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FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 517. 1898. 509 under regulations to be established by the Secretary of the Interior, in four installments, as hercinbefore provided. The commission shall have the right to reject any bid on such lot which they consider below its value. All lots not so appraised shall be sold from time to time at public ,0g¤l°•>f¤¤¤P1¤¤i¤¤¤t¤- tion of the Secretary of the Interior into the United States Treasury, a failure of sixty days to make any one payment to be a forfeiture of all payments made and all rights under the contract: Provided, That the f;f<>vi¤·:i purchaser of any lot shall have the option of paying the entire price of°'° “°' the lot before the same is due. No tax shall be assessed by any town government against any town Taxeslot unsold by the commission, and no tax levied against a lot sold, as herein provided, shall constitute a lien on same till the purchase price thereof has been fully paid to the nation. The money paid into the United States Treasury for the sale of all cefggygw ogftgjnel town lots shall be for the benefit of the members of the Choctaw and im. — Chickasaw tribes (ireedmen 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 to the Choctaws and Chickasaws (ireedmen excepted), each member of the two tribes to receive an equal portion thereof. That no law or ordinance shall be passed by any town which inter- ¤¤¤¤i¤¤¤s1¤w¤.¤¤¤» feres with the enforcement of or is in conflict with the laws of the United States in force in said Territory, and all persons in such towns shall be subject to said laws, and the United States agrees to main- Inwxicauu. tain strict laws in the territory of the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes against the introduction, sale, barter, or giving away of liquors and intoxicants of any kind or quality. That said commission shall be authorized to locate, within a suitable ,¤<;¤¤¤¢¤¤·¤¤· ¤<>¤¤¢~i<>¤ distance from each town site, not to exceed live acres to be used as a ° ‘° °` cemetery, and when any town has paid into the United States Treasury, to be part of the fund arising from the sale of town lots, ten dollars per acre therefor, such town shall be entitled to a patent for the same as · herein provided for titles to allottees, and shall dispose of same at reasonable prices in suitable lots for burial purposes, the proceeds derived from such sales to be applied by the town government to the proper improvement and care of said cemetery. That no charge or claim shall be made against the Choctaw or Chick- , E¤g¤¤¤¤¤¤f wwwasaw tribes by the United States for the expenses of surveying and "'“’°°' plattin g the lands and town sites, or for grading, appraisin g, and allotting the lands, or for appraising and disposing of the town lots as herein provided. That the land adjacent to Fort Smith and lands for court-houses, Di¤i><>¤iti<>¤ of lands jails, and other public purposes, excepted from allotment shall be dis- $,§,°,${‘°° °`°"‘ ““°*' posed of in the same manner and for the same purposes as provided for town lots herein, but not till the Choctaw and Chickasaw councils shall direct such disposition to be made thereof, and said land adjacent thereto shall be placed under the jurisdiction of the city of Fort Smith, Arkansas, for police purposes. There shall be set apart and exempted from appraisement and sale in 1E_§·>¤¤1r¢i¢>¤<»f¤¤·¤¢l¤ the towns, lots upon which churches and parsonages are now built and "` °‘ occupied, not to exceed fifty feet front and one hundred feet deep for each church or parsonage: Provided, That such lots shall only be used {’r·g¤¤•g•· for churches and parsonages, and when they ceased to be used shall 'l"“"°°'°"°‘ ‘ revert to the members of the tribes to be disposed of as other town lots: Provided further, That these lots may be sold by the churches for —··¤¤ by ¤¤·¤¤¤·· which they are set apart if the purchase money therefor is invested in