ttlement upon said homestead;
and any person otherwise qualified who has attempted to but for any
cause failed to secure a title in fee to a homestead under existing law,
or who made entry under what is known as the commuted provision of the
homestead law, shall be qualified to make a homestead entry upon any of
said lands.

And whereas by a certain other agreement with the Citizen band of
Pottawatomie Indians, in said Territory, made on the 25th day of June,
1890, the said band of Indians ceded and absolutely surrendered to the
United States all their title and interest in and to the lands in said
Territory, and particularly described in Article I of said agreement,
and provided that all allotments of land theretofore made, or then being
made, or to be made, to members of said Citizen band of Pottawatomie
Indians under the provisions of the general allotment act approved
February 8, 1887, shall be confirmed; that in all allotments to be
thereafter made no person shall have the right to select his or her
allotment in sections 16 and 36 in any Congressional township, nor upon
any land heretofore set apart in said tract of country for any use by
the United States, or for schools, school-farm, or religious purposes;
nor shall said sections 16 and 36 be subject to homestead entry, but
shall be kept and used for school purposes; nor shall any lands set
apart for any use of the United States, or for school, school-farm, or
religious purposes, be subject to homestead entry, but shall be held by
the United States for such purposes so long as the United States shall
see fit to use them; and further, that the south half of section 7
and the north half of section 18, in township 6 north, range 5 east,
theretofore set apart by a written agreement between said band of
Indians and certain Catholic fathers for religious, school, and farm
purposes, shall not be subject to allotment or homestead entry, but
shall be held by the United States for the Sacred Heart Mission, the
name under which said association of fathers are conducting the church,
school, and farm on said lands; and

Whereas by a certain agreement with the Absentee Shawnee Indians, in
said Territory, made on the 26th day of June, 1890, said last-named
Indians ceded, relinquished, and surrendered to the United States all
their title and interest in and to the lands in said Territory, and
particularly described in Article I of said agreement, provided that all