Chapter 408. To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue a patent to the city of Anadarko, State of Oklahoma, for a tract of land, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 408.— An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue a patent to the city of Anadarko, State of Oklahoma, for a tract of land, and for other purposes. June 25, 1910.[[H. R. 18978](/us/bill/61/hr/18978).][[Public, No. 290](/us/pl/61/290).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Public lands. Grant to Anadarko, Okla. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to issue patent to the city of Anadarko, State of Oklahoma, for park, street, and other municipal Description. purposes, to the following-described tract of land, to wit:
Beginning at a stone fifty-two and three-tenths feet south of the southwest corner of block thirty, according to the official plat of the city of Anadarko, State of Oklahoma, thence west one thousand three hundred and twenty and one-tenth feet to a stone, thence north six and thirty-five one-hundredths feet to the right of way of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, thence in a northeasterly direction along said right of way one thousand three hundred and twenty-five feet, thence south one hundred and eighteen and nine-tenths feet to place of beginning, a portion of said tract being in the southwest quarter of section fifteen and a portion of said tract being in the southeast quarter of section sixteen, all in township seven north of range ten west of the Indian meridian, containing one and eighty-nine one-hundredths acres, more or less.
Sec. 2. Sale of lots to Anadarko, Okla. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and is hereby, authorized to make an appraisement of the lands hereinafter described and to sell the said land to the city of Anadarko, State of Oklahoma, at the appraised price thereof, the said lands being as follows, to wit: Description. Lots five, six, seven, and eight in section nine, lot five in section ten, 837 lots six and seven and that part of lots four and five in section fifteen described as follows:
Beginning at a point one hundred and forty and eight-tenths feet west of the southeast corner of lot five and running thence due north one thousand three hundred and sixty feet, thence in a northeast direction eight hundred feet into lot four to a point one hundred and fifty feet due south of the center of the Washita River, thence due north one hundred and fifty feet to the center of said river, thence up said river on a meandering line to a point where said line intersects the west boundary of said lot five, thence south along said boundary one thousand one hundred and fifty feet, thence east along the boundary line between said lot five and the town-site of Anadarko to the place of beginning; also the fractional west half of the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter, of section fifteen, lying north of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway; lots eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, and thirteen, and the west half of the northeast quarter and the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter, and the fractional northeast quarter of the southeast quarter lying north of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway, in section sixteen; all in township seven north, range ten west of the Indian meridian and south of the Washita River, containing four hundred and sixty-four and thirty-two one-hundredths acres of land, more or less, situate in the county of Caddo and the State of Oklahoma, except a tract to be Indian cemetery excepted. designated by the Secretary of the Interior to include the Indian cemetery now located within said tract: *Provided*, That the sale shall *Provisos*.
Terms, etc. be made upon such terms and conditions as to deferred payments as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, with the limitation that not less than twenty per centum of the purchase price shall be paid in cash at the time of sale: *And provided further*, That the Option to Anadarko Commercial Club. said city of Anadarko shall have sixty days from the approval of said appraisement to purchase said tract, and in the event that the same shall not be purchased by said city within said time the Anadarko Commercial Club may make the purchase under the terms described herein, within sixty days from the expiration of the time allowed the city of Anadarko to make such purchase.
Sec. 3. That an appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States Oklahoma eastern district. Appeals to court of appeals in allotment cases. in all suits affecting the allotted lands within the eastern district of Oklahoma or on demurrers in such suits appealed to the United States circuit court of appeals, eighth circuit, is hereby authorized to be made by any of the parties thereto, including appeals from orders reversing judgments of the trial court. Approved, June 25, 1910.