Osage Nation, Oklahoma, Deeds:  J. R. Pearson Town Lot Deed

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Town Lot Deed
Town of Pawhuska, Osage Reservation
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From
The Osage Townsite Commission
To 
J. R. Pearson
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Oklahoma Territory
Osage Indian Reservation
The within instrument was filed for record on the 14th day of August, 1906, 
at 10 o'clock am., and duly recorded in Book 2 on page 117.
E. Yates
Register of Deeds
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Fee 1.00 Due
Return to J. R. Pearson
Pawhuska, O.T.
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Department of the Interior
Office of Indian Affairs,
April 9, 1906
The within deed is respectfully submitted to the Secretary of the Interior 
with the recommendation that it be approved.
C. Hattabee
Acting Commissioner
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Department of the Interior
Apr 23, 1906
The within deed is hereby approved.
Thos Ryan
First Assistant Secretary
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TOWN LOT DEED.

Town of Pawhuska,
Osage Reservation, Oklahoma

To all to whom these presents shall come, greeting:

Whereas, the act of Congress approved March 3, 1905 (33 Stats., 1048, 1061), 
provides for the creation of an Osage Townsite Commission, consisting of 
three members, one of whom shall be the United States Indian Agent at the 
Osage Agency; and

Whereas, the undersigned were constituted a Commission under said provision; 
and 

Whereas, said act further provides that the Secretary of the Interior shall 
reserve from selection and allotment the south half of section four and the 
north half of section nine, township twenty-five north, range nine east, of 
the Indian Meridian, as the townsite of Pawhuska, except certain parcels of 
land therein mentioned; and

Whereas, said act further provides that said townsite shall be surveyed and 
appraised and laid off into lots, blocks, streats, and alleys, and the lots 
thereunder sold by the said Townsite Commission; and

Whereas, said act further provides that any person, church, school, or 
other association in possession of any of said lots, and having permanent 
improvements thereon, shall have a preference right to purchase the same at 
the appraised value; and

Whereas, J. R. Pearson was in possession of the lot or lots herein 
described and had permanent improvements thereon at the date of said act 
of Congress, and has paid the appraised value of said lot or lots:

Now, therefore, we, W. L. Miller, Ret Millard, and Julian Trumbly, 
constituting the Osage Township Commission, by virtue of the power and 
authority vested in us by the said act of Congress and by the Secretary of 
the Interior, have granted and conveyed, and by these presents do grant 
and convey, unto the said J. R. Pearson all the right, title, and interest 
of the United States and the Osage Indians in and to the following lots in 
the townsite of Pawhuska, Osage Reservation, to wit, Lot ten (10) and west 
half (1/2) of eleven (11) of Block Sixty-six (66); Lot one (1), thirteen 
(13) fourteen (14), fifteen (15), and sixteen (16) of Block no. one hundred 
and three (103) to have and to hold the same unto the said J. R. Pearson, 
his heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns forever, subject, 
however, to the provisions of the said act of Congress and to the approval 
of the Secretary of the Interior.

In witness whereof, we, the said Osage Townsite Commission, 
Have hereunto set our hands and seals this 27th
Day of March, 1906.
W. L. Miller
Ret Millard
Julian Trumbly
Osage Townsite Commission.

Witnesses:
J G. Williamson
A. W. Hurley
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Oklahoma Territory
Pawnee County

Be it Remembered, that on this 27th day of March, A. D., 1906, before the 
undersigned, a notary public in and for the county and Territory aforesaid, 
personally appeared W. L. Miller, Ret Millard, and Julian Trumbly, to me 
personally known as the persons they represented themselves to be, and in 
my presence executed the within instrument of writing and duly acknowledged 
the execution of the same.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name on the day and 
year last above written.
A. W. Hurley
Notary Public