Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1842-10-01
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| PUBLIC-NO. 81.
AN ACT to provide for the satisfaction
of claims arising under the fourteenth
and nineteenth articles Of the treaty of
Dancing Rabbit creek, concluded in Sep
TENDER, one thousand eight hundred and
thirty.
Be ii enacted byMe Senate and House of
Representatives Of the United States of
america, IN Congress assembled, That the
act approved on the third of March, eigh-
teen hundred and thirty-seven, entitled
"An act for the appointment of commits
sioners to adjust the claims to reservations
of land under the fourteenth article of the
treaty of eighteen hundred and thirty.
with the Choctaw Indians, and also the act
approved on the twenty-second day of
February eighteen hundred and thirty
eight, entitled can act to amend an act
entitled an Act for the appointment of
commissioners to adjust the claims to reser-
vations of land under the fourteenth arti-
Gle of the treaty Of eighteen hundred and
thirty, with the Choctaw Indians, 50 far
as the same are not repealed or modified
by the provisions of this act" be, and the
same are hereby, revived and continued in
force until the powers conferred by this
act shall be fully executed, subject, never
theless, to repeal or modification by any act
of Congress, And all the powers and du-
ties of the commissioners are hereby ex-
tended to claims arising under the nine
teenth article Of the said treaty, and under
the supplement to the said treaty, to be ex-
amined in same manner and with the same
effect as in cases arising under the fourteenth
article of the said treaty: Provided, That
the salary of said commissioners shall not
exceed the rate of two thousand five hun
dred dollars per annum.
Sec. .. And be at further enacted That
subpGnas for the attendance of witnesses
before the said commissioners, and pro-
cess to compel such attendance, may be
two of them, under their seals. in the same
manner and with the same effect as ifissued
by courts Of record and may be executed
by the marshal of any district, or by any
sheriff, deputy sheriff, or other peace officer
designated 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 services,
to be paid, on the certificate of the COM
sioners, out of the contingent fund appro-
priated by the fourth section of the act
secondly above recited, which was ap-
proved on the twenty second day Of Feb
ruary, one thousand eight hundred and
thirty eight, and which is revived by this
act: Provided, That nothing herein con-
tanned shall be construed to revive such
portion of the act approved the third day
of March, one thousand eight and thirty
seven, referred to in the first section of
this act, as provides for the employment
and pay of the district attorney of either
Of the districts Of the State Of Mississippi.
Sec. 3. And be 1t further enacted, That
when the said commissioners shall have
ascertained that any ChoCtaw has COM
piled or offered to comply with all the re-
quisites Of the fourteenth article of the
said treaty, TO entitle him to any reserva-
ton under that article--which requisites
are as follows, to-wit: that said Chcctaw
Indian did signify his or her intention to
the agent, in person, or by some person
duly authorized and especially directed by
said Indian 10 signify the intention of said
Indian to become a citizen of the States,
within six months of the date Of the ratlh-
cation of the said treaty, and had his or
her name. within the time of six months
aforesaid, enrolled on the register of the
Indian agent aforesaid for that purpose;
or shall prove, to the entire satisfaction of
the said commissioners and to the Secre-
tary of War, that he or she did signify his
or her intention, within the term Of six
months from the date of the ratification
of the treaty aforesaid, if his or her name
was not enrolled in the register of the agent
aforesaid, but was omitted by said agent;
and, secondly, that said Indian did, at the
date of making said treaty, TO wit, on the
twenty-seventh day of September, eigh.
teen hundred and thirty, have and owr
an improvement in the then Choctaw coun
try; and that, having and owning an i'm
provement, at the place and time aforesaid
did reside upon that identical improve
ment, or part of it, for the term of five
years continuously next after the ratitica
ton of said treaty, to wit, from the twent!
fourth of February, eighteen hundred and
thirty one, to the twenty-fourth of Feb
ruary, eighteen hundred and thirty-slx, un
less il shall be made to appear that suct
Improvement was, before the twenty-tourtl
day of February, eighteen hundred AM
thirty-six, disposed of by the United States
and that the roservee was dlspossessed b!
means of such disposition; and, thirdly
that il shall be made to appear, to the en-
tire satisfaction of said commissioners an,
to the Secretary of War, that said lndia
did not receive any other grant Of LAM
under the provisions of any other articl
of said treaty; and, fourthly, that It shal