en (10), and three (3) and four (4) of townships thirteen (13), twelve
(12), and eleven (11) south, range sixty-seven (67) west, to the place
of beginning.

Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which
may have been prior to the date hereof embraced in any legal entry or
covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States
land office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant
to law and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of
record has not expired, and all mining claims duly located and held
according to the laws of the United States and rules and regulations not
in conflict therewith.

_Provided_, That this exception shall not continue to apply to any
particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler, or claimant
continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing,
settlement, or location was made.

Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to enter or make
settlement upon the tract of land reserved by this proclamation.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of
the United States to be affixed.

[SEAL.]

Done at the city of Washington, this 18th day of March, A.D. 1892, and
of the Independence Of the United States the one hundred and sixteenth.

BENJ. HARRISON.

By the President:
WILLIAM F. WHARTON,
_Acting Secretary of State_.

[Footnote 30: See pp. 260-262.]

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas by the third article of the treaty between the United States of
America and the Sisseton and Wahpeton bands of Dakota or Sioux Indians
concluded February 19, 1867, proclaimed May 2, 1867 (15 U.S. Statutes
at Large, p, 505), the United States set apart and reserved for certain
of said Indians certain lands, particularly described, being situated
partly in North Dakota and partly in South Dakota and known as the Lake
Traverse Reservation; and

Whereas by agreement made with said Indians residing on said reservation
dated December 12, 1889, they conveyed, as set forth in article 1
thereof, to the United States all their title and interest in and to all
the unallotted lands within the limits of the reservation set apart as
aforesaid remaining after the allotments shall have been made, which are
provided for in article 4 of the agreement, as follows:

That there shall be allotted to each individual member of the bands of