The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-04-25


which it is stipulated that q royalty
is to be paid to said nations, and
which leases have been approved by
the national agents are hereby con-
firmed Except as to payments Of
royalties to individual members
thereo) for thirty years, and during
the life and continuance Of the mine.
and the royalty on coal shall be is
cents per ton on all coal and 90 cents
a ton on crude asphalt as 1t comes
from the mines mined, payable on or
before the twenty fifth day of the
month next succeeding that in which
the coal and asphalt are mined, as
now provided in the national con-
tracts.
Provided, that all existing or future
leases of coal and asphalt mines or
claims shall include $40 acres only,
and that leases shall pay for each
claim of coal or asphalt mine at the
rate OF one hundred dollars (s100l
per annum in advance for the first
and second years, $500 per annum in
advance for the third and fourth
years, and $500 for each succeeding
year thereafter. All such payments
shall be treated as advanced by roy
atty on the mine or claim on which
they are made, and shall be a credit
as royalty, when each said mine is
developed and operated, and its pro-
duction is in excess of such guaran-
teed annual advanced payment;
and all persons having coal or as
phalt leases must pay said annual
advanced payments on each claim OF
coal or asphalt discovery whether
developed or undeveloped.
Provided, however, that should
any lessee neglect or refuse to pay
such advanced annual royalty for the
period Of sixty days after the same
became due and payable on any
lease, the lease on which default is
made shall become null and void,
and the royalties paid in advance
thereon shall then become and be
the money and property Of the Choc-
taw and Chickasaw nations.
Provided, that in surface the use,
of which is reserved to present coal
and asphalt operators, shall be in
cluded such lots In towns as are oc-
cupied by lessees, either occupied
by said lessees' employees or as on
ces or warehouses.
Provided. however, that in town
sites designated and laid out under
the provisions of this agreement,
where coal and asphalt leases are
now being operated. and coal and
asphalt are being mixed. there shall
Oe reserved from appraisement and
sale all lots occnpied by houses oi
miners, actually engaged in mining
and only while theY are so engaged,
and in addition thereto n sufficient
amount of land, TO be determined by
the townsite board OF appraisers, tc
furnish homes for the men actually
engaged in working for the lessees
operating said mines, and a sufh.
cient amount for all buildings anG
machinery for mining purposes.
Provided, however, that when thC
lessees shall cease TO operate sale
mines, then, and in that event, tn,
lots OF land so reserved shall be dis
posed of by the local trustees for tn,
benefit of the Choctaw and Chicka
saw tribes.
That whenever the members of tn,
Choctaw or Chickasaw tribes shal
be required to pay taxes for the sup
port of schools, then the funds aris
ing from such royalties shall be dis
posed of for the equal benefit OF thei
members freedmen excepted) II
such manner as the tribes may di
rect.
There shall be a commission 70
each of the two nations, to consist o
one member of each of the commits
sion to the FIVE civilized tribes ant
the two trustees appointed by thl
president to control the coal and as
phalt operations of the two nations
the Choctaw trustee to act in con
| junction with one member of sal,
five civilized tribes commission, {,
be designated by the chairman, il
the matter of laying out townsite
and appraising and selling town lot
in the Choctaw nation, and tn,
Chickasaw trustee to act with thl
other member of said five civilized
tribes commission in the same wa,
for the Chickasaw nation. Each o
said commissions shall lay out town
sites, to be restricted as far as posi-
BILE TO their present limits, wher,
towns are now located in the natiol
| for which said commission is ap