The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1904-04-29
TOWnSitG
und Paid Only to
Enrolled Choctaws
and Chickasaws

payment OF the ChOctaW and Chick
asaw townsite fund TO the Choctaw
and Chickasaw ma ions. The bill pro
vides that the money now accumulat-
ell and which may be hereafter accu.
mnlated IN the United sta es treasury
TO the credit of the Choctaw and
Chickasaw nations. derived from the
sale of town lots in the said Choctaw
and Chickasaw nations, shall be paid
TO the members of the Choctaw and
Chickasaw tribes freedmen except
edl- in the manner following:
That, beginning the first day of
May, 1904. or as soon thereafter as
practicable, the said townsite money
50 accumulated shall be divided am
paid to the Choctaws and Chickasaws
freedmen excepted), each member to
receive an equal portion thereof
That no person claiming to be
member of the Choctaw or Chlckasaw
tribes shall be paid any portion Of
his fund until he or she has been en-
rolled as such member and the en-
rolment has been approved by the
secretary Of the interior: Provided,
tha' there shall be reserved from pay
ment Of the townslte fund an amount
equal TO the sum Of the pro ra
shares of all persons claiming to be
members Of the Choctaw or Chicka.
saw tribes, entitled to share n thi
fund, whose claims are pending at
he time said fund Is divided for pay
ment and the money reserved shall
be paid to such persons. If they be
finally enrolled and their enrolment
approved, IN the same manner as 9th !
er payments Of townste funds arc
made hereunder That if the fund
thus reserved, or any part of IL, !
should not become payable by reason /
Of he failure Of the persons clam.
ing cit zenship to be enrolled or OF /
heir enrolment 10 be approved as
herein provided, said reserve funds
shall 80 back to the general town
site fund TO be DIVIDED and paid to the
members of said tribes Of approved
enrolment as o her townslte funds.
That if any person whose name ap.
pears upon the rolls as herein pro-
vded slal have died Subsequent tc
the 25th day Of September, 1902, ami
before receiving as pr5 rata share
of he accumulated townsite fund,
he money TO which such person
would have been enuuled If living
shall be paid IN s name to his legal
representative.
That following the paymen TO be
made beginning the first day of May,
1904, as provided in this act, pay !
meats shall be made each year there. {
II er In ke manner to the members
of the Choctaw ana Chickasaw tribes
of approved enrolment cf the fund
accumulated from the sale of town {
10 in the Choctaw and Chickasaw ]
nations as Aforesaid. !
That the payment Of the townslte
fund shall be under the direc ion Of I
the secretary of the interior, az pro 1
vided IN Sec. 49, of an act approved I
June 2s. 1898. being An Act for the {
protection of the people Of the In \
dian terri ory, and FOR other pur. (
poses" /
That the secretary OF the treasury {
be, and he is hereby. authorized, upon s
the request of he secretary Of the 1
interior, to deposit m the United
Safes subtreagury a ST. Louis, Mo. 7
TO the credit Of the proper officer or I
person, to be designated by the secre- q
AIRY Of he interior and charged with q
he duty cf paying on the towns'te I
mnl as herein provided the accumu-
lated townsite funds belonging 70 the }
Chuetaw and Chickasaw nations az
that lime on deposit in the I'm ted
States treasury. OF a sun cient amount
thereof o carry cur the purposes Of a
this act I
That all acts or parts OF acts in +
conflict herewith are hereby repealed, q
and his act shall be IN force from aud c
after It's passage c
The house committee on Indian az
IA re has favorably reported the above {
b'n, and in ne report submit ed the
committee states
"The object n this bn is 10 auth
ukize the secretary cf the interior to a
pay o the Choctaw aud Chickasaw IN L
dams he money now in the treasury /
II the Unted States and which may /
her after be paid into the treasury 10 a
ho credi' Of the choetaw and Chick I
lsaw nations. derived from the sale
q town lots IN sail natoas.