The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-12-22

and one in the department OF the
interior, to be approved by the sec
retary OF the interior before the
same shall take effect. When said
towns are so laid out, each lot, on
which permanent and substantial
improvements, other than fences,
tillage, and temporary houses, have
been made, shall be valued, such
value not to include the improve
ments; and the owner OF the i'm
provements on each lot shall have
the right to buy the same, at the
appraised value. within thirty days
from date of notice served on him
that such lot il for sale. And II be
desires TO purchase the same, he
shall, in advance. pay into the treas
ury of the United States, one-half Of
the appraised value, and the balance
in two equal installments, and when
the entire sum is paid, shall be en-
titled to a patent for said lot, TO be
issued by the government Of the
United States. IL such owner OF the |
improvements on any lot fails, with
in thirty days, to purchase and make |
the first payment on same, such lot,
with the improvements thereon,
shall be sold at public auction to the
highest bidder under the direction Of
the aforesaid commission; and the
purchaser at such sale shall pay to
the owner of the improvements the
price for which said lots shall be sold,
less appraised value of the ground,
and shall pay such appraised value
into the United States treasury under
regulations to be established by the
secretary OF the interior, in three
installments, as hereinbefore pro-
vided.
All lots on which there are no i'm
provements, shall be sold from time
to time at public auction, after
proper advertisement, under the
direction of said commission, and
the representatives OF the two ma
tions, as may seem for the best inter
ests Of the nations and the proper
development OF each town; the pur-
chase price to be paid in three in
stallments as hereinbefore provided.
The commission shall have the right
to reject any bid for town lot which
they consider below its value. All
the payments herein provided for
shall be made uuder the direction Of
the secretary Of the interior into the
United States treasury. A failure Of
thirty days to make any one pay
ment to be n forfeiture Of all pay
ments made and all rights under the
contract. Provided, that the pur-
, chaser of any lot shall have the
option of the entire price Of the lot
in the first payment.
The money paid into the United
States treasury for the sale Of all
town lots shall be for the benefit Of
the Choctaw and Chickasaw citizens
freedmen excepted); and at the end
of one year from the ratification Of
this agreement, and at the end Of
each year thereafter, the funds so
accumulated shall be divided and
paid out to the Chootaw and Chicka-
saw citizens freedmen excepted), +,
each citizen of the two tribes to re-
ceive an equal portion thereof.
: That the inhabitants of any town
so laid of in the Choctaw or Chicka-
saw nation, having two hundred or
more residents therein, may pro-
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, court in the district in which said
said town is located, and on the filing
of such petition, signed by at least
one-fourth OF the male citizens Of
said town, over twenty-one years Of
of age, it shall be.the duty Of said
court to incorporate said town, as
provided in Chapter % Of Mansfield's
Digest of the laws of Arkansas, IL
not already incorporated Hereunder
And such town governments, when
so incorporated and organized, shall
possess all the powers. and no other,
and exercise all the rights Of similar
town governments in said state Of
Arkansas; but no tax shall be assess
ed against any unsold lots, and no
tax levied against lots sold, as here
in provided, shall constitute n lien
on such lots, till same are fully paid
for by the purchasers. All male
inhabitants of any town so incorpor-
ated, over the age of twenty-one
years, who are citizens Of the United
States, or of either of the five tribes,
who have resided therein more than
six months next before any election,
shall be qualified voters at any town
election in such town.