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That should any of said lands allotted to said Indians, or opened to
settlement under this act, contain valuable mineral deposits, such
mineral deposits shall be open to location and entry, under the existing
mining laws of the United States, upon the passage of this act, and the
mineral laws of the United States are hereby extended over said lands.
And whereas, by the act of Congress approved January 4, 1901 (31 Stat.,
727), the Secretary of the Interior was authorized to extend, for a
period not exceeding eight months from December 6, 1900, the time for
making allotments to the Comanche, Kiowa, and Apache Indians and opening
to settlement the lands so ceded by them;
And whereas, in pursuance of the act of Congress approved March 3, 1901
(31 Stat., 1093), the Secretary of the Interior has regularly subdivided
the lands so as aforesaid respectively ceded to the United States by the
Wichita and affiliated bands of Indians and the Comanche, Kiowa, and
Apache tribes of Indians into counties, attaching portions thereof to
adjoining counties in the Territory of Oklahoma, has regularly
designated the place for the county seat of each new county, has
regularly set aside and reserved at such county seat land for a townsite
to be disposed of in the manner provided by the act of Congress last
named, and has regularly caused to be surveyed, subdivided, and platted
the lands so set aside and reserved for disposition as such townsites;
And whereas, by the act of Congress last named, it is provided:
The lands to be opened to settlement and entry under the acts of
Congress ratifying said agreements respectively shall be so opened by
proclamation of the President, and to avoid the contests and conflicting
claims which have heretofore resulted from opening similar public lands
to settlement and entry, the President's proclamation shall prescribe
the manner in which these lands may be settled upon, occupied, and
entered by persons entitled thereto under the acts ratifying said
agreements, respectively; 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.
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