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 144 FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1876. 1906. Treasury to the credit of said tribes, respectively, and when all the just charges a inst the funds of the respective tribes have been deducted there%om, any remaining funds shall be distributed per ca ita to the members then living and the heirs of deceased members wliose names appear upon the finally approved rolls of the respective tribes, such distribution to be made under rules and regulatwns to be prescribed b the Secretary of the Interior. _ _ d·Q;*f,';°*“*°°°* *'“’· Sec. 18. That the Secretary of the Interior IS hereby authorized to ` bring suit in the name of the United States, for the use of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek, or Seminole tribes, respectively, either before or after the dissolution of the tribal governments, for the collection of any moneys or recovery of any land claimed by any of said tribes, whether such claim shall arise pyrior to or after the dissolution of the tribal governments, and the nited States courts in Indian Territory are hereby given jurisdiction to try and determine all such suits, and the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to pay from the funds of the tribe interested any costs and necessary exnses incurred in maintaining and prosecuting such-suits: _Pr0*vided, f.";,'},?;;, m,,,, ,,0, That proceedings to which any of said tribes is a party pending before mmm. any court or tri unal at the ate of d1ssolution of the tribal governments shall not be thereby abated or in anywise affected, but shall roceed to final di iition. Se¢·<>¤¤ nlmwcd de p Where suit is ny nding, or may hereafter be filed in any United ‘°°d°°°°' States court in the Inciiean Territory, by or on behalf of any one or more . of the Five Civilized Tribes to recover moneys claimed to be due and owing to such tribe, the party defendants to such suit shall have the right to set up and have adjudicated any claim it may have against such tribe; and any balance that may be found due by any tribe or tribes shall be paid by the Treasurer of the United States out of any fundshof such tribe or tribes upon the filing of the decree of the court with im. H§gj;;j§g’;ed'”°*°· Sec. 19. That no full-blood Indian of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, _ l Cherokee, Creek or Seminole tribes shall have power to alienate, sell, dispose of, or encumber in any manner any of the lands allotted to him for a period of twenty-five years from and after the passage and approval of this Act, unless such restriction shall, prior to the expiration of said period, be removed by Act of Congress; and for all purposes the quantum of Indian blood possessed by any member of said tribes shall be determined by the rolls of citizens of said tribes approved f£;;'gj·0,hmhm by the Secretary of the Interior: Ihrosided, Iam0e1w-, That such fullnqmemadlnnds per- blood Indians of any of said tribes may lease any lands other than “""°d‘ homesteads for more than one year under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior; and in case of the inability of any fiill-blood owner of a homestead, on account of intirmity or age, to work or farm his homestead, the Secretary of the Interior, upon proof of such inabilit ·, may authorize the leasing of such homestead under such rules andyregulations: ])7'IIl'2:(]l’tl _/‘izrt/wr, n_;e;:;a,f3¤¤v¤y¤¤·¤¤ Tbatronveyances heretofore made by members of any of the Five ` Civilized Tribes subsequent to the selection of allotment and subsequent to removal of restriction, where patents thereafter issue, shall not be deemed or held invalid solely because said conveyanees were made prior to issuance and recording or delivery of patent or deed; but this shall not be held or construed as aifecting the validity or inva.- lidity of any such conveyance, except as hereinabove provided; and every deed executed before, or for the making of which a contract or agreement was entered into before the removal of restrictions. be and '*`¤°¤· the same is hereby, declared void: Provirled jim!/ter, That all lands upon which restrictions are removed shall be subject to taxation, and the other lands shall be exempt from taxation as long as the title remains in the original allottee.