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 SEVENTIETH C ONGRESS. SEss. II. CH. 493. 1929 . 1481 blood who does not have a certificate of competency, and which have been paid or delivered by the Secretary of the Interior to the administrator or executor shall be paid or delivered by such admin- istrator or execut or to the Secretar y of the Interior for the b enefit of such Indian and shall be subject to the supervision of the Secretary as provided by law ." SEC . 5 . The restrictions concerning lands and funds of allotted b1Ro tr j iotteapli c Osage Indi ans, as p rovid ed in thi s Act and all p rior Acts now in born since July 1, 1907, force, shall apply to unallotted Osage Indians born since July 1, and their heirs . 1907, or after the passage of this Act, and to their heirs of Osage Validity of co ntracts Indian blood, except that the provisions of section 6 of the Act of for debt . Congress approved February 27, 1925, with reference to the validity Vol.43, p.1011. of contr acts f or deb t, sha ll not apply to any allot ted or unall otted Osage Indian of less than one-half degree Indian blood : Provided, Provisos . That the Osage lands and funds and any o ther property which I n di a ns in ess than has heretofore or which may hereafter be held in trust or under one-half Osage blood, etc ., not subject to su pervis ion of the U nited States for s uch Osa ge Ind ians o f less than for ced sale, etc ° one-half degree Indian blood not having a certificate of competency shall not be subject to forced sale to satisfy any debt or obligation contracted or incurred prior to the issuance of a certificate of com- petency : Provided further That the Secretary of the Interior is Certificate of compe y tency granted to unal- hereby authorized in his discretion to grant a certificate of coin- lotted Osage Indian, at Se e- petency to any unallotted Osage Indian when in the judgment of retary'on of the see- the said Secretary such member is fully competent and capable of transacting his or her own affairs. SEC. 6 . All just existing obligatio ns of res tricted O sage Indi ans out- ous of restric ted In- standing January 1, 1929, when approved by the Superintendent dians to be paid from of the Osage Agency, shall be paid out of the money of such Indian funds thereof. appearing to his credit, in addition to his quarterly allowances Proviso. And provided further, That nothing herein contained shall be Competency certifi- ca tes may be g ranted construed to interfere in any way with the granting of a certificate after payments of all of competency by the Secretary of the Interior, as provided for debts* by existing law, at any time after the payment of all of his or her just debts which have be en presented to and approved by the Su'perintendent of the Osage Indian Agency. Vol. 34, p, 545. amend. EEC. 7 . That section 9 of the Act of Congress approved June 28, ed. 1906 (Thirty-fourth Statutes at Large, page 539), be, and the same T ribal offi cers, etc. is hereby, amended to read as follows " That there shall be a quadrennial election of officers of the Osage of Quadrennial c and Tribe as follows : A principal chief, an assistant principal chief, and -embers of tribal couu- eight members of the Osage tribal council, to succeed the officers elected in the year 1928, said officers to be elected at a general election to be held in the town of Pawhuska, Oklahoma, on the first Monday in June, 1930, and on the first Monday in June each four years thereafter, in the manner to be prescribed by the Commissioner of In dian Affa irs, and said offi cers shal l be ele cted for a period of four years commencing on the 1st day of July following said elections, and in case of vacancy in the office of principal chief or other such of ficer by death, re signation, or othe rwise, t he vacanc ies of th e Osage Filling vacanclea' tribal council shall be filled in a manner to be prescribed by the Osage tribal council, and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby auth orized to remove fro m the council any me mber or members thereof for good cause, to be by him determined, after the party involved has had due notice and opportunity to appear and defend himself, and said tribal government so constituted shall continue in full force and effect to January 1, 1959." Approved, March 2, 1929.

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