724 FIFTYSEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1375. 1902. selected by the owner of the improvements and one member by the purchaser of said lot; and in case the said committee is not able to agree upon the value of said improvements, the committee may select . a third member, and in that event the determination of the majority °°¤P°¤”**°”· of the committee shall control. Said committee of appraisement shall be paid such compensation for their services by the two parties in interest, share and share alike, as may be agreed upon, and the amount of said a praisement shall be paid by the purchaser of the lot to the owner otp the improvements in cash within thirty days after the decision of the committee of appraisement. "°{f°"" “‘"'“°°’ Sec. 47. The purchaser of any· unimproved town lot sold at public pl1l"C SC. auction shall y twenty-five per centum of the purchase money at the time of the sal: and wit in four months thereafter he shall pay twenty- five r centum additional, and the remainder of the purc ase money · _ he slllill pay in two equal annual installments without interest. thfgwg ,f,"hf,'{,,,l§ $ Sec. 48. Such towns in the Cherokee Nation as may have a population of less than two hundred ople not otherwise provided for, and which, in the judgment of the Sgcretary of the Interior, should be set aside as town sites, shall have their limits defined as soon as practicable after the approval of this Act in the same manner as provided for other town sites. www °* °°‘“°` Sec. 49. The town authorities of any town site in said Cherokee Nation may select and locate, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, a cemetery within suitable distance from said town, to embrace such number of acres as may be deemed necessary for such purpose. The town-site commission s all appraise the same at its true value, and the town may purchase the same within one year from the approval of the survey y paying the appraised value. If any citizen have improvements thereon, said improvements shall be appraised by Qvgdévgé B said town-site commission and paid for by the town: Provided, That ` lands already laid out by tribal authorities for cemeteries shall be included in the cemeteries herein provided for without cost to the towns, and the holdings of the burial lots therein now occupied for such purpose shall in no wise be disturbed: And provided further,
- ’¤*‘”· That any park laid out and surveyed in any town shall be dul
appraised at a fair valuation, and the inhabitants of said town shalf within one year after the approval of the survey and the appraisement of said park by the Secretar of the Interior, pay the appraised value to the proper officer for the benefit of the tribe. ingxxem ¤*¤¤"°>’· Sec. 50. The United States shall pay all expenses incident to su1·- ' veying, platting, and disposition of town lots, and all allotments of E*°°P°*°¤¤~ lands made under the provisions of this plan of allotment, except where the town authorities may have been or may be duly authorized to survey and plat their respective towns at the expense of such towns. T·¤~‘*¤· Sec. 51. No taxes shall be assessed by any town government against any town lot remaining unsold, but taxes may be assessed against any town lot sold as herein provided. D°'““"°’*‘“*""°"'· Sec. 52. lf the purchaser of any town lot fail to make payment of any sum when due, the same shall thereafter bear six per centum interest per annum until paid. cb‘_g},?he;f°g{?f**°d by Sm. 53. All lots or parts of lots, not exceeding fifty by one hundred and fifty feet in size. u n which church houses and parsonages have been erected, and whiclioare occupied as such at the time of ap raisement, shall be conveyed gratuitously to the churches to which such improvements belong. and if such churches have inclosed other adjoining lots actually necessary for their use. they mav purchase the same _ _ by Spaying the appraised value thereof. ` ,0f,*;j};{g**;gR;1’°,{,';*8i Ec. 5-}. Wheneyer the chief executive of the Cherokee Nation fails sicner. or refuses to appoint a town-site commissioner for any town, or to till any vacancy caused by the neglect or refusal of the tdwn-site commis-
