§ 8-81. Indian lands reserved for rural cemeteries - Title to county commissioners in trust - Conveyance to cemetery corporations.  


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  • Where tracts of land have been reserved from allotment of Indian land by any treaty or agreement by and between the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek or Muskogee, Seminole, or any other Indian Tribes within the State of Oklahoma, and the United States, or by any Act of Congress, for rural cemeteries, and no cemetery corporation has been formed as is now provided by law to which title can be made, the title thereto may be made to the board of county commissioners of the county in which any tract of land reserved is situated, in trust for the use of the local community for cemetery purposes, and when a cemetery corporation has been formed for any such reserved tract of land, the board of county commissioners shall, without charge or fee, convey the title to said land to the cemetery corporation.

Laws 1913, c. 67, p. 105, § 1.