Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 14.djvu/805

 TREATY WITH THE CHOCTAWS AND CIIICKASAWS. APRIL 28, 1866. 775 celled, and the land shall thereafter be discharged from all claim on account thereof Anricts XIV. At the expiration of the ninety days aforesaid thelegis- Lands may be lative authorities of the said nations, respectively, shall have the right to “l*?°°*’$* *`°”°“°¤ select one quarter—section of land in each of the counties of said na·;;i;21j2°;},$fn,,_ tions respectively, in trust for the establishment of seats of justice therein, ries audcollegosand also as many quarter-sections as the said legislative councils may deem proper for the permanent endowment of schools, seminaries, and colleges in said nation, provided such selection shall not embrace or interfere with any improvement in the actual occupation of any member of the particular nation without his consent; and provided the proceeds of sale of the quarter-sections selected tbr seats of justice shall be appropriated for the erection or improvement of public buildings in the county in which it is located. Atrrromc XV. At the expiration of the ninety days' notice aforesaid, the Each Indian selection which is to change the tenure of the land in the Choctaw and Eg l‘“"°”"l§h° Chickasaw nations from a holding in common to a holding in severalty seciilgnqgdiazi shall take place, when every Choctaw and Chickasaw shall have the right to one quarter-section of land, whether male or female, adult or minor, and if in actual possession or occupancy of land improved or cultivated by Actual occuhim or her, shall have a prior right to the quarter·section in which his or Paniher improvement lies; and every infant shall have selected for him or Infantsher a quarter—section of land in such location as the {Either of such infant, if there be a father living, and if no father living, then the mother or guardian, and should there be neither father, mother, nor guardian, then as the probate judge of the county, acting for the best interest of such infant, shall select. An·r1cL1·: XVI. Should an actual occupant of land desire, at any time Actual occuprior to the commencement of the surveys aforesaid, to abandon his im- ;’S;‘:é5’;";;`uf° provement, and select and improve other land, so as to obtain the prior ai,m,(j.,,{ h{s);m_ right of selection thereof, he or she shall be at liberty to do so; in which D¤“<>V€m¤¤fS Md event the improvement so abandoned shall be open to selection by other s€l°°°°th°H°‘°d° parties : Provided, That nothing herein contained shall authorize the mul- Pi-oviso. tiplication of improvements so as to increase the quantity of land beyond what a party would be entitled to at the date of this treaty. Anricms XVII. No `selection to be made under this treaty shall be O<=§>¤p¤§i<>¤ by permitted to deprive or interfere with the continued occupation, by the 2Q33E2Q:;;? °f missionaries established in the respective nations, of their several mission- establishments ary establishments; it being the wish of the parties hereto to promote and ;.‘;;§°“l;§g¤l°°'· foster an influence so largely conducive to civilization and refinement. ° Should any missionary who has been engaged in missionary labor for five _Rights_of cerconsecutive years before the date of this treaty in the said nations, or ;’;;gsm’SB*°* either of them, or three consecutive years prior to the late rebellion, and ° who, if absent from the said nations, may desire to return, wish to select a quarter-section of land with a view to a permanent home for himself and family, he shall have the privilege of doing so, provided no selection shall include any public buildings, schools or seminary; and a. quantity of land not exceeding six hundred and forty acres, to be selected according to legal subdivisions in one body, and to include their improvements, is hereby granted to every religious society or denomination which has erected, or which, with the consent of the Indians, may hereafter erect buildings within the Choctaw and Chickasaw country for missionary or educational purposes; but no land thus granted, nor the buildings which have been or may be erected thereon, shall ever be sold or otherwise disposed ot, except with the consent of the legislatures of said nations respectively and approval of the Secretary of the Interior; and whenever such lands or buildings shall be sold or disposed ot, the proceeds thereof shall be applied, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, to the support and maintenance of other similar establishments for the benefit of the