nd whereas it is provided in said last above-mentioned act--

That this act shall take effect only upon the acceptance of the
modification and changes made by the United States as to article 6 of
the said agreement by the said tribes of Indians in manner and form as
said agreement was assented to, which said acceptance and consent shall
be made known by proclamation by the President of the United States,
upon satisfactory proof presented to him that the said acceptance and
consent have been obtained in such manner and form.

And whereas satisfactory proof has been presented to me that the
acceptance of and consent to the provisions of the act last named by
the different bands of Indians residing on said reservation have been
obtained in manner and form as said agreement of December 14, 1886,
was assented to:

Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States, by
virtue of the power in me vested, do hereby make known and proclaim the
acceptance of and consent to the modification and changes made by the
United States as to article 6 of said agreement by said tribe of Indians
as required by the act, and said act is hereby declared to be in full
force and effect, subject to all provisions, conditions, limitations,
and restrictions therein contained.

All persons will take notice of the provisions of said act and of the
conditions and restrictions therein contained, and be governed
accordingly.

I furthermore notify all persons to particularly observe that
a certain portion of the said Fort Berthold Reservation not ceded and
relinquished by said agreement is reserved for allotment to, and also
as a reservation for, the said tribes of Indians; and all persons are
therefore hereby warned not to go upon any of the lands so reserved for
any purpose or with any intent whatsoever, as no settlement or other
rights can be secured upon said lands, and all persons found unlawfully
thereon will be dealt with as trespassers and intruders; and I hereby
declare all the lands sold, ceded, and relinquished to the United States
under said agreement, namely, "all that portion of the Fort Berthold
Reservation, as laid down upon the official map of the" (then)
"Territory of Dakota published by the General Land Office in the year
1885, lying north of the forty-eighth parallel of north latitude, and
also all that portion lying west of a north and south line 6 miles west
of the most westerly point of the big