The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1842-10-18
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Passed at the Second Session Of 27h
Congress.
[oFFIcIAL PUBLICATION.
GPUBLIC No. ST.

GPUBLIc No. 81.
AN ACT TO provide for the satisfaction of
claims arising under the fourteenth and
nineteenth articles of the treaty of Dam
cling Rabbit creek, concluded in Septem-
Der. one thousand eight hundred and
thirty.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
Of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
act argroved on the third of March, eight
cen hundred and thirty seven, entitled San
act for the appointment of Commissioners
TO adjust the claims to the reservations of
and under the fourteenth article of the
treaty of eighteen hundred and thirty, with
the Choctaw Indians, and also the act ap-
proved on the twenty second day of Feb
rIarv, eighteen hundred and thirty eight,
entitled IAN act TO amend an act entitled
AN act for the appointment of commission
ers TO adjust the claims to reservations Of
land under the fourteenth article of the
treaty OF eighteen hundred and thirty, with
the Choctaw Indians so far as the same
are not repealed or modified by the provs-
ions of this act" be and the same are here.
by revived and continued IN force until the
powers conferred by this act shall be fully
executed, subject, nevertheless, to repeal or
modification by any act of Congress. And
all tho powers and duties otthe commits
sioners. arc hereby extended TO claims ari-
sing under the nineteenth article of the said
treaty, and under the supplement to be ex-
ahmed in the same manner and with the
same effect as in cases arising under the
fourteenth article of the said treaty: Pro-
riied, That the salary of said commission
ers shall not exceed the rate Of two thous
and five hundred dollars per annum.
SIC >. And be it further enacted, That
subpGnrs for the attendance of witnesses
before the said commissioners, and process
to compel such attendance, may be issued
BY the said commissioners, or any two of
them, under their seals, in the same man
ner and with the same effect as if issued by
courts of record, and may be executed by
the marshall of any district, or by any sher'
if, deputy sheriff. or other peace officer de-
sgnatcd by the said commissioners, who
shall receive for such services, the same
fees as are allowed in the district court of
the United States for the district in which
the same shall be rendered for similar servi
cos, TO be paid, on the certificate of the
commissioners, out of the contingent fund
appropriated by the fourth section ofthe act
secondly above recited, which was appro'
we'd on the twenty second Gay of February,
one thousand eight hundred and thirty
eight, and which is revived by this act :
Provided, That nothing herein contained
shall be construed 10 revive such portion OF
the act approved the third of March, one
thousand eight hundred and thirty seven,
referred 10 in the first section of this act
as provides for the employment and pay
Of the district attorney of either of the dis
tricts Of the State of Mississippi.
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, Thai
when the said commissioners shall have as
certained that any Choctaw has complied
or offered to comply with all the requisite:
OF The fourteenth article of the said treaty
TO cnttle him TO any reservation under tina
artlcle-which requisites are as follows, t.
wit That said Choctaw Indian did signif,
his or her intentions 10 the agent, in per
son, or by some person duly authorized anC
especially directed by said Indian TO sign
fly the intention of said Indian to become ;
citizen ofthe States, within six months o
the date of the ratification of the said treat
J, and had his or her name, within the
lime of Sin months aforesaid, enrolled or
the register of the Indian agent aforesaid
Tor that purpose; or shall prove to the entire
gofru g.
TO the Secretary of War, that he or she
did signify his or her intention, within the
term OF SIX months from the date of tht
ra'ihca'ion OF the treaty aforesaid, if his Of
her name was not enrolled in the registe
OF the agent aforesaid, but was omitted b,
SAID agent; and secondly, that said lndiay
did, at the date of making said t,oat,- :,
wit, on the twenty seventh dav Of So,
Der eighteen hundred and thirty. have =,
own an improvement in the then Choc,aS
country; and that, having and owning a,
Improvement at the place and time afore
said, cid reside upon that Identical improv,
ment, or part Of it, for the term of fiy
years continuously next after the rattle;
ZION OF said treaty, TO wit, from the twent
ieurth of February, eighteen hundred an
'hir'y one to the twenty fourth of Febru;
iiy'elghteen hundred and thirty six, unle.
shall be made TO appear that such in
Plo'ement was, before the twenty fourt
Gay OF February, eighteen hundred an
niI'y SIX disposed of by the United State
anu 'nat the reservee was 6ispossessed
means OF such disposition; and. thirdly, thu
II shail be made to appear, to the entire sa
'a'u0n OF SAID commissioners, and to til