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 540 FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 357 2. 1906. homa Territory, as it existed on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and six, and all children born between January first, nineteen hundred and six, and July first, nineteen hundred and seven, to persons whose names are on said roll on January first, nineteen hundred and six, and all children whose names are not now on said roll, but who were born to members of the tribe whose names were on the said roll on January first, nineteen hundred and six, including the children of members of the tribe who have, or have had, white hush ‘ bands, is hereby decllared to lathe 5;);,1 olflsaidltribe and tolcoplstgtutp tllie '”"*’°· _ le l membershi thereof: ovi, at the rincipa c ie 0 the mgrii-udulcm mmm Osgzillges shall, wighin three months from and afteii the approval of this • Act, file with the Secretary of the Interior a list of the names which the tribe claims were placed upon the roll by fraud, but no name shall be included in said list of any person or his descendants that was placed on said roll rior to the thirty-first day of December, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, the date of the adoption of the Osage constitution, and the Secretary of the Interior, as early as practicable, shall carefully investigate such cases and shall determine which of said per- _ _ sons, if any, are entitled to enrolhnent; but the tribe must affirmatively B°“*“°“°“· show what names have been placed upon said roll by fraud; but where the rights of persons to enrollment to the Osage roll have been investigated by the Interior Department and it has been determined by the Secretary of the Interior that such persons were entitled to enrollment, their names shall not be stricken from the roll for fraud except upon newly discovered evidence; and the Secretary of the Interior shall have authority to place on the Osage roll the names of all persons found by him, after investigation, to be so entitled, whose applica- R°"*“’°“ °*'°u· tions were pending on the date of the approval of this Act; and the said Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to strike from the said roll the names of persons or their descendants which he finds were placed thereon by or through fraud, and the said roll as above provided, after the revision and approval of the Secretary of the Interior, _ as herein provided, shall constitute the approved roll of said tribe; Degiugu or Seem- and the action of the Secretary of the Interior in the revision of the m%1.¤2g,·p, ms, 1‘0ll as llereill pI`0VldBd Shall be final, and the provisions of the Act of Congress of August fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, Twenty-eighth Statutes at Large, page three hundred and five, granting persons of Indian blood who have been denied allotments the right to appeal to the courts, are hereby repealed as far as the same relate to_t1c Osage Indians; and the tribal lands and tribal funds of said tribe shall be equally divided among the members of said tribe as hereinafter provided. mvlsian 0********- Sec. 2. That all lands belonging to the Osa e tribe of Indians in Oklahoma Territory, except as herein providged, shall be divided agnongfthe membersfolf said tribe, giving to each his or her fair share t ereo in acres, as o ows: F*”'*°‘°°*‘°’*- F irst. Each member of said tribe, as shown by the roll of member- V _ l ship made up as herein lprovided, shall be permitted to select one hun- ¥;;'j,*;Q{;}°‘*· dred and sixty acres of and as a first selection; and the adult members select their first selections and tile notice of the same with the 4 L mted States Indian agent for the Osages within three months after ,’Q’&Q{’;,’g;'£,(m_ the approval of this Act: I’rm:»'dul, That all selections of lands heretofore made by any member of said tribe, against which no contest is ' pending, be, and the same are hereby, ratified and confirmed as one Of F*¤l“’° *0 ****9* theselections of such member. And if an y adult member fails, refuses, or is unable to make such selection within said time, then it shall be ’ the duty of the United States Indian agent for the Osages to make such selection for such member or members. subject to the approval of xgésé selections mr the Secretary of the Interior. That all said first selections for minors " shall be made by the [lnited States Indian agent for the Osages., sub-