of March 28, 1882,
aforesaid, do hereby declare that the Indian title is extinguished to
all lands described in said act of March 28, 1882, not allotted to
the Ponca tribe of Indians as aforesaid and shown upon a schedule,
in duplicate, of allotments made and certified jointly by George P.
Litchfield, United States special agent, and James E. Helms, United
States Indian agent, July 31, 1890, and approved by the Acting
Commissioner of Indian Affairs October 14, 1890, and by the Acting
Secretary of the Interior October 22, 1890, one copy of which schedule
of allotments is now on file in the office of the Commissioner of Indian
Affairs and the other in the office of the Commissioner of the General
Land Office, Department of the Interior.

Be it known, however, that there is hereby reserved from entry or
settlement that tract of land now occupied by the agency and school
buildings of the old Ponca Agency, to wit: The south half of the
southeast quarter of section 26 and the south half of the southwest
quarter of section 25, all in township 32 north, range 7 west of the
sixth principal meridian.

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 23d day of October, A.D. 1890, and
of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and fifteenth.

BENJ. HARRISON.

By the President:
ALVEY A. ADEE,
_Acting Secretary of State_.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

A PROCLAMATION.

By the grace and favor of Almighty God the people of this nation have
been led to the closing days of the passing year, which has been full
of the blessings of peace and the comforts of plenty. Bountiful
compensation has come to us for the work of our minds and of our hands
in every department of human industry.

Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States of
America, do hereby appoint Thursday, the 27th day of the present month
of November, to be observed as a day of prayer and thanksgiving; and
I do invite the people upon that day to cease from their labors, to
meet in their accustomed houses of worship, and to join in rendering
gratitude and praise to our beneficent Creator for the rich blessings
He has granted to us as a nation and in invoking the continuance of His
protection and grace for the future. I commend to my fellow-citizens the
privilege of remembering the poor, the homeless, and t