Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1890-01-02


may prescribe, not in conflict with
this act OF with the several trea-
ties between said nations and the
United States, upon the ratification
or rejection of the constitution
which NAV be framed.
SEC. 3. That the secretary of
the interior is hereby authorized
and required to enter into negOtil-
tions with the Usage Indians, and
with other Indian tribes. located
in the proposed state, not men,
toned in the foregoing section,
with a view to securing proper
representation of all of such tribes
in ssid convention. That each of
said tribes located in said pro-
posed state shall be entitled to one
/ delegate in said convention, and
the Usage Indians shall be enii-
tied to two delegates in said con-
veniion. That the delegates in
this section provided for shall be
elected or appointed in such man
ner as may be agreed upon by the
secretary of the interior and each
Of said tribes, and the delegates so
elected or appointed shall be en-
titled to the same rights and privi-
leges as other delegates to said
convention from the FIVE nations
provided for in the foregoing SET
ton.
SEC. 4. That the ;legates to the
convention elected OF appointed as
provided for in this act shall meet
at Muskogee, in the Creek nation,
on the first Tuesday in January,
eighteen hundred and ninety-one,
and, after organization, shall de-
clare, on behalf Of the people of
said proposed state, that they
adopt the constitution cf the Unit
ed States; whreupon the said con-
vention shall be, and is hereby au-
thOrized TO form q constitution and
state government for said proposed
state. The constitution shall be
republican in form and make no
distinction in civil or political
rights on account Of race or color,
except as to Indians not taxed, and
not repugnant TO the constitution
ofthe United States and the prin-
ciples of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence; and said convention
shall provide by ordinance irrevO-
cable without the consent OF the
United States ana the people of
said states.
First. That perfect toleration Of
religious sentiments shall be Sc
cured, and that no inhabitant Of
said state shall ever be molested in
person or property on account Of
his or her mode Of religious wor-
ship.
Second. That the people in
habiting said proposed state do
agree and declare that they forever
disclaim all right and title to the
inappropriate public lands be-
longing to the United States, lying
within the boundaries thereof, and
which are not ceded by letters
patent to any Indian nation or
tribs; and that until the title there
to shall have been extinguished by
the United States, the same shall
be and remain subject to the dis
position of the United States, and
said lands shall remain under the
absolute jurisdiction and control
Of the congress of the United
States; that the lands belonging TO
citizens Of the United States resid-
ing without said state shall never
be taxed at a higher rate than
lands belonging to residents there
of: that no taxes shall be imposed
by the state on lands or property
therein belonging to, or which may
hereafter be purchased by, the
United States OF reserved for lis
use. But nothing herein, or the
ordinance herein provided for,
shall preclude the said state from
taxing as other lands are taxed,
any lands owned or held by any
Indian who has severed his tribal 4
relations and has obtained from /
The United States, from said state /
or from any person title thereto, /
by patent or other grant, save and I
except such lands as have been I
or may be granted to any Indian |
OF Indians under any act of con-
gress cOntaing a provision exempt /
ing the lands thus granted from 4
taxation but said ordinances shall |
provide that such lands shall be I
exempt from taxation by said state i
so long and to such extent as such I
act OF congress may prescribe.
Third. That the debts and liza
bilities of said nations and tribes
shall be assumed and paid by
said state.
Fourth. That provision shall
be made for the establishment and
maintenance of systems of public
schools, which shall be open to all
children of said state, and free
from sectarian control.
SIC. >. That upon the admis-
sion Of sail proposed state into
the Union as provided for in this
act, the lands therein which have
been ceded to any Indian nation
or tribe by the United States by
letters patent and not reconveyed
to the United States, shall be sub
ject to the absolute control and
disposition of each nation and
tribe, respectively, or of said pro-
posed state, rs may be provided in
said constitution; and the United
States, upon the admission of said
state into the union, hereby ex-
pressly relinquishes all right Of
reversiOn in or to said lands. and
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