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Show shall prescribe the manner in which these lands may be settled upon, occupied, and entered by persons entitled to make entry; and, except as provided in the proclamation, no person shall be permitted to enter the lands until after the expiration of sixty days from the time when they are opened to settlement and entry. The terms of the sale of these lands are set forth in the act. One proviso, however, of the act of ratification is as follows: That nothing herein contained shall impair the rights under the lease to Asmus Boysen, which has been approved by the Secretary of the Interior; hnt said lessee shall have for thirty days from the date of the approval of the sur-veys of said land a preferential right to locate, following the Government sur-veys, not to exceed six hundred and forty acres in the form of a square, of mineral or coal lands in said reservation; that said Boysen at the time of entry of such lands shall pay cash therefor at the rate of ten dollars per acre and surrender said lease and the same shall be cancelled. Section 3 appropriates $25,000 to be used in the construction and axtension of an irrigation system on the diminished reserve. The Indians relinquish to the United States all right, title, and interest which they may have to all the lands embraced within the reservation. excepting the land bounded by the following-described lines : Beginning in the mid-channel of the Big Wind River at a point where said stream cmsses the western boundary of the said reservation; thence in a south-easterly direction following the mid-channel of the Big Wind River to its con-function with the Little Wind or Big Popo-Agie River, near the northeast corner 01 township one south, range four east; thence up the mid-channel of the said Big Pow-Bgie River in a southwesterly direction to the mouth of the North Fork of the said Big Popo-Agie River; thence up the mid-channel of said North Wrk of the Big Pow-Agie River to its intersection with the southern boundary of the said reservation, near the southwest corner of sectiod twenty-one, town-ship two south, range one west; thence due west along the said southern bouud-ary of the said reservation to the southwest mrner of the same; thence north along the western boundary of said reservation to the place of beginning. There is a proviso, however, that any individual Indian, a mem-ber of the Shoshoni or Arapaho tribe, who under existing laws or treaty stipulations has selected a tract of land within a part of the reservation ceded shall be entitled to have it allotted and confirmed to him or her; or any such Indian has the right to surrender such allotment and select other land within the diminished reserve in lieu thereof at any time before the lands ceded are opened for entry. H. G. Nickerson, special allotting agent, has two surveying wrps in the field, and it is expected that he will complete the allotment work within the next four or five months. Everything is being expedited so that this Office will be ready for the issue ef the proclamation of the opening of the ceded lands for entry. |