fore, be open to settlement and entry under the terms of and subject
to all the conditions, limitations, reservations and restrictions
contained in the statutes above specified, and the laws of the United
States, applicable thereto, saving and excepting such tracts as have
been or may be allotted to or reserved or selected for, the Indians, or
other purposes, under the laws herein referred to.
Sections sixteen and thirty-six in each township will be subject to
such right of the State of Washington thereto as may be ascertained and
determined by the land department in the administration of the grant of
lands in place to that State for the support of common schools.
The lands which have been allotted to the Indians are for greater
convenience particularly described in the accompanying schedule,
entitled "Schedule of lands allotted to the Indians in restored portion
of Colville Reservation, Washington, and withheld from settlement and
entry by proclamation of the President, dated April 10, 1900," and which
schedule is made a part hereof.
Notice, moreover, is hereby given that it is by law enacted that 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 or
reserved or selected for the Indians, or for other purposes, shall be
subject to settlement, entry and disposition under said act of July 1,
1892; and all persons are hereby warned from attempting to make
settlement on any of said lands prior to the date fixed for the opening
hereof.
In witness 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 10th day of April, A.D. 1900, and
of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and
twenty-fourth.
WILLIAM McKINLEY.
By the President:
JOHN HAY,
_Secretary of State._
SCHEDULE OF LANDS ALLOTTED TO THE INDIANS IN RESTORED PORTION OF
COLVILLE RESERVATION, WASHINGTON, AND WITHHELD FROM SETTLEMENT AND
ENTRY BY PROCLAMATION OF THE PRESIDENT, DATED APRIL 10, 1900.
_Township 35 North, Range 31 East_.
A tract of land described as follows: Beginning at a large fir tree
blazed on N. side being S.E. Cor. thence due N. 20 chains set post and
made a mound thence due west 40 chains set post and made mound thence S.
20 chains set post being S.W.
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