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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 77 Fourteenth. Authorizing the permanent location of an Indian inspea-tor in %he Indian Territory, who may, under the authority and direction of the Secretary, perform any duties required by law of the Secretary of the Interior relating to affairs therein. Fifteenth. The abolition of all tribal courts in the Territory, and pro-hibition of all officers of said courts, after July 1,1898, fmm performing any act theretofore authorized by any law in connection with those oourts, and from receiving any pay for same, and directing the transfer of all civil and cximinal causes then pending in the tribal courts to the proper United States court in the Territory. By a proviso this provision as to courts is suspended as to the Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Creek nations until October 1,1898, and by reason of action taken by the Choc-taw and Chickasaw tribes, nuder other provisions of the act (mentioned below more specifically), the clause of the act abolishing tribal courts will not go into effect as to the Clioctaw and Chickasaw courts. Sixteeuth. The remainder of the aot is devoted to the ratification, with amendments, of the agreement between the Dawes Cornmiasion and the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations, dated April 23,1897, and of the agreement between that commission and the Creek Nation, dated September 27,1897. These agreements were ratified in the Curtis Act, with amendments, and are to go into effect if ratified before December 1,1898, by a vote of the members of the nations, to be had at the next general election called for the purpose, with the proviso that on the ratification of those agreements the general provisions of the act shall apply to Wose nations only where the same do not conflict with their agreements. By a vote of the citizens of the Choctaw and Chiokasaw nations at a special electiou held on August 24,1898, the Choctaw andChickasaw agreement,* as amended, was ratified, and August 30,1898, its ratifica-tion was proclaimed as follows by the b0a~1.d appointed in nccordauce with the Curtis Act to canvass and count the vole: A PROCLAMATION. Whereas, by section 32 of an act of Congress, entitred "An sat for the proteotion of the people of the Indian Territory, and for other purposes," approved June 28, 1898, it is provided "That tho agreement made b~ tho commission to the Fivecivil-izcd Tribas with commissions representing the Chootaw and Chiokasaw tribes of Indinns on the 23d day of April, 1897, ss herein amended, is boreby ratified snd con-firmed, and the aame shall be of full force and effeot if ratified before the 1st day of December, 1898, by a msjolity of the whole number of votes east by members of snid tribes at nu election held far that purpose." And fnrthor, "That the votes cast in both of add tribea or nations shall be forthwith returned, duly oertificd by the precinct officers, to the national seoretnries of said tribes 01' nations, and sh%ll be presented by said national seoretariae to a board of aommissioners consisting af the principal ubief and national secretary of the Choctaw Nation, the governor and national secretary of the Chiokasaw Nation, snd s member of the commission to the Fivecivilized 'hibas, to be designated by the chairmanof said commission, nnd snid F o r agreement see page 435. |