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Show I ItEPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAX AFFAIRS. 33 Tonkazua Reservation, 0klu.-The agreement with the Tonkawa Indians, concluded October 21, 1891, referred to in the last annual re-port,, was ratified by Congress March 3, 1893 (27 Stats., 612), and the allotments therein provided for mere approved by the 1)epartment April 28, 1893. Pawnee Reserqiation, 0kTn.-An agreement was conclitded by the Cherokee Commission with the Pawnees in Oklahoma Novemnber 23; 1892, whereby the Indians ceded to the United Stdtes tlieir reservation in said Territory, subject to the allotment of lands iu severalty nuder the geueral allotment laws, for the sum of $1.25 per acre. This agree-ment was rat.ified by the a.ct of Congress approved March 3, 1893 (27 Stats., Gl2). The allotmeuts to t,he iiidians (820) have been made and ! approved. Ohcrokee Outlet.-The agreement with the Cherokee Nation for the cession of all its right, title, aud interest in and to the lands known as the "Outlet," concluded December 19,1891, and ratified by the Cherokee couneil January 4,1892, was ratified and cnnfirmed by Congress &larch 3,1893 (27 Stats., 312), with certain amendments which mere concurred I in and accepted by the Cherokee Nation, through its council, April 3, 1893. On May 17, 1893, the principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, and its delegates, duly authorized thereto by act of the uatioual eoun-oil, exeoutecl a deed of relinquishment to said lands. The act of Congress ratifying the agreement requires that certain allotments stipulated for in the agreement (not exceeding seveiity in number) shall be confirmed by the Secretary of the Interior before the date when said lands shall he opened to settlement. D. W. Busbyhead is authorized to select a qnarter section prior to the opening of the ceded lands to settlement, for which he is required to pay at the same rate per acre required of other settlers. It also provides that the ceded unreserved lands in the Toukawa and Pawnee reservations shall be opened to settlement at the same time that the 1a11ds in the Outlet are opened and in like manner. The allotmeuts havilig been made and all the other terms and condi-tions required under the several agreements having been wmplied with, the President, by public proclamation dated August 19, 1893, declared that on Saturday the 16th day of September, 1893, at the hour of 12 o'clock noon (central standard time), and not before, the lands acquired by the three several agreements would be opened to settlement under the terms and subject to all the conditions, limitations, reservations, and restrictions contained in said agreements, etc., sav-ing and excepting lands described and identified therein as not being so opened to settlement. These three agreements for the cession of lands in Oklahoma will result in opening to public settlement under the homestead laws, and to disposition as school lands, some 6,361,135 . acres. 1 7899 I 6-3 |