360 FIFTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 1624. 1904.
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- Preference mm cbasgi? of such (improveinents shall have a preference iright, if otherwise qualified, of thirty days after the land becomes subject to entry within which to enter the lands upon which the improvements are located, not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres, in compliance with the provisions herein governing the disposition of said ceded lands. _ i,gi,°Q{'j.‘§;§;,§‘fiQl,ij”i"` The Secretary of the Interior shall fix a reasonable time within which such Indian occupants shall elect whether they will remain on the ceded tract or remove to the diminished reservation, and where they elect to remove he shall also fix a reasonable time within which such occupants must remove their improvements if they should choose to do so instead of having the same appraised and sold. a,§Q,§fg,,j*fh°**“l€ of Sec. 5. That before any of the lands by this agreement ceded are opened to settlement or entry the Commissioner of Indian Affairs shall cause the allotments to be made and the schedule to be prepared, as ‘ provided for in section four of this Act, and a du licate o said sched- ` _ _ ule shall be filed with the Commissioner of the general Land Office. ,,,§§,§"},}"{,,§§,}’°,,g‘,{C Upon the completion of such allotments and the filing of such schedule ¤·¤i¤¤ ¤$*- and after the sale or removal of such improvements the residue of E‘°°p“°“"· such ceded lands, except sections sixteen and thirty-six, or lands in lieu thereof, which shall) be reserved for common school purposes, and V0, 82 388 are hereby granted to the State of Montana for such purpose, shall ` 'p`be subject to withdrawal and dis osition under the reclamation Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundlfed and two, so far as feasible irrigation projects may be found therein. The charges provided for by said reclamation Act shall be in addition to the charge of four dollars per acre for the land, and shall be paid in annual installments as required under the reclamation Act; and the amounts to be aid for the land shall be credited to the funds herein established for the benefit of the Crow Indians. If any lands in sections sixteen and thirty-six are » included in an irrigation project under the reclamation Act, the State of Montana may select in lieu thereof, as herein provided, other lands _ not included in any such project, in accordance with the provisions of I“°‘““ °’“pl°"‘°“‘ existing law concerning school land selections. In an construction work u n the ceded lands performed directly by the Ilnited States under the reclamation Act, preferenceshall be given to the em loy- ment of Crow Indians, or whites intermarried with them, so dir as {?;{;;;Q·;)¤jm,,_mm ,_) mav be practicable: Pz·02~e`¢I¢·d, hvmvewr, That if the lands withdrawn be.»pt·¤i¤»¤¤1¤¤ié¤i. under the reclamation Act are not disposed of within five years after the passage of this Act, then all of said lands so withdrawn shall he N""*""**"*"l*"’*""*~ disposed of as other lands provided for in this Act. That the lands not withdrawn for irri ration under said reclamation Act. which lands shall be determined unaher the direction of the Secretary of the Interior at the earliest practical date, shall be disposed of under the homestead, town-site, and mineml-land 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, occupv, 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 8,§,‘g§,§§,m‘f are opened to settlement and entry: ]t·m·f<7erZ. That as to the lands fwed. open under such proclamation the rights of honorably discharged L` n ion _ _ soldiers and sailors of the late civil and the Spanish war or Philip ine V ,,_*_§2;··‘“"*·"*°"-*m°· insurrectiomas defined and described in sections twentv-three hundred and four and twenty-three hundred and live of the Revised Statutes. as ,_m_Qm8m amended by the Act of March tirst, nineteen hundred and one, shall ` not be abridged: A1zdp2·oe·a`rZed __hll't]2€7'. That the price of said lands
