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 F IFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHS. 675, 676. 1901. 861 tion, prosecution, or defense, as the case may be, on the art of the tribe, or any band thereof, of any such suit shall be through attorneys employed, and to be comdpensated in the manner prescribed in sections —•=<>m1>¤¤¤¤¢·i¤¤ twenty-one hundred an three to twenty-one hundred and six, both p_§é§··“°°”·”‘“3·"'°·· inclusive, of the Revised Statutes of the United States, the tribe acting throu h its principal chief in the employment of Such attorneys, and a ban§ acting through a committee reco nized by the Secretary of the Interior. The Court of Claims shall §ave full authority by proper Mnking Permorders and process to make parties to any such suit all persons whose presence in the litigation may be deemed necessary or proper to the hnal determination of the matter in controversy; and any such suit WQ;¤_gd ¤¤¤>‘ be Hdshall, on motion of either party, be advanced on the docket of either ` of said courts, and determined at the earliest practicable time. _ 78. That in the suit pending between the Delaware Indians and the ,,,§°§,L§‘“{‘,*$d‘§‘Q§{,°f,D,${{ Cherokee Nation in the Court of Claims said court is hereby authorized gg§;g%g%,&i§¤2ti¤¤· to iix the compensation of the attorneys of record of the respective ` litigants, and the same shall be paid to the attorneys re resenting the n€P*;¤;:§,?g¤;gd ****0*- Cherokees out of the general fund of the Cherokee Nation and to Y ` the attorneys representing the Delawares out of an money belon ing to said Delaware Indians; but in no event shall the fees allowed by said court exceed the amounts specified in the contracts with said tribes. 79. That nothing in this Act contained shall be held or construed to Hgtftgégggsgggégr ai] change, alter, modify or impair any existing coal or oil rights hereto- ' fore acquired by lease, location, development, or otherwise, or to ratify, confirm, recognize, or validate any such rights. . _ _ 80. This agreement shall be binding upon the Cnited States and on ,g*§,‘;},}§,§§“""" "‘ the Cherokee Nation and all Cherokee citizens when ratified by Congress and by a majority of the whole number of votes cast by the legal voters of the Cherokee Nation in the manner following: The principal —¢l¤¢¤¤¤- chief shall, within twenty days after the approval of this Act, make public proclamation that the same shall be voted upon at a special election to be held for that pu ose within sixty days thereafter, on a certain day therein named, andige shall appoint such officers and make such other provisions as may be necessary for holding such election. ~ The votes cast at such election shall be forthwith duly certified as required by Cherokee law, and the votes shall be counted by the Cherokee national council in the presence of the Dawes Commission and the principal chief, and said commission and principal chief shall jointly make certificate thereof and proclamation of the result. _ Approved, March 1, 1901. CHAP. 676.-An Act To ratify and confirm an agreement with the Muscogee March 1, 1901. or Creek tribe of Indians, and for other purposes. -———-—————— Be it enacted oy the Senate and House of R%m·esen.tattves of the United. States of Amerzea in Congress assembled, That the a reement nego— Asrecmeuri _<>f tiated between the Commission to the Five Civilizef Tribes and the gidim muigougiewiyi Muscogee or Creek tribe of Indians at the city of Washington on the fgg'§,§(§{'“’° °* I"d*°“ eighth day of March, nineteen hundred, as herein amended, is hereby accepted, ratified, and confirmed, and the same shall be of full force and effect when ratified by the Creek national council. The principal di§;¤¤<=¤¤i<>¤ br i¤- chief, as soon as practicable after the ratification of this agreement by s' Congress, shall call an extra session of the Creek national council and lay before it this agreement and the Act of Congress ratifying it, and if the agreement be ratiiied by said council, as provided in the constitution of said nation, he shall transmit to the President of the United States the act of council ratifying the agreement, and the President of