Chapter 168. To provide for the disposal of public reservations in vacated town sites or additions to town sites in the Territory of Oklahoma
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CHAP. 168.— An Act To provide for the disposal of public reservations in vacated town sites or additions to town sites in the Territory of Oklahoma.May 11, 1896. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That in all cases where a town Oklahoma. Homestead entry authorized on vacated town sites. Vol. 26, p. 91. site, or an addition to a town site, entered under the provisions of section twenty-two of an Act entitled “An Act to provide a temporary government for the Territory of Oklahoma, to enlarge the jurisdiction of the United States court in the Indian Territory, and for other purposes,” approved May second, eighteen hundred and ninety, shall be vacated in accordance with the laws of the Territory of Oklahoma, and patents for the public reservations in such vacated town site, or addition thereto, have not been issued, it shall be lawful for the Commissioner of the General Land Office, upon an official showing that such town site, or addition thereto, has been vacated, and upon payment of 117FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Chs. 168, 169, 175. 1896. the homestead price for such reservations, to issue a patent for such reservations to the original entryman. If the original entryman shall fail or neglect to make application for Sales in open market. the reservations within six months from the vacation of such town site, or from the passage of this Act, the reservations shall be subject to disposal under the provisions of section twenty-four hundred and fifty-five R. S., sec. 2455, p. 449.
Vol. 28, p. 687. of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by the Act approved February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five. Sec. 2. That if a patent has already issued, or shall hereafter issue, Public sales of vacated lands. for any such reservation, to any town or municipality, such town or municipality, upon the vacation of the town site or addition thereto, as aforesaid, may sell the same at public or private sale to the highest bidder after thirty days’ public notice of such sale, and convey said lands to the purchaser by proper deed of conveyance, and cover the proceeds of such sale into the school fund of such town or municipality: *Provided,* That where, by reason of the vacation of an entire town site *Proviso.* Sales of isolated tracts. and all its additions, the municipal organization has ceased to exist, the reservations in such vacated town site which may have been patented to the town may be disposed of as isolated tracts under the provisions of section twenty-four hundred and fifty-live of the Revised Statutes of R.
S., sec. 2455, p. 449. Vol. 28, p. 687. the United States, as amended by the Act approved February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five. Sec. 3. That all laws and parts of laws, in so far as they conflict Repeal. with this Act, are hereby repealed. Approved, May 11, 1896.