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 852 _ FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 675. 1901. _ which would otherwise devolve upon the commission for that Nation. $§ff‘g{{};,{“5‘f,§f· Every such local commission shall be appointed in the manner provided in the Act approved June twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred an ninety- eight, entitled ‘An Act for the protection of the people of the Indian Territory.’. interests wi e there su serve, may permit the authorities o any town in any of said natirons, at the expense of the town, to survey, la out, and] plat the site thereof, subject to his supervision and approval; as in other instances. ,,·}§Q§f'“iS*“ me *““° "As soon as the plat of any town site is approved, the proper commission shall, with all reasonable dispatch and within a l1mited time, to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, proceed to make the appraisement of the lots and improvements, if any, thereon, and after t e approval thereof by the Secretary of the Interior, shall, under the superv1sion of such Secretary, proceed to the disposition and sale of the lots in conformity with any then existing ct of Congress or agreement with the tribe approved by Congress, and if the proper commission shall not complete such appraisement and sale within the time limited by the Secretary of the Interior, they shall receive no pay for such add_itional time as may be taken by them, unless the Secretary R _ of the Inter1or for good cause shown shall expressiy direct otherwise. miS§{§g‘ggl€,‘f,{ °°m‘ "The Secretary of the II1lZ6l‘101‘ may, for good cause, remove any member of any townsite commission, tribal or local, in any of said nations, and may fill the vacancy thereby made or any vacancy otherwise occurring in hke manner as the place was or1g1na]ly iille. c0§g§BQ;i§;g1°tg`§,gf “It shall not be_required that the townsite limits established in the site umm. course of the platting and disposing of town lots and the corporate limits of the town, i incorporated, shall be identical or coextensive, but such townsite limits and corporate limits shall be so established as to besii1su&bst1=i;·ve the then lpresent nlpeds and the realponable pipppectivlp owt 0 e town, as the same s al a ear at the times w en suc _;’;#§`g{·;·;iOm llhiits are respectively established: Prozrelgdgiotrther, That the exterior " limits of all townsites shall be desi nated an fixed at the earliest practicable time under rules and reguimtions prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior. &]{’§§,§§},‘{‘{,‘}",,f,‘}§,‘{} “Upon the recommendation of the Commission to the Five Civilized ¤¢¤¤·>¤¤- Tribes the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized at any time before allotment to set aside and reserve from allotment any lands in the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, or Cherokee nations, not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres in any one tract, at such stations as are or shall be established in conformity with law on the line of any railroad which shall be constructed or be in process of construction in or through either of said nations prior to the allotment of the lands therein, and this irrespective of the population of such townsite at the time. Such towns1tes shall be surveyed, laid out, and platted, _ and the lands therein disposed of for the benefit of the tribe in the §('Q§’,§{,*§’,’§;,m,,, fo,. manner herein prescribed for other townsites: Provided further, That g:‘ggg¤¤¤’¤ ¤¤P¤‘<>V¢· whenever any tract of land shall be set aside as herein provided which ` is occupied by a member of the tribe, such occupant shall be fully compensated or his improvements thereon under such rules and re u- · lations as may be rescribed by the Secretarv ·of the Interior. 1%-0- m§§F{,°,f{}Q}}{}*I§‘(§‘$§’§T vided, That hereafter the Secretary of the lnterior may, whenever ¤m¤¤,e¤¤. a oint a townsite commissioner or any town or toany vacancy cggsed by the neglect or refusal of the townsite commissioner appointed by the chief executive or principal chief of said nation to qualify or act, indlpis discretion appoint a commissioner to fill the vacancy thus create.
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