f the provisions of said act and of the
conditions, limitations, and restrictions therein contained, and be
governed accordingly.

I furthermore notify all persons to particularly observe that by said
act certain tracts or portions of the Great Reservation of the Sioux
Nation in the Territory of Dakota, as described by metes and bounds,
are set apart as separate and permanent reservations for the Indians
receiving rations and annuities at the respective agencies therein
named.

That any Indian receiving and entitled to rations and annuities at
either of the agencies mentioned in this act at the time the same shall
take effect, but residing upon any portion of said Great Reservation not
included in either of the separate reservations herein established, may
at his option, within one year from the time when this act shall take
effect, and within one year after he has been notified of his said right
of option, in such manner as the Secretary of the Interior shall direct,
by recording his election with the proper agent at the agency to which
he belongs, have the allotment to which he would be otherwise entitled
on one of said separate reservations upon the land where such Indian may
then reside.

That each member or the Ponca tribe of Indians now occupying a part of
the old Ponca Reservation, within the limits of the said Great Sioux
Reservation, shall be entitled to allotments upon said old Ponca
Reservation in quantities as therein set forth, and that when allotments
to the Ponca tribe of Indians and to such other Indians as allotments
are provided for by this act shall have been made upon that portion of
said reservation which is described in the act entitled "An act to
extend the northern boundary of the State of Nebraska," approved March
28, 1882, the President shall, in pursuance of said act, declare that
the Indian title is extinguished to all lands described in said act not
so allotted hereunder, and thereupon all of said land not so allotted
and included in said act of March 28, 1882, shall be open to settlement
as provided in this act.

That protection is guaranteed to such Indians as may have taken
allotments either within or without the said separate reservations under
the provisions of the treaty with the Great Sioux Nation concluded April
29, 1868; and that provision is made in said act for the release of all
title on the part of said Indians receiving rations and annuities on
each separate reservation to