The Parker post. (Parker, Ariz.) 1910-1918, 1913-01-18
Parker Bill Introduced
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| lana shall be $40 per acre, TO De
paid in accordance with the rules
| an regulations to be prescribed by
II. Secretary of the Interior upon
the following terms: One-fifth OF
the purchase price to be paid i'm cash
| in eight equal installments, the first
on the thirtieth day of June OF the
wear otter the year that water for
| irrigation is available for delivery to
the land and the remainder annually
in one, two, three, four, five, six
and seven years, respectively, from
and after date of the first installment
LII case any entryman fails to make
the annual payments, or amy of them,
when due, all rights in and to the
land covered by his entry shall cease
and 9ny payments therefore made
shall he forfeited and the entry can
ceIed. and the lands shall be reoffer-
ed for sale and entry under the provi-
sionS of this Act, at the price prOvid-
ed herein. In addition to the price
to be paid for the land the entryman
shall Lay the same fees and com
missions as are now provided by law;
and when the entryman shall have
complied with all the requirements
and terms of this Act and the pro-
visions of the law accepting the pro-
visions of the Carey Land Acts here
tofore adopted by the State of Ari-
required payments aforesaid, he shall
| be entitled to patent for the lands eE'
tered: Provided, that any lands re-
manning unsold for seven years after
the approval of this Act may be sold
| in tracts of not more than one hun
| dred and sixty acres to any one per
son, to the highest bidder for cash,
without regard to the prescribed
price thereof fixed under the pro
visions of this Act, under such rules
and regulations as the secretary OF
the Interior may prescribe, and pat
ents therefor shall be issued to the
purchasers.
Sec Z. That from the proceeds
arising form the sale and DISPOSE
ton of the lands aforesaid, exclusive
of the customary fees and commits
sions, there shall be deposited In the
Treasury of the United States, to
the credit OF the Indians belonging
and having tribal rights ON the said
reservation, the sums of which the
said tribe may be entitled which
shall draw interest at four per cent
UNI per annum; that the moneys de-
rived from the sale of said lands
and deposited in the treasury of the
United States to the credit of said
indians shall be at all times subject
to appropriation by congress for
their education, support, and civili-
Zation: Provided, that the cost and
price of water rights for all the al
lOtted Indian lands on the Colorado
River INDIAN Reservation shall be
| paid out of the fund to the credit of
said Indians, as herein provided.
Sec g. That sections two, six
teen, thity-two, and thirty-six OF
the land i'm each township with
in the Colorado River Indian Reser-
walton, i'm Arizona, shall not be sub
ject to entry, but shall be reserved
for the use of the common schools of
the state of Arizona and. paid for by
the United States at the rate of $40
per acre, and said sections two, six
teen, thirty-two and thirty-six are
| hereby granted to the State of Ari-
| IONA for such purposes; and in case
such sections or parts thereof are
lost to said State by reason of allot-
ment thereof to any Indian or In
dians or otherwise, the governor OF
said State, with the approval of the
Secretary of the Interior, is hereby
authorized to locate other lands with
in such reservations not otherwise
appropriated, which shall be paid for
by the United States as herein pro-
vided in quantity equal to the loss;
and such selection shall be made
prior to the opening of such lands
to settlement
Sec 8. That the lands allotted
those retained or reserved, and the
surplus lands Sold set aside for town
site purposes, or granted to the State
or otherwise disposed of shall be sub
iect for period of twenty-five year,
to all the laws of the United States
prohibiting the introduction of intoxi-
cants into the Indian country.
'tSec. 10. That the Act of Con-
gress approved March third, nine
teen hundred and eleven, entitled
An Act to authorize the Greeley Arr
coma Irrigation COmnanv to h,lild .,