e laws, except section 2301 of the Revised Statutes of the
United States, which shall not apply: _Provided, however_, That each
settler on said lands shall before making a final proof and receiving
a certificate of entry pay to the United States for the land so taken
by him, in addition to the fees provided by law, and within five years
from the date of the first original entry, the sum of $1.50 per acre,
one-half of which shall be paid within two years; but the rights
of honorably discharged Union soldiers and sailors as defined and
described in sections 2304 and 2305 of the Revised Statutes of the
United States shall not be abridged except as to the sum to be paid
as aforesaid; and all the lands in Oklahoma are hereby declared to be
agricultural lands, and proof of their nonmineral character shall not
be required as a condition precedent to final entry.

And whereas allotments of land in severalty to said Cheyenne and
Arapahoe Indians have been made and approved in accordance with law and
the provisions of the before-mentioned agreement with them; and

Whereas the lands acquired by the said agreement 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 as therein required, as follows, to wit:

For County C, the south one-half of section 19, township 16 north, range
11 west; for County D, the north one-half of section 13, township 18
north, range 17 west; for County E, the south one-half of section 15,
township 17 north, range 22 west; for County F, the south one-half of
section 8, township 13 north, range 23 west; for County G, the north
one-half of section 25, township 13 north, range 17 west; for County H,
the south one-half of section 13, township 9 north, range 16 west; and

Whereas it is provided by act of Congress for temporary government of
Oklahoma, approved May 2, 1890, section 23 (26 U.S. Statutes at Large,
p. 92), that there shall be reserved public highways 4 rods wide between
each section of land in said Territory, the section lines being the
center of said highways; but no deduction shall be made where cash
payments are provided for in the amount to be paid for each quarter
section of land by reason of such reservation; and

Whereas all the terms, conditions, and considerations required by