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 FIFIY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CII. 1362. 1902. 653 51. Upon the payment of the full amount of the purchaseprice of mQ°“"°V““°° °‘ P°*· any lot in any town site in the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations, appraised ` and sold as herein provided, or sold as herein provided. the chief executives of said nations shall jointly execute, under their hands and the seals of the respective nations and deliver to the purchaser of the said lot, a patent conveying to him all right, title, and interest of the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes in and to said lot. 52. All town lots in any one townsite to be conveyed to one person C<>¤*¢¤*·¤· em. of shall, as far as practicable, be included in one patent, and all patents pmim shall be executed free of charge to the grantee. _ 53. Such towns in the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations as may have T9W¤¤ of im ¤¤¤¤ a population of less than two hundred people, not otherwise provided 200mh°bmm' for, and which in the judgment of the Secretary of the Interior should be set aside as town sites, shall have their limits defined not later than ninety days after the linal ratihcation of this agreement, in the same manner as herein provided for other town sites; but in no such case shall more than fort acres of land be set aside for any such town site. 54. All.town sites heretofore set aside by the Secretary of the Interior S¤"¢Y¤· Gwon the recommendation of the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes, under the provisions of the act of Congress approved May 31, 1900 V<>1·31.1>-B1 (31 Stat., 22 l), with the additional acreage added thereto, and all town sites which may hereafter be set aside, as well as all town sites set aside under the provisions of this agreement having a population of less than two hundred, shall be surveyed, laid out, platted, appraised, and disposed of in a like manner, and with like preference rights accorded to owners of improvements as other town sites in the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations are surveyed, laid out, platted, appraised, and disposed of under the Atoka agreement, as modified or supplemented by the said act of May 31, 1900: Prmqzicled, That occupants or ed mm to purchasers of lots in town sites in said Choctaw and Chickasaw nations be gm. upon which no improvements have been made prior to the passage of this Act by Congress shall pay the full appraised value of said lots instead of the percentage named in the Atoka agreement. MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS. mjégnicirnl v<>rp¤r¤— 55. Authority is hereby conferred u n municipal corporations in mggtiéfis f°" i“‘*"°"‘ the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations, withithe approval of the Secretary of the Interior, to issue bonds and borrow money thereon for sanitary purposes and for the construction of sewers, lighting plants, waterwor s, and schoolhouses, subject to all the provisions of laws of the United States in force in the organized Territories of the United States in reference to municipal indebtedness and issuance of bonds for public purposes; and said provisions of law are hereby put in force in said nations and made app icable to the cities and towns therein the same as if specially enacted in reference thereto; and said municipal corporations are hereby authorized to vacate streets and alleys, or parts thereof, and said streets and alleys. when so vacated, shall become the property of the adjacent property holders. con. AND Asrnxrxr. 56. At the expiration of two years after the iinal ratification of this Iagggl ”“° “*“‘“° agreement all deposits of coal and asphalt which are in lands within the limits of any town site established under the Atoka agreement. or {Ig} gt P· the act of Congress of May 31, 1900, or this agreement, and which are’p' ` within the exterior limits of any lands reserved from allotment on account of their coal or asphalt deposits. as herein provided, and which are not at the time of the final ratification of this agreement embraced in any then existing coal or asphalt lease. shall be sold at public anc-