said agreement provided, to be selected
within the tract of country so ceded, except land in any part of
said reservation now used or occupied for military, agency, school,
school-farm, religious, or other public uses, or in sections 16 or 36
in each Congressional township, except, in cases where any Cheyenne or
Arapahoe Indian has heretofore made improvements upon and now uses and
occupies a part of said sections 16 and 36, such Indian may make his
or her selection within the boundaries so prescribed so as to include
his or her improvements; and except in that part of the lands by said
agreement ceded, now occupied and claimed by the Wichita and affiliated
bands of Indians described as follows, to wit:

Commencing at a point in the middle of the main channel of the Washita
River where the ninety-eighth meridian of west longitude crosses the
same; thence up the middle of the main channel of the said river to
the line of 98 deg. 40' west longitude; thence up said line of 98 deg. 40' due
north to the middle of the main channel of the main Canadian River;
thence down the middle of the main Canadian River to where it crosses
the ninety-eighth meridian; thence due south to the place of beginning.

_And provided_, That said sections 16 and 36 in each Congressional
township in said reservation shall not become subject to homestead
entry, but shall be held by the United States and finally sold for
public-school purposes; and that when the allotments of lands shall have
been selected and taken by the members of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe
tribes as aforesaid and approved by the Secretary of the Interior the
title thereto shall be held in trust for the allottees, respectively,
for the period of twenty-five years in the manner and to the extent
provided for in the act of Congress approved February 8, 1887 (24 U.S.
Statutes at Large, p. 388); and

Whereas it is provided in the act of Congress accepting, ratifying, and
confirming the said agreement with the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians,
approved March 3, 1891 (26 U.S. Statutes at Large, pp. 989-1044),
section 16--

That whenever any of the lands acquired by either of the * * *
foregoing agreements respecting lands in the Indian or Oklahoma
Territory shall by operation of law or proclamation of the President
of the United States be opened to settlement they shall be disposed
of to actual settlers only, under the provisions of the homestead and
town-sit