The Oklahoma miner. [volume] (Krebs, Okla.) 1912-192?, 1913-07-10
INDIAN BILLS
VERY LIBERAL
S25o,o0o SET ASIDE FOR LITloA.
TIoN PENDING IN PRO-
BATE COURTS.
LIMIT OF LAND SALE DECEMBER /
$500 Per Capita Payment to Be Made
to the Seminoles-Cther
Provisions Of the
Bill.

Washington.-The general Indian
appropriation bill which has just been
signed by President Wilson. contains
probably more important features
which will be of benefit to Oklahoma
than any measure of the kind passed
by Congress in recent years. Not only
are large sums set aside for the bene-
fit of the state and her Indian citizens
but it incorporates several provisions
which are designed to curb for all
time scheming whites who have
profted richly at the expense of the
nations red wards and who would
have profted even greater had not
protective clauses been inserted in
the measure which now is law.
For the expenses of the administra-
tion Of the Five Tribes the sum of
S250,000 is set aside. This is to com.
psusate all attorneys that the secre-
tary Of interior may employ in connec-
tion with probate matters affecting
individual allottees of the tribes. 1t
is again specifically provided that no
tribal funds shall be spent without
the approval Of Congress. This meas
dre was incorporated in the bill last
year. Representative Ferris being the
author, and it is designed to check
the extravagant expenditures by de-
partment officials.
Another important provision in the
new law is that which provides that
the appraisement and sale of the
Choctaw and Chickasaw segregated
mineral land shall be completed by
the first Of December. The sum of
$4,000 to be paid out Of tribal funds
Ia set aside to complete the work
100000 For Schools.
The sum of 100000, to be ex.
pendeN at the discretion of the secre-
tary Of interior in the aid of the COM
mon schools OF the Cherokee, Creek,
Choctaw, Chickasaw and Seminole ma
tions in Oklahoma. including the Qua
paw agency schools, is provided.
Another important clause provides
for $500 per capita payment to the
Seminole nation. This payment will
be made at Wewoka. The clause
granting the per capita payment to
the Seminoles provides that the
amounts of delinquent taxes and
penalties properly assessed against
the lands Of each Seminole allottee
under the laws. of the State and re-
naming unpaid shall be ascertained
and paid under the direction of the
secretary of interior, in each case out
of the distributive share to be paid to
each Onrolled member of the tribe.
The secretary of interior is author
lied to designate and set aside not to
exceed four sections of unallotted
lands belonging to the ChoctRw and
Chickasaw tribes, this reservation be-
ing a sanitarium for the benefit Of the
tribes. The Choctaw council already
has set aside $4,000 for the construc-
ton of this institution where tubercu-
losis will be treated.
Monument For Mccurtaln.
The secretary of interior is author
lied also to set aside from Choctaw
tribal funds the sum of $4,000 for a
suitable monument to the memory Of
Green McCurtain late chief of the
Choctaw nation.
A strong financial footing for the In
dian hospital, to be located near Law
ton, Is assured by the provision which
authorizes the secretary Of interior TO
sell unallotted, unreserved and such
school and agency lands that are no
longer needed for administration pur-
poses for the Kiowa, Comanche,
Apache and Wichita tribes, the pro-
ceeds therefrom, less 1925 an acre to
be deposited to the credit of the In
dians in the United States treasury,
to draw until further provided by Con-
gress per cent. interest and to be
known as the Kiowa agency hospital
fund. The county commissioners of
Comanche county are given ninety
days to buy at $1.25 an acre a suitable
160-acre tract to be used for county
poor farm purposes.
The secretary of interior is author
ized to spend $25, 200 for the maiuten-
ance of the Kiowa agency, which
handles the affairs of the Kiowa,
Comanche and Apache Indians
He also is permitted to withdraw
from the tribal moneys the sum OF
$250,000 for the benefit and mainten.
ance of these tribes and for the i'm,
proycment Of their homesteads for the
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