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 FIFTXYSEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1375. 1902. 719 · thereupon (proceed to the allotment of the remaining lands of the tribe as aforesai . Said Commission shall, when final judgment is rendered, allot lands to such Delawares in conformity to the terms of the jud — ment and their individual rights thereunder. Nothing in this Act shag] in any manner impair the rights of either party to said contract as the same may be finally determined by the court, or shall interfere with the holdings of the Delawares under their contract with the Cherokees . of April eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, until their rights under said contract are determined by the courts in their suit now - pending against the Cherokees, and said suit shall be advanced on the dockets of said courts and determined at the earliest time practicable. RESERVATIONS. fSEca  The follovgirilgf lands shall be reserved from the allotment R¢¤¢rv¤·¤¤¤¤ 0 an s ereu: provide or: _ (a) All lands set apart for town sites by the provisions of the Act of $§’,}’Y'§0“',f°‘g08_ Congress of June twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight Y (Thirtieth Statutes, page four hundred and ninety-five), the provisions Vol. 31, p. 237. of the Act of Congress of May thirty-first, nineteen hundred (Thirty- first Stagutles, page two hundred and twenty-one), and by the provisions o t is ct. (b) All lands to which, upon the date of the ratification of this Act, P2°“’°°d 1******- any railroad company may, under any treaty or Act of Congress, have a vested right for right of way, depots, station grounds, water sta- _ tions, stock yards, or similar uses only, connected with the maintenance · and operation of the railroad. (c) Allhlands selected for town cemeteries not to exceed twenty ¤¤¤=¢*¤¤’i€¤· acres eac. (d) One acre of land for each Cherokee schoolhouse not included in ,,5,°Sj‘°°m°““°· "“’· town sites or herein otherwise rovided for. (e) Four acres for )Villie Hal)sell College at Vinita. (f) Four acres for Baptist Mission school at Tahlequah. Four acres for Presbyterian school at Tahlequah. (h) Four acres for Park Hill Mission school south of Tahlequah. (i) Four acres for Elm Springs Mission school at Barren Fork. (`) Four acres for Dwight Mission school at Sallisaw. (lc) Four acres for Skiatook Mission near Skiatook. f(l)_ Fpur agres for Lutheran Mission school on Illinois River north o a e ua . (m) Sriilicient ground for burial purposes 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 Tahleqluah. (p) The grounds now occupied by the national jail at Tahlequa. (q) The rounds now occupied by the Cherokee Advocate printing office at Tsighlequah. (r) Forty acres for the Cherokee Male Seminary near Tahlequah. (s) Fort 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 colored high school in Tahlequah district. (v) Forty acres for the Cherokee Insane Asylum. (w) Four acres for the school for blind. deaf, and dumb children near Fort Gibson. Loc, { h h The acre so reserved for any church or schoolhouse in any quarter ,,,,,1 s,‘§{}§§Tf,c§,,.2§F °° section of land shall be located where practicable in a corner of such quarter section adjacent to the section lines thereof. _ _ Pmrm Ibmvided, That the Methodist Episcopal Church South may, within Methegstgpixopu twelve months after the ratification of this Act, pay ten dollars per Chmh mumacre for the one hundred and sixty acres of land a jacent to the town