Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1899-02-02
TOWN LOT PROVISION.

that of the Cherokee treaty and
is as follows:
81. There shall be appointed
for each town commission oi
three persons, one appointed by
the executive of the Muskogee ma.
ton, who shall not be interested
in town property other than his
home; one designated by the
President of the United States,
and one appointed by the Mayor
and council of said town. Said
commission shall lay out town
sites to be restricted as far as pos.
sible to their present limits. Nc
town laid out and plated by said
commission shall cover more than
four square miles of territory.
80. When said towns are laid
out, each lot on which substantial
and valuable improvements have
been made shall be valued by the
commission at the price a fee
simple title to the same would
bring in the market at the time
the valuation is made, but not tC
include in such valuation the i'm.
provements thereon.
"3. In appraising the value oI
town lots the number of the in.
habitants and advantages of the
town shall be considered.
"4. The owner of the improve
ments on any lot shall have the
right to buy the lot at so per cent
of the value within sixty days
from the date of notice served on
him that the same is for sale, and
he shall within ten days from his
purchase pay into the treasury OF
the United States one-fourth OF
the purchase price, and the
balance shall be paid IN three an
nual payments; and when the
entire sum shall be paid he shall
be entitled to a patent.
50. If the owner of the i'm
provements of any lot fail within
sixty days to purchase and make
the first payment on same, such
lot with improvements thereon,
shall be sold at public auction to
the highest bidder, at a price not
less than the value of the lot and
the Improvements, and the pur-
chaser shall pay to the owner the
price for which said lot and i'm
provements thereon shall be sold,
less 30 per centum OF the said ap-
praised value of the lot, and shall
pay 80 per cent of said appraised
value of the lot into the United
States treasury
"6. All lots not having i'm
prOvements thereon, and not so
appraised, shall be sold by the
commission, from time to time,
at public auction, after proper
advertisement.
81. All persons who have pur-
chased the right of occupancy in
towns shall have the first right to
purchase.
"S. Said commission shall have
the right to reject any bid below
the fair value of the lots.
20. Failure to make any one of
the payments, as heretofore pro-
vided for period of sixty days,
shall work a forfeiture of all pay
ments.
"lO. No tax shall be assessed
by any town government against
any lot unsold by the commission,
and no tax levied against lot sold
as herein provided, shall consti-
tute a lien on the same until the
purchase price of the same has
been fully paid.
I'll. No law or ordinance shall
be passed by any town in conflict
with the constitution or laws of
the United States, or this agree
ment.
"12. Said commission shall be
authorized to locate a cemetery
within a suitable distance from
each town site, not to exceed
twenty acres, and when any town
shall have paid into the United
States treasury SO per acre there
for it shall be entitled to patent.
"13. No charges or claims shall
be made against the Creek nation
by the United States for the ex-
penses Of surveying, plating grad
ing, appraising and allotting the
land.
"14. There shall be set apart
and exempted from appraisement