The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-10-17
TnE lNconPETENr FUND.
Instructions Issued Directing the
Payment TO Chlckasaws.

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Muskogee, 1. T., Oct. Is, 1900.
The Indian Appropriation Act ap-
proved May 81. 1900. contains the
following provision:
That the secretary of the interior
be, and he 10 hereby, authorized and
directed to pay out and distribute
in the following manner the sum of
s216, ,674.5s, which amount was APP
propriated by the act of June 2s, 1898,
and credited to the Incompetent
Fund" of the Chickasaw Indian ma
ton on the books of the United
States treasury, namely: First
There shall be paid to such survivors
of the original beneficiaries of said
fund and to such heirs of deceased
beneficiaries as shall within six
months from the passage of this act,
satisfactorily establish their identity
in such manner as the secretary OF the
interior may prescribe and also the
amount of such fund to which they
are severauy entitled, their several
shares; and second, 30 much of said
fund IS is not paid out upon claims
satisfactorily established as afore-
faid shall be distributed per capita
among the members of said Ohicka-
saw nation, and all claims of bene-
ficiaries and their respective heirs
for participation in said incompetent
fund not presented within the period
aforesaid shall be, and the same is
hereby barred.
It will be observed that 1t is made
the duty of the claimants to satis-
factorily establish their identity In
such manner as the secretary of the
Interior may prescribe and that the
secretary of the interior is author
lied and directed to pay to each per-
son who shall establish his identity
the portion of the fund to which he
is entitled. &.
Notice is therefore hereby given
that evidence in the form of afida:
Wits or depositions or such docu
mentary evidence as claimants may
oe able to supply tending to estab-
lish the identity of claims of Chick
asaw ircompetents, or descendants
OF those incompetents who are dead.
Will be received at the Union Agency
up to and including November 80,
100, and not later; and all such evil
dence should be addressed to the
United States Indian Agent, Union
Agency, Muskogee, I. T.
The Chickassw nation has the right
to tile evidence rebutting that fiIed
oy any particular claimant, and for
that particular purpose shall be al
lowed to examine any evidence
which may be submitted pertaining
to any claim.
Farties forwarding claims should
set forth in detail treaty. laws and
relationship upon which claims are
based, and the amount claimed, and
it Will be necessary for parties to
establish their claims
TO such amounts independent of anv
payment heretofore made bv the
Onickasaw authorities in 1889, or at
any other time.
VIII not appear at any time or
place In the Chickasaw nation for
Ine purpose of taking oral testimony
N connection with these claims, but
ali claims must be satisfactorily es-
'soiished in the manner above indi.
'ated, and same, together with the
testimony pertaining thereto, must
% nied in my office on or before
80, 1900. as above stated
ms Is In pursuance of q recent or.
'rder of the department.
j. BLAIR sHoENFELr,
>, .. lnolan Agt. for Five Civilized
Tribes.
See Ar0mOro Drnr r. Go