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.
And whereas the thirteenth section of the act approved March 2, 1889,
the act approved May 2, 1890, and the second proviso of section 17 and
the whole of section 18 of the act approved March 3, 1891, are referred
to in the tenth section of the act approved March 3, 1893, and thereby
made applicable in the disposal of the lands in the Cherokee Outlet
hereinbefore mentioned, the provisions of which acts, so far as they
affect the opening to settlement and the disposal of said lands, are
more particularly set forth hereinafter in connection with the rules
and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior for the
occupation and settlement of the lands hereby opened according to said
tenth section; and
Whereas the lands acquired by the three several agreements hereinbefore
mentioned have been divided into counties by the Secretary of the
Interior, as required by said last-mentioned act of Congress before the
same shall be opened to settlement, and lands have been reserved for
county-seat purposes, to be entered under sections 2387 and 2388 of the
Revised Statutes of the United States, as therein required, as follows,
to wit:
For County K, the southeast quarter of section 23 and the northeast
quarter o
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