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 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 675. 1901. 857 be paid out of the general fund of the Cherokee Nation: Provided, HMO- '1`hat said newsplaper plant, including everything connected therewith, Sale °*Pl¤¤*· together with the buildings and grounds reserved for said newspaper, shall be sold before iinal allotment is completed under this agreement, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, and the proceeds placed to the credit of the general fund of the Cherokee Nation. BEsERvA*r1oNs. 54. The following lands shall be reserved from the general allotment ,,1}},‘§‘jf,‘,Q*}fi°““ "°m herein rovided: (a) X11 lands set a art for town sites. (b) All lands to which, at the date of the ratiiication of this agreement, any railroad company inay, under any treaty or Act of Congress, have a vested right for right of way, depots, station lgrounds, water stations, stock yards, or similar uses connected with the maintenance and operation of the railroad. (c) All lands selected for town cemeteries, as herein rovided. (d) One acre of land for each schoolhouse not includedp in town sites, as- herein provided. . (e) One hundred and sixty acres for Willie Halsell College at Vinita. (f) Four acres for the Baptist.Mission School at Tahle uah. Four acres for the Presb fterian School at Tahlequaqh. g) Four acres for the Park I·Iill Mission School south of Tahle uah. i) Four acres for the Elm Springs Mission School on Barren Fork. (j ) Forty acres for Dwight Mission on Sallisaw. (k) Four acres for Skiatook Mission near Skiatook. ( 1) Four acres for Lutheran Mission School on Illinois River, north · of Tahlequah. (m) Suflicient ground for burial pur oses where neighborhood cemeteries are now located, not to exceed three acres each. (n) One acre for each church house outside of towns. (o) The square now occupied by the capitol building at Tahleqhuah. (p) The grounds now occupied by the national jail at Tahlequa. (q) The grounds now occupied by the Cherokee Advocate printing oflice at Tahlequah. (r) Forty acres for the Cherokee Male Seminary near Tahlequah. (s F orty acres for the Cherokee Female Seminary at Tahlequah. ( t One hundred and twenty acres for the Cherokee Orphan Asylum on Grand River. u) Forty acres for the Colored High School in Tahlequah district. v) Forty acres for the Cherokee Insane Asylum. _ w) Forty acres for the school for the blind, and deaf and dumb children near Fort Gibson. (x) A sufficient amount of land, to be selected by the General Gov- Amy P°¤*· °*°~ ernment, and hG1‘€i30fO1‘B included in the old military reservation, for an army ost, and for a penitentiary, or for either, and the same, with the buildgngs thereon, is tendered to the United States for said. purposes: Pravided, That in case the same is not accepted and occupied c*Z;g’§;b¤ by the Government for the purposes aforesaid on or before March ` fourth, nineteen hundred and three, this provision shall be void. MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS. tiggguicipal corpora- 55. Authority is hereby conferred upon municipal corporations in P°‘“*”*°‘°‘ the Cherokee Nation to issue bonds and borrow money thereon for sanitary purposes, and fO1' the construction of sewers, lighting plants, Waterworks, and schoolhouscs, subject to all the provisions of laws of B<>¤d i$¤¤¢¤· the United States in force in the organized Territories of the United States in reference to municipal indebtedness and issuance of bonds fo1· public purposes; and said provisions of law are hereby put in force in