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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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and to the lands particularly described in Article I of the agreement:
_Provided_, That the allotments made or to be made to said Indians
in the manner and subject to the conditions contained in said agreement
shall be confirmed; and

Whereas it is provided in section 13 of the act of Congress accepting,
ratifying, and confirming said agreements with the Tonkawa Indians and
the Pawnee Indians, specified in sections 11 and 12 of the same act,
approved March 3, 1893, entitled "An act making appropriations for
current and contingent expenses and fulfilling treaty stipulations with
Indian tribes for fiscal year ending June 30, 1894"--

That the lands acquired by the agreements specified in the two preceding
sections are hereby declared to be a part of the public domain. Sections
16 and 36 in each township, whether surveyed or unsurveyed, are hereby
reserved from settlement for the use and benefit of public schools, as
provided in section 10 relating to lands acquired from the Cherokee
Nation of Indians; and the lands so acquired by the agreements specified
in the two preceding sections not so reserved shall be opened to
settlement by proclamation of the President at the same time and in the
manner and subject to the same conditions and regulations provided in
section 10 relating to the opening of the lands acquired from the
Cherokee Nation of Indians; and each settler on the lands so to be
opened as aforesaid shall before receiving a patent for his homestead
pay to the United States for the lands so taken by him, in addition to
the fees provided by law, the sum of $2.50 per acre, and shall also pay
interest upon the amount so to be paid for said land from the date of
entry to the date of final payment at the rate of 4 per cent per annum.


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