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Rh tract of land in the reservation remaining to be sold, and of the improvements thereon.

6th. A map of the entire reservation of four sections, as provided by law, accompanied by maps of the several quarter sections in the reservation showing, the alignment of the streets by distances, angles, and curves, the dimensions and areas of lots, the position of monuments, and other details.

7th. Maps in sections, showing the several claims, as nearly as possible, as originally made by the claimants.

The number of certificates issued by the commission for the preference right to purchase was 647, covering an aggregate area of 699.81 acres.

The number of certificates issued for condemned buildings was 172, with a total valuation of $74,696.

In accordance with the provisions of the act of March 3, 1877, the officers of the Little Rock land office were instructed to allow the lands to be entered by those in whose favor they were adjucated.

The thirty days allowed the Secretary of the Interior to instruct the land officers were extended by Congress sixty days from January 14, 1880.

March 16,1880, the local officers at Little Rock were notified to carry into effect the instructions previously given.

By an act of Congress, approved June 16, 1880, the valuation of the awarded lands as fixed by the commission was reduced to forty per cent, of the original appraisement.

The certificates issued for condemned buildings, with one exception, were made receivable for entries and purchase money for lands in Hot Springs Reservation.

Those divisions of the reservation known as North Mountain, West Mountain, and Sugar Loaf Mountain, were reserved from sale and dedicated to public use as parks attached to the permanent reservation.

The title to the cemetery lot within the limits of the town was transferred to the corporation of Hot Springs on condition that the bodies now buried within the inclosure should be decently interred in a suitable burying-ground elsewhere, and that the said lot should be used forever as a town or city park.

The Secretary of the Interior was authorized to designate six lots for schools, and one lot for the Baptist Church of Hot Springs, the edifice of the latter having been destroyed by fire.

The streets, courts, and alleys were ceded to the town of Hot Springs.

The lots not awarded to claimants, or otherwise disposed of by law, were to be sold at public auction, at the discretion and under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, after the usual notice, at a price not less than the appraised valuation, and all moneys received were to be held as a special fund for the improvement and care of the