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 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 542. 1898. 569 This agreement shall in no wise affect the provisions of existing E¤i¤¤¤z¤¤¤¤¤¤- treaties between the Seminole Nation and the United States, except in so far as it is inconsistent therewith. The United States courts now existing, or that may hereafter be St·;y;‘¤*“°*Q>'· U¤i*¤d created, in Indian Territory shall have exclusive jurisdiction of all mm s` controversies growing out of the title, ownership, occupation, or use of real estate owned by the Seminoles, and to try all persons charged with homicide, embezzlement, bribery, and embracery hereafter com-` mitted in the Seminole country, without reference to race or citizenship of the persons charged with such crime; and any citizen or officer of said nation charged with any such crime, if convicted, shall be punished as if he were a citizen or officer of the United States, and the courts of said nation. shall retain all the jurisdiction which they now —Indian scum. have, except as herein transferred to the courts of the United States. . When this agreement is ratified by the Seminole Nation and the United States the same shall serve to repeal all the provisions of the §¤r¤¤1· Act of Congress approved June seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety- "”’ P' 71 seven, in any manner aiiecting the proceedings of the general council -of the Seminole Nation. It being known that the Seminole Reservation is insufficient for allot- hP¤r¤é¤¤¤¤k 0; dgnd ments for the use of the Seminole people, upon which they, as citizens, a,°§`§..m{.¥$;,,._ ” m holding in severalty, may reasonably and adequately maintain their families, the United States will make effort to purchase from the Creek Nation, at one dollar and twenty-tive cents per acre, two hundred thousand acres of land, immediately adjoining the eastern boundary of the Seminole Reservation and lying between the North Fork and South Fork of the Canadian River, in trust for and to be conveyed by proper patent by the United States to the Seminole Indians, upon said sum of one dollar and twenty-tive cents per acre being reimbursed to the United States by said Seminole Indians; the same to be allotted as herein provided for lands now owned by the Seminoles. This agreement shall be binding on the United States when ratified R¤¢i¤<=¤*i¤¤- by Congress and on the Seminole people when ratified by the general council of the Seminole Nation. In witness whereof the said Commissioners have hereunto aiiixed S*g¤¤*¤¤‘#¤· - their names at Muskogee, Indian Territory, this sixteenth day of December, A. D. 1897. HENRY L. Dawns, _ Trims Bixnr, FRANK C. Amusrnone, Ancuinnn S. MCKENNON, Tnomss B. Nmannns, Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes. A1.msoN L. Arnnswonmn, Secretary. J om: F. BROWN, OKCHAN Hnwo, WILLIAM GULLY, K. N. KINKEHEE, Tnoms Wnsr, . Tnomss FACTOR, Seminole Commission. A. J. BnowN, ` Secretary. Therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United » States of America in Congress assembled, That the Same be, and is hereby, H Agaecmeur c onratitied and confirmed, and all laws and parts of laws inconsistent }‘§,‘,§’,,,g,,,,,,,,,,1,,,,,,,, therewith are hereby repealed. p¤¤1·>·i- Approved, July 1, 1898.