to wit: the 10th day of October, nineteen hundred, and not
be
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