Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-04-12

Synopsis of Cherokee
Agreement.
HAS MANY GOOD POINTS
Must Be Seen Before Judg-
ment Can be Passed

The synopsis of the Cherokee
treaty wired from Washington by
L B Bell yerierday TO The Leader
is printsd herewith aud contains
but brief outline OF the salient
features Of the agreement II is
impossible to pass Intelligent
judgment upon the treaty without
careful perusal Of the entire doc.
ument From the synopsis we
judge that it contains many excel
lent features and some that are
not so excellent.
Washington, d. c., March TO-
An agreement reached today:
Each citizen is to receive eighty
acres of land in fee simple. The
average value OF an allotment is
TO be $500. The average value Of
the land is SO 80 per acre and the
value Of the allolments will be
equaliZtd on this baeis, an allot-
men being valued at more than
$500, the citizen receiving the
same shall pay the excess into the
common fund and a citizen receiv-
ing eighty acres Of land worth less
than the average Of $500 shall re-
ceive more land until his share is
worth $500 Forty acres is made
inalienable and non.taxable.
Minors land is secured to the
minor until his majority and 10 all
no, taxed. Patents are to pass
to the individual as soon as valued
and applied for. January 1st,
1901, is fixed as the time when all
improvements on lands in excess
of eighty acres to each member Of
family shall be coniscated; until
that time the maker or owner ol
the improvements may sell the
same or remove them.
Townsites: All towns now in
existence to be surveyed and lots
sold to any person. The survey
of the present towns laid off by
the Cherokee nation to be IT cog
nized All ciIiz-ns having build
ings on lots to be allowed to retair
them by paying half the value t
= be Gyed by commissioner o. Ap
praisers 10 be appointed, ppe b,
secretary of interior, one by thu
town, aud one by the chief; al
disagreements to DE referred to th
n secretary Of the interior. Twenty
j. five per cent of the purchase mon
T ey at time Of sale, % per cent il
Z four months, balance In one an
Il two years without interest, title {
pass when complete payment
, made; all the price can be paid g
once il the purchaser so desires
4 Taxes begin when lots are sole
u and all deferred payments al
, made liens on the lots. Sma
IS towns OF tive or more places
e business are allowed forty acre
The others are TO be determine
9 by the town commissioners; a
gnoccupied lots sold dy the natiC
"a can be retained By the holder u
IL der such sale by paying two.thirI
* of their valuation. In addition,
:. citizen can hold four acres inclu
ing his residence and may take h
IN allotment in the land at two-tbirl
G it's valuation. Fort Gibson al
no land enough for military trainil
m ground is offered the governme
er free of any cost. The insane as
lum to be given with ils endo
OF ment and 80 acres Of land
he United States to be held for all 1
~ time an asylum for Cherokee |
ns sane. All other public buildin
nd after 1906 are to be valued a
he paid for by the United States.
ny The schools continue for I
an present under the general sup'
vision of the secretary and I
he special supervision OF the sup
'as inlendent of schools of the Che
~ 20 kee nation, and the supervisor I
IN pointed by the secretary. I
,as land reservations are the TOW
he sites, The land occupied by
public buildings, including
II high schools, the orphan asylu
ut, insane asylum, and a school
at the blind, deaf and dumb, oer
nu teries, county schools, church
TX mission stations.
sed The nation or any of it's citlz
ad- may sue the United States in
our o"Y court Of claims. Census roll
,at. be made as provided by Curtis
" and will date from April /, Is
No cattle to be introduced inlo
sr's nation except by permission OF
was Cherokee chief,
l',l lan' Tahlequah and Yinita to be
''p ~ cording offices for the registr,
sed deeds One hundred and a