- Section Two picks right back up with the provideds. This portion is all about who gets to dole out the allotments.
- A head of a family can pick the land for their minor children, or a grownup Native American can pick their own land, and "agents" can pick the land for orphans, but it all has to be done "in such manner as to embrace the improvements of the Native Americans making the selection." (2.1)
- If two people are allotted the same land, a provisional line will be drawn dividing the allotment in half, and then their shares will be equalized, as will the remainder of the land to which they are entitled.
- But (and this is a big but): If anyone doesn't make a selection of land under these allotment rules within four years, the President, or the Secretary of the Interior, or an agent of the tribe, or a special agent appointed for such purposes, gets to divvy up the reservation lands for them.