by
Congress.

That the lands acquired by conveyance from the Seminole Indians
hereunder, except the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections, shall be
disposed of to actual settlers under the homestead laws only, except
as herein otherwise provided (except that section 2301 of the Revised
Statutes shall not apply): _And provided further_, That any person
who, having 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 said lands: _And provided
further_, That the rights of honorably discharged Union soldiers and
sailors in the late Civil War as defined and described in sections 2304
and 2305 of the Revised Statutes shall not be abridged: _And provided
further_, That each entry shall be in square form as nearly as
practicable, and no person be permitted to enter more than one quarter
section thereof, but until said lands are opened for settlement by
proclamation of the President no person shall be permitted to enter
upon and occupy the same, and no person violating this provision shall
ever be permitted to enter any of said lands or acquire any right
thereto.

The Secretary of the Interior may, after said proclamation and not
before, permit entry of said lands for town sites, under sections 2387
and 2388 of the Revised Statutes, but no such entry shall embrace more
than one half section of land.

That all the foregoing provisions with reference to lands to be
acquired from the Seminole Indians, including the provisions pertaining
to forfeiture, shall apply to and regulate the disposal of the lands
acquired from the Muscogee (or Creek) Indians by articles of cession
and agreement made and concluded at the city of Washington on the 19th
day of January, A.D. 1889.

Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States,
by virtue of the power in me vested by said act of Congress approved
March 2, 1889, aforesaid, do hereby declare and make known that so much
of the lands as aforesaid acquired from or conveyed by the Muscogee (or
Creek) Nation of Indians and from or by the Seminole Nation of Indians,
respectively, as is contained within the following-described
boundaries, viz:

Beginning at a point where the degree of longitude 98 west from
Greenwich, as surveyed in the y