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 20 FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 43. 1884. exceeding nine acres, to be selected by the city on such part of said _ _ _ reservation as is hereby granted as it may desire, be, and the same is P*{(”'*°*>¤¤°*¤g¤· hereby, granted to said city, to be used by it for the_erection of public Pubuildings and county court-house for the Fort Smith d1str1ct of Sebastian County, Arkansas, thereon, and for a public park. That all the remainder of said military reservation, except the streets, alleys, and avenues hereinafter mentioned, and except the national cemetery and one hundred feet around the walls of the same, and except, further, all the ground included within the exterior line of the walls of the fort, together with all of said walls and thirty feet around said walls, and except, further, so much ground as may be selected by the Secretary of the Treasury for public buildings, be, and the same is hereby, granted to _ said city of Fort Smith, to be held in trust by said city for the use and “f’fs° P“bh° benefit of the free public schools of the single school-district of Fort °°Smith and to be applied to the benefit of all children of school age without distinction of race. Lands, how di- Sec. 2. That the said city shall, as soon as may be after the passage of vided. this act cause the said reservation hereby granted to be divided into lots and blocks corresponding as near as possible with the plat of said city; that all streets, alleys, and avenues laid out on such part of said reservation as is hereby granted be, and the same are hereby, granted to said city, to be held by it as streets, alleys, and avenues for the use Pwesee. of the public: Provided, That the said city shall lay of. and for all time keep in repair, a street or avenue sixty feet in width leading to the front gate of the national eemetery,and a street or avenue from Garrison avenue, of such width as the Secretary of the Treasury may direct, to the entrance of said fort fronting on said Garrison avenue; and if the said city shall fail to so lay off and keep in repair the said streets or avenues, the nine acres of ground hereby granted to her shall revert to $¤}¢ of !¤¤d ¤¤- the United States. That the said city shall, within ten years from the °h°'“°d· date of the passage of this act, cause all that part of said reservation granted by this act to it in trust for the use of the free public schools of the single school-district of Fort Smith to be sold in single lots, at public sale, for cash, to the highest bidder, the city, when such sale is made and the purchase-price paid, to make a deed to the purchaser for the same; and as soon, and from time to time, as the purchase-price is paid, the same shall be paid to the treasurer of the school board of the Emo tion of single school·district of Fort Smith, to be used by said board in the .,,],,,1 hound, my erection of school-houses and for the pay of teachers and the mainte- 4,; ranchers, sm, nance of the tree public schools in said district. Owners of lots Sec. 3. That all persons having iractional lots hunting on Garrison {;°°m;*·'£h£';°°‘:·§h* avenue, in said city of Fort Smith, and extending back to the north- P ’eastern boundary-line of said military reservation, shall have the right to purchase, at private sale, of said city, within two years from the date of the passage of this act, so much of said reservation as shall be necessary to extend their respective fractional lots back to a distance of one hundred and forty feet, so that said lots will be one hundred and forty feet in depth, at the rate per square foot that the lot on the reservation nearest to each respective lot may sell for- and the said city, on the pay- ment of the purchase-money, shall make the purchasers a deed therefor. t Secretary of In- Sec. 4. That the Secretary of the Interior shall, as soon as possible €;‘;‘:,’E;‘;_’“’“° P“" after the passage of this act, issue to the city of Fort Smith a patent _ for all said reservation hereby granted to it for its own use and benefit, and also a separate patent for all of said reservation hereby granted to it in trust for the use and benefit of the free public schools of the single school-district of Fort Smith; and said last-named patent shall recite that the lands so granted are held in trust by said city for the use and benefit of said school-district. Approved, May 13, 1884.