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 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Srzss. II. Ch. 517. 1898. 507 That each member of the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes, including S¤l¤¤¤·>¤ of ¤11·>t· Choctaw and Chickasaw freedmen, shall, where it is possible, have the `"°° °' right to take his allotment on land, the improvements on which belong ¢by Indians owning to him, and such improvements shall not be estimated in the value of ‘“‘*’“"°"‘°‘"" his allotment. In the case of minor children, allotments hall be —r¤i¤·>r¤- selected for them by their father, mother, guardian, or the adminis- ~ trator having charge of their estate, preference being given in the order named, and shall not be sold during his minority. Allotments shall be —P**·°¤°¤·°*·¤- selected for prisoners, convicts, and incompetents by some suitable person akin to them, and due care taken that all persons entitled thereto have allotments made to them. All the lands allotted shall be nontaxable while the title remains in Auutmms not mx. the original allottee, but not to exceed twenty-one years from date of 2Q2g,,, ,,m,,,,,_ patent, and each allottee shall select from his allotment a homestead “S:‘}¤<=¤·»¤ of l=<>¤¤¤· of one hundred and sixty acres, for which he shall have a separate ° ' patent, and which shall be inalienable for twenty-one years from date ` of patent. This provision shall also apply to the Choctaw and Chickasaw freedman to the extent of his allotment. Selections for home- -r¤r minors. steads for minors to be made as provided herein in case of allotment, _ and the remainder of the lands allotted to said members shall be alien- L"‘°“ “h°'“‘m°‘ able for a price to be actually paid, and to include no former indebtedness or obligation—one-fourth of said remainder in one year, one-fourth in three years, and the balance of said alienable lands in live year liom the date of the patent. That all contracts looking to the sale or incumbrance in any way of m§,’Q}§·v§§}§j· °' ‘*"°*’ the land of an allottee, except the sale hereinbefore provided, shall be null and void. No allottee hall lease his allotment, or any portion —h°"*°”°'*· thereof, for a longer period than five years, and then without the privilege of renewal. Every lease which is not evidenced by writing, setting out specifically the terms thereof or which is not recorded in the clerk’s office of the United States court for the district in which the land is located, within three months after the date of its execution, shall be void, and the purchaser or lessee shall acquire no rights whatever by an entry or holding thereunder. And no such lease or any sale shall be valid as against the allottce unless providing to him a reasonable compensation for the lands sold or leased. That all controversies arising between the members of said tribes as riqygtgzgfégg my to their right to have certain lands allotted to them shall be settled by mgm. the commission making the allotments. That the United States shall put each allottee in possession of his """°”*°“· allotment and remove all persons therefrom objectionable to the allottee. That the United States shall survey and definitely mark and locate S¤"•¥¤·°°°· the ninety-eighth (98th) meridian of west longitude between Red and Canadian rivers before allotment of the lands herein provided for hall egm. m¤mnmas’ TITLES ·ro LANDS. ,,,{‘f,‘;{“"°’“’ "“°‘ ‘° That as soon as practicable, after the completion of said allotments, P“‘°“‘“ *° ‘“°"‘°°‘ the principal chief of the Choctaw Nation and the governor of the Chickasaw Nation shall jointly execute, under their hands and the seals of the respective nations, and deliver to each of the said allottees patents conveying to him all the right, title, and interest of the Choctaws and Chickasaws in and to the land which shall have been allotted to him in conformity with the requirements of this agreement, excepting all coal and asphalt in or under said land. Said patents shall be *'°"’·"·°°°‘ framed in accordance with the provisions of this agreement, and shall embrace the land allotted to such patentee and no other land, and the ;Q°°°P*·’“°° °‘ P“*‘ acceptance of his patents by such allottee shall be operative as an ' assent on his part to the allotment and conveyance of all the lands ot the Choctaws and Chickasaws in accordance with the provisions of this agreement, and as a relinquishment of all his right, title, and interest in and to any and all parts thereof, except the land embraced in said