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 rirrrsizvssin ooxoimss. sm. 1. cH. 12.62. 1902. 645 have a prior right of allotment of the same in the order of their applications and as their lawful rights may appear. If any citizen or freedman of the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations ,z§({”“,’§i§;lQ;§“j§g{j shall not have selected his allotment within twelve months after the ments. date of the opening of said land offices in said nations, if not herein otherwise provided, and provided that twelve months shall have elapsed from the ate of the approval of his enrollment by the Secretary of the Interior, then the (iommission to the Five Civilized Tribes may immediately proceed to select an allotment, including a homestead for such person, said allotment and homestead to be selected as the Commission may deem for the best interest of said person, and the same shall be of the same force and effect as if such selection had been made by such citizen or freedman in person, and all lands held or claimed by persons for whom allotments have been selected by the Commission as provided, and in excess of the amount included in said allotments, shall be a part of the public domain of the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations and be subject to disposition as such. mazsmzvarioxs. h 26. The foélglwiing lands shall be reserved from the allotment of lands Re¤erv¤ti¤¤¤- erein rov1 e or: (a) All lands set apart for town sites either by the terms of the Atoka Town simsagreement, the Act of Congress of May 31, 1900, (31 Stats., 221), as V<>1·31.1>·237· herein assented to, or bv the terms of this agreement. (b) All lands to which, at the date of the final ratification of this agreement, any railroad company may under any treaty or Act of Congress, have a vested right for right of way, depots, station grounds, water stations, stock yards, or similar uses connected with the maintenance and operation of the railroad. _ (c) The strip of land lying between the city of Fort Smith, Arkansas, and the Arkansas and Poteau rivers, extending up the said Poteau River to the mouth of Mill Creek. (d) All lands which shall be segre ated and reserved by the Secre- dB%,B_°“d ’”‘I’h°l° tary of the Interior on account of their coal or asphalt deposits, as hereinafter provided. And the lands selected by the Secretary of the Interior at and in the vicinity of Sulphur in the Chickasaw Nation, under the cession to the United States hereunder made by said tribes. $e) One hundred and sixty acres for Jones’ Academy. f) One hundred and sixty acres for Tuskahoma Female Seminary. (g) One hundred and sixty acres for Wheelock Orphan Seminary. ) One hundred and sixty acres for Armstrong Orphan Academy. li) Five acres for capitol building of the Choctaw Nation. (') One hundred and sixty acres for Bloomfield Academ. - (k) One hundred and sixty acres for Lebanon Orphan Illome. (l) One hundred and sixty acres for Harley Institute. (m) One hundred and sixty acres for Rock Academy. (n) One hundred and sixty acres for Collins Institute. (o) lliisex acres for the]c2§>it_pIl building of the Chickasaw Nation. `ig t acres for. . . 1 urrow. (H) Eighty acres for H. R. Schermerhorn. (r) Eighty acres for the widow of R. S. Bell. (s) A reasonable amount of land, to be determined by the town—site commissioners, to include all tribal court-houses and jails and other tribal public buildin s. (t) Ig ive acres forgany cemetery located by the town-site commissioners prior to the date of the final ratihcation of this agreement. (u) One acre for any church under the control of and used exclusively by the Choctaw or Chickasaw citizens at the date of the final ratification of this agreement. .