AH ACT to comply with the requirements of an act of Congress approved March 3, 1391, making an appropriation to com-pensate the Choc taws and Chickasaws f o r t h e i r interest-in the lands lying south of the Canadian River, and oc-cupied under Executive Order by the Cheyenne and Arapa-hoe Indians, as modified by Joint Resolution of Con- • gross approved January 13, 1393, and f o r other pur-* poses.

WHEREAS an act of Congress was approved by the Pres-

ident of the United States on the third day of March, 1391,

containing the fo l lowing provis ion : /

And the sun of two mi l l i on , nine hundred and ninety-one th o us and four hundred and f i f t y do l lars be, and the same -is hereby, j appropriated out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to pay the Choctaw and Chickasaw Na-tions of Indians for a l l the r ight , t i t l e , interest , ~md claim which said Nations of Indians may have in, and to certain l a m s now occupied by, the said Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians under executive order; said lands ly ing south of the Canadian r iver and now occupied by the said Cheyenne and Arapahoe In-dians, said lands having been ceded in trust by a r t i c l e three of the treaty bo two en th e Un i te d 3 ta to s and sa id Ch oc t aw and Ch i ck a saw Na t ion s of Indians, whi ch was c one 1uded April twen-ty-e ighth, eighteen hundred and s i x t y - s i x , and proclaimed on-the tenth day of August of the same year, and whereof there remains, a f t e r deducting allotments as provided by said agree-ment, a residue ascertained b,y survey to contain two mi l l i on -three hundred and ninety-three thousand one hundred and s ixty ac res ; thr ee - fourths of • thi s appropr i a t i on to be paid t o such person or persons as are or shall be duly authorized by the laws of said Choctaw Nation to receive the same, at such time and in such sums as d irected and required by the l e g i s l a -tive authority of said Choctaw Nation, and one-fourth of this-appropriation to be paid to such person or persons as are or shall be duLy authorized by the laws of said Chickasaw Na-tion to receive the same, at such time and in su?h sums as d i rec ted and required by the l e g i s l a t i v e authority of said Chickasaw Nation; this appropriation to be immediately avai l -

able and to become operative upon the execution by the duly appointed delegates of said respective Nations spec ia l ly au-thorized thereto by law of re leases and conveyances to the < United States of a l l the r ight , t i t l e , interest , and claim of said respect ive Nations of Indians in and t o said land (not including Grier county^vhich is now in d ispute ) , in manner and form sa t i s fac tory the, the President of the United States, and said releases and conveyances, when f i l l y executed and de-l i vered , shall operate to extinguish a l l claim of every kind < and character of said Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations of Indians in and to the tract of country to which-said releases and con-veyances shall apply,

AMD WHEREAS, the President of the United States ap-

proved January 18, 1893, the fo l lowing j o i n t resolut ion of

Congress :

Resolved the. Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America jln Congress assembled. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to retain and cover back into the Treasury for ty - e i ght thous-and eight hundred do l lars of the appropriation made by Congress to pay the Choctaw and Chickasaw tr ibes of Indians f o r the i r in teres t in lands of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Reservation, dated Marc3a third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one; which amount has been ascertained, by a recount of the a l l o t t e e s of said Cheyennes and Arapahoes, to be by that amount more than is due the said Choc taws and Chickasaws upon the purchase and settlement f o r the i r said in te res t : Provided, however. That neither the passage of the or ig inal act of appropriation to pay the Choctaw and Chickasaw tr ibes of Indians f o r their in-terest in the lands of the Cheyennes and Arapahoe reservation, dated March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, nor of this reso lut ion , shall be held in any way to commit the Gov-ernment to the payment of any further sum to the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians f o r any al leged interest in the remainder of the lan ls situated in what is commonly known and c a l l e d the " leased dis t r i c t , "

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AND WHEREAS, the Choctaw Nation is ready and wi l l ing

to sign, execute, and de l i ve r the release and conveyance in

said act mentioned t o the United States of the lands therein

described, in manner and form sat i s fac tory to the President

of the United States;

MOW, THEREFORE, Be i t enacted by the General Council

of the Choctaw Nation assembled: That said act of Congress

and said j o i n t reso lut ion , herein above mentioned, are hereby

accepted ani approved, and that Green McCurtain, National

Treasurer of the Choctaw Nation, or his successor in o f f i c e ,

is hereby authorised to receive on behalf of the Choctaw Na-

tion the amount appropriated in said act and jo int resolution

of Congress, f o r and on behalf of said Choctaw Nation, f o r

their interest in said lands, and said National Treasurer i s

hereby authorized to rece ipt in fuLl to the Secretary of the

Treasury of the United States, in the name of the Choctaw Na-

t ion , tli ere f o r . M tMmm--

c T s ? " e T 1 t ^ - i r t i l e 3 naTtod : That Thomas D.

Ainsworth, David V/. Hodges, and Green McCurtain, National

Treasurer of the Choctaw Nation, or his successor in o f f i c e ,

are hereby appointed delegates of the said Choctaw Nation,

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with f u l l power ani authority to execute in the name of and on

behal f of the Choctaw Nation, in manner and form sat i s fac tory

t o the President of the United States, and to sign, seal , and

acknowledge the releases and conveyances described and men-

tioned in said part of said act of Congress, and to de l i ver

the same, when so executed, signed, and acknowledged, to the

President of the United States, as and f o r the releases and

conveyances of the Choctaw Nation, under said act and said

j o i n t reso lut ion of Congress, of a l l r ight , t i t l e , in terest ,

ani claim of every kind whatsoever of this Nation in and to

the lands described in said act of Congress,.

Sec .3 . And be i t further enacted: That in case of

the death, res ignat ion, or other inab i l i ty of any of said del -

egates to act as herein provided, the Principal Chief of the

Choctaw Nation shall appoint and commission the proper person

or persons to act as such delegate or delegates , f o r and on

behalf of the Choctaw Nation, with f u l l power to carry out

as such delegate or delegates the provisions of this ac t .

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