Chapter 246. for the establishment of titles in Hot Springs, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 246.— An Act for the establishment of titles in Hot Springs, and for other purposes.June 16, 1880. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Land titles at Hot Springs adjudicated by the commissioners. That any person, his heirs or legal representatives, in whose favor the commissioners appointed under the acts of Congress of eighteen hundred and seventy-seven and eight- 289 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess.
II. Ch. 246. 1880. een hundred and seventy-eight, relative to the Hot Springs of Arkansas,1877, ch. 109, Stat., 19, 377.1878, ch. 5,[Stat., 20, 258](/us/stat/20/258).Sole right of entry and payment preserved by paying forty per cent, assessed value for eighteen months after notice.1877, ch. 108, Stat., 19, 379. have adjudicated, shall have the sole right to enter and pay for the amount of land the commissioners may have adjudged him entitled to purchase, within eighteen months next after the expiration of the notice required by the tenth section of the act of Congress of March third eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, to be given by paying to the receiver of public moneys at the land-office in Little Rock, Arkansas, forty per centum of the assessed value of said land as placed thereon by said commissioners; and that such assessments be reduced to that extent: and that in any cases where any church or church association has been adjudged entitled to purchase land it may do so by paying five dollars per lot.
Sec. 2. That the certificates (except certificate Number one hundredCertificates (except issues to Samuel H. Stitt, De Witt C. Bugg, and Samuel W. Fordyes) made receivable for entries and punch asemouey for lands in Hot Springs Reservation.Maybe assigned. and sixty-two, issued to Samuel II. Stitt, DeWitt C Bugg, and Samuel W. Fordyce for twenty-two thousand dollars, which exceptions shall not prejudice the rights of the United States or the holders of said certificate.) issued for condemned buildings by said commissioners be made receivable for the amounts named therein as so many dollars lawful money of the United States in the entry and purchase of the lands that may be sold in the Hot Springs Reservation; and that such certificates be assignable, and when assigned in the presence of two subscribing witnesses or the execution of the assignment thereof shall have been acknowledged before a court of record or clerk thereof, the land officers in like manner shall receive them from the assignee in payment of lands purchased by himself or others; and in case the amount of the certificate presented and received at such land-office shall exceed that necessary to make the purchase and entry desired, there shall be executed by the register and receiver, and delivered to the person from whom the same is received, a certificate giving the number of the original, the date and amount thereof, the balance due such person thereon, and the certificate thus issued shall be assignable and receivable in like manner as the original, and in all cases where such certificates are issued the register of the land office shall certify on the original certificate taken up, the number of the lots purchased therewith, and the price thereof.
Sec. 3. That those divisions of the Dot Springs Reservation, knownMountainous-district divisions defined and dedicated to public use forever. as the mountainous districts, not divided by streets on the maps made by the commissioners, but known and defined on the map and in the report of the commissioners as North Mountain, West Mountain, and Sugar Loaf Mountain, be, and the same are hereby forever reserved from sale, and dedicated to public use as parks, to be known, with Hot Springs Mountain, as the permanent reservation.
Sec. 4. That whenever the town of Hot Springs shall procure elsewhereCemetery. a suitable burying-ground and shall cause the bodies now buried in the cemetery lot, within the limits of said town, to be decently removed and reenterred, the title to said cemetery lot shall vest in the corporation of said town, to be held and used forever as a town or city park, and not otherwise. Sec. 5. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to designateSecretary of Interior authorized to designate six lots for schools. six lots from the unawarded grounds on the Hot Springs Reservation for the use of the common schools of the corporation of the town of Hot Springs, as sites for school houses, and the lots when so designated are hereby dedicated to the use of common schools, and shall be used, controlled, and managed by the common school officials of the district in which they may be located for such purposes only.
The Secretary of the InteriorBaptist Church. is also authorized to convey to the Baptist Church of Hot Springs, whose church edifice was destroyed by fire, a suitable lot of ground not exceeding one-eighth of an acre from that portion of the Hot Springs Reservation laid off into lots and blocks, and forming part of the town site but not awarded to any claimants and not otherwise disposed of by this act said conveyance to be on consideration of the payment of a sum equal to ten dollars per acre for said lot. 290 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 246, 247, 248, 249. 1880. Sec. 6. That the streets, courts, and alleys and other thoroughfaresStreets, courts, and alleys ceded to corporal ion or town of Hot Springs.*Proviso.* of the town of Hot Springs, as surveyed, opened, or established by the commissioners and represented on the map of said town, and not included in the permanent reservation, be, and the same are hereby, ceded to the corporation of the town of Hot Springs for public use: *Provided however* that nothing in this act shall be so construed as to impair the rights or equities conferred upon claimants to said land by an act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, and an act approved December sixteenth eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, in relation to the Hot Springs reservation in the State of Arkansas.
Sec. 7. That that portion of the Hot Springs Reservation laid off intoRemainders of town lots and blocks not disposed of or reserved to be sold at public auction at not less than appraised value.Proceeds of sale, disposition of. lots and blocks and forming part of the town site, but not awarded to any claimants, and not otherwise disposed of or reserved by this act, shall be sold at public auction to the highest bidder, at not less than its appraised value, to be made from time to time, at the discretion and under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, and after public notice in the usual way in the sale of public lands; and the money arising from said sales, as well as any money paid in under section one of this act, shall be held as a special fund for the improvement and care of the permanent reservation at Hot Springs and of the Hot Springs Creek adjacent to and between the permanent reservations, and for the maintenance of free baths for the invalid poor of the United States, as provided by acts of Congress.
Approved, June 16, 1880.