of the
before-mentioned agreements with them respectively, and an additional
10 acres of land has been selected for the use of said Iowa tribe, to
be held by said tribe in common, in accordance with the provisions of
supplemental Article XII of the agreement with them; and

Whereas the lands acquired by the four several agreements hereinbefore
mentioned have been divided into counties by the Secretary of the
Interior, as required by said last-mentioned act of Congress before the
same shall be open to settlement, and lands have been reserved for
county-seat purposes, as therein required; and

Whereas it is provided by act of Congress for temporary government of
Oklahoma, approved May 2, 1890, that there shall be reserved public
highways 4 rods wide between each section of land in said Territory, the
section lines being the centers of said highways, but no deduction shall
be made from cash payments from each quarter section by reason thereof;
and

Whereas all the terms, conditions, and considerations required by said
several agreements made respectively with said tribes of Indians
hereinbefore mentioned, and of the laws relating thereto, precedent
to opening said several tracts of land to settlement, have been, as
I hereby declare, provided for, paid, and complied with:

Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States, by
virtue of the power in me vested by the statutes hereinbefore mentioned,
also an act of Congress entitled "An act making appropriations for the
current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department and fulfilling
treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes for the year ending June
30, 1890, and for other purposes," approved March 2, 1889, and by other
the laws of the United States, and by said several agreements, do hereby
declare and make known that all of the lands acquired from the Sac and
Fox Nation of Indians, the Iowa tribe of Indians, the Citizen band of
Pottawatomie Indians, and the Absentee Shawnee Indians by the four
several agreements aforesaid, saving and excepting the lands allotted
to the Indians as in said agreements provided, or otherwise reserved
in pursuance of the provisions of said agreements and the said acts of
Congress ratifying the same and other the laws relating thereto, will,
at and after the hour of 12 o'clock noon (central standard time),
Tuesday, the 22d day of this the present month of September, and not
before, be opened to settlement, under