Townships thirty (30) and thirty-one (31) North, to the point for the south-east corner of Township thirty-one (31) North, Range fourteen (14) West; thence northerly along the unsurveyed range line between Ranges thirteen (13) and fourteen (14) West, to the point where it will intersect the west boundary of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, as said boundary is defined and described in the Act of Congress approved Laws, 1st sess., 54th June tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, entitled, "An Act Making Cong., p. 354. appropriations for current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department and fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninetyseven, and for other purposes"; thence northwesterly along the boundary of said Indian Reservation to its point of intersection with the international boundary line between the State of Montana and the British possessions; thence westerly along said international boundary line to the point for the unsurveyed range line between Ranges twentyfive (25) and twenty-six (26) West; thence southerly along the unsurveyed range line between Ranges twenty-five (25) and twenty-six (26) West, to the Ninth (9th) Standard Parallel North; thence easterly along said parallel to the north-east corner of Township thirty-six (36) North, Range twenty-six (26) West; thence southerly along the range line between Ranges twenty-five (25) and twenty-six (26) West, to the south-west corner of Township thirty-three (33) North, Range twentyfive (25) West, the place of beginning.

Prior valid entries excepted.

Reserved from settlement.

Rights of Indians

tion protected.

Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of record has not expired; and all mining claims duly located and held according to the laws of the United States and rules and regulations not in conflict therewith;

Provided, that this exception shall not continue to apply to any partic ular tract of land unless the entryman, settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the entry, filing, settlement or location was made.

Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to enter or make settlement upon the tract of land reserved by this proclamation.

The rights and privileges reserved to the Indians of the Blackfeet on Blackfeet Reserva- Indian Reservation by Article I of the agreement set forth in, and accepted, ratified, and confirmed by, the Act of Congress approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, hereinbefore referred to, respecting that portion of their Reservation relinquished to the United States by said Article I, shall be in no way infringed or modified by reason of the fact that a part of the area so relinquished is embraced within the limits of the boundaries herein described and set apart as a forest res. ervation; nor shall the right of occupation, location, and purchase of said relinquished lands under the provisions of the mineral-land laws, accorded by said Act of Congress, be abridged.

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

Done at the City of Washington this 22d day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand, eight hundred and ninety[SEAL.] seven, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-first.

By the President:

RICHARD OLNEY

GROVER CLEVELAND

Secretary of State.

[No. 19.].

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas public interests require that the Senate should be convened at twelve o'clock on the fourth day of March next, to receive such communications as may be made by the Executive.

Now, therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim and declare that an extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of the United States to convene at the capitol in the City of Washington, on the fourth day of March next, at twelve o'clock noon, of which all persons who shall at that time be entitled to act as members of that body are hereby required to take notice. Given under my hand and the Seal of the United States, at Washington the twenty-fourth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven and of the Independence of the United States, the one hundred and twenty-first. GROVER CLEVELAND

[SEAL.]

By the President:

February 24, 1897.

Senate to convene March 4, 1897.

RICHARD OLNEY

Secretary of State.