Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1837-07-08
p. RUTlLfUSsR. PRAY.
J. MURRAY,
Up. ID, VROON.

AN ACT for the appointment OF Commissioners to
adjust the claims To reservations Oi land under
the fourteenth article OF the treaty Of eig..t-,n
hundred aud thirty with the Choc'aw Indians.
BE IL enacted By the Senate and House Of Repre-
sentGtires the United States Of .7msried in Con-
grea assembled That there shall be- appointed by
the President, by and with the advice and consent
of the Senate, thrce commissioners whose duty il
sharbe To meet IN the State of Mississippi al such
tnR and place, as the President shall appoint and
designate, and there proceed to ascertain the name
ofevcry 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-
Servatlon under said treaty, and who can show by
satisfactory evidence that hc or sac complied or
Offered tn comply with all the requisites Of the four
teenth article oi said treaty, To- entc hlnf or her,
to reservation under sand article; aud also the
number and names of all the unmarried children ol
such heads ottamIhes, who iormtd nan OF the
family and were over ten years Of age, and like
wise the number and names Of the children OF such
heads OF Amllies as were under ten years OF age,
and report TO the President, Ia be, by HIM, laid be-
lore Congress, all the names of SUCH Indians, and
the different sections vt land tn which such heads
OF families were respectively entitled together with
the opinions Of the commissioners, and whether
any par, Of said lands have been sold BY the Co
vernment, and the proofs applicable to each case.
SIC q. find be IL further enacted That said
Commissioners shall have iull power 10 summon
and cause ts come before them, such witnesses Il,
! they may deem necessary and 10 have them ex-
amincd ON oath. and ii any witness shall testify
falsely. with an intention to mslead said Commits
sioners, such witness shall bc guilty OF willul and
| corrupt perjury, and shall. 0por conviction before
any Jurisdiction having cognIzance thereof, suffer
the punishment by law inflicted OF those guilty Of
that offence
SLt. 7. .4ndb il further enacted, That nothing
contained in this act sha be so const, ued as TO
sanction what IS called contingent locations which
have been made by George NJ. Martin for the BEN
eht OF such Indians, as were suppose To have been
entitled 10 other lands, which have been sold by the
United States, such contingent locations having
been made, without any legal authority. II being
the true intent of tins act to reserve to Congress
the power OF doing that which way appear Just
when correct knowledge OF all the facts is OBJ
tanned,
ARTICLE II. Each Ciocinw head Of a family be-
ing DESTROYS tn remain aud become Il citizen Of the
Sa rs shall be permitted 10 do So by sgnilylng hi,
enttntlon to the Agent, within six months from the
ratification of this treaty. and he or she shall there
upon be entitled 10 reservation Of one section o
six hundred and forty acres TO be bounded by sec.
t0nal lines of survey, in like shall be emit.
tied to one hall that quantity for each unmarried
| cllid, which Is llyln with hun over ten years O
age, aud quarter Sc cton Ia such child as may be
under 10 Years Of age. TO adJoin the location Of The
| parent.
tthcF reside upon said lands intending 10 be-
come citizens Of the United States Tor five years af
ter the ratification OF this treaty, IN that case grant
| in ite simple shall issue, said reservation shah in
cluile the present Improvement of 'he head Of the
family or portion oft, persons who claims under
the article shall not los, the privilege Of Chocmw
citizen, but they remove are not to be entitled 10
any portion Of the Chactaw annuity.
" The Southern Argus, at Columbus Mi.sis-
sippian at Jackson Clarion, at Pauldng, and Ga
zette, at Little Rock, Arkansas, will publish the
above until further orders from the Commissioners
july 1, 1897 5i-tf