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A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Volume 8, part 2: Grover Cleveland by Grover Cleveland
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public settlement, but he shall be required to pay for such selection
at the same rate per acre as other settlers, into the Treasury of the
United States, in such manner as the Secretary of the Interior shall
direct; and

Whereas it is provided in section 10 of the aforesaid act of Congress
approved March 3, 1893, that--

Said lands, except the portion to be allotted as provided in said
agreement, shall, upon the payment of the sum of $295,736, herein
appropriated, to be immediately paid, become and be taken to be and
treated as a part of the public domain; but in any opening of the same
to settlement sections 16 and 36 in each township, whether surveyed or
unsurveyed, shall be, and are hereby, reserved for the use and benefit
of the public schools to be established within the limits of such lands,
under such conditions and regulations as may be hereafter enacted by
Congress. * * *

Sections 13, 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, and the east
half of sections 17, 20, and 29, all in township No. 29 north of range
No. 2 east of the Indian meridian, the same being lands reserved by
Executive order dated July 12, 1884, for use of and in connection with
the Chilocco Indian Industrial School, in the Indian Territory, shall
not be subject to public settlement, but shall until the further action
of Congress continue to be reserved for the purposes for which they were
set apart in the said Executive order; and the President of the United
States, in any order or proclamation which he shall make for the opening
of the lands for settlement, may make such other reservations of lands
for public purposes as he may deem wise and desirable.

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