ake known that all of the lands embraced in said
reservation, saving and excepting the lands reserved for and allotted to
said Indians and the lands reserved for other purposes in pursuance of
the provisions of said agreement and the said act 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) on the 15th day of
April, A.D. 1892, and not before, be opened to settlement under the
terms of and subject to all the terms and 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 opened for settlement are for greater convenience
particularly described in the accompanying schedule, entitled "Schedule
of lands within the Lake Traverse Reservation opened to settlement by
proclamation of the President dated April 11, 1892," and which schedule
is made a part hereof.
Warning, moreover, is hereby given that until said lands are opened to
settlement as herein provided all persons save said Indians are
forbidden to enter upon and occupy the same or any part thereof.
And further notice is hereby given that it has been duly ordered that
the lands mentioned and included in this proclamation shall be, and the
same are, attached to the Fargo and Watertown land districts, in said
States, as follows:
1. All that portion of the Lake Traverse Reservation commencing at
the northwest corner of said reservation; thence south 12 deg. 2' west,
following the west boundary of the reservation, to the new seventh
standard parallel, or boundary line between the States of North and
South Dakota; thence east, following the new seventh standard parallel
to its intersection with the north boundary of said Indian reservation;
thence northwesterly with said boundary to the place of beginning, is
attached to the Fargo land district, the office of which is now located
at Fargo, N. Dak.
2. All that portion of the Lake Traverse Reservation commencing at
a point where the new seventh standard parallel intersects the west
boundary of said reservation; thence southerly along the west boundary
of said reservation to its extreme southern limit; thence northerly
along the east boundary of said reservation to Lake Traverse; thence
north with said lake to the northeast corner of the Lake Traverse Indian
Reservation; thence westerly with the north
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