No cattle or live stock shall hereafter be brought upon said lands for herding or grazing thereon.

I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State, respecting the International Marine Conference which was held in the city of Washington in the year 1889.

That it is therein provided that if any land in said Great Sioux Reservation is occupied and used by any religious society at the date of said act for the purpose of missionary or educational work among the Indians, whether situate outside…

Warning is hereby also expressly given to all persons not to enter or make settlement upon any of the tracts of land specially reserved by the terms of said act or by this proclamation, or any portion of any tracts of land to which any…

That protection is guaranteed to such Indians as may have taken allotments either within or without the said separate reservations under the provisions of the treaty with the Great Sioux Nation concluded April 29, 1868.

All persons will take notice of the provisions of said act and of the conditions, limitations, and restrictions therein contained, and be governed accordingly.

I furthermore notify all persons to particularly observe that by said act certain tracts or portions of the Great Reservation of the Sioux Nation in the Territory of Dakota, as described by metes and bounds, are set apart as separate and…

Good faith demands that if the United States accepts the lands ceded the beneficial construction of the act given by our agents should be also admitted and observed.

The surveys required to be made of the lands to be restored to the public domain under the provisions of the said act and as in this proclamation set forth will be commenced and executed as early as possible.

The Indians were further assured by the commissioners that the amount appropriated for the expenses of the commission could not under the law be made a charge upon the proceeds of their lands.

All persons will take notice of the provisions of said act.

Protection is guaranteed to such Indians as may have taken allotments.

Warning is hereby also expressly given to all persons not to enter or make settlement upon any of the tracts of land specially reserved.

By virtue of the power in me vested, I proclaim the acceptance of said act by the different bands of the Sioux Nation of Indians.

The appropriations necessary to carry into effect the provisions of the act should be promptly made and be immediately available.

The assurance given by the commissioners that the money appropriated by section 27 of the act to pay certain bands for the ponies taken by the military authorities in 1876 would not be a charge against the proceeds of the ceded lands was…

Special Departmental Rule No. I is hereby amended so as to include among the exceptions from examination in the Department of Agriculture the following:Scientific or professional experts to be employed in investigations specially…

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