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 870 FlFTY·SIXTH conensss. sm. 11. cn. em. 1901. _ mllgyf my M °“‘ All citizens who were living on the first day of April, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled to be enrolled under section twenty- V·>1-Sap-502- one of the Act of Con ress approved June twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eigEt, entitled "An Act for the protection of the people of the Indian Territory, and for other purposes," shall be Placed upon the rolls to be made by said commission under said Act o Congress, and if any such citizen has died since that time, or may hereafter ie, before receiving‘his allotment of lands and distributive share of all the funds of the tribe the lands and money to which he would be entitled, if living, shall descend to his heirs according to the laws of descent and distribution of the Creek Nation, and be allotted and distributed to them accordingly. - 0,§?t§g§,§§¤e,§P*‘d”“ All children born to citizens so entitled to enrollment, up to and ’ including the first day of July, nineteen hundred, and then living), shall _ be place on the rolls made by said commission; and if any suc child die after said date, the lands and moneys to which it would be entitled ‘ if living, shall descend to its heirs according to the laws of descent and distribution of the Creek Nation, and be allotted and distributed to them accordingly. · T0 be *****1 mus- The rolls so made by said commission, when approved by the Secretary of the Interior, s all be the inal rolls of citizenship of said tribe, upon which the allotment of all lands and the distribution of all moneys and other property of the tribe shall be made, and to no other persons. m§1¤*g;;¤;¤;S¤*!,;ge§$,§; 29. Said commission shall have authority to enroll as_Creek citizens arrived and certain certain full-blood Creek Indians now residing in the Cherokee Nation, {‘,?,‘§°"d°““‘ “"°h°" and also certain full-blood Creek Indians now residing in the Creek Nation who have recently removed there from the State of Texas, and the families of fulliblood Creeks who now reside in Texas, and such other recognized citizens found on the Creek rolls as might, by reason of nonresidence, be excluded from enrollment by section twenty-one of said Act of Congress approved June ·twenty-eigl1th, eighteen hun- _£;;•é§gbn dred and ninety-eight: ovided, That such nonresidents shall, in ‘good faith, remove to the Creek Nation before said commission shall complete the rolls of Creek citizens as aforesaid. — Mi¤<=¢¤¤¤¤¤>¤¤·. mrscnmnmnons. E ggéegfg mP;g1_*g,°¤*¤ · 30. All deferred payments, under provisions of this agreement, ` shall constitute a lien in favor of the tribe on the property for which the debt was contracted, and if, at the expiration of two years from the date of payment of the fifteen per centum aforesaid, default in any annual payment has been made, the lien for the payment of all urchase money remaining unpaid may be enforced in the United States court within the jurisdiction of which the town is located in the same manner as vendor’s liens are enforced; such suit being brought in the name of the principal chief, for the benefit of the tribe. wpggmegg gggotrigg 31. All moneys to be paid to the tribe under any of the provisions -Tl‘€B.S\11?;1l70 man ct of this agreement shall be paid, under direction of the Secretary of "“’°S· the Interior, into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the tribe, and an itemized retport thereof shall be made monthly to the Secretary of the Interior an to the principal chief. t Secretary ¤f1¤¢¤ri¤r 32. All funds of the tribe and all moneys accruing under the proomake payments for . . . » _ il . . . mbeew. VISIODS of this agreement, w en needed for the purposes of equalizing allotments or for any other purgses herein prescribed, shal be pai out under the direction of the cretary of the Interior; and when required for per capita payments, if any, shall be paid out directly to each individual by a bondedofficer of the _United States, under direction of the Secretary of the Interior,. without unnecessary delay. d,§ggI¤:e*;;e*;fg**;Q;;: 33. No funds belonging to said tribe shall hereafter be used or paid sary. out for any purposes by any officer of the United States without consent of the tribe, expressly given through its national council, except as herein provided. . ·