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 312 SIXTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Cris. 198, 199. 1908. R°P°"· per annum on annual balances until so reimbursed: Promided furtfzer, 1`hat the Auditor for the State and other Departments and the auditor of the District of Columbia shall each annually report the amount of such advances, stating the account for each iiscal year seplarately, and also the reimbursements made under this section, toget er with the Street extensions balances remaining, if any, due to the United States: And provzded iL’i,I?,°i”°°°"°v°°°°” furt}u,·r, That nothing contained herein shall be so construed_as_to require the United  to bear anly part of the cost of acquisition of land for street extensions, and al advances heretofore or hereafter made for this purpose by the Secretary of the Treasury shall be re id in full from the revenues of the District of Columbia. aspen. Sino. 9. All laws and parts of laws to the extent that they are inconsistent with this Act are repealed. Approved, May 26, 1908. May 21. 1908. CHAP. 199.-—An Act For the removal of restrictions from part of the lands of [H- R-”’“l·l allottees of the Five Civilized Tribes and for other purposes. ”’"”“°· "°· “°·* B6 a wear by ua sms and new ogneammm me Uma.: Fg~;•=¤ivi1i=¤;¥T{_*$ States of America in Omogresa aaa, 'Ihat from and after sixty m.,.,{',l°° ° days from the date of this Act the status of the lands allotted heretofore or hereafter to allottees of the Five Civillzed Tribes shall, as _A1ien¤¤·>¤d ~¤¤ri<=— regards restrictions on alienation or incumbranceabe as follows: All °°"” '°"'°'lands, including homesteads, of said allottees enrollad as intermarried whites, as freedmen, and as inixed—blood Indians having less than half Indian blood including minors shall be free from all restrictions. All lands, except homesteads, of said allottees enrolled as mixed—blood Indians having half or more than half and less than three-quarters ¤:¥¤<:=l¢ri¢¢*¤¤¤¤¤¤· Indian blood shall be free_ from all restrrctuons. All homesteads of _sand allottees enrolled as mixed-blood Indians having half or more than half Indian blood, including minors of such degrees of blood, and all allotted lands of enrolled full-bloods, and enrolled mixed-bloods of threequarters or more Indian blood, including minors of such degrees of blood, shall not be subject to alienation, contract to sell, power of attorney, or any other incumbrance prior to April twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and thirty-one, except that the Secretary of the Interior .may remove such restrictions, wholly or in part, under such rules and regulations concerning terms of sale and disposal of the proceeds for nmsm by sem- the benefit of the respective Indians as he may prescribe. The Secre- ""’ “""" '"°"’°'· tary of the Interior s all not be prohibited b this Act from continuing to remove restrictions as heretofore, andy nothin herein shall be construed to impose restrictions removed from land by or under an g*;H·;g¤¤b, H law prior to the passage of this Act. No restriction of alienation shall rnnargn nmnnrtndi be construed to prevent the exercise of the right of eminent domain °"’{¥,,{‘§§{;`f,,_ ,7_ rn condemning rights of way for public purposes over allotted lands, and for such purposes sections t irteen to twenty-three inclusive, of an act entitle< "An act to grant the right of way through Oklahoma Territory and the Indian Territory to the Enid and Anadarko Railway Company, and for other purpoms, ’ approved February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two (Thirty-second Statutes at Large, page forty-three), are hereby continued in force in the State of Oklahoma. buns. of Miriam Sec. 2. That all lands other than homesteads allotted to members "'l" of the Five Civilized Tribes from which restrictions have not been removed may be leased by the allottee if an adult, or by guardian or curator under order of the proper probate court if a minor or incompetent, for a period not to exceed five years, without the privilege of {Wg;- or mmm; renewal: Pwmided, That leases of restricted lands for oil, gas or other purposes., mining purposes, leases of restricted homesteuds for more than one year, and leases of restricted lands for periods of more than live years,