Whereas said release and conveyance, bearing date the 16th day of
March, 1889, has been duly and fully executed, approved, and delivered;
and
Whereas section 13 of the act last aforesaid, relating to said lands,
provides as follows:
SEC. 13. That the lands acquired by the United States under said
agreement shall be a part of the public domain, to be disposed of only
as herein provided; and sections 16 and 36 of each township, whether
surveyed or unsurveyed, are hereby reserved for the use and benefit of
the public schools to be established within the limits of said lands
under such conditions and regulations as may be hereafter enacted by
Congress.
That the lands acquired by conveyance from the Seminole Indians
hereunder, except the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections, shall be
disposed of to actual settlers under the homestead laws only, except
as herein otherwise provided (except that section 2301 of the Revised
Statutes shall not apply): _And provided further_, That any person
who, having attempted to but for any cause failed to secure a title
in fee to a homestead under existing law, or who made entry under
what is known as the commuted provision of the homestead law, shall
be qualified to make a homestead entry upon said lands: _And provided
further_, That the rights of honorably discharged Union soldiers and
sailors in the late Civil War as defined and described in sections 2304
and 2305 of the Revised Statutes shall not be abridged: _And provided
further_, That each entry shall be in square form as nearly as
practicable, and no person be permitted to enter more than one quarter
section thereof, but until said lands are opened for settlement by
proclamation of the President no person shall be permitted to enter
upon and occupy the same, and no person violating this provision shall
ever be permitted to enter any of said lands or acquire any right
thereto.
The Secretary of the Interior may, after said proclamation and not
before, permit entry of said lands for town sites, under sections 2387
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