and
grazing lands has been made;
And whereas, in the act of Congress ratifying said agreement it is
provided:
That on the completion of the allotments and the preparation of the
schedule provided for in the preceding section, and the classification
of the lands as provided for herein, the residue of said ceded lands
shall be opened to settlement by the proclamation of the President,
and shall be subject to disposal under the homestead, townsite, stone
and timber, and mining laws of the United States only, excepting as
to price and excepting the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections in each
Congressional township, which shall be reserved for common school
purposes and be subject to the laws of Idaho; _Provided_, That all
purchasers of lands lying under the canal of the Idaho Canal Company,
and which are susceptible of irrigation from the water from said canal,
shall pay for the same at the rate of ten dollars per acre; all
agricultural lands not under said canal shall be paid for at the rate of
two dollars and fifty cents per acre, and grazing lands at the rate of
one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, one-fifth of the respective
sums to be paid at time of original entry, and four-fifths thereof at
the time of making final proof; but no purchaser shall be permitted in
any manner to purchase more than one hundred and sixty acres of the
land hereinbefore referred to; but the rights of honorably discharged
Union soldiers and sailors, as defined and described in sections
twenty-three hundred and four and twenty-three hundred and five of the
Revised Statutes of the United States, shall not be abridged, except
as to the sum to be paid as aforesaid.
* * * * *
No lands in sections sixteen and thirty-six now occupied, as set forth
in article three of the agreement herein ratified, shall be reserved for
school purposes, but the State of Idaho shall be entitled to indemnity
for any lands so occupied: _Provided_, That none of said lands
shall be disposed of under the townsite laws for less than ten dollars
per acre: _And provided further_, That all of said lands within
five miles of the boundary line of the town of Pocatello shall be sold
at public auction, payable as aforesaid, under the direction of the
Secretary of the Interior for not less than ten dollars per acre: _And
provided further_, That any mineral lands within said
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