§ 151. — Acquisition; payment.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[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.
