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 FOBTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. H. Ch. 246. 1880. 289 een hundred and seventy-eight, relative to the Hot Springs of Arkansas, 1877, cb. 108, have adjudicated, shall have the sole right to enter and pay for the S”·*’·» 1*% 377- amount of land the commissioners may have adjudged him entitled to $12*% @58 purchase, within eighteen months next after the expiration of the notice Solorigllt of.enrequired by the tenth section of the act of Congress of March third try and payment eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, to be given by paying to the P"°S°""°d by P¤·b’· receiver of public moneys at the land-ofnce in Little Rock, Arkansas, :,1;§,,§gggy$,$f °;°?t‘. forty per centum of the assessed value of said land as placed thereon by o 1 ghtcen ultntlls said commissioners; and that such assessments be reduced to that aftcr notice. extent: and that in any cases where any church or church association 1s·1·7,e1i. 108 has been adjudged entitled to purchase land it may do so by paying live Stat-, 19, 376. dollars per lot. Sec. 2. That the certificates (except certificate Number one hundred oortineams (exand sixty-two, issued to Samuel H. Sfift, DeWitt C Rugg, and Samuel c¤1»t issues to Sum- W. Fordyce for twenty-two thousand dollars, which exceptions shall not  H· Sim D° prejudice the rights of the United States or the holders of said certiii- S,,;::,?,    cate.) issued for condemned buildings by said commissioners be made u;,»ee)ina41,§i-miav. receivable for the amounts named therein as so many dollars lawful abl<>ii>rcnt¤·i·—sand money of the United States in the entry and purchase of the lands that {3*} r,°1"“"%·"""*°>’ may be sold in the Hot Springs Reservation; and that such certincates §;r,,:°’,;1s be assignable, and when assigned in the presence of two subscribing tion. l l witnesses or the execution of the assignment thereof shall have been Maybe assignedacknowledged before a court of record or clerk thereof, the land officers in like manner shall receive them from the assignee in payment of lands purchased by himself or others; and in case the amount of the certificate presented and received at such land-office shall exceed that necessary to make the purchase and entry desired, there shall be executed by the register and receiver, and delivered to the person from whom the same- is received, a certificate giving the number of the original, the date and amount thereof, the balance due such person thereon, and the certificate thus issued shall be assignable and receivable in like manner as the original, and in all eases where such certificates are issued the register of the land office shall certify on the original certificate taken up, the number of the lots purchased therewith, and the price thereof. Sec. 3. That those divisions of the Hot Springs Reservation, known Mountaniousas the mountainous districts, not divided by streets on the maps made 1{¤ by the commissioners, but known and defined on the map and in the  {‘,§‘,l,,,‘}‘§§;Q report of the commissioners as North Mountain, West Mountain, and ;,,,.,,v,,,,_I “ Sugar Loaf Mountain, be, and the same are hereby forever reserved from sale and dedicated to public use as parks, to be known, with Hot Springs Mountain, as the permanent reservation. Sno 4.. That whenever the town of Hot Springs shall procure else- 0¤¤¤¤wry· where a suitable burying-ground and shall cause the bodies now buried in the cemetery lot, within the limits of said town, to be decently removed and reinterred, the title to said cemetery lot shall vest in the corporation of said town, to be held and used forever as a town or city park. and not otherwise. Sec. 5. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to des- Swretary of Inignate six lots from the unawarded grounds on the Hot Springs Reser- :g“°({0S,“';`*g}°f)"fS‘;;1 vation for the use of the common schools of the corporation of the town lm fo, ,§hm,,,,_ of Hot Springs, as sites for school houses, and the lots when so designated are hereby dedicated to the use of common schools and shall be used, controlled, and managed by the common school officials of the district in which they may be located for such purposes only. The Secrotary of the Interior is also authorized to convey to the Baptist Church Baptist Church. of Hot Springs, whose ch1u·ch edifice was destroyed by nre, a suitable lot of ground not exceeding one-eighth of an acre from that portion of the Hot Springs Reservation laid off into lots and blocks, and forming part of the town site but not awarded to any claimants and not otherwise disposed of by this act said conveyance to be on consideration of the payment of a sum equal to fen dollarsper acre for said lot. xx1—-19