t to be paid for each
quarter section of land by reason of such reservation; and

Whereas it is provided in the act of Congress approved February 10, 1894
(28 U.S. Statutes at Large, p. 37)--

That every homestead settler on the public lands on the left bank of
the Deep Fork River in the former Iowa Reservation, in the Territory of
Oklahoma, who entered less than 160 acres of land may enter under the
homestead laws other lands adjoining the land embraced in his original
entry when such additional lands become subject to entry, which
additional entry shall not with the lands originally entered exceed in
the aggregate 160 acres: _Provided_, That where such adjoining
entry is made residence shall not be required upon the lands so
entered, but the residence and cultivation by the settler upon and of
the land embraced in his original entry shall be considered residence
and cultivation for the same length of time upon the land embraced in
his additional entry; but such lands so entered shall be paid for
conformably to the terms of the act acquiring the same and opening it
to homestead entry.

And whereas it is further provided in the act of Congress approved March
2, 1895 (28 U.S. Statutes at Large, p. 899)--

That any State or Territory entitled to indemnity school lands or
entitled to select lands for educational purposes under existing law
may select such lands within the boundaries of any Indian reservation
in such State or Territory from the surplus lands thereof purchased by
the United States, after allotments have been made to the Indians of
such reservation and prior to the opening of such reservation to
settlement.

And whereas all the terms, conditions, and considerations required by
said agreement made with said tribes of Indians and by the laws relating
thereto precedent to opening said lands to settlement have been, as I
hereby declare, complied with:

Now, therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, by
virtue of the power in me vested by the statutes hereinbefore mentioned
and by other the laws of the United States and by the said agreement,
do hereby declare and make known that all of said lands hereinbefore
described, acquired from the Kickapoo Indians by the agreement
aforesaid, will, at and after the hour of 12 o'clock noon (central
standard time), Thursday, the 23d day of the month of May, A.D. 1895,
and not before, be open to settleme