the lands described in each of the other
separate reservations, and to confirm in the Indians entitled to receive
rations at each of said separate reservations, respectively, to their
separate and exclusive use and benefit, all the title and interest of
every name and nature secured to the different bands of the Sioux Nation
by said treaty of April 29, 1868; and that said release shall not affect
the title of any individual Indian to his separate allotment of land
not included in any of said separate reservations, nor any agreement
heretofore made with the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad
Company or the Dakota Central Railroad Company respecting certain lands
for right of way, station grounds, etc., regarding which certain prior
rights and privileges are reserved to and for the use of said railroad
companies, respectively, upon the terms and conditions set forth in said
act.

That it is therein provided that if any land in said Great Sioux
Reservation is occupied and used by any religious society at the date
of said act for the purpose of missionary or educational work among the
Indians, whether situate outside of or within the limits of any of the
separate reservations, the same, not exceeding 160 acres in any one
tract, shall be granted to said society for the purposes and upon the
terms and conditions therein named; and

Subject to all the conditions and limitations in said act contained, it
is therein provided that all the lands in the Great Sioux Reservation
outside of the separate reservations described in said act, except
American Island, Farm Island, and Niobrara Island, regarding which
islands special provisions are therein made, and sections 16 and 36 in
each township thereof (which are reserved for school purposes), shall
be disposed of by the United States, upon the terms, at the price, and
in the manner therein set forth, to actual settlers only, under the
provisions of the homestead law (except section 2301 thereof) and under
the law relating to town sites.

That section 23 of said act provides--

That all persons who, between the 27th day of February, 1885, and the
17th day of April, 1885, in good faith entered upon or made settlements
with intent to enter the same under the homestead or preemption laws of
the United States upon any part of the Great Sioux Reservation lying
east of the Missouri River, and known as the Crow Creek and Winnebago
Reservation, which by the President's