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

ana regulations az AhlG CONVENTION
may prescribe, not in conflict with
this act or with the several trea-
ties between said nations and the
| United States, upon tho ratification
! or rejection OF the constitution
which may be framed.
| SEC. 3. That the secretary Of
the interior is hereby authorized
and required to enter into ncgotia-
tions with the Osag0 Indians, and
with other Indian tribes located
| in the proposed state, not mem
toned in the foregoing section,
with a view to securing proper
representation Of all of such tribes
| in said 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 entl-
tied to two delegates in said con-
vention. 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 sec
ton.
SEC. 4. That the delegates to the
convention elected or 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 of the Unit
ed States; whreupon the said con-
vention shall be, and is hereby au-
thorized to form 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 and the people of
said states.
First. That perfect liberation 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
,l.ssiaim4ll rightsnd 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
tribe; 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 or reserved for its !
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 /
relations and has obtained from
the United States, from said state
or from any person title thereto, I
by patent or other grant, save and
except such lands as have been
or may be granted to any Indian
or Indians under any act of con-
gress containg a provision exempt
ing the lands thus granted from
taxation but said ordinance shall
provide that such lands shall be
exempt from taxation by said state
SO long and to such extent as such
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.
SEC. 8. 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
of each nation and
tribe. respectively. or of said pro-
posed state, as may be provided in
said constitution; and the United
States, upon the admission of said I
state into the union, hereby ex- .
pressly relinquishes all right of
reversion in or to said lands, and ,
all right 20 limit or control the
thereof. 1t is further /:
provided that. upon the admis-
sion Of said state into the union, :
the United States will hold, at {
the request Of the tribe or tribes
all funds which may {