proclamation of date February 27,
1885, was declared to be open to settlement, and not included in the
new reservation established by section 6 of this act, and who, being
otherwise legally entitled to make such entries, located or attempted
to locate thereon homestead, preemption, or town-site claims by actual
settlement and improvement of any portion of such lands, shall for a
period of ninety days after the proclamation of the President required
to be made by this act have a right to reenter upon said claims and
procure title thereto under the homestead or preemption laws of the
United States and complete the same as required therein, and their said
claims shall for such time have a preference over later entries; and
when they shall have in other respects shown themselves entitled and
shall have complied with the law regulating such entries, and, as to
homesteads, with the special provisions of this act, they shall be
entitled to have said lands, and patents therefor shall be issued as in
like cases: _Provided_, That preemption claimants shall reside on their
lands the same length of time before procuring title as homestead
claimants under this act. The price to be paid for town-site entries
shall be such as is required by law in other cases, and shall be paid
into the general fund provided for by this act.

It is furthermore hereby made known that there has been and is hereby
reserved from entry or settlement that tract of land now occupied by the
agency and school buildings at the Lower Brule Agency, to wit:

The west half of the southwest quarter of section 24, the east half of
the southeast quarter of section 23, the west half of the northwest
quarter of section 25, the east half of the northeast quarter of section
26, and the northwest fractional quarter of the southeast quarter of
section 26, all in township 104 north of range 72 west of the fifth
principal meridian.

That there is also reserved as aforesaid the following-described tract
within which the Cheyenne River Agency, school, and certain other
buildings are located, to wit: Commencing at a point in the center of
the main channel of the Missouri River opposite Deep Creek, about 3
miles south of Cheyenne River; thence due west 5-1/2 miles; thence due
north to the Cheyenne River; thence down said river to the center of the
main channel thereof to a point in the center of the Missouri River due
east or opposite the