The Vinita weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1905, 1903-01-08
RULES AND REGULATIONS
How the cherokees VIII Select thel
AIiotments Ia the Cherokee
Nation.

commiAsion:
1. Application for allotmsnts
and the designation OF homesteads
must be made by adult citizens in
person, except as hereinafter pro.
vided.
2. Citizens, who have married,
whether they have attained their
majority or not, will be regarded
as oiage for the purpose Of maxi
ing applications .os allotmen,s
and designation OF homesteads.
3. Applications for allotments
and the designation OF homesteads
may be made by citizen parents
for unmarried male children un.
der twenty.one years OF age and
for unmarried female children un.
der eighteen years Of age; and a
male citizen may make applica
tion for allotments and designation
Of homesteads for his citizen vile
unless she shall at the time or
previously 10 writing protest
thereto.
4. Applications for allotments
and the designation OF homesteaos
must be made In person by the
citizen wife on behalf OF herself
and minor unmarried children II
her husband 10 citizen OF the
United States or OF another nation
or tribe.
5. Applications Tor allOtmsnts
and the designation OF homesteads
for minor orphans and minors
having no living citizen parent,
must be made by legally appointed
guardians, OF administrator hav.
ing charge of their estate.
6. Applications for allotments
and the designation OF homesteads
for prisoners, convicts and soldiers
and sailors Of the United States on
duty outside Of lhe Indian Terri.
tory must be made by duly ap.
pointed agents under power Of
attorney.
Z. Applications for alluimenIs
and the designation OF homes'eads
may also be made for aged and In
firm persons under power OF at
torney, but the same will be re
fused unless the person SO tau
lhorized and presenting said power
of attorney shall be relative mol
further removed than cousin o.
thel first degree.
| s. Applications for allotmentf
and designation of homesteads..fo
Incompetents must be made by
guardians, curators, or other suit
able persons akin to them.
8 It shall be the duty Of the
commission to see that selection o.
allotmen,s and the designation o
honesleads for the persons men
TONED in rules 5, 8 and 8 hereof
are made Tor The best interests o
such persons.
10 Upon the application oil
duly appointed administrator ol
executor, representing a citizer
who died subsequent to the frs
day of September, 1902, an allot
msnt will be made in tho name o
said deceased citizen as provided
in section twenty Of the act OF con
gress approved July l, 1902. II
ell cases where administrators o.
executors are not duly aud ex
peditiously appointed, or for an
other cause selections be not 81
made for deceased citizens withir
reasonable time, the commission
will make allotmenis for such de
ceased persons
IL. Each citizen shall a, ih'
time OF the initial application TO
an allotment be required to selec
land equal 10 value TO a, leas
forty acres OF the average allo.abl'
lands, out Of which shall b
designsted = homestead as provid
I'd 10 section l3 OF the act OF Jal.
1902 (Public No. 24l.)
&c .nmission 10 the Five Civilize'
Tribes. TAMs BfxBY,
Acting Chairman