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for a permanent home, issue a patent to such a person or family for such assigned land, conditioned that the tract shall not be aliened or leased for a longer term than two years; and shall be exempt from levy, sale, or forfeiture, which conditions shall continue in force, until a State constitution, embracing such lands within its boundaries, shall have been formed, and the legislature of the state shall remove the restrictions.  And if any such person or family shall at any time neglect or refuse to occupy and till a portion of the lands assigned and on which they have located, or shall rove from place to place, the President may, if the patent shall have been issued, cancel the assignment, and may also withhold from such person or family, their proportion of the annuities or other moneys due them, until they shall have returned to such permanent home, and resumed the pursuits of industry; and in default of their return the tract my be declared abandoned, and thereafter assigned to some other person or family of such tribe, or disposed of as provided for the disposition of the excess of siad land.  And the residue of the land hereby reserved, or of that which my be selected in lieu thereof, after all the Indian persons or families shall have had assigned to them permanent homes, my be sold for their benefit, under such laws, rules or regulations, as may hereafter be prescribed by the Congress or President of the United States.  No State Legislature shall remove the restrictions herein