to the north-west corner of said quarter-section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said quarter-section; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-four (24), said township; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of said quarter-section; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of the north-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the northwest corner of the south-east quarter of the south-west quarter of Section thirteen (13), said township; thence westerly to the southwest corner of the north-east quarter of the south-east quarter of Section fourteen (14), said township; thence northerly to the northwest corner of the south-east quarter of the north-east quarter of Section eleven (11), said township; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of the north-east quarter of Section twelve (12), said township; thence northerly to the south-east corner of Section twenty-five (25), Township one (1) South, Range one (1) East; thence westerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of the south-west quarter of said section; thence northerly to the northwest corner of the south-east quarter of the north-west quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of the south-west quarter of the north-east quarter of said section; thence northerly to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of the north-east quarter of said section; thence easterly to the north-east corner of said section; thence northerly to the point for the north-west corner of the southwest quarter of Section nineteen (19), Township one (1) South, Range two (2) East; thence easterly to the point for the north-east corner of said quarter-section; thence northerly to the south-west corner of the south-east quarter of Section eighteen (18),.said township, the place of beginning;

Also:

In Township one (1) South, Range one (1) East, the north-west quarter, and the north-west quarter of the south-west quarter of Section one (1), the north-east quarter, the north-east quarter of the northwest quarter, and the east half and south-west quarter of the southeast quarter of Section twelve (12), the north-west quarter, the north half and south-east quarter of the north-east quarter, the east half of the south-west quarter, and the north-east quarter and south-west quarter of the south-east quarter of Section thirteen (13), the north half and south-east quarter of the north-west quarter, the north half of the north-east quarter, and the south half of the south-east quarter of Section twenty-four (24);

In Township one (1) North, Range one (1) East, Section twelve (12), the south-east quarter, and the east half of the north-east quarter of Section fourteen (14), the south half of the south-west quarter, the

north-west quarter, and the east half of Section twenty-four (24), the south-west quarter and east half of Section twenty-six (26);

In Township one (1) South, Range two (2) East, the north-east quarter and the west half of Section four (4), the south-east quarter, and the east half and south-west quarter of the south-west quarter of Section five (5), the south-east quarter of the south-east quarter, and the south-west quarter of the south-west quarter of Section six (6), all Section seven (7), the north-west quarter of the south-east quarter, the north-east quarter, and the west half of Section eight (8), the north-west quarter of the south-east quarter of Section eleven (11), the north-east quarter, and the north half and south-west quarter of the north-west quarter of Section twelve (12), the north half of the north-west quarter, the south half of the south-west quarter, and the south half and north-east quarter of the south-east quarter of Section seventeen (17), the west half and north-east quarter of the southwest quarter. the north-west quarter of the south-east quarter, and the north half of Section eighteen (18), the north-west quarter of Section nineteen (19);

In Township one (1) North, Range two (2) East, the north-west quarter, the north half of the north-east quarter, and the north half and south-east quarter of the south-west quarter of Section four (4), all Sections six (6), eight (8), ten (10), and twelve (12), the north half and south-east quarter of Section fourteen (14), all Section eighteen (18), the north half, the south-west quarter, and the west half and north-east quarter of the south-east quarter of Section twenty (20), the west half of the north-east quarter, the west half of the south-east quarter, the west half and south-east quarter of the northwest quarter, and the south-west quarter of Section twenty-two (22), the east half of Section twenty-four (24), all Section twenty-six (26), the south-west quarter, the north half of the north-east quarter, and the north half of the north-west quarter of Section twenty-eight (28), the north half of the south-east quarter, the south-west quarter, and the north half of Section thirty (30), the north-west quarter of the south-east quarter, the north-east quarter, and the south-west quarter of Section thirty-four (34);

In Township two (2) North, Range two (2) East, the south half of Section thirty-four (34);

In Township one (1) South, Range three (3) East, Section six (6), the south-east quarter of the south-east quarter and the north half of Section eight (8), the south-west quarter of Section twenty-two (22), the north half of Section thirty-three (33), the south-west quarter and the south half of the north-west quarter of Section thirty-four (34);

In Township one (1) North, Range three (3) East, Section six

(6), the south-west quarter of Section eight (8), all Section eighteen (18), the west half of Section twenty (20), and all Section thirty (30). Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made. pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired: Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing or settlement was made.

Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.

The reservations hereby established shall be known as The Salt Lake Forest Reserves.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

DONE at the City of Washington this 26th day of May, in [SEAL.] the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and four, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-eighth.

By the President:

JOHN HAY,

THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

Secretary of State.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas, by an agreement between the Sisseton, Wahpeton, and Cut-Head bands of the Sioux tribe of Indians on the Devils Lake Reservation, in the State of North Dakota, on the one part, and James McLaughlin, a United States Indian Inspector, on the other part, amended and ratified by act of Congress approved April 27, 1904 (Public No. 179), the said bands of the said Indian tribes ceded, conveyed, transferred, relinquished, and surrendered, forever and absolutely, without any reservation whatsover, expressed or implied, unto the United States of America, all their claim, title, and interest of every kind and character in and to the unallotted lands embraced in the following-described tract of country now in the State of North Dakota, to wit:

All that part of the Devils Lake Indian Reservation now remaining unallotted, including the tract of land at present known as the Fort Totten Military Reserve,

situated within the boundaries of the said Devils Lake Indian Reservation, and being a part thereof; except six thousand one hundred and sixty acres required for allotments to sixty-one Indians of said reservation entitled to allotments.

The unallotted and unreserved land to the disposed of hereunder approximates 88,000 acres.

And whereas, in pursuance of said act of Congress ratifying the agreement named, the lands necessary for church, mission, and agency purposes, and for the Fort Totten Indian school, and for a public park, are by this proclamation, as hereinafter appears, reserved for such purposes, respectively:

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

SEC. 4. That the lands ceded to the United States under said agreement, including the Fort Totten abandoned military reservation, which are exclusive of six thousand one hundred and sixty acres which are required for allotments, excepting sections sixteen and thirty-six or an equivalent of two sections in each township, and such tracts as may be reserved by the President as hereinafter provided, shall be disposed of under the general provisions of the homestead and townsite laws of the United States, and shall be opened to settlement and entry by proclamation of the President, which proclamation shall prescribe the manner in which these lands may be settled upon, occupied, and entered by persons entitled to make entry thereof, and no person shall be permitted to settle upon, occupy, or enter any of said lands, except as prescribed in such proclamation, until after the expiration of sixty days from the time when the same are opened to settlement and entry; Provided, That the rights of honorably discharged Union soldiers and sailors of the late civil and the Spanish war, as defined and described in sections twenty-three hundred and four and twentythree hundred and five of the Revised Statutes, as amended by the Act of March first, nineteen hundred and one, shall not be abridged: And provided further, That the price of said lands entered under the provisions of this Act shall be four dollars and fifty cents per acre, payable as follows: One dollar and fifty cents when the entry is made, and the remainder in annual installments of fifty cents per acre until paid for: Provided further, That in case any entryman fails to make such payments, or any of them, within the time stated, all rights in and to the land covered by his or her entry shall at once cease, and any payments theretofore made shall be forfeited and the entry shall be canceled: And provided further, That the lands embraced within such canceled entry shall, after the cancellation of such entry, be subject to entry under the provisions of the homestead law at four dollars and fifty cents per acre up to and until provision may be made for the disposition of said land by proclamation of the President as hereinafter provided: And provided further, That nothing in this Act shall prevent homestead settlers from commuting their entries under section twentythree hundred and one, Revised Statutes, by paying for the land entered the price fixed herein, receiving credit for payments previously made. In addition to the price to be paid for the land, the entryman shall pay the same fees and commissions at the time of commutation or final entry, as now provided by law, where the price of the land is one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre: And provided further, That aliens who have declared their intention to become citizens of the United States may become purchasers under this Act, but before proving

up and acquiring title must take out their full naturalization papers: And provided further, That when, in the judgment of the President, no more of the land herein ceded can be disposed of at said price, he may by proclamation, to be repeated in his discretion, sell from time to time the remaining lands subject to the provisions of the homestead law or otherwise as he may deem most advantageous, at such price or prices, in such manner, upon such conditions, with such restrictions, and upon such terms as he may deem best for all interests concerned: And provided further, That the President is hereby authorized to reserve, in his proclamation for the opening of the said lands, so much of the tracts heretofore reserved for church, mission, and agency purposes, as he may deem necessary, not to exceed nine hundred acres, and also not exceeding two and one-half sections for the Fort Totten Indian school, and the United States stipulates and agrees to pay for said reserved lands at the rate of three dollars and twenty-five cents per acre. The President is also authorized to reserve a tract embracing Sullys Hill, in the northeastern portion of the abandoned military reservation, about nine hundred and sixty acres, as a public park.

SEC. 5. That sections sixteen and thirty-six of the lands hereby acquired in each township shall not be subject to entry, but shall be reserved for the use of the common schools and paid for by the United States at three dollars and twenty-five cents per acre, and the same are hereby granted to the State of North Dakota for such purpose; and in case any of said sections, or parts thereof, of the land in the said Devils Lake Indian Reservation or Fort Totten abandoned military reservation should be lost to said State of North Dakota by reason of allotments thereof to any Indian or Indians now holding the same, or otherwise, the governor of said State, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, is hereby authorized to locate other lands not occupied, in the townships where said lands are lost, provided sufficient lands are to be had in the said townships, otherwise the selections to be made elsewhere within the ceded tract, which shall be paid for by the United States, as provided in article two of the treaty as herein amended, in quantity equal to the loss, and such selections shall be made prior to the opening of such lands to settlement.

And whereas, all of the conditions required by law to be performed prior to the opening of said tracts of land to settlement and entry have been, as I hereby declare, duly performed;

Now, therefore, I, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power vested in me by law, do hereby declare and make known that all of the lands so as aforesaid ceded by the Sisseton, Wahpeton, and Cut-Head bands of the Sioux tribe of Indians belonging to the Devils Lake Reservation, saving and excepting sections 16 and 36 in each township, and all lands located or selected by the State of North Dakota as indemnity school or educational lands, and saving and excepting the N1⁄2 of the NW 4 and the SW 4 of the NW 14 of Sec. 14, and the SE 1/4 of the NE 4 of Sec. 15, T. 152 N., R. 66 W., of the fifth principal meridian, which are hereby reserved for the use of the Raven Hill Presbyterian Church; and saving and excepting the N1⁄2 of the NW 14 of Sec. 14, the NE of the NE of Sec. 15, the SE 4 of the SW4 of Sec. 11, and the S1⁄2 of the SE 4 of the SE 4 of the SE 4 of Sec. 10, T. 151 N.,