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- tecteil against interrllptions or intrusion from all n?sothorized oitizens of the United statel4 who may attempt to settle on their lsinda or reside in their Territory. In case of hostilities among theIndian tribes t.he United States agreethat the partyorparties commenoing the saN0 shall, so far as praotioahle, make reparation for the damages done. ARTICLEX XVII. The United States ~hdhla ve the right to establish one or more militaq posts or stations in the Cherokee Xation, as may be deemed neeeasery for the pl.oper protection of the oitizens of the United States lawfully residing therein endthe Cherokees and other oitizens of the Indian country. Rut no sutler or other pernail connected therewith either in or out of the militarr orgsnizat.ion shall beper-mitted tointrodnee any spiritnous, vinous, or malt liquors into the Cherokee Nation, except the medical department proper, and bythem only for siriotlymedienl purposes. And all persons not in the military sernioe of the United States, not oitizens of the Cherokee Nation, are to he prohibited from coming into i.he Cherokee Nation, or re-msinillg in the same, except as herein otherwise provided; and it is the dnty of the United States Indian agent for the Cherokees to have such persons, not lawfully re-siding or sojourning therein, removed from the Nation, as they now are, or hereafter may be, reqnired by the IucIilian interaouvse laws of the United States. In -pursuance of the amendment made by Congress to the Cherokee agreement so called, as above set forth, the President appointed Messrs, Joshi~aC . Hutchins, of Athens, Ga., Peter H. Pernot,,of In~iianapolis, Ind., and Clem V. Rogers, of Oolagah, Iud. T. (the latter on recom-mendtntion of the principal chief of the Cherokee Nation), a Com-missi~~ ton appraise the improvements of intruders in the Cherokee Nation, who began the occupation of houses, lands, or iinprovemei~tisn said Ipation prior to A~lgrrst 11,1886, the date on which the stopping of the issuance of prima fi~ciec ertificates was ordered. June 21, 1803, a draft of tlie instructbns to govern the said Com~nissioni n its work mas transmitted by this office for the consideration and approval of the Depal-tment,. These instructions mere approved by the Secretary of the Interior July '7,1893, and the Commissioners named above are now in the Indian Territory engaged in appraising the improvements of the ilitruilers in the Cherokee Nation entitled to compensation therefor nuder the lam. Among the parties charged by the Cherokees with being intruders, and vrhose removal with others is demanded, are a number of persons who claim that they were once lilmfully admitted to citizenship in the Nation, and have never forfeited that right, but that they have since bee11 i;.nlawfnlly declared to benon-citieerls audintruders. An inspector of the Department was recently seut to the Xation to investigate this class of cases. |
