xcept from their provisions sections 8 and 9 of
township 15 south, range 2 east, San Bernardino meridian, and the said
sections are hereby restored to the public domain.

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 16th day of April, A.D. 1901, and of
the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-fifth.

WILLIAM McKINLEY.

By the President:
JOHN HAY,
_Secretary of State._

PROCLAMATION.

Whereas the act of Congress entitled "An act to ratify and confirm an
agreement with the Muscogee or Creek tribe of Indians and for other
purposes," approved on the 1st day of March, 1901, contains a provision
as follows:

That the agreement negotiated between the Commission to the Five
Civilized Tribes and the Muscogee or Creek tribe of Indians, at the
city of Washington on the 8th day of March, nineteen hundred, as
herein amended, is hereby accepted, ratified, and confirmed, and the
same shall be of full force and effect when ratified by the Creek
national council. The principal chief, as soon as practicable after
the ratification of this agreement by Congress, shall call an extra
session of the Creek national council and lay before it this agreement
and the act of Congress ratifying it, and if the agreement be ratified
by said council, as provided in the constitution of said nation, he
shall transmit to the President of the United States the act of council
ratifying the agreement, and the President of the United States shall
thereupon issue his proclamation declaring the same duly ratified, and
that all the provisions of this agreement have become law according to
the terms thereof: _Provided_, That such ratification by the Creek
national council shall be made within ninety days from the approval of
this act by the President of the United States,

And whereas the principal chief of the said tribe has transmitted to
me an act of the Creek national council entitled "An act to ratify and
confirm an agreement between the United States and the Muscogee Nation
of Indians of the Indian Territory" approved the 25th day of May, 1901,
which contains a provision as follows:

That said agreement, amended, ratified and confirmed by the Congress of
the United States, as set forth in said act of Congress approved March
1, 1901, is hereby accepted, ratified and