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 FIFTY·SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 67 5. 1901. 855 buildings, for its use, by paying the appraised value thereof, the same to be selected under the direction of the Department for whose use such buildings are to be erected, and if any person have improvements thereon, other than temporary buildingls, fencing, and tillage, the same shall be appraised and paid for by the United States. TITLES. Titles. 34. After the ratification of this agreement by Congress and the mgnjgds *°’ °“°*· tribe the Secretary of the Interior shall furnish the principal chief with blank deeds necessary for all conveyances herein prov1ded for, and when any citizen receives his allotment of land-amounting to and not exceeding in value the standard allotment herein iixed, or when any allotment has been so ascertained and fixed that title should, under the provisions of this agreement, be conveyed, the principal chief shall thereupon proceed to execute in due form and deliver to him a deed conveying to him all the right, title, and interest of the Cherokee Nation, and of all other citizens, in and to the lands embraced in his allotment certificate. 35. The rincipal chief shall, in like manner and with like effect, execute and) deliver to tproper lparties deeds of conveyance in all other cases herein provided or. A lands and town lots to be conveyed to one erson s all, as far as practicable, be included in one deed, and all deed}; shall be executed free of charge. 36. All conveyances shall be approved by the Secretary `of the e,;;}_?{f*°"“l °‘ "°°“i Interior, which shall serve as a relinquishment to the rantee of all the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the lands embraced in his deed., 37; Any allottee accepting such deed shall be deemed to assent to €E#;g§°Pm°°°fd°°¢ the allotment and conveyance of all the lands of the tribe as provided ' herein, and as a relinquishment of all his right, title, and interest in and to the same, except in the proceeds of lands reserved from allotment. » 38. The acceptance of deeds of minors and incompetents by persons ·*°’ "‘*”°”· °“’· authorized to select their allotments for them shall be deemed sufficient to bind such minors and incompetents as to the conveyance of all other lands of the tribe as provided herein. 39. All deeds, when so executed and approved, shall be filed in the Films °°"’d“·°*°* ofdce of the Dawes Commission and recorded in a book appropriate for the pu ose without expense to the grantee, and such records shall have lllge eifect as other public records. Roms or Mnmnnnsmr. Shgdls of member- 40. The rolls of citizenship of the Cherokee Nation shall be made Dam as of April first, nineteen hundred, and the names of all persons then living and entitled to enrollment on that date shall be placed on said rolls b the Dawes Commission. I 41. No child born to any citizen after the iirst day of A ril, nineteen whe excluded. hundred, nor any white person who has intermarried with a Cherokee citizen since the sixteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, shall be entitled to enrollment. 42. Such rolls shall in all other respects be made in strict compliance ${)*°;‘ggi*;_¤g;,L with the provisions of section twenty-one of the Act of Congress of ` June twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, entitled "An Act for the protection of the people of the Indian Hirritory, and for other purposes. " 43. If any citizen who was living and entitled to be enrolled on the m2§§“‘ b°*°“’ °·u°°' tirst day of April, nineteen hundred, die before receiving his allotment of lands and share of the tribal funds, his right of allotment and share of the funds shall descend to his heirs according to the laws of