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FIFTYSEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1362. 1902. 649 the circuit court of the United States for the western district of Arkansas. No fees shall be charged by the clerk or other officers of said court. The clerk of the United States court in Indian Territor , having custody and control of the files, papers, and proceedings in tlie original citizenship cases, shall receive a fee of two dollars and fifty cents for transferring and certifying to the citizenshi court the files, papers, and proceedmgs in each case, without regard) to the number _ _ of persons w ose citizenship is involved therein, and said fee shall be paid by the person applying for such transfer and certification. The ,0·’,Q’§§$“° °* °°“" judgment of the citizens ip court in an or all of the suits or proceed- E ` ings so committed to its jurisdiction shall be final. All ex enses neces- x°°°°°s` sary to the proper conduct, on behalf of the nations, of Sie suits and proceedings provided for in this and the two precedin _ sections shall be incurred under the direction of the executives of the two nations, and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, upon certificate of said executives, to pay such expenses as in his judgment are reasonable and necessary out of any of the joint funds of said nations in the Treasury of the United States. 34. During the ninety days first following the date of the final ,°f},’,*§f,°,§"°“°*°' °”‘ ratification of this agreement, the Commission to the _Five Civilized Tribes may receive ap lications for enrollment only of persons whose names are on the tribal rolls, but who have not heretofore been enrolled by said Commission, commonly known as "delinquents," and such intermarried white (persons as may have married recognized citizens of the Choctaw an Chickasaw Nations in accordance with the tribal laws, customs and usages on or before the date of the passage of this Act by Congress, and such infant children as may have been born to recognized and enrolled citizens on or before the date of the final ratification of this agreement; but the a plication of no person whomsoever for enrollment shall be receivedp after the expiration of the said ninety days: Provided, That nothing in this section shall Qfljggppi Cb0c_ a ply to any rson or persons making application for enrollment as mws. hliississippi Chbctaws, for whom provision has herein otherwise been made. 35. No rson whose name does not a ar u n the rolls pre red Di¤**i¤¤**¢>¤¤f¤¢>¤¤· as herein pifovided shall be entitled to iiim an Eiinnner participalfi; in mm mP°"y` the distribution of the common property of the Choctaw and hickasaw tribes, and those whose names appear thereon shall participate in the manner set forth in this agreement: Provided, That no allotment grqfwm h t I of land or other tribal property shall be made to any person, or to aqui;." ° mm ° the heirs of any person whose name is on the said rolls, and who died prior to the date of the final ratification of this agreement. The right of such erson to any interest in the lands or other tribal property shall be d)eemed to have become extin uished and to have passed to the tribe in general upon his death before the date of the final ratification of this agreement, and any person or persons who may conceal the death of anyone on said rolls as aforesaid. for the purpose of profiting by the said concealment, and who shall knowingly receive any portion of any land or other tribal property, or of the proceeds so arising from any allotment prohibited by this section, shal be deemed F°*°”V- guilty of a felony, and shal be proceeded against as may be provided in other cases of felony, and the penalty for this offense shal be confinement at hard labor for a period of not less than one year nor more than Eve years, and in addition thereto, a forfeiture to the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations of the lands, other tribal property, and proceeds so obtained. cmcxssxw rnnnnnnx. m§,'f°*"°‘” F'°°"’ 36. Authority is hereby conferred upon_ the Court of Claims to dgg;’,Q,,{’_f f,g*,§‘j;”(§§f determine the existing controversy respecting the relations of the erc.