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646 FIFTY-SEVEN TH CONGRESS. Sess. 1. Ch. 1362. 1902. (v) One acre each for all Choctaw or Chickasaw schools under the supervision of the authorities of the Choctaw or Chickasaw nations an officials of the United States. And the acre so reserved for any church or school in any quarter section of land shall be located when practicable in a corner of such quarter section lying adjacent to the section line thereof. norms or ormzansrur. R°“¤°*°***=°¤¤'**P- 27. The rolls of the Choctaw and Chickasaw citizens and Choctaw and Chickasaw freedmen shall be made by the Commission to the Five $3} gg P- gg Civilized Tribes, in strict compliance with the act of Congress approved ' ’P' June 28, 1898 (30 Stats., 495), and the act of Congress approved May

      • 0***0- 31, 1900 (31 Stats., 221), except as herein otherwise (provided: H0-

ccnzccm ngim. vided, That no person claiming right to enrollment an allotment and distribution of tribal property, by virtue of a judgment of the United vc1.zo,p.s=¤. States court in the Indian Territory under the act of June 10, 1896 (29 Stats., 321), and which right is contested by le l proceedings instituted under the rovisions of this agreement, shahabe enrolled or receive allotment of lands or distribution of tribal property until his right thereto has been finally determined.

  • ’°”°”¤ °¤'°“l°d· 28. The names of all persons living on the date of the final ratification of this agreement entitled to be enrolled as rovided in section 27

hereof shall be placed upon the rolls made by said Commission; and no child born thereafter to a citizen or freedman and no rson intermarried thereafter to a citizen shall be entitled to enrollinent or to participate in the distribution of the tribal property of the Choctaws and °“"# °·· ° . o rson w ose name a rsupou e ro s e e m- mm °* img; N WS. h th ll mad b th Co mmmbcumudem mission topthe Five Civilized 'lliiibeés as a citizen or freednlan of any other tribe shall be enrolled as a citizen or freedman of the Choctaw _ or Chickasaw nations. 1**** 30. For the purpose of e diting the enrollment of the Choctaw and Chickasaw citizens and gdcmw and Chickasaw freedmen, the said Commission shall, from time to time, and as early as practicable, forward to the Secretary of the Interior lists upon which shall be placed the names of those persons found by the Commission to be entitled to enrollment. The lists thus prepared, when approved b the Secretary of the Interior, shall constitute a rt and rcel of the final rolls of citizens of the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes and of Choctaw and Chickasaw freedmen, upon which allotment of land and distribution of other tribal property shall be made as herein provided. Lists shall be made up and forwarded when contests of whatever character shall have been determined, and when there shall have been submitted to and a proved by the Secretary of the Interior lists embracing names of all those lawfully entitled to enrollment, the rolls shall be deemed complete. The rolls so pgepared shall be made in quintuplicate, one to be eposited with the cretary of the Interior, one with the Commissioner of Indian Aifairs, one with the principal chief of the Choctaw Nation, one with the governor of the Chickasaw Nation, and one to remain with the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes. "gg,{g*¤¤{gQhggt Q3 Sec. 31. It being claimed and insisted by the Choctaw and Chickaucecrlinccccuxngs. saw nations that the United States courts in the Indian Territory,

  • ,:;*9- g§6¤=°- acting under the Act of Congress approved June 10, 1896, have

'°'admitted persons to citizenship or to enrollment as such citizens in the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations, respectively, without notice of the proceedings in such courts being given to each of said nations; and it being insisted by said nations that, in such roceedings, notice to each of said nations was indispensable, and it bein claimed and insisted by said nations that the proceedings in the Tlnited States