Chapter 227. To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to dispose of a fractional tract of land in the Lawton (Oklahoma) land district at appraised value
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CHAP. 227.— An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to dispose of a fractional tract of land in the Lawton (Oklahoma) land district at appraised value. May 11, 1910.[[H. R. 23422](/us/bill/61/hr/23422).][[Public, No. 172](/us/pl/61/172).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of the Public lands. Sale to Lawton, Okla. Interior is hereby authorized and directed to cause an appraisement and sale to be made to the city of Lawton, Oklahoma, at the appraised value of one certain fractional tract of land described as follows:
Beginning at a point two hundred and seventy feet east and four hundred Description. and fourteen feet south of the four section corners between sections nineteen, twenty, twenty-nine, and thirty, respectively, in township two north, range eleven west, Comanche County, Oklahoma; thence southeasterly four thousand nine hundred and ninety feet along the west boundary line of the Saint Louis and San Francisco Railway Company right of way to a point where said west boundary line of said railway crosses the south boundary line of the southwest quarter of section twenty-nine, township two north, range eleven west, Indian meridian, Comanche County, Oklahoma; thence westerly one thousand four hundred and fifty-one feet along the south boundary line of said southwest quarter section twenty-nine, township two north, range eleven west, Indian meridian, to a point where the east line of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway right of way crosses the south boundary line of the said quarter section; thence northeasterly four thousand eight hundred and fifty and sixty-five one-hundredths feet along the east boundary line of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway right of way to the place of beginning, consisting of seventy-five and thirty-eight hundredths acres of land, more or less, situated in Comanche County, Oklahoma: *Provided*, That the land *Provisos*.
Appraisal. shall be appraised at its agricultural value exclusive of any additional value by reason of wells, tanks, pumps, vats, and other expenditures and improvements made or erected by the said city of Lawton, Oklahoma, in their use of said tract as an auxiliary water-pumping station: *Provided further*, That the city of Lawton shall have six months from Option for purchase. date of appraisement to purchase said tract. Approved, May 11, 1910.