The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-08-07

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does not appear upon some roll of
the nation in which such person
may claim rights of citizenship land
in the Cherokee nation such per-
sons must show that they had been
enrolled on the rolls designated as
being confirmed in the act of June
%, 1881, and such as may show
that they are descended from:parties
whose names appear on such rolls,
born after the preparation thereof;
also such as may have been admitted
by the commission to enrolment
under the authority granted it over
the subject in the act of 1896, above
referred to, or by the courts on ap-
peal from the commission.
So The commission has author
ity to remove from any tribal roll all
persons whose names where placed
thereon by fraud or without author
ity of law, and is authorized to en-
roll only such as have lawful right
thereto, among whom are those
white persons who are entitled to
Uhoctaw and Cherokee citizenship
under the laws and treaties of such
tribes.
"3. In addition to your report of
Mississippi Choctaws identified by
you, already submitted, you will,
where Mississippi Choctaw Indians
or their defendants, may have re-
moved from the state of Mississippi
to, and settled within the bounds of
the Choctaw and Chickasaw county,
before completion of the rolls, and
appear before you for Identification,
make a record of the facts, upon
their testimony taken before you,
and that Of other witnesses when
deemed necessary, with a list of
their names and the names of their
children living witt them and born
in lawful wedlock, and such des-
cription of them as may be neces-
sary for their Identification under
the act of congress of June 2S, 1898,
and report same through this office,
together with your decision as to
their rights to Identification as per-
sons coming within the provisions of
article IA of the treaty of 1880, be-
tween the Choctaws and the United
States, for determination by the de-
partment.
1.-THE foregoing outlines your au-
thority to enroll persons in the five
civilized tribes rs citizens thereof
and describes the classes Of persons,
who, under the law as interpreted by
this department, are entitled to en-
rollment
"the rolls as made up by your
| commission must, to become final,
receive the approval of the secretary
of the interior. 1t will therefore be
necessary for you to make a record
in all cases sufficient to enable this
office and the department to take
intelligent action in the premises,
your decision either for or against
the right of any person to have his
name appear upon the rolls is COM
planned of.
For this purpose of this record
you will require each applicant for
enrolment to present himself in per-
son before the commission at one of
its appointments within the tribe in
which such applicant claims right to
enrolment, for examination, under
oath, his statement to be taken
down by the commission, upon
which the commission will deter
mine his right to allotment, and
such record and action of the COM
mission will be preserved and trans
mitted with the rolls to be consid-
cred by this Office and the depart
ment when the rolls made by the
commission are submitted for the
approval of the secretary of the in
terror.
'These instructions do not apply
for the guidance of your commission
in making the enrolment of the
freedmen of the several tribes, there
being special provisions contained
in the statute which it is deemed
sufficient for your guidance In such
matters.
"The instructions contained here
In Will take the place of all previous
instructions or directions heretofor
given you in particular cases re-
ported to this office, and will govern
you in performing all duties to
which the instructions given herein
could relate. w. A. JONES,
Commissioner.
Approved: THos. RYAN,
Acting Secretary"
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