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A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE PLACEMENT OF LAND IN TRUST - BECK'S MILL 39.2 ACRES IN DELAWARE COUNTY
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WHEREAS, the Cherokee Nation since time immemorial has exercised the sovereign rights of self-government in behalf of the Cherokee people;
WHEREAS, the Cherokee Nation is a federally recognized Indian Nation with a historic and continual government to government relationship with the United States of America;
WHEREAS, Cherokee Nation acquired property in Delaware County, Oklahoma. The property has a rich history as a trading post with a grain mill being operated in the 1800s. The property known as Beck’s Mill is located along Flint Creek in southern Delaware County. The property is north of Highway 412. There are no intact remaining structures of Beck’s Mill Trading Post or Mill. The Delaware County property is further described as follows:
Indian Meridian, Oklahoma, Delaware County
Township 20 North, Range 24 East,
Section 24, Part SW4 NW4, more particularly described as follows:
A tract of land in the NW1/4 BEGINNING at a POINT on the southwest corner of the SW4 NW4;
THENCE, east 1300 feet;
THENCE north 81.83 feet;
THENCE west 1300 feet;
THENCE south 81.83 feet to the POINT OF BEGINNING (Warranty Deed recorded at Book 1966, Pages 299-300);
AND
N2 NW4 SW4, LESS AND EXCEPT the east 20 feet of the N2 NW4 SW4 (Warranty Deed recorded at Book 1966, Pages 299-300);
AND
S2 NW4 SW4, Subject to an existing Road (Filed at Book 106, Page 164), LESS AND EXCEPT the east 20 feet of the NW4 SW4, (Warranty Deed recorded at Book 1966, Pages 301);
AND
LESS AND EXCEPT a tract of land in the NW4 SW4 more particularly described as follows, to-wit:
BEGINNING at the southwest corner of NW4 SW4;
THENCE, approximately 246 feet east along the south boundary of NW4 SW4 to the west end of Old State Highway #33 bridge across Flint Creek;
THENCE, meandering northerly along the edge of the Bluff forming the west shoreline of said Flint Cre...
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