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Show t Pursuant thereto, the President's proclamation of May 14, 1906, provided that the land3 mentioned would on and after July 15, 1906, "be opened to settlement, entry, and disposition under the general provisions of the homestead, townsite, and mineral laAnd laws of the United States." A considerable quantity of the land has been sold and the proceeds thereof deposited in the United States Treasury to the credit of the Indiana in conformity with the terms of the act, the amount no?/ being approximately $159,531.01, carried as "Crow. Consolidated 4 Per Cent Fund." Grazing permits have been issued on the ceded portion of the reservation and the proceeds deposited in the Treasury of ths United States to the credit of the Indians. In this connection, Ash Sheep Company v. United States (252 U. S. 159) ia in point. This was an appeal ..from, from an injunction restraining, the appellant from grazing sheep on the ceded portion of the Crow Reservation in violation of Section 2117, R. s. which reads as follows: "Every person who drives or otherwise conveys any stock of horses, mules, or cattle to range and feed on any land belonging to any Indian or any Indian tribe without the consent of such, tribe, is liable to a pen- ' alty of one dollar f_or §ach animal of such stock." "Ths company admitted that it pastured 5,000 sheep on lands mentioned without the consent of the Indians, -II- |