nce east to the southeast corner of said
section twenty-six (26); thence south to the southwest corner of the
northwest quarter of section thirty-six (36), township three (3) north,
range fifteen (15) west; thence east to the center of section
thirty-three (33), township three (3) north, range fourteen (14) west;
thence south to the southwest corner of the southeast quarter of said
section thirty-three (33); thence east along the township line between
townships two (2) and three (3) north to the southeast corner of
township three (3) north, range fourteen (14) west, the place of
beginning.

Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement
upon the tract of land reserved by this proclamation.

The reservation hereby established shall be known as the Wichita Forest
Reserve.

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 4th day of July, A.D. 1901, and of
the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-sixth.

WILLIAM McKINLEY.

By the President:
DAVID J. HILL
_Acting Secretary of State_.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas by an agreement between the Wichita and affiliated bands of
Indians on the one part, and certain commissioners of the United States
on the other part, ratified by act of Congress approved March 2, 1895
(28 Stat., 876, 894), the said Indians ceded, conveyed, transferred and
relinquished, forever and absolutely, without any reservation whatever,
unto the United States of America, all their claim, title and interest
of every kind and character in and to the lands embraced in the
following described tract of country now in the Territory of Oklahoma,
to wit:

Commencing at a point in the middle of the main channel of the Washita
River, where the ninety-eighth meridian of west longitude crosses the
same, thence up the middle of the main channel of said river to the line
of 98 deg. 40' west longitude, thence on said line of 98 deg. 40' due north to
the middle of the channel of the main Canadian River, thence down the
middle of the said main Canadian River to where it crosses the
ninety-eighth meridian, thence due south to the place of beginning.

And whereas, in pursuance of said act of Congress ratifying said
agreement, allotments of land in severalty have been regularly made to
each a