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Show md empowered to appoint a suitable person or persons, now in the employ of the Government or outside of the employ of the Government, as to him shall seem the more expedient, who, in conjunction with such person orpersonsasmay be appointed, by and on behali of the State of Texas for the same purpose, sllall determine and establish, by reference to suitable landmarks or United States surveys, the boundary line between the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, Indian Territory, and the State of k a s , beginning at the point where the boundary line between the State of Arkansas and the Indian Territory crossea Red River, and running thence westwardly along Red River to the point where the North Fork of Red River joins the main channel, near. where the ninety-eighth degree of longitude west from Greenwich crosses Red River. SEC. 2. And be it fzbvther resolced, That the said bound: ry shall he determined by such landmarks or reference to such landmarks or established corners of United States survey as may be weed on by the Secretary of the Interior or those acting under his authority and the State of Texas or those acting under its authority. SK. 3. And be it further resolved, That the sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, he, and the same hereby is, appropriated out of any nloney in the Treasury of the United S t a b not otherwise appropriated to carry out the pro-visions of this act: hovided, That the person or persons appointed and employed on the part and behalf of the State of Texas are to be paid by the said State: Provided hL&e~, That no persons except a wperintendent or commissioner shall be appointed or employed in this service by the United States but such as are required to make the neCe888.ry observations and surveys to ascertain such line and make return of the sanle. No legislation has yet been enacted relative to this subject. CHIPPEWA AND MUNSEE INDIANS IN KANSAS. By the ninth section of the Indian appropriation act approved June 7, 1897 (30 Stat. L., p. 92), Congress nuthorized the Secretary of the Interior to appoint a "discreet person" as a commissioner to visit the Chippewa and Munsee or Christian Indian Reservation, in Franklin County, Kans., and thoroughly investigate the title of each lndian to the several tracts of land which had been allotted to him in that reser-vation. Under the law and the instructions given h i he was required to takea census of the Indians and to prepare four schedules, as follows: 1. Those Indians who held title to land by original allotment, by purchase and approved conveyance, or by inheritance, giving a description of the allotment held or owned by each Indian, and the respective share in such lands claimed by anyone, as heir or otherwise; the ownership of lands of deceased allottees to be determined under the laws of Kansas relating to descent. 2. Those who had not received an allotment of land but who would have been entitled to it if there had been a sufficient quantity of land to give an allotment to evergone. 3. All the lands embraced in the reservation, designat.ing such as should be patented to original allottees, purchasers, or their respective heirs, and such as should he sold, the tracts to be sold being either nnallotted, vacant, or not capable of profitable partition. 4. All the members of the tribes who were entitled to participate in the per capita distribution of the tribal funds now to their credit |
