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 TREATY WITH THE CHOCTAWS AND CHICKASAWS. APRIL 28, 1866. 773 four dollars per diem while in actual attendance thereon, and four dollars Pur and milomileage for every twenty miles going and returning therefrom by the “g° °f “‘°“‘b°"‘ most direct route, to be certified by the secretary of said council and the presiding ofiieer. 8. The Choctaws and Chicknsaws also agree that a court or courts may Courts mn be established in said territory with such jurisdiction and organization as *>¤ ¢¤¤¤bii¤h¤d· Congress muy prescribe: Provided, That the same shall not interfere with the local judiciary of either of said nations. 9. Whenever Congress shall authorize the appointment of a delegate Delegate from from said territory, it shall be the province of said council to elect one {rom “'° l°"‘t°"Y· among the nations represented in said council. 10. And it is further agreed that the superintendent of Indian nffhirs Svmrivtvndsnt shall be the executive of the said territory, with the title of " governor of the  {fill'; Q22T_ Territory of Oklahoma," und that there shall he :1 secretary of the said ter- tive. ritory, to be appointed by the scid superintendent; that the duty of the 'liitle and said governor, in addition to those already imposed on the superintendent d“°‘°" of Indian aiiitirs, shall be such as properly belong to an executive officer charged with the execution of the laws, which the said council is authorized to enact under the provisions of this treaty; and that For this purpose he shall have authority to appoint u. marshal of said territory and an interpreter; the said marshal to appoint such deputies, to be paid by fees, MMF5h8i- us may be required to aid him in the execution of his proper functions ; and he the marshal of the principal court of said territory that may be established under the provisions of this treaty. 11. And the said marshal and the said secretary shall each be entitled $¤l¤fg¤¢'¤¤» to 2. salary of five hundred dollars per annum. to be paid by the United §;‘gi_°" °°°'°' States, and such fees in addition thereto as shall be established by said governor, with the approbzttion of the Secretary of the Interior; it being understood that the said fee lists may at any time be corrected and altered by the Secretary of the Interior, as the experience of the system proposed herein to be established shall show to be necessary, and shall in no case exceed the fees paid to marshals of the United States for similar services. The salary of the interpreter shall be five hundred dollars, to be paid ingglvgcgf in like manner by the United States. P ° 12. And the United States agree that in the appointment of marshals fAPP¤£¤¤¤¤¤¤ and deputies, preference, qualifications being equal, shall be given to com- gc;:fg;s_m° md peteut members of the said nations, the object being to create a laudable ambition to acquire the experience necessary for political offices of importance in the respective nations. 13. And whereas it is desired by the said" Choctaw and Chickasaw na.- P¤‘<>Vi¤l¤¤ f<>r tions that the said council should consist of an upper and lower house, it :?t;Qp;;`ul;glf"° is hereby agreed that whenever :1 majority of the tribes or nations repre— sented in said council shall desire the some, or the Congress of the United States shall so prescribe, there shall be, in addition to the council now provided for, and which shall then constitute the lower house, an upper house, consisting of one member from each tribe entitled to representation in the council now provided for- the relations ol' the two houses to each other being such as prevail in the States of the United States; each house being authorized to choose its presiding officer and clerk to perform the duties appropriate to such offices; and it being the duty, in addition, of the clerks of catch house to make out and transmit to the territorial secretory lhir copies of the proceedings of the respective houses immediately after their respective sessions, which copies shall be dealt with by the said secretary as is now provided in the case of copies of the proceedings of the council mentioned in this act, and the said clerks shall euch be entitled to the same per diem us members of the respective houses, and the presiding officers to double that sum. AIKTICLE IX. Such sums of money as have, by virtue of treaties ex- ing{:;*m°¤¤m¤ istiug in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-one, been invested for the m,,h;s0inv°;;d_