Chapter 554. To grant certain lands to the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Oklahoma for college farm and experiment station purposes
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CHAP. 554.— An Act To grant certain lands to the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Oklahoma for college farm and experiment station purposes. February 8, 1905. [[H. R. 17769](/us/bill/58/hr/17769).] [[Public, No. 56](/us/pl/58/56).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That all of section sixteen, Oklahoma. School lands granted to Agricultural and Mechanical College of. Vol. 26, p. 89. of township nineteen north, range two east of the Indian meridian in Oklahoma Territory, being a portion of the lands reserved to said Territory for the purposes of common schools, be, and the same is hereby, granted to the Agricultural and Mechanical College of said Territory for college farm and experiment station purposes, but no indemnity shall be allowed for this section.
Sec. 2. That the leases to the present tenants thereon, made by the Pending leases not affected. board for leasing school lands of the Territory of Oklahoma, shall remain in full force and effect until their respective expirations, and that the chief justice of the supreme court of said Territory, the secretary Board of arbitration. of the board for leasing school lands, and one person to be selected by the tenants upon said lands shall, within sixty days prior to the expiration of each such lease, fix the value of the improvements Payments for improvements. thereon belonging to each such leaseholder, and the board of regents of said college shall immediately pay the amount so fixed, and thereupon shall have immediate possession: *Provided*, That if said tenants *Provisos*.
Vacancy. shall fail to select a person to serve upon such board of arbitration sixty days prior to the expiration of any lease, the governor of the Territory shall serve as such member: *And provided also*, That nothing Removal of improvements. in this Act shall be construed to abridge the lawful right of any tenant to remove all of his improvements prior to the expiration of his lease, if he shall elect to do so, instead of accepting the award of the arbitrators. Approved, February 8, 1905.