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Show 20 REPORT OF THE C~MMISBIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. under tlleprovisions of that act become a naturalized citizen of the United States. While, thkrefore, this act is the first law of a general character :adopted by Congress under which Indians could become naturalized it .would seem from the foregoing thab it was limited in its operation to members of the Indian race who at the time of their birth in the United States owedno allegiance to any tribal government, and who bear the burdens of taxation. So far as this office is aware no one of Indian blood ever claimed or exercised the rights of citizeuship under this law. Citizenship by the Qeneral Allotment Act.-No general law provided a means for the naturalization of all the members of &La Indian race, until, in 1887, Congress adopted an act (24 Stats., 388) which pro-vided for the allotment of lands in severalty and declared a11 Indians born within its limits who shall have complied with certain conditions to be citizens of the United States. Section1 of this act provides- That in all cases where any tribe or band of lndisns has been, or shall hereafter he, located upon auy reservation oreated for their use, either by treaty stipnletion or by virtue of sn aot of Congrsss or executive order setting apart the ssms for their use, the President of the United Ststasbe, and he hereby is,anthorieed, whenever in his opinion any reservetion or any part t h e r ~ fof snoh Indians is advantageous for agricultural and grazing pnrpoaes to cause said reservation, or any part thereof, to be surveyed, orresurveyed, if necessary, and to allot the lands in said reaervetion in severalty M any Indian looated thereon, eta. The first clause of section 2 provides- That all allotments set apart under the provisions of this aot shall be selected by theIndiana, heads of families seleoting for their minor children, and the agents shall select faresch orphan child, and in such manner as to embrace the improvements of theIndi&n,nem aking the selection. In this section it is also provided that if any personentitled to an allotment shall fail to make a selection, the Secretary of the Interior may, after fdnr years from the time allotments shall have been author-ized by the President on a particular reservation, direct the agent for the tribe, or a special agent appointed for the purpose, to make a selec-tion for snch person, which shall be patented to him as other selections are patented to the parties making them. Section 4 provides for making allotments from the public domain to Indians not residing-upon any reservation or for whose tribe no reser-vation has been provided by treaty, act of Coogress, or executive or@er. Section 6 provides as follows : a hat upon the completion of aeid allotments sod tho patenting of the lands tosa!d . allottees, each and every member of the respective hands or tribes of Indisns to whomallotments have been made sh?U have the beneat of iind be subject:to thelawa, , both ciyil and oriminnl, of the State or Territory in which they may reside ; and no Territory shdl pass or enforoe any law denying any aooh Indian within its jurisdic-tion the equal proteetionof the law, And every Indian barn within the territorial |