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250 FlFTY·SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 601, 610. 1900. D°P“*Y°1°"‘·°‘°· Sec. 4;_ That the clerk of the circuit and district courts for said southern district and the marshal of said district shall each appoint a deputy, who shall reside and maintain an office at Creston, in Union f,“&§g*{;a, of W County: Provided, That the appointment of such deputy shall be poimmenc, etc. approved by the court for which they shall be respectively appointed, an ~they may be removed by such court at pleasure; and the c erk and marshal shal be responsib e for the official acts and neglects of all s their deputies. . _ ‘ I J¤*°1‘¤· Sec. 5. That all the grand jurors and all jurors for the trial of civil and criminal causes in the division hereby created shall be selected from citizens residing in the division created by this Act. . Approved, June 1, 1900. ` June 2.1900- CHAP. 610.-An Act To ratify an aggement between the" Commission to the "”""_‘"""", Five Civilized Tribes and the Semmole tri of Indians. _ . S<=¤¤i¤<>1·=I¤·¤¤¤¤· Whereas an agreement was made by Henry L. Dawes, Tams Bixby, afigrideggiiizgdilét? Archibald S. McKennon, and Thomas B. Needles, the commission of P’°‘*“‘m°‘ 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 - ninet —nine, as follows: » , _ 0¤¤¤¤¤i¤¤i°¤°*S· "'1§l1is 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 . Brown. and K. N. Kinkehee, commissioners duly appointed and _ authorized thereunto, witnesseth: _ » , m¥1L15<> mv be ¢¤· ":First. That the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes, in making v¤1.` so, p. mz. . the rolls of Seminolecitizens, pursuant to the Act of Congress approve s , . June twenty»eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, shall p ace on V said rolls the names of all children born to Seminole citizens up to and . . including 'the thirty-first day of December, eighteen, hundred and R°u¤F° ‘°° “”“l*1 , ninety-nine, and the names of all Seminole citizens thenliving; and the rolls so made, when apéiroved by the Secretary of the Interior, as rovided by said Act of ongress, shall constitute the iinal 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. . V · Laws of d¢¤<=¤¤*· “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_ __£*<;gi1€ghtS em Arkansas, and be allotted and distributed tofficm accordingly: Pmé ' .vided, That in all cases where such lproperty would descend to the ' parents under said laws the same sha first go to the mother instead of the father, and_ then to the brothers and sisters, and their heirs, instead of the father. I "’I`hird. This agreement to be ratified by the general council of the Seminole Nation and by the Con ress of the United States. "In witness whereof the saif commissioners hereunto afHx their