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 ‘ 720 FIFTYSEVENTH CONGRESS. Sress. 1. Ch. 1375. 1902. of Vinita, and heretofore set apart by act of the Cherokee national council for the use of said church for missionary and educational purpgses. and now occupied by Willie Halsell College (formerly Galloway ‘ llege),_ and shall thereupon receive title thereto: but if said church fail so to do it may continue to occupy said one hundred and sixty acres of land as long as it uses same for· the purposes aforesaid. m;}]*:}*1Q•;£_l °“"°*‘ Any other school or college in the Cherokee ation which claims to _ be entitled under the lawto a greater number of acres than is set » apart for said school or college by section twenty-four of this Act may have the number of acres to which it is entitled by law. The trustees of such school or college shall, within sixty days after the ratification of this Act, make application to the Secretary of the Interior for the number of acres to which such school or college claims to be entitled, and if the Secretary of the Interior shall lind that such school or college is, under the laws and treaties of the Cherokee Nation in force prior to the ratification of this Act, entitled to a greater number of acres of land than is provided for in this Act, he shall so determine and his decision shal be final. The amount so found by the Secretary of the Interior shall be set apart for the use of such college or school as long as the same may be used for missionf,",1°ce'?';;,,,¤,,_ ary and educational purposes: Profvided, That the trustees of such ' sc ool or college shall pay ten dollars per acre for the number of acres . so found by the Secretary of the Interior and which have been heretofore set apart b act of the Cherokee national council for use of such school or college for missionary or educational u s, and upon the payment of such sum within sixty days after the decision of the Seprietagy of the Interior said college or school may receive a title to suc an . ‘ . Rnllofcitisensbip. ROLL or CITIZENSHIP. ‘ rms. Sec. 25. The roll of citizens of the Cherokee Nation shall be made as of September first, nineteen hundred and two, and the names of all persons then living and entitled to enrollment on that date shall be placed on said roll by the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes. rmmm entitled. Sec. 26. The names of all persons living on the first day of Se tember, nineteen hundred and two, entitled to be enrolled as providjed in section twenty-tive hereof, shall be placed upon the roll made by said Commission, and no child born thereafter to a citizen, and no`white person who has intermar·ried with a Cherokee citizen since the six- _ teenth day of December. eighteen hundred and ninety-Eve, shall be entitled to enrollment or to participate in the distribution of the tribal property of the Cherokee Nation. gzerammgegm Sec. 27: Such rolls_shall in_ all other respects be made in strict com- ’ plrance with the provisions of section twenty-one of the Act of Con- ·ess approved June twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninetv-eight v¤1.¤1.p.¤6. 5`hinieth Statutes, page four hundred and ninety-five), and the get of Congress approved May thirty-first. nineteen hundred (Thirty-first Statutes, page two hundred and twenty-one). E¤<¢*¤¤*¤¤- Sec. 28. l\o person whose name appears upon the roll made by the Dawes Commission as a citizen or· freedman of any other tribe ishall _ be enrolled as a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. m'g};•j0·jn;(lqt>;l€9n$f· Sno,  For the purpose of expediting the enrollment of the Chero- _ kee citizens and the allotment of lands as herein provided, the said Commission shall, from time to time, and as soon as practicable. forward to the Secretary of the Interior lists upon which shall be placed the names of those persons found by the Commission to be entitled to enrollment. The lists thus prepared, when approved by the Secretary of the Interior, shall constitute a part and r·cel of the final roll of citizens of the Cherokee tribe, upon which allfhtment of land and distribution of other tribal property shall be made. When there shall