Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1837-07-22
?. RUTILIuSIR. PRAY.
J. MURRAY,
tP. ID. VR0OM.

AN All Tor The appointment OF Commissioners :.
adjust the claims to reservations of land ma,
the fourteenth article of the treaty of cirbto"r
hundred and thirty with the Choc,aw Indians
Be ii enacted By the Senate and House Of R<n..
SentGtires Of the United States of america IN r.
gress assembled, That there shall be appointed /.
the President, by and with the advice and conss,,
of the Senate, three commissioners whose dnv
shalt be TO meet in the State of Mississippi al sr,
time and place, as The President shall appoint asi .
designate, and there proceed 10 ascertain the Dams
olevery Ch0ctaw Indian who was the head of an
Indian family at the date of the treaty at DanciDs
Rabbit Creek, who has not already obtained n.
servation under said treaty, and who can show h.
satisfactory evidence that he or she complied q
offered to comply with all the requisites of the four
teenth article of said treaty, to entitle him or he,
to reservation under said articles; and also ds
number and names Of all the unmarried children
such heads. OF families, who formed part ofNr
family and were over ten years Of age, and like
wise the number and names of the children of sue
heads OF families as were under ten years of ace
and report to the President, to be, BY him, laid b.
fore Congress, all the names of such Indians, and
the different sections ofland to which such heads
OF iamllles were respectively entitled together with
the Opinions Of the commissioners, and whether
any part of said lands have been sold by the Go
vernment, and the proofs applicable to each case.
SEC. 6. lind be it further enacted, That said
commissioners shall have full power 10 summon
and cause To come before them, such witnesses a,
'hey may deem necessary, and TO have them ey
ahmed ON oath, and if any witness shall testif
falsely, with an intention 10 miSlead said Commk
sloneTs, such witness shall be guilty of wilm and
corrupt perjury, and shall, upon conviction before
any jurisdiction having cognizance thereof suffer
the punishment by law inflicted on those cuiItyo
that offence.
SEC. Z. .4ndbe il further enacted, That nolhn,
contained in. this act shall be so construed mh
| 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 beef
entitled to other lands, which have been sold bv TN
United States such contingent locations havin
been made, without any legal authority. Ii beip,
the true intent of this act to reserve To CONGRESS
the power of doing that which way appear n,s
when correct knowledge Of all the facts is OBJ
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ARTICLE IA. Each Chociaw head of family be.
ing DESTROYS TO remain and become II citizen of Is
states shall be permitted To do so, by signyng his
entcntOn To the Agent, within six months from the
ratification ofths treaty, and he or she shall there.
upon BE- entitled to reservation Of one section Of
six hundred and forty acres, to be bounded BY sec.
tional lines OF survey, in like manner shall be emf.
tied to one half that quantity for each unmarried
clnld, which is Twin with him over ten years Of
age, and quarter sc ctiOn to such child as may he
under 10 years of age to adjoin the location of The
parent.
llthey reside upon said lands intending to be-
come citizens the United States for five Years al.
Ter The ratification of this treaty. in that case Grant
IN lee simple shall ISSUE said reservation shall in.
clide the present Improvement of the head Of the
iamlIy or portion oft, persons who claims under
the article shall not los, the privilege of Choctaw
czen but II they remove are not to be entitled to
any portion Of the Choctaw annuity.
70 The Southern Argus, at Columbus. Misss.
sipplan at Jackson, Clarion at Pauding, and Ga.
zette, at Little Rock, Arkansas, viii publish the
above until further orders from the Commissioners
july l, 1887 Sill