FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1362. 1902. 655 rights of the two tribes of every kind and character, under the lease, but all advanced royalties received by the tribes shall be retained by them. _ The lands so segregated and reserved, and not included within Li¤**¤¤°¤· any existing coal or asphalt lease, shall be sold in tracts not exceeding in area a section under the Government survey. 60. Upon the recommendation of the chief executive of each of the “’“°°‘ *1**- two tribes, and where in the judgment of the President it is advanta eous - to the tubes so to do, the sale of any coal or asphalt lands whiéi are herein directed to be sold may be made at an time after the expiration of six months from the final ratification of, this agreement, without awaitijnegl the expiration of the period of two years, as hereinbefore provi . _ _ 61. No lease of any coal or as halt lands shall be made after the final L°“°'l"°h""'°°· ` ratification of this agreement, the provisions of the Atoka agreement to the contrary notwithstanding. 62. Where any lands so as aforesaid segregated and reserved on ¤§£’°m° ’°¤°"¤· account of their coal or asphalt deposits are in this a ement specific- ` ally reserved from allotment for any other reason, th? sale to be made hereunder shall be only of the coal and asphalt deposits contained therein, and in all other respects the other specified reservation of such lands herein provided for s all be fully respected. _ 63. The chief executives of the two tribes shall execute and deliver, “"°“"· °“’- with the a proval of the Secretary of the Interior, to each urchaser of any coal) or asphalt lands so sold, and to each purchaser oi) any coal ` or asphalt deposits so sold, an appropriate patent or instrument of con- · veyance, conveying to the pure aser the property so sold. . sonriimz srnmos. S“*P*““ °P"”é"¤~ 64. The two tribes hereby absolutely and unqualifiedly relinquish, hE§'f*°“ °* ‘“’¢l‘°°”* cede, and convey unto the United States a tract or tracts of land at ` and in the vicinity of the villa of Sulphur, in the Chickasaw Nation, of not exceeding] six hundrede and forty acres, to be selected, under L*’”“°‘“°’°°¥**· the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, within four months after the final ratification of this agreement, and to embrace all the natural springs in and about said village, and so much of Sulphur Creek, Bock Creek, Buckhorn Creek, and the lands adjacent to said natural springs and creeks as may be deemed necessary by the Secretary of t e Interior for the proper utilization and control of said springs and the waters of said creeks, which lands shall be so selected as to cause the least interference with the contemplated town site at that place consistent with the purposes for which said cession is made, and when selected the ceded ands shall be held, owned, and controlled by the United States absolutely and without anfv restriction, save that no part thereof shall be platted or disppsed o for town-site purposes Wi- M p- 508- during the existence of the two tri 1 governments. Such other ‘°*·”»P-”’- lands as may beembraced in a town site at that point shall be disposed of in the manner provided in the Atoka agreement for the isposition of town sites. Within ninety days after the selection of ,,,T§_° ‘° °’°‘“‘ °* · the lands so ceded there shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States, to the credit of the two tribes, from the unappropriated public moneys of the United States, twenty dollars per acre for each acre so selected, which shall be in full compensation for the lands so ceded, and such moneys shall, upon the dissolution of the tribal governments, be divided per capita among the members of the tribes, freedmen excepted, as are other funds of the tribes. All I‘"p’°"°“‘“"“‘ improvements u n the lands so selected which were lawfully there at the time of site ratincation of this agreement by Congress shall be appraised. under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, at the true value thereof at the time of the selection of said lands, and shall he paid for by warrants drawn by the Secretary of the
