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[CITE: 16USC151]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
      SUBCHAPTER XVI--CESSION OF INDIAN LANDS AT SULPHUR, OKLAHOMA
 
Sec. 151. Acquisition; payment

    The Choctaw and Chickasaw Tribes absolutely and unqualifiedly 
relinquish, cede, and convey unto the United States a tract or tracts of 
land at and in the vicinity of the village of Sulphur, in the Chickasaw 
Nation, of not exceeding six hundred and forty acres, to be selected, 
under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, and to embrace all 
the natural springs in and about said village, and so much of Sulphur 
Creek, Rock Creek, Buckhorn Creek, and the lands adjacent to said 
natural springs and creeks as may be deemed necessary by the Secretary 
of the Interior for the proper utilization and control of said springs 
and the waters of said creeks, which lands shall be so selected as to 
cause the least interference with the contemplated town site at that 
place consistent with the purposes for which said cession is made. The 
ceded lands shall be held, owned, and controlled by the United States 
absolutely and without any restriction, save that no part thereof shall 
be platted or disposed of for town-site purposes during the existence of 
the two tribal governments. There shall be deposited in the Treasury of 
the United States, to the credit of the two tribes, from the 
unappropriated public moneys of the United States, $20 per acre for each 
acre so selected, which shall be in full compensation for the lands so 
ceded, and such moneys shall, upon the dissolution of the tribal 
governments, be divided per capita among the members of the tribes, 
freedmen excepted, as are other funds of the tribes. Until otherwise 
provided by law, the Secretary of the Interior may, under rules 
prescribed for that purpose, regulate and control the use of the water 
of said springs and creeks and the temporary use and occupation of the 
lands so ceded. No person shall occupy any portion of the lands so 
ceded, or carry on any business thereon, except as provided in said 
rules, and until otherwise provided by Congress the laws of the United 
States relating to the introduction, possession, sale, and giving away 
of liquors or intoxicants of any kind within the Indian country or 
Indian reservations shall be applicable to the lands so ceded. Nothing 
contained in this section shall be construed or held to commit the 
Government of the United States to any expenditure of money upon said 
lands or the improvements thereof, except as provided herein, it being 
the intention of this provision that in the future the lands and 
improvements herein mentioned shall be conveyed by the United States to 
such Territorial or State organization as may exist at the time when 
such conveyance is made.

(July 1, 1902, ch. 1362, Sec. 64, 32 Stat. 655; June 16, 1906, ch. 3335, 
Secs. 13, 14, 34 Stat. 275; June 29, 1906, No. 42, 34 Stat. 837; Proc. 
Nov. 16, 1907, 35 Stat. 2160; June 25, 1948, ch. 646, Sec. 39, 62 Stat. 
992; Pub. L. 94-235, Sec. 5, Mar. 17, 1976, 90 Stat. 236.)

                          Codification

    Section is from section 64 of act July 1, 1902, which was part of an 
agreement between the United States and the Choctaw and Chicasaw tribes 
of Indians, ratified by and included in that Act.
    The following provisions contained in this section as originally 
enacted were omitted as temporary and executed:
    A provision that the selection of lands by the Secretary of the 
Interior should be within four months after the ratification of the 
agreement aforesaid; a provision, following the words of the present 
section reading ``the two tribal governments'' for the disposition of 
such other lands as might be embraced in a town site at that point; a 
provision that the deposit in the Treasury to the credit of the two 
tribes should be within ninety days after the selection of the land; and 
a provision for the appraisal of and reimbursement for all improvements 
lawfully upon the lands selected.
    A provision of the original text that the land should remain within 
the jurisdiction of the United States court for the southern district of 
the Indian Territory was changed to read as set out herein by virtue of 
sections 13 and 14 of the Oklahoma Enabling Act of June 16, 1906, and 
the Executive Proclamation of Nov. 16, 1907, declaring the admission of 
Oklahoma to the Union.


                               Amendments

    1948--Act June 25, 1948, struck out sentence placing lands within 
jurisdiction of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern 
District of Oklahoma.

                         Change of Name

    Platt National Park designation repealed and areas formerly known as 
Platt National Park made an integral part of Chickasaw National 
Recreation Area by Pub. L. 94-235, Sec. 5. See section 460hh-4 of this 
title.


                    Effective Date of 1948 Amendment

    Section 38 of act June 25, 1948, provided that the amendment made by 
that act is effective Sept. 1, 1948.


                                 Repeals

    Pub. L. 94-235, Sec. 5, repealed act June 29, 1906, No. 42, 34 Stat. 
837, cited as a credit to this section, under which the Sulphur Springs 
Indian Reservation had been renamed Platt National Park, in honor of 
Orville Hitchcock Platt, former Senator from Connecticut ``and for many 
years a member of the Committee on Indian Affairs, in recognition of his 
distinguished services to the Indians and to the country.''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 152 of this title.
