Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-08-07
PE0RIa anD uIaJaI LGAD SaLES
RULES AND REGULATIONS


RULES AND REGULATIONS
To be observed in the conveyance
of lands allotted TO members of the
Peoria and Miami tribes of Indians
within the Peoria reservation of the
Quapaw Agency, Indian Territory,
who have each received allotments
of two hundred acres or more, as
authorized by the act of June Z, 1897:
First-The deed or instrument of
conveyance must be executed in the
presence of two subscribing wit
nesses and acknowledged before
the agent for the Quapaw Agency,
Indian Territory; in case the grant
or does not reside within the limits
of said agency or convenient there
to the deed of conveyance may be
acknowledged before justice of
the peace or other officer having
legal jurisdiction, whose official
character must be certified by a
clerk of court of record, under
the seal of such court.
The habendum clause must con.
tain the proviso that the land so
conveyed shall be subject to any
legal lease that may affect the same
at the time OF the execution of the
deed. No deed should be submitted
that does not show by satisfactory
evidence that the sale of the land
was cash transaction. Not to ex-
ceed 10 per cent. of the considera-
ton named in the deed may be- paid
to the grantor in the presence of the
person taking the acknowledge
mcnt in lawful money of the United
S,ates-the residue to be paid as
hereinafter designated.
Second-Such deed or instrument
must be accompanied
/. BY a certificate signed. in case
the grantor is Peoria Indian, by
at least two members of the Busi-
ness Committee of the Peoria tribe
of Indians, and, in case the grantor
is a Miami Indian, by at least two
members of the Business Commits.
tee of the Miami tribe of Indians
setting forth that the grantor (if
malc) is over twenty.one years of
age and if female is over eighteen
years of age; that he is the identi-
cal individual 10 whom the land
mentioned in the conveyance de
scribing the land mentioned i'll the
deed and naming the grantee) was
originally allotted; whether the
grantor is single or married and if
the name of the husband
or wife.
>. Bya certificate from the officer
before whom the deed was acknowl-
edged showing that the contents.
purport and effect of the deed OF
describing the decd
were explained to and fully under.
stood by the grantor. and how the
consideration named in said deed
the ainount). has been paid
to the Srantor: and that the con-
veyancc is in every respect free
from fraud or deception.
=. BY certificate of the cashier
of some national bank or from a
United States Indian agent show.
ing that not less than IS per cent of
the consideration named in the deed
has been deposited in such bank or
with such agent as the case may be,
To be paid to the grantor or his or
der upon return of such certificate
properly endorsed and accompa.
MED by the deed duly approved by
the Secretary of the Interior.
4. In case the grantor does not
reside within the limits of the Qua
paw Agency or convenient thereto,
md the deed is not acknowledged
before the ouapaw Indian agent in
leu of the certificate of the Busi. |
Tess Committee, the deed must be |
accompanied by a certificate of the
,ificer taking the acknowledgement
Is TO the facts required to be certi-
led to by the Business Committee.
md corroborated by the affidavit of
II least one other person cognizant
If the facts, whose veracity must
De certified by such officer; or il
he facts required TO be certified to
~ the officer before whom the deed
5 acknowledged. shall not be
,nown to him, they must be verified
~ the afiidavits of at least two
disinterested persons who
re cognizant of these facts, whose
'eracity must be certified by such
'fiicer; and the testimony and all
,apers pertaining TO the convey
nee must be properly authenti.
;ated under seal.
5. By certificate from the Qua.
Jaw Indian agent that he has seen
md inspected the land aud thereby
las a personal knowledge of its
'alue, giving description of the
and, its quality and its value and
improvements have been made
hereon, by buildings, wells, fences,
n breaking land, the nature of such
must be fully set
orth therein.
Third-When the land conveyed
r any part thereof is less than a