ted and
set aside for the use in common for said Comanche, Kiowa and Apache
tribes of Indians, four hundred and eighty thousand acres of grazing
lands;

And whereas, in the act of Congress ratifying the said Wichita
agreement, it is provided--

That whenever any of the lands acquired by this agreement shall, by
operation of law or proclamation of the President of the United States,
be open to settlement, they shall be disposed of under the general
provisions of the homestead and townsite laws of the United States:
_Provided_, That in addition to the land-office fees prescribed by
statute for such entries the entryman shall pay one dollar and
twenty-five cents per acre for the land entered at the time of
submitting his final proof: _And provided further_, That in all
homestead entries where the entryman has resided upon and improved the
land entered in good faith for the period of fourteen months he may
commute his entry to cash upon the payment of one dollar and twenty-five
cents per acre: _And provided further_, That the rights of
honorably discharged Union soldiers and sailors of the late civil war,
as defined and described in sections twenty-three hundred and four and
twenty-three hundred and five of the Revised Statutes, shall not be
abridged: _And provided further_, That any qualified entryman
having lands adjoining the lands herein ceded, whose original entry
embraced less than one hundred and sixty acres, may take sufficient
land from said reservation to make his homestead entry not to exceed
one hundred and sixty acres in all, said land to be taken upon the
same conditions as are required of other entrymen: _Provided_, That
said lands shall be opened to settlement within one year after said
allotments are made to the Indians.

* * * * *

That the laws relating to the mineral lands of the United States are
hereby extended over the lands ceded by the foregoing agreement.

And whereas in the act of Congress ratifying the said Comanche, Kiowa
and Apache agreement, it is provided--

That the lands acquired by this agreement shall be opened to settlement
by proclamation of the President within six months after allotments are
made and be disposed of under the general provisions of the homestead
and townsite laws of the United States: _Provided_, That in
addition to the land office fees prescribed by statute for such en