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 500 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. H. C1-I. 517. 1898. governments, and shall have equal right, privileges, and protection Tuation. therein. Such city or town government shall in no case have any authority to impose upon or levy any tax against any lands in said cities or towns until after title is secured from the tribe; but all other property, including all improvements on town lots, which for the purposes of this Act shall be deemed and considered personal property, together with all occupations and privileges, shall be subject to taxation. And the councils of such cities and towns, for the support of the same and for school and other public purposes, may provide by ordinance for the assessment, levy, and collection annually of a tax upon such property, not to exceed in the aggregate two per centum of the assessed value thereof, in manner provided in chapter one hundred and twenty-nine of said digest, entitled “Revenue,” and for such purposes may also impose a tax upon occupations and privileges. • l"¤‘•••¤l*°°l*· Such councils may also establish and maintain free schools in such cities and towns, under the provisions of sections sixty-two hundred and fiftyeight to sixty-two hundred and seventy- six, inclusive, of said digest, and may exercise all the powers conferred upon special school districts in cities and towns in the State of Arkansas by the laws of said State when the same are not in conflict with the provisions of this Act. hg °‘ “"""“' For thepurposes of this section all the laws of said State of Arkansas herein referred to, so far as applicable, are hereby put in force in said Territory; and the United States court therein shall have jurisdiction ‘ to enforce the same, and to punish any violation thereof, and the city or town councils shall pass such ordinances as may be necessary for the purpose of making the laws extended over them applicable to them and for carrying the same into effect: Provided, That nothing in this p{',.,*‘§‘,¥,{°°;_°"* B""' Act, or in the laws of the State of Arkansas, shall authorize or permit the sale, or exposure for sale, of any intoxicating liquor in said Territory, or the introduction thereof into said Territory; and it shall be the duty of the district attorneys in said Territory and the officers of such municipalities to prosecute all violators of the laws of the United States relating to the introduction of intoxicating liquors into said Territory, or to their sale, or exposure for sale, therein: Provided higcmcs. •¤¤-» ¤=¤¤- further, That owners and holders of leases or improvement in any ` city or town shall be privileged to transfer the same. mg<;g·;·j¤:jg;t° kv Sec. 15. That there shall be a commission in each town for each one of the Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Cherokee tribes, to consist of one member to be appointed by the executive of the tribe, who shall not be interested in town property, other than his home; one person to be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, and one member to be selected by the town. And if the executive of the tribe or the town fail to select members as aforesaid, they may be selected and appointed by the Secretary of the Interior. S¤¤¤y·· ·¢¤· Said commissions shall cause to be surveyed and laid out town sites where towns with a present population of two hundred or more are located, conforming to the existing survey so far as may be, with proper and necessary streets, alleys, and public grounds, including parks and cemeteries, giving to each town such territory as may be required for Filing of 1»l¤¢¤· its present needs and reasonable prospective growth; and shall prepare correct plats thereof, and tile one with the Secretary of the Interior, one with the clerk of the United States court, one with the authorities of Am¤r¤i¤¤1<»f¤=¤¤<i¤- the  and one with the town authorities. And all town lots shall be appraised by said commission at their true value, excluding improvements; and separate appraisements shall be made of all improvements thereon; and no such appraisement shall be eifective until approved by the Secretary of the Interior, and in case of disagreement by the memgerihof suph izolmmimion as to the value of any lot, said Secretary may x e va ue ereo. umgxvgg pgp tv; _ The owner of the improvements upon any town lot, other than feu- 3,.-,..,, of improve cmg, tillage, or temporary buildings, may deposit in the United States ¤¤¤*¤· Treasury, Saint Louis, Missouri, one-half of such appraised value; ten