delivery and without expense to the allottee until further legislation by Congress, and such records shall have like effect as other public records. § 692. Seminole homestead to be inalienable during lifetime of allottee.-Provided, further, that the homestead referred to in said act shall be inalienable during the lifetime of the allottee, not exceeding twenty-one years from the date of the deed for the allotment. A separate deed shall be issued for said homestead, and during the time the same is held by the allottee it shall not be liable for any debt contracted by the owner thereof." 4 Extract from Indian Appropriation Act March 3, 1903, amending homestead provision of Seminole Agreement. 32 Stat. 1008, c. 994. 5 Extract from Indian Appropriation Act March 3, 1903, amending homestead provisions of Seminole Agreement. 32 Stat. 1008, c. 994. CHAPTER 50 SEMINOLE SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENT OF OCTOBER 7, 1899, APPROVED JUNE 2, 1900 § 693. 694. 695. (CHAPTER 610, 31 STAT. 250) Preamble to Supplemental Seminole Agreement. Allotments to deceased members-Descent of. § 693. Preamble to Supplemental Seminole Agreement.1 Whereas an agreement was made by Henry L. Dawes, Tams Bixby, Archibald S. McKennon, and Thomas B. Needles, the commission of the United States to the Five Civilized Tribes, and John F. Brown and K. N. Kinkehee, commissioners on the part of the Seminole tribe of Indians, on the seventh day of October, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, as follows: This agreement by and between the government of the United States, of the first part, entered into in its behalf by the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes, Henry L. Dawes, Tams Bixby, Archibald S. McKennon, and Thomas B. Needles, duly appointed and authorized thereunto, and the Seminole Tribe of Indians, in Indian Territory, of the second part, entered into in behalf of said tribe by John F. Brown and K. N. Kinkehee, commissioners duly appointed and authorized thereunto, witnesseth: § 694. Tribal membership rolls.-First. That the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes, in making the rolls of Seminole citizens, pursuant to the Act of Congress approved June twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninetyeight, shall place on said rolls the names of all children. born to Seminole citizens up to and including the thirty 1 Discussing general terms of Seminole Agreements: Heckman v. United States, 224 U. S. 413, 32 Sup. Ct. 424, 56 L. Ed. 820; Goat v. United States, 224 U. S. 458, 32 Sup. Ct. 544, 56 L. Ed. 841. first day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and the names of all Seminole citizens then living; and the rolls so made, when approved by the Secretary of the Interior, as provided by said Act of Congress, shall constitute the final rolls of Seminole citizens, upon which the allotment of lands and distribution of money and other property belonging to the Seminole Indians shall be made, and to no other persons. § 695. Allotments to deceased members-Descent of. -Second. If any member of the Seminole Tribe of Indians shall die after the thirty-first day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, the lands, money, and other property to which he would be entitled if living, shall descend to his heirs who are Seminole citizens, according to the laws of descent and distribution of the state of Arkansas, and be allotted and distributed to them accordingly: Provided, that in all cases where such property would descend to the parents under said laws the same shall first go to the mother instead of the father, and then to the brothers and sisters, and their heirs, instead of the father.2 § 696. Ratification of agreement.-Third. This agreement to be ratified by the General Council of the Seminole Nation and by the Congress of the United States. In witness whereof the said commissioners hereunto affix their names, at Muskogee, Indian Territory, this seventh day of October, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine. (Signatures omitted.) Therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the same be, and is hereby, ratified and confirmed, and all laws and parts of laws inconsistent therewith are hereby repealed. Approved June 2, 1900. 2 Heliker-Jarvis Seminole Co. v. Lincoln, 33 Okl. 425, 126 Pac. 723; Bruner v. Sanders, 26 Okl. 673, 110 Pac. 730. CHAPTER 51 SEMINOLE TOWNSITE ACT § 697. Commissioners appointed. 698. Authority of commission. 699. Compensation to occupants. 700. Commissioners authorized to sell or lease lots. 702. Appointment of officers authorized. 703. Wewoka made capitol of Seminole Nation. § 697. Commissioners appointed.-Be it enacted by the General Council of the Seminole Nation: Section 1. That A. J. Brown, Thomas McGeisey, Thomas Factor, W. L. Joseph, and Dorsey Fife be, and are hereby, appointed as townsite commissioners for the Seminole Nation, and their term of office shall continue for four years and until their successors are appointed by the general council and quali fied. The said commissioners shall each execute a bond in the sum of five thousand dollars, to be approved by the general council, for the faithful performance of their duty, and they, or either of them, may be impeached and removed from office, and fined or otherwise punished by the general council, for malfeasance or improper conduct while in office. Before entering upon their duties the said commissioners shall elect one of their number as president and one as secretary. They shall keep a record of all their doings and transactions and make a report of the same to the general council once in each year. § 698. Authority of commission.-[2]. That said commission shall select a suitable tract or tracts of land in the Seminole Nation, not exceeding six hundred and forty acres, for a town, to be known and designated as Wewoka. And when selected the said commissioners shall cause the same to be surveyed and divided into lots, blocks, streets, and alleys of suitable width and size for residence and building purposes, and have the same numbered and platted according to the usual plan adopted by the United States for laying out and establishing townsites. There shall also be set apart one block for public buildings and two additional blocks or squares, properly located, for public parks. § 699. Compensation to occupants.-[3]. Should any or all of the lands selected by said commission for the purposes herein mentioned be owned, occupied, or claimed by any member of the Seminole Nation for business, agricultural, or grazing purposes, or as a home, or for any other legitimate purpose, then and in that event the said commission shall, before entering upon such lands for the purpose of using them as a townsite, make and enter into a contract or agreement with such person or persons for the relinquishment of their right and title to the same, and in consideration thereof the said commissioners shall have the right, and they are hereby empowered, to grant and relinquish to such person or persons owning, occupying, or claiming said lands an interest in said town equivalent to one-fourth the entire number of acres which they may own, occupy, or claim: Provided, that such person or persons shall have the right and privilege of selecting in said town the said one-fourth interest, subject to the approval of the said commission, which selection shall include any buildings that may at the time belong to such person or persons. § 700. Commissioners authorized to sell or lease lots. -[4]. That a description of the tracts of land which may be selected by said commissioners for the purpose aforesaid, according to the United States survey of the same, shall be reported to the national council, with a plat of the town, showing the survey of the same into lots, blocks, streets, and alleys, and also the blocks or squares for parks and public buildings, whereupon the president and secre BLED.IND.(2D ED.)—37 |