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 448 SIXTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 216. 1908. _ sueommdsmmsin- And in case said lands, or any part thereof, rema.in unsold after the “"‘ expiration of said ninety days, the said Secretary shall proceed to oiier said lands for sale under such regulations as he ma prescribe. D°P°°** 0* *“¤“¤— The funds received from said sales to be deposited in the Treasury of me of hud the United States to the credit of the Indians of the Cheyenne and .,.4 b¤nd“}E§Yy Arapahoe Reservation, Oklahoma. _ That the Secretary of the Interior pe, gpgd he hlepelbty 1s,·autl;of·1zeldtto cppse totpehapprapsied and splclslsix un an 0 yacreso an, oge erwi e u1 in san o er appurtenances thereto belonging, heretofore set aside asgreservation for the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Agency and the Arapahoe Indian eufl°'°*;];*lgj:°aJ‘?*§Q; school in Oklahoma, and that for sixty days from and after said can appraisement the city of Elreno, in Oklahoma, be given the preference right to purchase said land and improvements thereon at the appraised va ue thereof, to be used for sc ool purposes, the purchase price _ thereof to be paid in cash at the time of the acceptance by said pur- ,§,§]° °‘ '°"‘*"“"€ cbeser. And IB case said land remains unsold after the expiration of sa1d sixty days, the_ Secretary shall proceed to offer said land for sale U¤¤ ¤fx>r¤¤¤¢•i¤- under such regulations as he may prescribe, and he 18 authorized to use all or any part of the proceeds of the sale thereof in the erection . of new buildings and in repairs and improvements at the present Cheyenne Boarding School 1D·th8 Cheyenne and Arapahoe Agency, in Oklahoma, and in the establishment of such day schools as mav be tregiiitpedlfgr said gheyenne ang Apapahole Indians in Oklahoma,.and t e ance o said procee i an there be ma be used in su · port of said Cheyenne Boarding Schoolyor said ddy sclhool. P {Ever, origin f Sec. 13. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to g,,,”,.,u§°,,,,,,,,°L, °' set aside for town-slte purposes at Dewey, Oklahoma, the south half of the northwest quarter of the northwest quarter, and the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section twenty-eight, township twenty-seven north, range thirteen east, formergly eléotteld to pilulia Lewis, who failed to establish her citizenship in the ‘ ero ee I ation. ”§:*¤*i**¤i°“ nd That the Secretary of the Interior is directed to subdivide these lands in gcpoiédance wigh the ]pr?ent (streets apd alleys llaidi out 03 such lands _ an o ispose 0 suc an s an p ace the procee s erive therefrom Q";}';,'},,, ,.,g,,,,_ to the credit of the Cherokee Nation: Ihwided, That the owners of permanent and substantial improvements on such lots shall have the preference right of (purchasing their lots for cash at a price not to ,°§_f{'° °* ¤"**¤P*°'°** exceed two undre dollars per acrc: Prmrided fen·¢/wr, That all unimproved lots shall be sold at public auction to t c highest bidder Expenses. for cash: And]2ro¢:2`ded_/i4rt}ze¢·, That the ex nse of surve ing, platting, laying out, and selling such lands shallcbc deductedy from the proceeds of such sale. E;:tI;¤hpr¤¤tgé§:n.°‘ Sec. 1-}. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to ,0,,,, OE "" make, and shall cause to be made, within sixty days from the passage of this Act, a reappraisement of the town of Hartshorne, Oklahoma, as of the date of the original appraisement made by the town-site rm payments. commission; that payment already made on lots therein shall be cred- R<¤i¤¤¤¤r¤•r¤¤<>¤¤- ited on the basis of the reappraisement; that there shall be reimbursed to lot owners from the tgwn-site funds of the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations any amounts pai by them in excess of the new a raisement, and that the first installment on the purchase price or of?t)he balance remaining unpaid shall be due thirty days after the service of notice of peappfaispment, put in agi other respects the existing laws relating to e sa e o town ots an issue of tents therefor in the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations shall remain inpfull force and effect. Bggeylrresavigprsxi _ Sec. 15. That section nine, chapter fourteen hundred and ninety-five, ,,u,,,;,,§},‘}· gm, sm Statutes of the United States of America entitled "An Act for the sur- °*}*g¤f* lg; v_ 804 vey and allotment of lands now embraced within the limits of the Flatamended.’ head Indian Reservation, in the State of Montana, and the sale and