tries
the entryman shall pay one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre for the
land entered at the time of submitting his final proof: _And provided
further_, That in all homestead entries where the entryman has
resided upon and improved the land entered in good faith for the period
of fourteen months he may commute his entry to cash upon the payment of
one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre: _And provided further_,
That the rights of honorably discharged Union soldiers and sailors of
the late civil war, as defined and described in sections twenty-three
hundred and four and twenty-three hundred and five of the Revised
Statutes shall not be abridged: _And provided further_, That any
person who, having attempted to but for any cause failed to secure a
title in fee to a homestead under existing laws, or who made entry under
what is known as the commuted provision of the homestead law shall be
qualified to make a homestead entry upon said lands: _And provided
further_, That any qualified entryman having lands adjoining the
lands herein ceded, whose original entry embraced less than one hundred
and sixty acres in all, shall have the right to enter so much of the
lands by this agreement ceded lying contiguous to his said entry as
shall, with the land already entered, make in the aggregate one hundred
and sixty acres, said land to be taken upon the same conditions as are
required of other entrymen: _And provided further_, That the
settlers who located on that part of said lands called and known as the
"neutral strip" shall have preference right for thirty days on the lands
upon which they have located and improved.

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That should any of said lands allotted to said Indians, or opened to
settlement under this act, contain valuable mineral deposits, such
mineral deposits shall be open to location and entry, under the existing
mining laws of the United States, upon the passage of this act, and the
mineral laws of the United States are hereby extended over said lands.

And whereas, by the act of Congress approved January 4, 1901 (31 Stat.,
727), the Secretary of the Interior was authorized to extend, for a
period not exceeding eight months from December 6, 1900, the time for
making allotments to the Comanche, Kiowa, and Apache Indians and opening
to settlement the lands so ceded by them;

And whereas, in pursuance of the act