The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1902-11-15
AGREEMENT r
supplemental to the Treaty
Passed BY the Loweer
House of National
Council.

The following supplements
gre ement, introduced by Council
han Woodall, of Delaware dis
rict, has been passed by the lowel
ouse:
= IN Act to supplement the Act Of
= Congress approved July 1, 1902
entitled: IAN Act to provide
for the allotment of the lands OF
the Cherokee Na.ion. for the dis.
81 position of townsites therein,
and for other purposes" ratified
by the Cherokee Nation Angus,
7, 1902
Be IL enacted by the National
Council:
That section 15 of the Act OF
Congress approved July 1902, and
ratified by the Cherokee Nation
August 7, 1902, is amended, and
as SO amended is fe-enacted to read
as follows: All lands allotted to
the members of said tribe, except
such land as is set aside for a
homestead as herein provided,
shall not be alienable for FIVE
| years after issuance of patent, un-
less approved by the Court Of the
Northern District of the Indian
Territory and confirmed by the
Secretary of the Interior.
\ Sec. 2. In addition to section
I20 Of said act, it is hereby provided:
bat only citizens of the Chero.
Be Nation, male and female, and
heir Cherokee descendants shall
inherit lands Of the Cherokee Ma.
tion; and provided, further, That
if there be no person Of Cherokee
citizenship to take the descent and
distribution of said estate, then
the Inheritance shall go to nom
citizen heirs in the order named
in chapter 40 Of Mansfeld's Di-
gest.
Sec. 3. The provisions Of the
SUBJ divisions of section "a of the
act of Congress approved July /,
1902, and by the Cherokee Nation
August z, 1902: CD For the reser-
vation of one acre of land for each |
Cherokee school house; (o) the
square now occupied by the capi-
tol building at Tahlequah; (p) the
grounds now occupied by the ma
tional jail at Tablequah; (q) the
grounds now occupied by the Cher
okee Advocate printing Office at
Tahlequah; () forty acres Tor the
Cherokee male seminary near
Tahlequah; (s) forty acres for the
Cherokee female seminary ut Tah-
lequah; q one hundred and twenty
acres for the Cherokee orphan
asylum on Grand river; (u) forty
acres Tor the colored high school
in Tahlequah district; (v) forty
acres for the Cherokee insane asy-
lum, are berehy repealed, and all
Of said lands, buildings and i'm
proyements thereon shall be ap-
praised at their true value by
board of appraisers, one member
OF which shall be appointed by the
Secretary OF tue Interior. one by
the Principal Chief of the Cherokee
Nation, and one by the Commits
sion to the Five Civilized Tribes,
said appraisers to receive such
as may be deter.
mined by the Secretary OF the In
terror, out of any funds available
Tor that purpose; and that the
United States shall pay the APP
praised value of said property to
The Cherokee Nation; provided
Turther, that the Cherokee Nation
shall have the use and benefit of /
he property herein named until .
dissolution OF tribal government
On March 4. 1906. The Secretary
1f the Interior is also authorized, i
upon dissolution of tribal govern {
nent, to sell all other property OF 6
svery kind and character belong. |
ng to the Cherokee Nation, under b