the terms of and subject to all
the conditions, limitations, reservations, and restrictions contained
in said agreements, the statutes above specified, and the laws of the
United States applicable thereto.
The lands to be so opened to settlement are for greater convenience
particularly described in the accompanying schedule, entitled "Schedule
of lands within the Sac and Fox, Iowa, Pottawatomie (and Absentee
Shawnee) reservations, in Oklahoma Territory, opened to settlement by
proclamation of the President dated September 18, 1891," and which
schedule is made a part hereof.
Each entry shall be in square form as nearly as practicable; and no
other lands in the Territory of Oklahoma are opened to settlement under
this proclamation or the agreements ratifying the same.
Notice, moreover, is hereby given that it is by law enacted that until
said lands are opened to settlement by proclamation no person shall be
permitted to enter upon and occupy the same, and no person violating
this provision shall be permitted to enter any of said lands or acquire
any right thereto. The officers of the United States will be required to
enforce this provision.
And further notice is hereby given that it has been duly ordered that
the lands in the Territory of Oklahoma mentioned and included in this
proclamation be, and the same are, attached to the Eastern and Oklahoma
land districts in said Territory, severally, as follows:
1. All that portion of the Territory of Oklahoma commencing at the
southwest corner of township 14 north, range 1 east; thence east on
town line between townships 13 and 14 to the west boundary of the
Creek country; thence north on said boundary line to the middle of main
channel of the Cimarron River; thence up the Cimarron River, following
the main channel thereof, to the Indian meridian; thence south on said
meridian line to the place of beginning, is attached to the Eastern
land district in Oklahoma Territory, the office of which is now located
at Guthrie.
2. All that portion of said Territory commencing at the northwest
corner of township 13 north, range 1 east; thence south on Indian
meridian to the North Fork of the Canadian River; thence west up said
river to the west boundary of the Pottawatomie Indian Reservation,
according to Merrill's survey; thence south, following the line as run
by O.T. Morrill under his contract of September 3, 1872, to the middle
of the main
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