142 FIFFY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1876. 1906. resold at public auction for cash, under such rules and regulations as Reversinn or vs- he may prescribe. All municipal corporatrons rn the Indian 'Ierrrtory °““’d ”“°°“· °"‘ are hereby authorized to vacate streets and alleys, or parts thereof, and said streets and alleys, when vacated, shall revert to and become ‘ the ro rt of the abuttin ro r owners. laggl r;:l•}ved¤¤lf;::· S50. That all_ coal ancfdlsdphlhlt hrxnds whether leased or unleased snres shall be reserved from sale un er this Act until the exrstrng leases for coal and asphalt lands shall have expired or until such time as may be otherwise provided by law. ‘ _ ` conveynnee so Sec. 14. That the lands in the Choctaw, Chrckasaw, Cherokee, §,2§.§,}’,fmi,'f{‘,‘{{,,,‘,§ Creek, and Seminole nations reserved from allotment or sale under ·>¤¤¤¢· any Act of Congress for the use or benefit of any person, corporation, or organization shall be conveyed to the person, corporation, or mann. organization entitled thereto: Provided, That of any tract or parcel R°"°'“*°“‘ thus reserved shall before conveyance thereof be abandoned for the use for which it was reserved by the partfy in whose interest the reservation was made, such tract or parcel s all revert to the trrbe and mama ensemenu be disposed of as other surplus lands thereof: Provided further, That “°"‘°°°“°‘ this section shall not apply to land reserved from allotment because of the right of any railroad or railway company therein in the nature of an easement for right of way, depot, station grounds, water stations, stock yards or other uses connected with the maintenance and operaation of such company’s railroad, title to which tracts may be acquired by the railroad or railway company under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior ata valuation to be determsepunn. mined b him;` but if any such company shall fail to make payment within tie time prescribed by the regulations or shall cease to use such land for the purpose for which it was reserved, title thereto shall ' thereupon vest in the owner of the legal subdivision of which the land so abandoned is a part, except lands within a municipality the title to which, u n abandonment, shall vest in such municipality. Murrow rudrm or The principal chief of the Choctaw Nation and the governor of the ’Bf,',}f,,i{,'{,‘"pZ,e,,.s ,,,_ Chickasaw Nation are, with the approval of the Secretary of the Inte- ¤¤*¤°¤¤°d· rior, hereby authorized and directed to issue patents to the Murrow Indian Orphans’ Home, a corporation of Atoka, Indian Territory, in all cases where tracts have been allotted under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior for the urpose of allowing the allottees to donate the tract so allotted to said) M urrow Indian Orphans’ Home. couvevgnceounc- ln all cases where enrolled citizens of either the Choctaw or Chicka- °°°"m" "‘ saw tribe have taken their homestead and surplus allotment and have remaining over an rrnallotted right to less than ten dollars on the basis of the allotment value of said lands, such unallottcd right may be conveyed by the owners thereof to the Murrow Indian %)rphans` Home aforesaid: and whenever said conveyed rights shall arrrount in the aggregate to as much as ton acres of avera c allottablc land, land to represent the same shall be allotted to the sad Murrow Indian ()rphans’ Home, and certificate and patent shall issue therefor to said Murrow Indian ()rphans’ Home. cenveysnewrnrner And there is hereby authorized to be conveyed to said Murrow l""”· Indian Orphans’ Home, in the manner hereinbefore pr·escribed for the conveyance or land, the following-described lands in the Choctaw and D,,,,1p¤,m_ Chickasaw nations, to wit: Sections eighteen and nineteen in township two north, range twelve east; the south half of the northeast quarter, the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter, the south half of the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter, the south half of the southeast quarter. the northeast quarter of the southeast quarter, the south half of the northwest quarter of the southeast quarter, the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter of the southeast quarter, the northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter, and the northwest qrrarter of the northwest quarter of section twenty-
