§ 152. Additional land withdrawn; payment; management and control; regulations; sale of improvements; penalties; town lots

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1904

   Pub. L. 58–1402 § 18 · 33 Stat. 189

   Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 152

   Apr. 21, 1904, ch. 1402, § 18, 33 Stat. 220

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   Apr. 21, 1904, ch. 1402, § 18, 33 Stat. 220

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 18. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to withhold from sale or other disposition the irregular tract of land containing seventy-eight and sixty-eight one-hundredths Description. acres, more or less, lying in the northwest quarter of section two and the northeast quarter of section three, township one south, range three east, and being within the exterior boundaries of the proposed town site-of Sulphur, in the Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory, and excluded from said town site by order of the Secretary of the Interior, of October twentieth, nineteen hundred and three, and also to withdraw and withhold from disposition the tract of land within the exterior boundaries of said proposed town site, lying south of and adjacent to the tract above mentioned, containing in the aggregate one hundred and thirty-eight acres, more or less, and mentioned in the report of Gerard H. Matthes, of December twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and three, to F. H. Newell, Chief Engineer United States Geological Survey, and shown upon the map accompanying said report by a yellow line. Price per acre. The land hereby reserved shall be paid for by the United States at the rate of sixty dollars per acre and in the same manner as the land acquired in accordance with paragraph sixty-four of the Act of Congress Vol. 32, p. 655. approved July first, nineteen hundred and two, entitled “An Act to ratify and confirm an agreement with the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes of Indians, and for other purposes,” and such money as may Appropriation. be necessary to carry out this provision is hereby appropriated, from any money in the United States Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and made immediately available. Improvements. Vol. 32, p. 655. All improvements upon said land, at the passage of this Act, shall be appraised and paid for as provided in said paragraph sixty-four of the Act of July first, nineteen hundred and two. Management, control, etc. Vol. 32, p. 655. The land hereby reserved shall, immediately upon payment therefor by the United States, be and become a part of the reservation heretofore established at the said village of Sulphur, and shall be subject to all the provisions of said section sixty-four of the Act of July first, nineteen hundred and two, respecting the care, control, direction, use, and occupancy thereof, as if they had been included in the original Provisos. Enforcement of regulations. segregation: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, in the absence of other provisions for the care and management thereof, to designate an officer or employee of his Department to take charge of the land, whether acquired under said section sixty-four of the Act of July first, nineteen hundred and two, or under this Act, and to enforce rules and regulations for the control and use thereof, and of the waters of the springs and creeks within Sale of improvements. the reservation: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to sell or dispose of any build-ings upon the land hereby reserved and upon the land originally reserved, and all money received from such sales, as well as all money heretofore received or that may hereafter be realized for the use of said waters or for the use and occupancy of the land or the buildings thereon, through leases, permits, or otherwise, may be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior for the care and management of said lands and the preservation of the improvements thereon: And provided further, That if any person, firm, or corporation Violation of regulations. shall willfully violate any of the rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior relative to the use of the waters of said springs and creeks and the use and occupation of the lands in said reservation, such person, firm, corporation, or members or agents thereof, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction Penalty. shall be fined not less than five dollars and not more than one hundred dollars, and may be imprisoned for a term of not more than six months for each offense. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed to appraise, at their Appraisement and purchase of town lots. actual value at the time of such appraisement, all town lots held by citizens of the United States within the limits of the tract of land ceded to the United States by the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations, at or near Sulphur Springs, in the Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory, and pay for the same to such lot holders severally, or to their legal representatives, the appraised value of such lots by warrants drawn by the Secretary of the Interior upon the Treasurer of the United States; and the amount necessary to pay the same is hereby appropriated from Appropriation. any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. The foregoing Time limit for appraisal. appraisal of lots shall be completed within three months from the passage of this Act.

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