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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 83 the fact that a non-citizen has paid him money for procuring s permit, does not relieve such non-citizen of the liability to removal as an in-truder. Third. His objection to rule 4 was that the permit collectors have no authority of law for extension of the time within which permits may be procured, and he alleged that no such custom had erer.obtained in the nation. Fourth. He objected to rules 5, 6, and 7, because he chimed the$ would not reach all thecases of intruders in the Chickasaw Nation who are liable to removal as such, under the law. For the above reasons he asked that rule 1 be construed so as to give effect only to permits issued b~ legally authorized permit collectors and on paper furnished by the national secret.ary, and that rules 2, 3, and 4 be totally abrogated. Thelams of the Ohickasaw Nation which bear upoh the questions in-volved in this matter are acts of council of September 23,1887, and October I?, 18i6 (oonstitution, treaties, and laws of the Chickasaw Nation, pp. 197, 229). The former provides in section 1 for the election of a permit col\eotor in each county; in section 2 for the issue of com-mission to and the execution of bond by the permit collectors, and for the appointment of his deputies, eb. ; and in section 3, as follows: Beit f!rthevsnactsd, Thatthe nationalseoretary shall furnish the permit collector inemh connty with blank certificates, book form, lvith stubs @tached, nnmbered from one up, that is naaessary, and said stubs and certificates shall be printed and the numbers ahall oorreipond with each other. Section 4 repeals all acts or parts of acts in oonflict with this aot and fixes the time when-it shall take effect. The provisions of the act of October 17, 1876, otherwise known as the "permit law," which have a bearing on the justness and fairness of Agent Bennett's rules, are as follows: SECTION1. Be i t enactad 411 the legislature of tLe Chiokasau, Notipn, That citizens of any State or Territory of the United States wishiog to hire or rent land, or be otherwise employed in this nation, shall be required to enter into contract with a citizen, and after a oontraot has been agreed upon, t,he non-citizen ahall place in the hands of the citizen a sufficient amount of money to pay permits, nod that the per-mit collector shall receive no permit money from any otl~er person, exoept from a citizen of this nation, and for each and every violation shall be fined in any snm not Isas than ten ddllere for each and every offense, by the ooanty judge of the oounty where the offense mas committed. SEC. 2. Be i t further enacted, That any citizen who shall employ any nan-citizen, shall apply within fifteen days after enterilig into oontraot to the permit oollector of the county where said non-citizen wishes to reside, for a permit for every male non-citizen over the age of eighteen years in his employ, and far each permit soobtained ihe citizen ahsll pay to the permit oolleotor issuing the same the s u o~f fiv e dollars, snd the permit oalleotor shall retain for each permit issned fifteen per oent. for his services, andshall report to the auditor and treasurer quarterly of all moneys received bp him for permits, sud after deducting out his fee shall psx the balance over to the treasurer for national purpose@. " % * |