The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-05-24

ber of that year, but tina tthe ap
plication of no person whomsover fol
enrolment should be received after
October 81, 1902 (30;1 that no person
not enrolled should be entitled to
participate in the distribution of the
common property" o fthe tribe. and
those who were enrolled should par
tieipate / nthe manner set forth" in
the act t31) tha tthe enrolment
should be made in partial lists. which,
when approved by the Secretary Of
the Interior, were to constitute parts
Of the final roll upon which allotment
of land and distribution of other tribal
property" should be made, and that
when lists embracing all persons law
fully entitled to enrolment were made
and approved to roll should "be deem
ed complete" (2S) There were pro-
visions, that mo allotment of land
or other tribal property" should be
made on behalf Of any enrolled person
dying prior to September !, 1902, but
but that his right ip the lands or
other tribal property should be Deem
ed extinguished (31,) and that If any
enrolled person should die after Sep
tember I, 1902. and before receiving
his allotment the lands to which he
would have been entitled If living
should be allotted in his name and
should, with his proportionate share
OF other tribal property" descend to
his heirs (201 The act declared that
the tribal government should not con-
tinue longer than March 4, 1906 (63,)
directed the payement in full, out of
the tribal funds, o fthe lawful indebt-
edness Of the tribe incurred up to the
time Of dissolution, and authorized a
pro rata distribution, among the en-
rolled members. of the tribal funds re-
naming after the dissolution of the
tribal government an dthe payment Of
its Indebtedness (66, 67) But it made
no specific provision 70 rthe distribu-
ton or disposal of tribal lands re-
naming after the prescribed reserya-
tions an dallotments were made.
But the tribal government was not
dissolved on March 4, 1906. BY joint
resolution of March 2, 1906, Congress
provided that the tribal existence and
the tribal government should continue
until all property of the tribe, or the
proceeds thereof, should be distributed
among the individual members ga
Stat 1921 and b ythe act of April
2s, 1906, they were further continued
until otherwise provided by law (5i
Stat 1877, 14S, c. 1850 On these dates
the work contemplated by the act of
July 1. 1902. had not been completed.
Some of the applications for enroll
ment, received within te time pres
cribed nthe act, had not been acted
upon: some fthe enrolled members
had not selected their alIctments, and
litigation was pending which involved
the rights of some who had been en-
rolled and of others whose applications
were awaiting action. In addition to
this, some who otherwise were entitl-
ed TO enrolment and filed applications
therefor after the time prescribed, AMI
the tribal council of the Cherokees had
requested that children born after Sep
tember /, 1902, an dbefore March 4,
1906, who but TO rthe limitation in .he
act of July /, 1902. would be entitled TO
participate in the allotment and dis
trbution fthe tribal lands AMI
moneys equally with members born
prior thereto, be admitted to such
participation, / fpossble, and If that
could not be done, that each child born
between those dates be given sum of
money sufficient to place him, as far
as possible, on an equal footing with
the others.
The act of April 26, 1906, unlike that
of July I, 1902, was not limited to the
Cherokees. but it did in express terms
include them. BY its twenty-eighth sec.
ton it continued the tribal existence
an dthe tribal government. as just in
dicated by its first section it authorize
ed tn eenrollment of class of persons
whose applications therefor were mate
prior to December /, 1905, and were
no tallowed solely because not made
in time; and by its second section, as
amended June 81. 1906, "a Stat 325,
S4l, c. 1904. it provided as follows:
"That for ninety days after approval
hereof applications shall be received
for enrolment of children who were
minors living March fourth. nineteen
hundred and six. whose parents have
been enrolled as members of the
Choctaw, Chickasaw. Cherokee, or
Greek tribes, or have applications for
enrolment pending at the approval
hereof, and for the purpose of enroll
ment under this section illegitimate
children shall take the status of the