Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1842-10-01


be made TO appear, in like manner that
SAID Indian did not remove to the Choctaw
country west of the Mississippi river, but
ne or she had continued TO reside within
the limits OF the country ceded by the
Choctaw Indians to the United States by
said treaty of twenty-seventh September,
IN the year eighteen hundred and thirty
IT shall be the duty of said commissioners,
II all and each Of the above requisites
shall be made clearly to appear to their
satisfaction, and the Secretary of War
snail concur Therein, to proceed to ascer-
tam the quantity of land to which said
indian, by virtue Of the fourteenth article
OF the said treaty, is entitled to, which,
when ascertained, shall be located for said
indian, according to sectional lines, so as
to embrace the Improvement. or part Of
it, owned by said Indian at the date of
said treaty; and it shall be the duty Of the
President of the United States to issue a
patent TO said Indian for said land. if he
or she be living, and if not, to his or her
heirs and legal representatives; and in like
manner shall the commissioners aforesaid
ascertain the quantity of land granted by
said article to each child of said Indian,
according to the limitations contained in
said article, and locate said quantity for
said children contiguous TO and adjoining
the improvement of the parent of such
child Or children and the President shall
issue patent for each tract of land thus
located to said Indian child, if living, and
if not, to the heirs and legal representatives
of said Indian child. But if the United
States shall have disposed of any tract of
land to which any Indian was entitled
under the provisions Of said fourteenth ar
tlcie of said treaty, SO that il is now i'm
possible to give said Indian the quantity
to which he was entitled, including his i'm
Provement as aforesaid, or any part of it,
or to his children, on the adjoining lands,
the said commissioner shall thereupon esti-
mate the quantity to which each Indian
is entitled, and allow him or her for the
same a quantity Of land equal to that al
lowed, to be taken out of any of the pub
lie lands in the States of Mississippi, Loui-
slana, Alabama, and Arkansas subject to
entry at private sale; and certificates to
that effect shall be delivered, under the d.
rection Of the Secretary Of War, through
such agent as he may select, not more
than one-half of which shall be delivered
to said Indian until after his removal to the
Choctaw territory west of the Mississippi
river. The said commissioners shall also
ascertain the Choctaws, if any, who re-
linquished or offered to relinquish any re-
servations to which he was entitled under
the nineteenth article of The said treaty.
or whose reservations under that article
had been sold by the United States: and
shall also determine the quantity to which
such claimant was entitled, and the guam
tity of land which should be allowed him
on cXtlngutshment of such claim, at the rate
of two-titths of an acre for every acre of
the land to which said claimant was emit
tied, ga!d land having been estimated under
this article at fifty cents per acre: Prori-
ded, nercrtheleSS, That no claim shall be
considered or allowed by said commission
ers, for or in the name or behalf of any
Indian claimant whose name does not ap-
pear upon the lists or registers Of claimants
made by Major Armstrong, special agent
for that purpose, in conjunction with the
three chiefs of the three Choctaw districts,
and returned to the Department of War
in January, eighteen hundred and thirty
two, and who does not appear from those
registers to be entitled to q reservation
under said nineteenth article.
Sec. /. And he Il further enacted, That
the SAID commissioners, within two years
from the time Of their entering upon the
duties Of their offices. and Gs often as shall
be required by the President Of the United
States, shall report to him their procee-
dIngs il the promises, with full and per
feet list of the names Of all the Choctaws
whom they shall have determined to be en-
titled to reservations under this act; the
quantity of land to which each shall be so
entitled; the number of claims winch can
be located according to the provisions
of the fourth section OF this act, and
such as cannot be located according to
the provisions of the fourth section of this
act; and the powers and duties Of the said
commissioner shall cease at the expiration of
two years from the time of the first organ
ization Of the board and their proceedings
may be terminated by the President al any
time previous to the expiration of the said
two years.
Sec. ;. And be it further enacted, That
the commissioners to be appointed under
this act shall also ascertain and determine
the quantity Of land 10 which any ChoC-
taw or other person named in the supple.
ment to the said treaty of Dancing Rabbit
creek was entitled by virtue thereof, and
which such person has by any means been
prevented from receiving.
Sec. G. And be it further enacted, That
if the President Of the United States shall
approve and confirm the determination of
the commissioners heretofore appropriated
to investigate the claims existing under the
fourteenth article Of the said treaty of
II LII, in hp shall