Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-04
THE COMMISSIONERS.
They Lay Their Proposition to Purchase
Before the Cherokees' Chief.
Chief Mayes and the Executive Council will
Take ii Up Thursday-One of the
Commissioners III.
Special to the Gazette.

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commission, called upon Chief Mayes
last night and presented him with the
following proposition:
''TAHLEQUAH. I. T., Aug. 2, 1883.
ITO Hon. J. B. Mayes, Principal Chief Cherokee
! Nation.
"SIR-We have the honor to aoknowl-
edge the receipt of your letter of the LIST
inst, by which we are advised that
you are the principal chief
of the Cherokee nation and are
| authorized to receive from us such propo-
| sitions as wedeem fit to submit and that
| it will be appreciated by your depart
ment if we will make absolutely explicit
| the presentation of the subject which we
wish to submit, giving full details of the
law under which we act, our authority
hereunder and our instructions
in the premises; and that
it will give you pleasure when you
shall have been properly advised
in the premises, SO that you might intel
ligently advise us as to the status of the
laws of the nation thereto and when and
to whom it will become your duty as
| principal chief under the laws and con-
stitution of the Cherokee nation to refer
our proposition.
In response thereto we have the honor
to inform you that the law under which
this commission acts is Section IA
of an act of congress approved March 2
1889. This commission was appointed
by the president of the United States I'M
der that section, as you have already
seen by letter from the secretary of the
interior dated July 2, 1889. The instruc-
lions of the commission in the premises
are as follows: You will therefore pre-
sent to the Cherokee nation
proposition to pay to that ma
tion the sum of ST. per acre for
all land covered by the sixteenth article
of the Cherokee treaty of 1866 lying west
of the Arkansas river, deducting the sum
of S728, 3S9 .46 chargeabIe against this
land as herein set forth The Cherokee
nation has received on account of this
land lying west of the Goth deg. Iougi-
tude in addition to the one million paid
by the Usage Indians for their land, and
as to which land the Cherokee nation
has no right, title or interest, thief oil
lowing amounts, namely, the amount
appropriated by an item in an act of con-
gress approved June l6, 1880, to be paid
in the treasury of the Cherokee nation
out of funds due said nation for its lands
in the Indian territory west of the Arkan-
sas river, $500, 900; the amount for theE
lands assigned to the POnca Indians out
of the appropriations made by an item
contained in an act of congress
approved March 30, 1881, S48 389 .46;8
the amount appropriated by an item
contained in act OF congress approved
March 3, 1888, to be paid in the tteasury
Of the Cherokee nation out of the fuads,s
due out of the appraisement for
Cherokee lands west of the Arkan -
sas river, $500 900; the amouut
appropriated by an act of congress
approved October 10, 1888, to pay GER
tain freedmen, Delaware and Shawnee
Indians their proportion of the amount
appropriated by the act of congress APP
proved March 10, 1888, SIS 900; the
amount appropriated by an item con-
tanned in the act approved March 2 1889,
to enable the secretary of the interior to
ascertain who are entitled to part
in the distribution of S75,-
600 appropriated October 10, 1888, $4,000; :
total, SIPS, 389 As. It may require the
whole of the SIS 200 to pay the freed g
men, Delaware and Shawnee Indians and
the appropriation of the $4,000 may not
all be expended in determining who are
entitled to share in the distribution cf
the S75, 600. You will proceed first TO
Tahlequah, I. Z. and submit the pTopO-
sition above set forth to the proper au-
thOrity of the Cherokee nation. Should
that proposition be accepted and the
legislature of that nation is there in ses-
sion, you will request the principal chief
to submit the same for the action of that
party, and should the legislature be not
in session you will urge upon the princi-
pal chief the Importance of converting
the same in extra session, if it
can be done under the laws of
that nation, for the purpose of
acting upon said proposition, and should
that proposition be accepted and ratified
by said legislature. newly certified copy
of the proceedings IN reference thereto
should be obtained and submitted with
your report to this department.
This commission therefore now has the |
honor to tender to the Cherokee
nation the sum of 81 20 per acre
for all their title, claim and |
interest in and to all that part of the In |
dian Territory lying west of the Goth /
deg. of longitude, known as the !
Cherokee outlet, excepting that part of |
the outlet east of the Arkansas river, /
which has heretofore been conveyed and |
paid for. The payment for such title, |
claim or interest is to be made as the /
Cherokee nation may designate /
after proper conveyance or |
treaty shah have been executed |
to the United States |
the aggregate amount to be paid to the |
Cherokee Nation. The computation is to |
be made upon the entire acreage of the |
outlet lying west of the Arkansas river |
at 81 .25 per acre, and from such asgre- !
gate amount there is to be deducted such |
sums as have been heretofore paid to the |
Cherokee nation for the account of land |
in the outlet west of the Arkansas river. |
Very respectfully your obedient servants, |
[ Signed LUCIUs FARCHILD,
A NJ. WILSON,
j Z. HARTRANFT,
Commissioners
Chief Mayes informed the commission |
by letter this morning that he was COM
PEELED to adjourn the executive council /
until next Thursday, and on that day he |
would take up the business of the COM
mission.
Ex-Governor Hartranft left Yesterday !
evening for home on account of i'll health |
and will not return for at least two
weeks.
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