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Show 1054808 *K,r MM J approved by the Secretary of the Interior or any parmiTi heretofore issued by direction of the Secretary of the Interior to negotiate with said Indians for a mineral lease; but any person or company having 30 obtained such approved, mineral lease or suoh permit to negotiate with said Indians for a mineral lease on said reservation pending suoh time and up to thirty days before said, lands are restored to the publio domain aa aforesaid* shall have in, lieu of suoh lease or permit the preferential.right to locate under the mining laws not to exceed 640 acres of con* ti&uoua mineral lands; except the £&ven Mining Company which, may In lieu of its lease locate one hundred; a. mining claims of the oharaoter mentioned in It3 lease.51 The- Act of March 3,1905 provides; "That the s_itid unallotted lands excepting such.tracts as may have been set aside an national for est reserve, and suoh mineral lands as were disposed of by the Act of May 27, 19D2, shall be disposed of under tha general provisions of the homestead and toymsite laas of the unload States.-1 As the lands were subject to the general home staadc; lass -cha office raquired non-mineral affidavits as in otner homestead entries* Itoiar date of August 16, 1905,the Department in reply to letters from the, commissioner of this office, and tha Acting ccaamlasloner of Indian Affairs, stated as to mineral lands; 1. That ths lands within the boundaries of tha fcrast reserve are now opened -co mineral exploration and location? / |