allotments of lands theretofore made, or then being made, or to be made,
to said Absentee Shawnees 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 in any land heretofore set apart in said tract of country
for any use by the United States, or for school, school-farm, or
religious purposes; nor shall said sections 16 and 36 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

Whereas it is provided in the act of Congress accepting, ratifying, and
confirming said agreements with the Citizen band of Pottawatomie Indians
and the Absentee Shawnee Indians, approved March 3, 1891 (26 U.S.
Statutes at Large, pp. 989-1044), section 16--

That whenever any of the lands acquired by either of the * * * foregoing
agreements respecting lands in the Indian or Oklahoma Territory shall by
operation of law or proclamation of the President of the United States
be open to settlement they shall be disposed of to actual settlers only,
under the provisions of the homestead and town-site laws, except section
2301 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, which-shall not
apply: _Provided, however_, That each settler on said lands shall before
making a final proof and receiving a certificate of entry pay to the
United States for the land so taken by him, in addition to the fees
provided by law, and within five years from the date of the first
original entry, the sum of $1.50 per acre, one-half of which shall be
paid within two years; but the rights of honorably discharged Union
soldiers and sailors as defined and described in sections 2304 and 2305
of the Revised Statutes of the United States shall not be abridged
except as to the sum to be paid as aforesaid; and all the lands in
Oklahoma are hereby declared to be agricultural lands, and proof of
their nonmineral character shall not be required as a condition
precedent to final entry.

And whereas allotments of land in severalty to said Sac and Fox Nation,
said Iowa tribe, said Citizen band of Pottawatomies, and said Absentee
Shawnee Indians have been made and approved, and provisional patents
issued therefor, in accordance with law and the provisions