Columbus Democrat., 1837-11-25
P. RUTILIUS r. PRAY.
]. MURRAY,
= ID. VROOM

AN ACT 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 Choc,aw Indians.
Be il enacted By The Senate and House Of Repre-
senfatiBes Of The United States of Arnerica IN Con
gress assembled, That there shall he appointed hy
the President BY and with the advice and consent
OF the Senate, three commissioners whose duty il
shall he to meet ~ the State of MissSsipp al such
lime and place. as The President shall appoint and
designate, and there proceed TO ascertain the name
ofevery Choctaw IRtan who was The head of an
Indian family atthe date OF the treaty at DANCING
Rabbit Greek, who las not already obtained re-
servatloD under said treaty, aud who can show by
satisfactory evidence that lie or sac complied or
offered to comply with all the requisites Of the four
tenth article Of said treaty, to entte him or her
to reservation under said article; and also the
number and names of all the unmarried children Of
such heads of famihes, who formed part of the
amIly aud were over ten years of age and like
WISE the number and names of the children OF such
heads ol iamlles ms were under ten years of age
and report to the President 10 be- by him. laid be-
lore Congress, all the names of such Indians and
the different sections OF land to which such heads
ol iarnlcs 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.
49, W. stHU Oc " JWtHeT eWHftCQ, luat said
Commissioners shall have iull power TO summon
and cause ts come before them, such witnesses as
they may deem necessary and to have them ex-
ahmed on OATH and II any witness shall testify
ialseiy, with an intention 10 mslead said Commis-
soners, such witness shall be guilty of willul and
corrupt perjury, and shall, upor conviction before
any jurisdiction having cognizance thereof suffer
the punishment by law inflicted on those guilty of
that offence,
SEC. 4 4ndbe n further enacted, That nothing
contained IN tins art shall be so construed as to
sahctioh what IS called contingent locations which
have been made by George w. Martin for the ben-
eft o such Indians, as were supposed to have been
entitled to other ands which have been sold by the
United States, such contingent locations having
been made, Without any legal authority. 1t being
the true intent this act to reserve to Congress
the power ofdoing that which way appear lust
when correct knowledge of all the facts is OBJ
tanned.
l4th ARTICLE
ARTICLE IL. Each Choctaw head of family be-
ing desirous to remain and become citizen Of the
States shall be permitted to do so, by signyipo his
intention TO the Agent, within six months from The
ratification OF tins treaty, and he or she shall there
upon be entitled TO reservation of one section of
six hundred and forty acres, to be bounded bv sec
tiona lines of survey in like manner shah be enti.
tied TO one half that quantity for each unmarried
child, which is livln with him over ten wears of
age, and quarter section 10 such child as may be
under 10 years of age, to aJjon the location Of the
darent.
II they reside upon said lands intending to be-
,0me citizens Of the United States for five years ai-
or the ratification of this treaty in that case grant
n fee simple shall issue, said reservation shall in
,lule the present improvement Of the head Of the
amily or a portion OF il persons who claim under
the article shall not los, the privilege of Choctaw
citizen, but if they are not to be entitled to
any portion Of the Choctaw annuity.
jul, I, 1887 5i-tf