tead laws, except
section 2301 of the Revised Statutes, which shall not apply: _Provided,
however_, That each settler under and in accordance with the provisions
of said homestead laws shall before receiving a patent for his
homestead 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 for each acre
thereof, one-half of which shall be paid within two years; and any
person otherwise qualified who has attempted to but for any cause
failed to secure a title in fee to a homestead under existing law, or
who made entry under what is known as the commuted provision of the
homestead law, shall be qualified to make a homestead entry upon any
of said lands in conformity with the provisions of this section; that
any person who may be entitled to the privilege of selecting land in
severalty under the provisions of article 6 of the treaty of May 7,
1868, with the Crow Indians, and which provisions were continued in
force by the agreement with said Indians ratified and confirmed by
the act of Congress approved April 11, 1882, or any other act or
treaty, shall have the right for a period of sixty days to make such
selections in any part of the territory by said agreement ceded, and
such locations are hereby confirmed: _Provided further_, That all
white persons who located upon said Crow Reservation by reason of an
erroneous survey of the boundary and were afterwards allowed to file
upon their location in the United States land office shall have thirty
days in which to renew their filings, and their locations are hereby
confirmed; and that in all cases where claims were located under the
mining laws of the United States, and such location was made prior to
December 1, 1890, by a locator qualified therefor who believed that he
or she was so locating on lands outside the Crow Indian Reservation,
such locator shall be allowed thirty days within which to relocate the
said mining claims so theretofore located by them within the limits
of the ceded portion of said Crow Indian Reservation, and upon such
relocation such proceedings shall be had as are conformable to law
and in accordance with the provisions of this act.

And whereas the boundary lines of said ceded lands have been duly
surveyed and marked as stipulated in the thirteenth clause or section