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acres each, all of the remaining land embraced within said reservation (Blackfeet Indian Reservation). In making such classification and appraisement said lands shall be divided into the following classes: First, agricultural lands of the first class; second, agricultural lands of the second class; third, grazing lands; fourth, timber lands; fifth, mineral lands, the mineral lands not to be appraised. * * *

That when said commission shall have completed the classification and appraisement of all of said lands and the same shall have been approved by the Secretary of the Interior, the lands shall be disposed of under the general provisions of the homestead, mineral, and townsite laws of the United States, except such of said lands as shall have been classified as timber-lands, and except such sections 16 and 36 of each township, or any part thereof, for which the State of Montana has not heretofore received indemnity lands under existing laws, which sections, or parts thereof, are hereby granted to the State of Montana for school purposes.

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That the lands within said reservation not already previously entered, whether classified as agricultural, grazing, timber, or mineral lands, shall be subject to exploration, location, and purchase under the general provisions of the United States mineral and coal land laws, at the prices therein fixed, except that no mineral or coal exploration, location, or purchase shall be permitted upon any lands allotted to an Indian.

34 STAT. 3208, 3212, JUNE 2, 1906.

PROCLAMATION-SHOSHONE OR WIND RIVER RESERVATION.

Whereas, by an agreement between the Shoshone and Arapahoe tribes of Indians, belonging to the Shoshone or Wind River Reservation in the State of Wyoming * * * amended and ratified by act of Congress approved March 3, 1905 (33 Stat. 1016), the said Indian tribes ceded, granted, and relinquished to the United States all the right, title, and interest which they may have had to all of the unallotted lands embraced within said reservation, except (describing); and

Whereas, it was provided by said act of March 3, 1905 (33 Stat. 1021), that said unallotted lands ceded to the United States under said agreement should be disposed of under the provisions of the homestead, town-site, coal and mineral land laws of the United States, and should be opened to settlement and entry by proclamation of the President of the United States on June 15, 1906, which proclamation shall prescribe the manner in which the lands shall be settled upon, occupied, and entered by persons permitted to make entry thereof, and no person shall be permitted to settle upon, occupy, or enter said lands except as prescribed in said proclamation, until after the expiration of 60 days from the time when the same are open to settlement and entry: * *

Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the said act and resolution of Congress, do hereby declare and make known that all the unallotted lands in the ceded portion of said reservation, except such as may at that time have been reserved for carrying out the provisions of said amended treaty relative to the rights of Asmus

Boysen, allowing him to locate in accordance with the Government surveys not to exceed 640 acres in the form of a square, of mineral or coal lands in said reservation, and to purchase the same, will, on and after August 15, 1906, in the manner hereinafter prescribed, and not otherwise, be opened to settlement, entry, and disposition under the general provisions of the homestead, town-site, coal, and mineral land laws of the United States.

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The lands entered under the town-site, coal, and mineral land laws shall be paid for in amount and manner provided by the laws under which they are entered, and unless entry and payment under mineral locations shall be made within three years from date of location all rights thereunder shall cease.

All persons are especially admonished that under said act of Congress approved March 3, 1905, it is provided that no person shall be permitted to settle upon, occupy, or enter any of said lands except in the manner prescribed in this proclamation until after the expiration of 60 days from the time when the same are opened to settlement and entry. After the expiration of said period of 60 days, but not before, as herein prescribed, any of said lands remaining undisposed of may be settled upon, occupied, entered, or located under the general provisions of the homestead, town-site, coal and mineral land laws of the United States in like manner as if the manner affecting such settlement, occupancy, entry, and location had not been prescribed herein in obedience to law.

The Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe all needful rules and regulations necessary to carry into full effect the opening herein pro

vided for.

A. PROCLAMATION OPENING CEDED LANDS.

1. SETTLEMENT PROHIBITED-LOCATION OF MINING CLAIMS.
2. MINERAL LOCATION-PAYMENT TO PRESERVE RIGHTS.

1. SETTLEMENT PROHIBITED- -LOCATION OF MINING CLAIMS.

This proclamation does not prohibit persons from going upon or entering upon the ceded lands, but only prohibits the settlement upon or the occupancy thereof for the purpose of initiating any rights, but any such lands remaining undisposed of after the expiration of the 60-day period could immediately be located as a mining claim or for other purposes by persons already upon the land.

Leclair v. Hawley, 18 Wyo. 23, p. 39.

2. MINERAL LOCATION-PAYMENT TO PRESERVE RIGHTS.

By this proclamation lands in the Shoshone Indian Reservation ceded to the Government by the act of March 3, 1905 (33 Stat. 1016), entered under town-site, coal, and mineral land laws, must be paid for in amount and manner provided by the laws under which they are entered, and unless entry and payment under mineral locations are made within three years from date of location all rights thereurder shall cease.

Leclair v. Hawley, 18 Wyo. 23, p. 34.

35 STAT. 460, MAY 29, 1908.

CLASSIFICATION-CHEYENNE AND STANDING ROCK.

AN ACT To authorize the sale and disposition of a portion of the surplus and unallotted lands in the Cheyenne River and Standing Rock Indian Reservations in the States of South Dakota and North Dakota, and making appropriation and provision to carry the same into effect.

Be it enacted, etc., That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed, as hereinafter provided, to sell and dispose of all that portion of the Cheyenne River and Standing Rock Indian Reservations in the States of South Dakota and North Dakota lying and being within the following described boundaries, to wit: (description).

SEC. 2. * * Provided further, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be surveyed all the lands embraced within said reservations, and to cause an examination to be made of the lands by experts of the Geological Survey, and if there be found any lands bearing coal, the said Secretary is hereby authorized to reserve them from allotment or disposition until further action by Congress: Provided further, That the rights of honorably discharged Union soldiers and sailors of the late civil and Spanish wars or Philippine insurrection, as defined and described in sections 2304 and 2305 R. S., as amended by the act of March 1, 1901 (31 Stat. 847), shall not be abridged.

SEC. 3. That the price of said lands entered as homesteads under the provisions of this act shall be fixed by appraisement as herein provided. The President of the United States shall appoint two commissions, one for each reservation, each commission to consist of three persons to inspect, appraise, and value all of said lands that shall not have been allotted in severalty to said Indians, or reserved by the Secretary of the Interior or otherwise disposed of, and excepting sections 16 and 36 in each of said townships, * * *. That said commissioners shall then proceed to personally inspect, classify, and appraise, in 160-acre tracts each, all of the remaining lands embraced within each reservation as described in section one of this act. In making such classification and appraisement said lands shall be divided into the following classes: First, agricultural land of the first class; second, agricultural land of the second class; third, graz ing land; fourth, timber land; fifth, mineral land, if any, the mineral land not to be appraised.

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35 STAT. 465, p. 467, MAY 29, 1908.

MINING LAWS EXTENDED.

AN ACT Authorizing a resurvey of certain townships in the State of Wyoming, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted, etc., * * *

SEC. 11. That all the provisions of the mining laws of the United States are hereby extended and made applicable to the undisposed-of lands in the Bitter Root Valley, State of Montana, above the mouth of the Lo Lo Fork of the Bitter Root River, designated in the act of June 5, 1872: Provided, That all mining locations and entries heretofore made or attempted to be made upon said lands shall be deter

mined by the Department of the Interior as if said lands had been subject to mineral location and entry at the time such locations and entries were made or attempted to be made: And provided further, That this act shall not be applicable to lands withdrawn for administration sites for use of the Forest Service.

35 STAT. 558, p. 561, MAY 30, 1908.

FORT PECK LANDS OPENED-MINERALS RESERVED.

AN ACT For the survey and allotment of lands now embraced within the limits of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, in the State of Montana, and the sale and disposal of all the surplus lands after allotment.

Be it enacted, etc., That the Secretry of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be surveyed all the lands embraced within the limits of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, in the State of Montana, and to cause an examination of the lands within such reservation to be made by the Reclamation Service and by experts of the Geological Survey, and if there be found any lands which it may be deemed practicable to bring under an irrigation project, or any lands bearing lignite coal, the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to construct such irrigation projects and reserve such lands as may be irrigable therefrom, or necessary for irrigation works, and also coal lands as may be necessary to the construction and maintenance of any such projects.

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SEC. 6. That said commissioners shall then proceed to personally inspect and classify and appraise by the smallest legal subdivisions of 40 acres each all of the remaining lands embraced within said reservation. In making such classification and appraisement said lands shall be divided into the following classes: First, agricultural land; second, grazing land; third, arid land; fourth, mineral land, the mineral land not be appraised; that said commissioners shall be paid a salary of not to exceed $10 per day each while actually employed in the inspection and classification of said lands, such inspection and classification to be completed within nine months from the date of the organization of said commission.

SEC. 7. That when said commission shall have completed the classification and appraisement of said lands, and the same shall have been approved by the Secretary of the Interior, the lands shall be disposed of under the general provisions of the homestead, desert-land, mineral, and town-site laws of the United States, except sections 16 and 36 of each township, or any part thereof, for which the State of Montana has not heretofore received indemnity lands under existing laws, which sections, or parts thereof, are hereby granted to the State of Montana for school purposes. And in case either of said sections, or parts thereof, is lost to the State by reason of allotment thereof to any Indian or Indians, or by reservation or withdrawal under the provisions of this act or otherwise, the governor of said State, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, is hereby authorized to select other unoccupied, unreserved, nonmineral lands within said reservation, not exceeding two sections in any one township, which selections must be made within the 60 days immediately prior to the date fixed by the President's proclamation opening the surplus

lands to settlement: Provided, That the United States shall pay to the said Indians for the lands in said sections 16 and 36, so granted, or the lands within said reservation selected in lieu thereof, the sum $1.25 per acre.

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SEC. 12. That the lands within said reservation however classified, shall, on and after 60 days from the date fixed by the President's proclamation opening said lands, be subject to exploration, location, and purchase under the general provisions of the United States mineral and coal land laws at not less than the price therein fixed and not less than the appraised value of the land, except that no mineral or coal exploration, location, or purchase shall be permitted upon any lands allotted to Indians or withdrawn under the provisions of this act.

36 STAT. 440, MAY 27, 1910.

SALE OF SURPLUS-PINE RIDGE.

AN ACT To authorize the sale and disposition of the surplus and unallotted lands in Bennett County, in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, in the State of South Dakota, and making appropriation to carry the same into effect.

Be it enacted, etc., That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed, as hereinafter provided, to sell and dispose of all that portion of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, in the State of South Dakota, lying and being in Bennett County and described as follows: [description] Provided, That any Indians to whom allotments have been made on the tract to be ceded may, in case they elect to do so before said lands are offered for sale, relinquish same and select allotments in lieu thereof on the diminished reservation. * * *

SEC. 2. That the lands shall be disposed of under the general provisions of the homestead and town-site 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 the 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: Provided, That prior to said proclamation the allotments within the portion of the said Pine Ridge Reservation to be disposed of as described herein shall have been completed. * * * The President shall appoint a commission to consist of three persons to classify, appraise, and value all of said lands that shall not have been allotted in severalty to said Indians, or reserved by the Secretary of the Interior, or otherwise disposed of, and excepting sections 16 and 36 or other lands which may be selected in lieu thereof by the State of South Dakota, in each of said townships. * * * That within 20 days after their appointment the said commissioners shall meet and organize by the election of one of their number as chairman. The said commissioners shall then proceed to personally inspect, classify, and appraise, in 160-acre tracts each, all of the remaining unallotted lands embraced within that portion of the reservation described in section 1 of this act. In making such classification and appraisement said lands shall be divided into the following classes: First, agricultural land of the

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