Chapter XV: Section 3: of the act entitled "An act to provide for the protection of

the salmon fisheries of Alaska," approved March 2, 1889, provides--

SEC. 3. That section 1956 of the Revised Statutes of the United
States is hereby declared to include and apply to all the dominion
of the United States in the waters of Bering Sea; and it shall be the
duty of the President at a timely season in each year to issue his
proclamation, and cause the same to be published for one month in at
least one newspaper (if any such there be) published at each United
States port of entry on the Pacific coast, warning all persons against
entering said waters for the purpose of violating the provisions of
said section; and he shall also cause one or more vessels of the United
States to diligently cruise said waters and arrest all persons and
seize all vessels found to be or to have been engaged in any violation
of the laws of the United States therein.

Now, therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, hereby warn all persons against entering the waters of Bering Sea within the dominion of the United States for the purpose of violating the provisions of said section 1956 of the Revised Statutes; and I hereby proclaim that all persons found to be or to have been engaged in any violation of the laws of the United States in said waters will be arrested, proceeded against, and punished as above provided.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

[SEAL.]

Done at the city of Washington, this 18th day of February, A.D. 1895, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and nineteenth.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

By the President:
W.Q. GRESHAM,
_Secretary of State_.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas an act of Congress entitled "An act to postpone the enforcement of the act of August 19, 1890, entitled 'An act to adopt regulations for preventing collisions at sea,'" was approved February 23, 1895:

Now, therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States of America, do hereby give notice that said act of August 19, 1890, as amended by the act of May 28, 1894, will not go into force on March 1, 1895, the date fixed in my proclamation of July 13, 1894,[18] but on such future date as may be designated in a proclamation of the President to be issued for that purpose.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed.

[SEAL.]

Done at the city of Washington, this 25th day of February, 1895, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and nineteenth.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

By the President:
W.Q. GRESHAM,
_Secretary of State_.

[Footnote 18: See pp. 501-510.]

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas, pursuant to section 1 of the act of Congress approved July 13, 1892, entitled "An act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1893, and for other purposes," certain articles of agreement were made and concluded at the Yankton Indian Agency, S. Dak., on the 31st day of December, 1892, by and between the United States of America and the Yankton tribe of Sioux or Dakota Indians upon the Yankton Reservation, whereby the said Yankton tribe of Sioux or Dakota Indians, for the consideration therein mentioned, ceded, sold, relinquished, and conveyed to the United States all their claim, right, title, and interest in and to all the unallotted lands within the limits of the reservation set apart to said tribe by the first article of the treaty of April 19, 1858, between said tribe and the United States; and

Whereas it is further stipulated and agreed by article 8 that such part of the surplus lands by said agreement ceded and sold to the United States as may be occupied by the United States for agency, schools, and other purposes shall be reserved from sale to settlers until they are no longer required for such purposes, but all of the other lands so ceded and sold shall immediately after the ratification of the agreement by Congress be offered for sale through the proper land office, to be disposed of under the existing land laws of the United States to actual and _bona fide_ settlers only; and

Whereas it is also stipulated and agreed by article 10 that any religious society or other organization shall have the right for two years from the date of the ratification of the said agreement within which to purchase the lands occupied by it under proper authority for religious or educational work among the Indians, at a valuation fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, which shall not be less than the average price paid to the Indians for the surplus lands; and

Whereas it is provided in the act of Congress accepting, ratifying, and confirming the said agreement, approved August 15, 1894, section 12 (Pamphlet Statutes, Fifty-third Congress, second session, pp. 314-319)--

That the lands by said agreement ceded to the United States shall upon
proclamation by the President be opened to settlement, and shall be
subject to disposal only under the homestead and town-site laws of the
United States, excepting the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections in
each Congressional township, which shall be reserved for common-school
purposes and be subject to the laws of the State of South Dakota:
_Provided_, That each settler on said lands shall, in addition
to the fees provided by law, pay to the United States for the land so
taken by him the sum of $3.75 per acre, of which sum he shall pay 50
cents at the time of making his original entry and the balance before
making final proof and receiving a certificate of final entry; but the
rights of honorably discharged Union soldiers and sailors as defined
and described in sections 2304 and 2305 of the Revised Statutes of the
United States shall not be abridged except as to the sum to be paid
as aforesaid.

That the Secretary of the Interior, upon proper plats and description
being furnished, is hereby authorized to issue patents to Charles
Picotte and Felix Brunot and W.T. Selwyn, United States interpreters,
for not to exceed 1 acre of land each, so as to embrace their houses
near the agency buildings upon said reservation, but not to embrace any
buildings owned by the Government, upon the payment by each of said
persons of the sum of $3.75.

That every person who shall sell or give away any intoxicating liquors
or other intoxicants upon any of the lands by said agreement ceded, or
upon any of the lands included in the Yankton Sioux Indian Reservation
as created by the treaty of April 19, 1858, shall be punishable by
imprisonment for not more than two years and by a fine of not more than
$300.

And whereas all the terms, conditions, and considerations required by said agreement made with said tribes of Indians and by the laws relating thereto precedent to opening said lands to settlement have been, as I hereby declare, complied with:

Now, therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by the statutes hereinbefore mentioned, do hereby declare and make known that all of the lands acquired from the Yankton tribe of Sioux or Dakota Indians by the said agreement, saving and excepting the lands reserved in pursuance of the provisions of said agreement and the act of Congress ratifying the same, will, at and after the hour of 12 o'clock noon (central standard time) on the 21st day of May, 1895, and not before, be open to settlement under the terms of and subject to all the conditions, limitations, reservations, and restrictions contained in said agreement, the statutes hereinbefore specified, and the laws of the United States applicable thereto.

The lands to be so opened to settlement are for greater convenience particularly described in the accompanying schedule, entitled "Schedule of lands within the Yankton Reservation, S. Dak., to be opened to settlement by proclamation of the President," and which schedule is made a part hereof.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

[SEAL.]

Done at the city of Washington, this 16th day of May, A.D. 1895, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and nineteenth.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

By the President:
EDWIN F. UHL,
_Acting Secretary of State_.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas, pursuant to section I of the act of Congress approved July 13, 1892, entitled "An act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1893, and for other purposes," certain articles of cession and agreement were made and concluded at the Siletz Agency, Oreg., on the 31st day of October, 1892, by and between the United States of America and the Alsea and other Indians on Siletz Reservation in Oregon, whereby said Alsea and other Indians, for the consideration therein mentioned, ceded and conveyed to the United States all their claim, right, title, and interest in and to all the unallotted lands within the limits of said reservation, except the five sections described in article 4 of the agreement, viz: Section 9, township 9 south, range 11 west of the Willamette meridian; and the west half of the west half of section 5, and the east half of section 6, and the east half of the west half of section 6, township 10 south, range 10 west; and the south half of section 8, and the north half of section 17, and section 16, township 9 south, range 9 west; and the east half of the northeast quarter and lot 3, section 20, and south half and south half of north half of section 21, township 8, range 10 west; and

Whereas it is further stipulated and agreed by article 6 that any religious society or other organization shall have the right for two years from the date of the ratification of this agreement within which to purchase the lands occupied by it with proper authority for religious or educational work among the Indians, at the rate of $2.50 per acre, the same to be conveyed to such society or organization by patent; and

Whereas it is provided in the act of Congress accepting, ratifying, and confirming said agreement, approved August 15, 1894 (Pamphlet Statutes, pp. 286-338), section 15, that--

The mineral lands shall be disposed of under the laws applicable
thereto, and the balance of the land so ceded shall be disposed of until
further provided by law under the town-site law and under the provisions
of the homestead law: _Provided_, _however_, That each settler
under and in accordance with the provisions of said homestead laws shall
at the time of making his original entry pay the sum of 50 cents per
acre in addition to the fees now required by law, and at the time of
making final proof shall pay the further sum of $1 per acre, final proof
to be made within five years from the date of entry; and three years'
actual residence on the land shall be established by such evidence as is
now required in homestead proofs as a prerequisite to title or patent.

And whereas it is provided--

That immediately after the passage of this act the Secretary of the
Interior shall, under such regulations as he may prescribe, open said
lands to settlement, after proclamation by the President and sixty
days' notice.

And whereas all the terms, conditions, and considerations required by said agreement made with said tribe of Indians hereinbefore mentioned and the laws relating thereto precedent to opening said lands to settlement have been, as I hereby declare, provided for, paid, and complied with:

Now, therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by the statutes hereinbefore mentioned and by said agreement, do hereby declare and make known that all of the lands acquired from the Alsea and other Indians by said agreement will, at and after the hour of 12 o'clock noon (Pacific standard time) on the 25th day of July, 1895, and not before, be opened to settlement under the terms of and subject to all the conditions, limitations, reservations, and restrictions contained in said agreement, the statutes above specified, and the laws of the United States applicable thereto.

The lands to be so opened to settlement are for greater convenience particularly described in the accompanying schedule, entitled "Schedule of lands within the Siletz Indian Reservation, in Oregon, opened to settlement by proclamation of the President dated May 16, 1895," and which schedule is made a part hereof.

Warning is hereby given that no person entering upon and occupying said lands before said hour of 12 o'clock noon of the 25th day of July, 1895, hereinbefore fixed, will ever be permitted to enter any of said lands or acquire any rights thereto, and that the officers of the United States will be required to strictly enforce this provision, which is authorized by the act of August 15, 1894, hereinbefore mentioned.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

[SEAL.]

Done at the city of Washington, this 16th day of May, A.D. 1895, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and nineteenth.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

By the President:
EDWIN F. UHL,
_Acting Secretary of State_.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas by a written agreement made on the 9th day of September, 1891, the Kickapoo Nation of Indians, in the Territory of Oklahoma, ceded, conveyed, transferred, and relinquished, forever and absolutely, without any reservation whatever, all their claim, title, and interest of every kind and character in and to the lands particularly described in article 1 of the agreement: _Provided_, That in said tract of country there shall be allotted to each and every member, native and adopted, of said Kickapoo tribe of Indians 80 acres of land, in the manner and under the conditions stated in said agreement, and that when the allotments of land shall have been made and approved by the Secretary of the Interior the title thereto shall be held in trust for the allottees respectively for the period of twenty-five years in the manner and to the extent provided for in the act of Congress approved February 8, 1887 (24 U.S. Statutes at Large, p. 388); and

Whereas it is further stipulated and agreed by article 6 of the agreement that wherever in this reservation any religious society or other organization is now occupying any portion of said reservation for religious or educational work among the Indians the land so occupied may be allotted and confirmed to such society or organization, not, however, to exceed 160 acres of land to any one society or organization, so long as the same shall be so occupied and used: and such land shall not be subject to homestead entry; and

Whereas it is provided in the act of Congress accepting, ratifying, and confirming the said agreement with the Kickapoo Indians, approved March 3, 1893 (27 U.S. Statutes at Large, pp. 557-563), section 3--

That whenever any of the lands acquired by this agreement shall by
operation of law or proclamation of the President of the United States
be open to settlement or entry they shall be disposed of (except
sections 16 and 36 in each township thereof) to actual settlers only
under the provisions of the homestead and town-site laws, except section
2301 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, which shall not
apply: _Provided_, _however_, That each settler on said lands
shall before making a final proof and receiving a certificate of entry
pay to the United States for the land so taken by him, in addition to
the fees provided by law and within five years from the date of the
first original entry, the sum of $1.50 an acre, one-half of which shall
be paid within two years; but the rights of honorably discharged Union
soldiers and sailors as defined and described in sections 2304 and 2305
of the Revised Statutes of the United States shall not be abridged
except as to the sum to be paid as aforesaid. Until said lands are
opened to settlement by proclamation of the President of the United
States no person shall be permitted to enter upon or occupy any of said
lands, and any person violating this provision shall never be permitted
to make entry of any of said lands or acquire any title thereto:
_Provided_, That any person having attempted to but for any cause
failed to acquire a title in fee under existing law, or who made entry
under what is known as the commuted provision of the homestead law,
shall be qualified to make homestead entry upon said lands.

And whereas allotments of land in severalty to said Kickapoo Indians have been made and approved in accordance with law and the provisions of the before-mentioned agreement with them; and

Whereas it is provided by the act of Congress for the temporary government of Oklahoma, approved May 2, 1890, section 23 (26 U.S. Statutes at Large, p. 92), that there shall be reserved public highways 4 rods wide between each section of land in said Territory, the section lines being the center of said highways; but no deduction shall be made, where cash payments are provided for, in the amount to be paid for each quarter section of land by reason of such reservation; and

Whereas it is provided in the act of Congress approved February 10, 1894 (28 U.S. Statutes at Large, p. 37)--

That every homestead settler on the public lands on the left bank of
the Deep Fork River in the former Iowa Reservation, in the Territory of
Oklahoma, who entered less than 160 acres of land may enter under the
homestead laws other lands adjoining the land embraced in his original
entry when such additional lands become subject to entry, which
additional entry shall not with the lands originally entered exceed in
the aggregate 160 acres: _Provided_, That where such adjoining
entry is made residence shall not be required upon the lands so
entered, but the residence and cultivation by the settler upon and of
the land embraced in his original entry shall be considered residence
and cultivation for the same length of time upon the land embraced in
his additional entry; but such lands so entered shall be paid for
conformably to the terms of the act acquiring the same and opening it
to homestead entry.

And whereas it is further provided in the act of Congress approved March 2, 1895 (28 U.S. Statutes at Large, p. 899)--

That any State or Territory entitled to indemnity school lands or
entitled to select lands for educational purposes under existing law
may select such lands within the boundaries of any Indian reservation
in such State or Territory from the surplus lands thereof purchased by
the United States, after allotments have been made to the Indians of
such reservation and prior to the opening of such reservation to
settlement.

And whereas all the terms, conditions, and considerations required by said agreement made with said tribes of Indians and by the laws relating thereto precedent to opening said lands to settlement have been, as I hereby declare, complied with:

Now, therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by the statutes hereinbefore mentioned and by other the laws of the United States and by the said agreement, do hereby declare and make known that all of said lands hereinbefore described, acquired from the Kickapoo Indians by the agreement aforesaid, will, at and after the hour of 12 o'clock noon (central standard time), Thursday, the 23d day of the month of May, A.D. 1895, and not before, be open to settlement under the terms of and subject to all the conditions, limitations, reservations, and restrictions contained in the said agreement, the statutes above specified, and the laws of the United States applicable thereto, saving and excepting such tracts as have been allotted, reserved, or selected under the laws herein referred to and such tracts as may be properly selected by the Territory of Oklahoma under and in accordance with the provisions of the act of March 2, 1895, hereinbefore quoted, prior to the time herein fixed for the opening of said lands to settlement.

The lands to be so opened to settlement are for greater convenience particularly described in the accompanying schedule, entitled "Schedule of lands within the Kickapoo Reservation, Oklahoma Territory, to be opened to settlement by proclamation of the President;" but notice is hereby given that should any of the lands described in the accompanying schedule be properly selected by the Territory of Oklahoma under and in accordance with the provisions of said act of Congress approved March 2, 1895, prior to the time herein fixed for the opening of said lands to settlement such tracts will not be subject to settlement or entry.

Notice, moreover, is hereby given that it is by law enacted that until said lands are opened to settlement by proclamation no person shall be permitted to enter upon or occupy the same, and any person violating this provision shall never be permitted to make entry of any of said lands or acquire any title thereto. The officers of the United States will be required to enforce this provision.

And further notice is hereby given that all of said lands lying north of the township line between townships 13 and 14 north are now attached to the Eastern land district, the office of which is at Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory, and all of said lands lying south of the township line between townships 13 and 14 north are now attached to the Oklahoma land district, the office of which is at Oklahoma, Oklahoma Territory.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

[SEAL.]

Done at the city of Washington, this 18th day of May, A.D. 1895, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and nineteenth.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

By the President:
EDWIN F. UHL,
_Acting Secretary of State_.

A PROCLAMATION

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

Walter Q. Gresham, Secretary of State of the United States, is dead.

The President in making this distressing announcement to his fellow-countrymen speaks from the depths of a personal affliction to remind them that they too have lost a pure and able public servant, a wise and patriotic guardian of all their rights and interests, a manly and loyal American, and a generous and lovable man.

As a suitable expression of national bereavement, I direct that the diplomatic representatives of the United States in all foreign countries display the flags over their embassies and legations at half-mast for ten days; that for a like period the flag of the United States be displayed at half-mast at all forts and military posts and at all naval stations and on all vessels of the United States.

I further order that on the day of the funeral the Executive Departments in the city of Washington be closed and that on all public buildings throughout the United States the national flag be displayed at half-mast.

[SEAL.]

Done at the city of Washington, this 28th day of May, A.D. 1895, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and nineteenth.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

By the President:
EDWIN F. UHL,
_Acting Secretary of State_.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas the island of Cuba is now the seat of serious civil disturbances, accompanied by armed resistance to the authority of the established Government of Spain, a power with which the United States are and desire to remain on terms of peace and amity; and

Whereas the laws of the United States prohibit their citizens, as well as all others being within and subject to their jurisdiction, from taking part in such disturbances adversely to such established Government, by accepting or exercising commissions for warlike service against it, by enlistment or procuring others to enlist for such service, by fitting out or arming or procuring to be fitted out and armed ships of war for such service, by augmenting the force of any ship of war engaged in such service and arriving in a port of the United States, and by setting on foot or providing or preparing the means for military enterprises to be carried on from the United States against the territory of such Government:

Now, therefore, in recognition of the laws aforesaid and in discharge of the obligations of the United States toward a friendly power, and as a measure of precaution, and to the end that citizens of the United States and all others within their jurisdiction may be deterred from subjecting themselves to legal forfeitures and penalties, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States of America, do hereby admonish all such citizens and other persons to abstain from every violation of the laws hereinbefore referred to, and do hereby warn them that all violations of such laws will be rigorously prosecuted; and I do hereby enjoin upon all officers of the United States charged with the execution of said laws the utmost diligence in preventing violations thereof and in bringing to trial and punishment any offenders against the same.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

[SEAL.]

Done at the city of Washington, this 12th day of June, A.D. 1895, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and nineteenth.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

By the President:
RICHARD OLNEY,
_Secretary of State_.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas it is provided by section 13 of the act of Congress of March 3, 1891, entitled "An act to amend Title LX, chapter 3, of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to copyrights," that said act "shall only apply to a citizen or subject of a foreign state or nation when such foreign state or nation permits to citizens of the United States of America the benefit of copyright on substantially the same basis as its own citizens, or when such foreign state or nation is a party to an international agreement which provides for reciprocity in the granting of copyright, by the terms of which agreement the United States of America may at its pleasure become a party to such agreement;" and

Whereas it is also provided by said section that "the existence of either of the conditions aforesaid shall be determined by the President of the United States by proclamation made from time to time as the purposes of this act may require;" and

Whereas satisfactory official assurances have been given that in Spain and her provinces and colonial possessions the law permits to citizens of the United States the benefit of copyright on substantially the same basis as to the subjects of Spain:

Now, therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States of America, do declare and proclaim that the first of the conditions specified in section 13 of the act of March 3, 1891, now exists and is fulfilled in respect to the subjects of Spain.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

[SEAL.]

Done at the city of Washington, this 10th day of July, 1895, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twentieth.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

By the President:
ALVEY A. ADEE,
_Acting Secretary of State_.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

A PROCLAMATION.

The constant goodness and forbearance of Almighty God which have been vouchsafed to the American people during the year which is just past call for their sincere acknowledgment and devout gratitude.

To the end, therefore, that we may with thankful hearts unite in extolling the loving care of our Heavenly Father, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, do hereby appoint and set apart Thursday, the 28th day of the present month of November, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer to be kept and observed by all our people.

On that day let us forego our usual occupations and in our accustomed places of worship join in rendering thanks to the Giver of Every Good and Perfect Gift for the bounteous returns that have rewarded our labors in the fields and in the busy marts of trade, for the peace and order that have prevailed throughout the land, for our protection from pestilence and dire calamity, and for the other blessings that have been showered upon us from an open hand.

And with our thanksgiving let us humbly beseech the Lord to so incline the hearts of our people unto Him that He will not leave us nor forsake us as a nation, but will continue to us His mercy and protecting care, guiding us in the path of national prosperity and happiness, enduing us with rectitude and virtue, and keeping alive within us a patriotic love for the free institutions which have been given to us as our national heritage.

And let us also on the day of our thanksgiving especially remember the poor and needy, and by deeds of charity let us show the sincerity of our gratitude.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

[SEAL.]

Done at the city of Washington, this 4th day of November, A.D. 1895, and in the one hundred and twentieth year of the Independence of the United States.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

By the President:
RICHARD OLNEY,
_Secretary of State_.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas section 17 of the act of August 28, 1894, entitled "An act to reduce taxation, to provide revenue for the Government, and for other purposes," prohibits "the importation of neat cattle and the hides of neat cattle from any foreign country into the United States;" and

Whereas it is provided by the act of Congress approved March 2, 1895, entitled "An act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1896"--

That whenever the Secretary of Agriculture shall certify to the
President of the United States what countries or parts of countries are
free from contagious or infectious diseases of domestic animals, and
that neat cattle and hides can be imported from such countries without
danger to the domestic animals of the United States, the President of
the United States may suspend the prohibition of the importation of
neat cattle and hides in the manner provided by law.

And whereas the Secretary of Agriculture has now certified to me that the countries of Norway, Sweden, Holland, Great Britain, Ireland, the Channel Islands, and the countries of North, Central, and South America, including Mexico, are so far free from contagious or infectious diseases of domestic animals that neat cattle may be imported from those countries into the United States, under the sanitary regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture, without danger to the domestic animals of the United States, and that so far as the countries above named, as well as all other countries from which hides are imported into the United States, are concerned, they are so far free from contagious or infectious diseases of domestic animals that hides of neat cattle can be imported from all parts of the world, under proper regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, without danger to the domestic animals of the United States: Now, therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, do hereby suspend the prohibition of the importation of neat cattle from the countries of Norway, Sweden, Holland, Great Britain, Ireland, the Channel Islands, and the countries of North, Central, and South America, including Mexico, and of the hides of neat cattle from all parts of the world; but all importations of neat cattle shall be made under the sanitary regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture and all importations of hides shall be made under proper regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

[SEAL.]

Done at the city of Washington, this 8th day of November, 1895, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and twentieth.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

By the President:
RICHARD OLNEY,
_Secretary of State_.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas, pursuant to section 5 of the act of Congress approved February 8, 1887 (24 U.S. Statutes at Large, p. 388), entitled "An act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to the Indians on the various reservations and to extend the protection of the laws of the United States and the Territories over the Indians, and for other purposes," certain articles of cession and agreement were made and concluded at the Nez Percé Agency, Idaho, on the 1st day of May, 1893, by and between the United States of America and the Nez Percé Indians, whereby said Indians, for the consideration therein mentioned, ceded and conveyed to the United States all their claim, right, title, and interest to all the unallotted lands set apart as a home for their use and occupation by the second article of the treaty between said Indians and the United States concluded June 9, 1863 (14 U.S. Statutes at Large, p. 647), and included in the following boundaries, to wit:

Commencing at the northeast corner of Lake Wa-ha and running thence
northerly to a point on the north bank of the Clearwater River 3
miles below the mouth of the Lapwai; thence down the north bank of
the Clearwater to the mouth of the Hatwai Creek; thence due north to
a point 7 miles distant; thence eastwardly to a point on the North Fork
of the Clearwater 7 miles distant from its mouth; thence to a point on
Oro Fino Creek 5 miles above its mouth; thence to a point on the North
Fork of the South Fork of the Clearwater 1 mile above the bridge on the
road leading to Elk City (so as to include all the Indian farms now
within the forks); thence in a straight line westwardly to the place
of beginning.

Saving and excepting the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections of each Congressional township, which shall be reserved for common-school purposes and be subject to the laws of Idaho, and excepting the tracts described in articles 1 and 2 of the agreement, viz:

The said Nez Percé Indians hereby cede, sell, relinquish, and convey to
the United States all their claim, right, title, and interest in and to
all the unallotted lands within the limits of said reservation, saving
and excepting the following-described tracts of lands, which are hereby
retained by the said Indians, viz:

In township 34, range 4 west: Northeast quarter, north half and
southeast of northwest quarter, northeast quarter of southwest quarter,
north half and east half of southwest quarter, and the southeast quarter
of southeast quarter, section 13; 440 acres.

In township 34, range 3 west: Sections 10, 15, 36; 1,920 acres.

In township 33, range 3 west: Section 1; northwest quarter of northeast
quarter, north half of northwest quarter, section 12; 760 acres.

In township 35, range 2 west: South half of northeast quarter, northwest
quarter, north half and southeast quarter of southwest quarter,
southeast quarter, section 3; east half, east half of northwest quarter,
southwest quarter, section 10; section 11; north half, north half of
south half, section 21; east half of northeast quarter, section 20;
sections 22, 27, 35; 4,200 acres.

In township 34, range 2 west: North half, southwest quarter, north half
and southwest quarter and west half of southeast quarter of southeast
quarter, section 13; section 14; north half, section 23; west half of
east half and west half of northeast quarter, northwest quarter, north
half of southwest quarter, west half of east half and northwest quarter
and east half of southwest quarter of southeast quarter, section 24;
section 29; 2,700 acres.

In township 33, range 2 west: West half and southeast quarter, section
6; sections 16, 22, 27; north half and north half of south half, section
34; 2,880 acres.

In township 34, range 1 west: West half, section 2; sections 3, 4: north
half and southwest quarter, section 8; north half, section 9; north half
and north half of southwest quarter, section 18; northwest quarter,
section 17; 2,960 acres.

In township 37, range 1 east: Section 20; section 21, less south half of
south half of southwest quarter of southeast quarter (10 acres); 1,270
acres.

In township 36, range 1 east: South half of sections 3, 4; sections 1,
12; 1,920 acres.

In township 36, range 2 east: Sections 16, 17, 18, 20; all of section 25
west of boundary line of reservation; sections 26, 27; 4,240 acres.

In township 35, range 2 east: North half of sections 16, 17; section 27;
north half of section 34; 1,600 acres.

In township 34, range 2 east: East half and east half of west half of
southeast quarter, section 24; 100 acres.

In township 34, range 3 east: South half of sections 19, 20; north half,
north half of south half, southwest quarter and north half of southeast
quarter of southwest quarter, north half of south half of southeast
quarter, section 23; north half, north half and north half of southwest
quarter and southeast quarter of southwest quarter, southeast quarter,
section 24; north half and southeast quarter of northeast quarter, north
half of northwest quarter, section 25; south half of northeast quarter
of northeast quarter, section 26; section 29; northeast quarter of
northeast quarter and south half, section 30; northwest quarter and
north half of southwest quarter, section 31, northeast quarter, north
half and southeast quarter of northwest quarter, section 32; northwest
quarter, north half of southwest quarter, section 33; 3,700 acres.

In township 33, range 4 east: South half of southeast quarter, section
18; northeast quarter and fraction northeast of river in east half of
northwest quarter, section 19; fraction west of boundary line of
reservation in section 22; west half and southeast quarter of section
35; 1,440 acres.

In township 32, range 4 east: Fraction in west half of northeast quarter
of southwest quarter, fraction in northwest quarter of southeast
quarter, section 1; section 2; south half of section 6; west half and
southeast quarter of northeast quarter of section 9; 1,410 acres.

In township 31, range 4 east: South half of northeast quarter, southeast
quarter of northwest quarter, northeast quarter of southwest quarter,
southeast quarter, section 17; northwest quarter, section 21; 480 acres.

Total, 32,020 acres.

ART. II. It is also stipulated and agreed that the place known as "the
boom" on the Clearwater River, near the mouth of Lapwai Creek, shall be
excepted from this cession and reserved for the common use of the tribe,
with full right of access thereto, and that the tract of land adjoining
said boom now occupied by James Moses shall be allotted to him in such
manner as not to interfere with such right; also that there shall be
reserved from said cession the land described as follows: "Commencing at
a point at the margin of Clearwater River, on the south side thereof,
which is 300 yards below where the middle thread of Lapwai Creek empties
into said river; run thence up the margin of said Clearwater River at
low-water mark 900 yards to a point; run thence south 250 yards to a
point; thence southwesterly in a line to the southeast corner of a stone
building partly finished as a church; thence west 300 yards to a point;
thence from said point northerly in a straight line to the point of
beginning; and also the adjoining tract of land lying southerly of said
tract, on the south end thereof, commencing at the said corner of said
church, and at the point 300 yards west thereof and run a line from each
of said points, one of said lines running on the east side and the other
on the west of said Lapwai Creek, along the foothills of each side of
said creek, up the same sufficiently far so that a line being drawn east
and west to intersect the aforesaid lines shall embrace within its
boundaries, together with the first above-described tract of land, a
sufficient quantity of land as to include and comprise 640 acres."

And excepting the land embraced in the William Craig donation claim, in township 35 north, range 3 west. (See case of Caldwell _vs._ Robinson, Federal Reporter, vol. 59, p. 653); and

Whereas it is further stipulated and agreed by article 6 of the agreement that any religious society or other organization now occupying under proper authority, for religious or educational work among the Indians, any of the lands ceded shall have the right for two years from the date of the ratification of this agreement within which to purchase the land so occupied, at the rate of $3 per acre, the same to be conveyed to such society or organization by patent in the usual form; and

Whereas it is further agreed by article 9 of the agreement that the lands by this agreement ceded, those retained, and those allotted to the said Nez Percé Indians shall be subject for a period of twenty-five years to all the laws of the United States prohibiting the introduction of intoxicants into the Indian country, and that the Nez Percé Indian allottees, whether under the care of an Indian agent or not, shall for a like period be subject to all the laws of the United States prohibiting the sale or other disposition of intoxicants to Indians; and

Whereas it is provided in the act of Congress accepting, ratifying, and confirming said agreement, approved August 15, 1894 (28 U.S. Statutes at Large, pp. 286-338), section 16--

That immediately after the issuance and receipt by the Indians of trust
patents for the allotted lands, as provided for in said agreement, the
lands so ceded, sold, relinquished, and conveyed to the United States
shall be opened to settlement by proclamation of the President and shall
be subject to disposal only under the homestead, town-site, stone and
timber, and mining laws of the United States, excepting the sixteenth
and thirty-sixth sections in each Congressional township, which shall be
reserved for common-school purposes and be subject to the laws of Idaho:
_Provided_, That each settler on said lands shall before making
final proof and receiving a certificate of entry pay to the United
States for the lands so taken by him, in addition to the fees provided
bylaw, the sum of $3.75 per acre for agricultural lands, one-half of
which shall be paid within three years from the date of original entry,
and the sum of $5 per acre for stone, timber, and mineral lands, subject
to the regulations prescribed by existing laws; but the rights of
honorably discharged Union soldiers and sailors as defined and described
in sections 2304 and 2305 of the Revised Statutes of the United States
shall not be abridged except as to the sum to be paid as aforesaid.

And whereas all the terms, conditions, and considerations required by said agreement made with said tribe of Indians hereinbefore mentioned and the laws relating thereto precedent to opening said lands to settlement have been, as I hereby declare, provided for, paid, and complied with:

Now, therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by the statutes hereinbefore mentioned and by said agreement, do hereby declare and make known that all of the unallotted and unreserved lands acquired from the Nez Percé Indians by said agreement will, at and after the hour of 12 o'clock noon (Pacific standard time) on the 18th day of November, 1895, and not before, be opened to settlement under the terms of and subject to all the conditions, limitations, reservations, and restrictions contained in said agreement, the statutes above specified, and the laws of the United States applicable thereto.

The lands to be so opened to settlement are for greater convenience particularly described in the accompanying schedule, entitled "Schedule of lands within the Nez Percé Indian Reservation, Idaho, to be opened to settlement by proclamation of the President," and which schedule is made a part hereof.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

[SEAL.]

Done at the city of Washington, this 8th day of November, A.D. 1895, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twentieth.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

By the President:
RICHARD OLNEY,
_Secretary of State_.

EXECUTIVE ORDERS.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

Special Departmental Rule No. 1 is hereby amended by striking out the whole of the paragraph in section 3, Department of the Interior, relating to the Geological Survey and substituting in lieu thereof the following:

In the Geological Survey: Geologist, assistant geologist,
paleontologist, assistant paleontologist, chief photographer,
photographer, chief chemist, chemist, assistant chemist, chief
engraver, engraver, assistant engraver, lithographic engraver, map
printer, lithographic printer, assistant lithographic printer, map
reviser, statistical experts temporarily employed.

Approved, December 4, 1894.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENT OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

Departmental Rule VII is hereby amended by adding thereto the following section, to be numbered 9:

The Commission shall certify for transfer and reappointment to any
classified non-excepted place in the departmental service, upon the
requisition of the head of a Department, any person who at the time of
making such requisition is holding an office outside the classified
service in any Executive Department at Washington to which he was
appointed from a classified place in the departmental service; and upon
the requisition of any head of Department the Commission shall certify
for reinstatement in the classified service of said Department any such
officer who within one year next preceding the date of the requisition,
by the abolition of his office or otherwise, has without delinquency or
misconduct been separated from said office: _Provided_, That this
section shall not authorize the reappointment to the classified
service of any such officer or ex-officer who was appointed to his
office from an excepted place, unless his appointment to such excepted
place was by promotion from a nonexcepted place.

Approved, December 15, 1894.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENTS OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 3, 1895_.

Postal Rule II, clause 5, is amended by striking out paragraph (_e_) and relettering paragraph (_f_) as (_e_), so that as amended the clause will read:

5. Exceptions from examination in the classified postal service are
hereby made as follows:

(_a_) Assistant postmaster, or the chief assistant to the
postmaster, by whatever designation known.

(_b_) One secretary to the postmaster, when authorized by law and
allowed by the Post-Office Department.

(_c_) Cashier, when authorized by law and employed under that
roster title.

(_d_) Assistant cashier, when authorized by law and employed under
that roster title.

(_e_) Printers and pressmen, when authorized by law and allowed by
the Post-Office Department and employed as such.

Approved:

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENTS OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _February 12, 1895_.

Departmental Rule VII, clause 8, is hereby amended to read as follows:

In case of the occurrence of a vacancy in any Department which the
public interest requires shall be immediately filled, and which can not
be so filled by certification from the eligible registers of the
Commission, such vacancy may be filled by temporary appointment outside
the civil service until a regular appointment can be made under the
provisions of sections 1, 2, and 3 of this rule: _Provided_, That
such temporary appointment shall in no case continue longer than ninety
days, and shall expire by limitation at the end of that time: _And
provided further_, That no person shall serve longer than the period
herein prescribed in any one year under such temporary appointment.

The year limitation in regard to reappointment shall begin to run on the
date of the original appointment.

Every such temporary appointment and the discontinuance of the same
shall at once be reported to the Commission.

Postal Rule IV, clause 4, is hereby amended to read as follows:

4. In case of the occurrence of a vacancy in a position within the
classified service of any post-office which the public interest requires
shall be immediately filled, where there is no eligible remaining on the
proper register, such vacancy may be filled by temporary appointment
outside the civil service until a regular appointment can be made under
the provisions of sections 1 and 2 of this rule: _Provided_, That
such temporary appointment shall in no case continue longer than ninety
days, and shall expire by limitation at the end of that time: _And
provided further_, That no person shall serve more than ninety days
in any one year under such temporary appointment.

The year limitation in regard to reappointment shall begin to run on the
date of the original appointment.

Every such temporary appointment and also the discontinuance of the same
shall at once be reported to the Commission.

Approved:

GROVER CLEVELAND.

AMENDMENTS OF CIVIL-SERVICE RULES.

GENERAL RULES.

General Rule II: Strike out the word "five" in line 1 and insert in lieu thereof the word "six," and add at the end of the rule a new clause, as follows:

6. The classified internal-revenue service.

General Rule III, section 5: Insert after the word "may" in line 1 the words "in its discretion," and after the word "appointment" in line 2 the following: "or an applicant who has been guilty of a crime or of infamous or notoriously disgraceful conduct." As amended the section will read:

5. The Commission may, in its discretion, refuse to examine an applicant
who would be physically unable to perform the duties of the place to
which he desires appointment or an applicant who has been guilty of a
crime or of infamous or notoriously disgraceful conduct. The reason for
any such action shall be entered on the minutes of the Commission.