Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1886-07-22

nation or tribe, or any courts or
commissions, or its officers or coun-
Gil, Withholding, refusing. and
rejecting and debarring such claim
ant or claimants, tribe or tribes,
from rights aforesaid, this commits
sion shall restore such property or
thing of value to such claimant or
claimants, tribe or tribes, If it can
be done. Ifit cannot be restored or
returned, this commission shall
further investigate the claim or
case rs to value or values, and
shall award damages for the
amount or value of such property
or thing against the Indian nation
or tribe found to have so refused,
withheld, and debarred the claim
ant or claimants, tribe or
tribes, Of rights rs aforesaid:
PrOUtiei, That no punitive
damages shall be awarded; and
such Indian nation, nations,
or tribe shall promptly pay the
amount so found and awarded to
such claimant or claimants, tribe
or tribes, under the direction of the
secretary of the interior. If it is
found by this commission that the
claimant or claimants, tribe or
tribes, and those claiming through,
by, and from such claimant or
claimants, tribe or tribes, have no
rights as aforesaid in none or no
one of the said-named Indian ma
tions, this commission shall make
final decision, and order the
clerk to enter of record decree
against such claimant or claimants,
tribe or tribes, and all such shall
be held and regarded as intruders
in the Indian Territory, and all
such shall be removed out of and
from such territory and Indian ma
tions within one year, in accord
ance with the statutes Of the
United States in such cases made
and provided. This commission
shall remain and continue to sit in
the Indian Territory, in the said
Indian nations, until it tries and
finally disposes of all such claims
and cases and applications, when
it shall make a final report to the
secretary of the interior and the
governors or principal chiefs of
each OF the aforenamed Indian ma
tions, in which report it shall state
and recommend such mode, meth
cd, and practice for the trial and
final disposition OF this class of
claims and cases and applications
to be used, adopted, and followed
in such Indian nations inthe future,
and which shall be accepted and
adopted and become the law gov
erning the same hereafter.
Section four authorizes the secre-
tary of the interior to fix the sal
airy of the commission and all 9th
er fees and gives the president
power to remove for cause and to
fill vacancies. and also to finally
receive its report and dissolve the
commission.
Section five relates TO witness
fees, mileage, etc, and prescribes
penalty for certifying to, demand
ing or receiving any illegal fees. 4
y y ANY person or persons who
in any manner threatens, hinders,
obstructs or bribes, or in any man
ner intimidates with threats, his,
her, or their lives, or property,
or person, to obstruct, hinder, and
prevent such person or persons
from attending the trial and exam
ination and testifying in any of
the cases before this commission,
or who commits perjury or subor-
nation of perjury, shall be deem
ed guilty of n crime and on convic-
tion thereof in the said United
States district court for the western
district of Arkansas, shall be i'm
prisoned at hard labor for a period
of time not less than three years
and not more than ten years" =
SEC. 6. That after the trial and
admission Of any claimant, claim
ants, tribe or tribes, in the Chero-
kee nation, including the Delaware,
Shawnee, and freedmen, such may
within six months after the date
of their certificate or certificates,
elect and give notice to the COM
missioner of Indian affairs that
they desire to move to the Nez
Perce reservation, west of ninety.
six longitude, in the Indian Terri
tory, and there all such shall be
allowed to locate and occupy 100
acres of land per capita; and the
president Of the United States
shall issue patents to each who are
twenty-one years old and over, and
he shall hold the remainder of said
land in trust for each and every
one under twenty years of age until
such arrive at such age, when he
shall issue patents to them
and each one Of them; and all
claimant or claimants, tribe or
tribes, from said Cherokee nation,
who shall elect to go on the said
Nez Perez reservation, and shall
occupy, locate and accept a patent
for said amount Of land, and their
dependents, shall be held thereaf-
ter to be forever barred from
claiming, owning, or participating
in the distribution of any Cherokee
Indian monies or lands now or
hereafter belonging to or coming to
the Cherokee Indians in the Indian
Territory; and all such persons
shall not thereafter be subject to
the laws Of the Cherokee nation in
the Indian Territory: PrOuided,