The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1898-11-02

determination shall be final, upon
all warrants, orders or scrip now
issued by authority oflaw and up
on all claims Of every nature what
soever against the Cherokee ma
tion and all the claims by them
allowed shall be considered as the
national debt and shall be paid out
of the revenue and other collec-
tions made in behalf Of the Chero-
kee nation and under the laws of
said nation, and they shall be paid
in the following order:
First. Debts due for the sup
port of the orphan asylum, insane
asylum, penitentiary.
Second. Payment of salaries of
the officers Of the national govern
ment, and legislative and other
expenses.
Third. Payment of salaries and
expenses of the commission re-
ferred to above.
Fourth. Such other debts as
are due from the Cherokee nation.
Sec. 6. That all white persons
who are married with a citizen of
the Cherokee nation and who shall
pay into the treasury of the United
States for the credit of the Chero-
kee nation, $-shall become members
of the Cherokee nation with the
same rights and immunities and
the same participation in the
lands and national funds hereafter
as any native Cherokee.
Sec. 7. When any allottee shall
die possessed of property, real,
personal or mixed, not devised,
the same shall descend in the fol-
lowing manner:
First. One halfin value to the
wife or husband and one-half to
the children of such intestate, and
their descendants; the descendants
of a deceased child, or grand child
to take the share of the deceased
parent equally among them.
Second. II there be no child
dren or their descendants, the
whole of the estate shall 60 to the
wife or husband.
Third. 1fthere be no wife or
husband or children, or their de.
scendants. the estate shall go
equally to the father and mother
or the survivor of them.
Fourth. If there be no father
or mother then the estate shall go
to the brothers and sisters and
their descendants; the descendants
of the brothers and sisters to take
the share of the deceased paren Il
equally among them.
Fifth. If there be no children
and their descendants no, father or
mother or brothers or sisters, nor
their descendants, then the estate
shall GO one.half to the grand
father, grand mother, uncles and
aunts and their descendants on the
fathers side of the intestate and
one-half to the grandfather, grand
uncles and aunts and their
descendants on the mothers side
Of the house in equal parts, and SO
on In other cases without and
passing to the nearest lineal an
cestor and their children and de-
scendants in equal parts.
Sixth. Posthumous children of |
the intestate shall inherit in like
as if born in the lifetime
Of the intestate.
Seventh. Illegitimate children
shall be capable of inheriting and
transmitting an inheritance, on
The part of their mother, in like
manner as if they had been legiti-
mate of their mother, and they
shall also inherit from the father
they shall be recognized
BY him as his children, but such
recognition must have been gen.
sral and notorious, or else in writ
ng, and under such circumstances,
f the recognition had been mutual,
he father may inherit from his
Legitimate child, but in all such
,ases, the mother and her heirs
axe preference Of the father and
lis heils.
Eighth. The issue of all mar
iages deemed null in law, or
dissolved by divorce, shall be