ided_, That all lands within the ceded tract selected or set
apart for the use of individual Indians and described in the aforesaid
Schedules "A" and "B" shall be exempt from cession and shall remain
a part of the Crow Indian Reservation, and shall continue under the
exclusive control of the Interior Department until they shall have been
surveyed and certificates or patents issued therefor as provided in the
agreement of December 8, 1890, or until relinquished or surrendered by
the Indian or Indians claiming the same: _Provided further_, That such
lands shall be described as set forth in Schedules "A" and "B," and
shall be exempted from settlement in the proclamation of the President
opening the ceded lands, and that where lands so set apart are not
described by legal subdivisions then the township or section or tract of
land within whose limits such Indians' selections are located shall not
be opened to settlement until the Indian allotments therein contained
shall have been surveyed and proper evidence of title issued therefor.
Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States,
by virtue of the power in me vested by the agreements and statutes
hereinbefore mentioned and by other the laws of the United States, do
hereby declare and make known that all of the lands within that portion
of the Crow Indian Reservation in Montana ceded to the United States
by the said agreement of December 8, 1890, and hereinbefore described,
except those hereinafter mentioned and described, are open to settlement
under the terms of and subject to all the conditions, limitations,
reservations, and restrictions contained in the thirty-fourth section of
the act of Congress approved March 3, 1891, and hereinbefore quoted, and
other laws applicable thereto.
The lands exempted from the operation of this proclamation, being those
embraced in Schedules "A" and "B" attached to the agreement of August
27, 1892, are described as follows:
1.--SURVEYED LANDS.
IN TOWNSHIP 1 NORTH, RANGE 26 EAST.
Fractional section 24; the north half, the east half of southeast
quarter, and west half of southwest quarter of fractional section 25;
fractional section 26; lot 5 of fractional section 34; the north half
of northeast quarter and the northeast quarter of northwest quarter
of section 35; and the northeast quarter of northeast quarter of
section 36.
IN TOWNSHIP 1 NORTH, RANGE 27 EAST
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