Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1837-11-11
P. RUTILIUS H. PRAY.
J. MURRAY,
Z. ID. YROOM.

AN All for the appointment OF Commissioners to
adjust the claims to reservations OF land under
the fourteenth article of the treaty Of eighteen
hundred and thirty with the Choctaw Indians.
BE 10 enacted by the Senate and House Of Repre-
sctatves Of The United States Of .anerica in Con-
gress assembled, That there shall be appointed by
the President, by and with the advice and consent
of the Senate, three commissioners whose duty it
shall DO TO meetm the State Of Mississippi at such
time and place, as the President shall appoint and
designate, and there proceed to ascertain the name
ofcvery Choctaw Indian who was the head of an
Indian family at the date Of the treaty at Dancing
Rabbit Creek, who has not already obtained re-
servaton under said treaty, and who can show by
satisfactory evidence that he or she complied or
offered to comply with all the requisites of the four
tcenth article Of said treaty. to entitle him or her,
to reservation under said article; and also the
number and names ofall the unmarried children of
such heads ofiamllies who lEmed part of the
family and were over ten years Of are, and like
wise the number and names of the children Of such
heads OF families as were under ten wears of are,
and report TO the President, TO be- BY him, laid be-
fore Congress, all the names oil such Indians, and
the different sections 0tand 10 which such heads
Of families were respectively entitled, together with
the opinions of the commissioners and whether
any part Of said lands have been sold by the CO.
vernment and the proofs applicable TO each case
SEC. D. find be u further enacted, That said
Commissioners shall have full power to summon
and cause to come before them, such witnesses MS
they may deem necessary, and to have them ex-
ahmed on oath, and IL any witness shall testify
falsely, with an intention TO misead said Commits
sioners, such witness shall be guilty of wilml and
corrupt perjury, and shall, upon conviction before
any jurisdiction having cognizance thereof suffer
the punishment by law inflicted on those guilty Of
that offence.
SEc. !, -andhe IL further enacted, That nothing
contained in this act shall be so construed nd to
sanction what is CALLED contingent locations which
have oeen made by George w. Martin for the hem
eht o. such Indians, as were supposed to have been
entitled TO other lands, which have been sold nv the
United States, such contingent locations having
been made, without any legal authority. II heinz
The true intent Of this act to reserve to Congress-
the power of doing that which way appear i,,st
when. correct knowledge Of all the facts IS Oh
tanned.
l4th ARTICLE
ARTICLE II. Each Choctaw head of family he-
ing DESTROYS TO remain and become citizen az thr
states shall be permitted to do So BY sisnilynp his
intention 10 the Agent, within six months from the
railhcauoli OF this treaty. and he or she shall there
upon DC entitled to reservation of one section Of
SIX hundred and ierty acres to be bounded by sec.
tonal lines of survey in like manner shall be emit.
tied to one half that quantity for each unmarried
child which is living with him over ten wears az
age, and quarter section to such child as NAV be
under 10 years Off age to aJon the location Of the
darent. = ~
IL they reside upon said lands intending 10, be-
come cluzens Of the United States for FIVE years az
!er lhe rauiicaon of this treaty. in that case grant
IN ice SIMPLE shall issue, said reservation shall in
cluae The present improvement of the head of the
fanny or portion OF it, persons who claim under
sie aruGe snail not lose the privilege of Choctaw
o.u]en, put u tney remove are not TO be entitled to
any PARTON 81 tlle Choctaw annuity.
July |, 1897 n-,r