United States in favor of the United States or any citizen thereof shall first be paid out of any sum hereafter found due said Indians for any interest they may have in the socalled leased district. § 518. Choctaws and Chickasaws to become citizens of the United States.-[29]. It is further agreed that all of the funds invested, in lieu of investment, treaty funds, or otherwise, now held by the United States in trust for the Choctaw and Chickasaw Tribes, shall be capitalized within one year after the tribal governments shall cease, so far as the same may legally be done, and be appropriated and paid, by some officer of the United States appointed for the purpose, to the Choctaws and Chickasaws (freedmen excepted) per capita, to aid and assist them in improving their homes and lands. It is further agreed that the Choctaws and Chickasaws, when their tribal governments cease, shall become possessed of all the rights and privileges of citizens of the United States. ORPHAN LANDS § 519. Orphan lands in Mississippi.-[29]. It is further agreed that the Choctaw orphan lands in the state of Mississippi, yet unsold, shall be taken by the United States at one dollar and twenty-five cents ($1.25) per acre, and the proceeds placed to the credit of the Choctaw orphan fund in the treasury of the United States, the number of acres to be determined by the General Land Office. In witness whereof the said commissioners do hereunto affix their names at Atoka, Indian Territory, this the twenty-third day of April, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven.3 3 Signatures omitted. CHAPTER 45 CHOCTAW-CHICKASAW SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENT (CHAPTER 1362, 32 STAT. 641) AND CERTAIN SPECIAL LEGISLATION APPLICABLE TO CHOC 527. Masculine includes feminine, and singular includes plural. 528. Allottable lands. 532. Homestead inalienable during lifetime of allottee. 533. Allotment of freedmen inalienable during lifetime of allottee. 534. Disposition of surplus tribal lands. 535. Allotted lands-Restrictions on. 536. Surplus allotments-Alienation of permitted. 542. Persons living September 25, 1902, but who die before selection entitled to allotments. 543. 544. Allotment certificates conclusive evidence of title. 545. Excessive holdings-How determined. 549. 550. Freedmen not to be enrolled as citizens. Membership rolls-When final. 551. Citizenship court created. 552. Citizenship court-Jurisdiction. 553. Citizenship court-Procedure in. 554. Closing rolls. 555. Enrolled members-When entitled to allotment. 556. 557. 558. Chickasaw freedmen-Authority conferred on Court of Claims to determine controversy. Bill to be filed by Attorney General. Procedure in freedmen suits. 559. Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations may intervene in freedmen suits. § 560. Temporary allotments to Choctaw and Chickasaw freedmen. 561. Mississippi Choctaws. 562. Mississippi Choctaws-Allotments upon condition. 563. Mississippi Choctaws-Enrollments of. 564. Mississippi Choctaws-Proof of continuous residence. 568. 569. 570. 571. 572. 573. 574. Townsites-Sufficient land for present and prospective growth. Townsites-Compensation to owner of improvements. Townsites--Additional commissions authorized. Townsites-Patents to purchasers. Townsites-Deeds to lots. Towns of two hundred population or less. 575. Municipal corporations. 576. Coal and asphalt. 577. Coal and asphalt within townsite limits. Segregation of coal and asphalt. 578. 579. Segregated lands to be sold. 580. 581. 582. 583. Segregated lands to be sold-Continued. Leasing coal and asphalt lands. Sale of coal and asphalt lands. Patents to purchasers of coal and asphalt lands. 584. Sulphur springs. 585. Patents, acceptance of for minors, etc. 586. 587. 588. 589. 590. 591. Patents to allotments-Recording and delivery. Certain provisions inapplicable to Choctaws and Chickasaws. Allotment controversies-How determined. Parents to select allotments for minors. No contest after nine months. 592. Per capita payment authorized. Allotment to Mississippi Choctaws provided for in Choctaw Contracts affecting lands of Mississippi Choctaws prohibited. 597a. Provision of Act of May 29, 1908, for additional townsites. 597b. Reappraisement of the town of Hartshorne ordered by Act of May 29, 1908. 597c. Jurisdiction conferred upon Court of Claims to hold and determine certain demands against the Choctaw and Chickasaw freedmen. 597d. Jurisdiction conferred upon the Court of Claims to adjudicate certain demands against the Mississippi Choctaws. § 520. Preamble to Supplemental Agreement.-Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that the following agreement, made by the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes with the commissions representing the Choctaw and Chickasaw Tribes of Indians on the twentyfirst day of March, nineteen hundred and two, be, and the same is hereby, ratified and confirmed, to wit: AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE CHOCTAWS AND CHICKASAWS This agreement, by and between the United States, entered into in its behalf by Henry L. Dawes, Tams Bixby, Thomas B. Needles, and Clifton R. Breckenridge, commis sioners duly appointed and authorized thereunto, and the Choctaw and Chickasaw Tribes of Indians in Indian Territory, respectively, entered into in behalf of such Choctaw and Chickasaw Tribes, by Gilbert W. Dukes, Green McCurtain, Thomas E. Sanguin, and Simon E. Lewis in behalf of the Choctaw Tribe of Indians; and Douglas H. Johnston, Calvin J. Grant, Holmes Willis, Edward B. Johnson, and Benjamin H. Colbert in behalf of the Chickasaw Tribe of Indians, commissioners duly appointed and authorized thereunto Witnesseth that, in consideration of the mutual undertakings herein contained, it is agreed as follows: DEFINITIONS § 521. Definition-"Nations" - "Tribes."-[1]. Wherever used in this agreement the words "nations" and "tribes" shall each be held to mean the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations or Tribes of Indians in Indian Territory. § 522. Definition-"Chief executives."-[2]. The word "chief executives" shall be held to mean the principal chief of the Choctaw Nation and the governor of the Chickasaw Nation. § 523. Definition-"Member”-“Citizen."— [3]. The words "member" or "members" and "citizen" or "citizens" shall be held to mean members or citizens of the Choctaw BLED.IND.(2D ED.)-31 or Chickasaw Tribe of Indians in Indian Territory, not including freedmen. § 524. Definition—“Atoka Agreement."-[4]. The term "Atoka Agreement" shall be held to mean the agreement made by the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes with the Commissioners representing the Choctaw and Chickasaw Tribes of Indians at Atoka, Indian Territory, and embodied in the act of Congress approved June twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight. (30 Stat. 495.) § 525. Definition-"Minor."-[5]. The word "minor" shall be held to mean males under the age of twenty-one years and females under the age of eighteen years. § 526. Definition-"Select."-[6]. The word "select" and its various modifications, as applied to allotments and homesteads, shall be held to mean the formal application at the land office, to be established by the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes for the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, for particular tracts of land. § 527. Masculine includes feminine, and singular includes plural.[7]. Every word in this agreement importing the masculine gender may extend and be applied to females as well as males, and the use of the plural may include also the singular, and vice versa. § 528. Allottable lands.-[8]. The terms "allottable lands" or "lands allottable" shall be deemed to mean all the lands of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Tribes not herein reserved from allotment. APPRAISEMENT OF LANDS § 529. Appraisement of lands.-[9]. All the lands belonging to the Choctaw and Chickasaw Tribes in the Indian Territoy, except such as are herein reserved from allotment, shall be appraised at their true value: Provided, that in determining such value consideration shall not be given to the location thereof, to any mineral deposits, or to |