Political Quotes

“Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power vested in me by law, do hereby declare and make known that all of the lands so as aforesaid ceded by the Sioux tribe of Indians of the Rosebud Reservation, saving and excepting sections sixteen and thirty-six in each township, and all lands located or selected by the State of South Dakota as indemnity school or educational lands, and saving and excepting the W 1/2 of the NE 1/4 and the E 1/2 of the NW 1/4 of Sec. 25, T. 96 N., R. 72 W. of the 5th P.M., which is hereby reserved for use as a sub-issue station; and the NE 1/4 of the SW 1/4 of Sec. 23, T. 96 N., R. 72 W., of the 5th P.M., which is hereby reserved for use as an Indian day school; and saving and excepting the N 1/2 of the NE 1/4 of Sec. 25, T. 95 N., R. 71 W., of the 5th P.M., and the NW 1/4 of the NW 1/4 of Sec. 20, T. 95 N., R. 70 W., of the 5th P.M., both of which tracts are hereby reserved for use of the American Missionary Society for mission purposes; and the N 1/2 of the NW 1/4 of Sec. 7, T. 96 N., R. 71 W., of the 5th P.M., which is hereby reserved for the Roman Catholic Church for use for mission purposes, will, on the eighth day of August, 1904, at 9 o'clock a. m., in the manner herein prescribed and not otherwise, be opened to entry and settlement and to disposition under the general provisions of the homestead and townsite laws of the United States.”