or their contract, to be recoverable before any court of

this Nation, having jurisdiction of the same." (Dec. 14th, 1870.)

SEC. 11. At each and every station along the line of any railroad passing through the land of the Cherokee Nation there shall be reserved to the

Cherokee Nation one mile square, to include such station in such manner as may be deemed advisable by the commissioner hereafter authorized; and said tract shall be laid off into town lots, and sold at public sale to the highest bidder, who shall be a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, and who shall thereby acquire the same rights, and none other than those, of use and occupancy, in the same way, and to the same extent, as conferred by law upon purchasers of lots in the towns. of Fort Gibson and Tahlequah; provided, that this act shall not be so construed as to interfere with any of the mineral resources of the public domain, or laws of the Cherokee Nation in relation thereto.

SEC. 12. The Principal Chief is hereby authorized to appoint three commissioners, whose duty it shall be to locate and survey said town sites, and sell the lots thereof, or such number of lots as may be deemed advisable, as hereinbefore specified, and report to the

Principal Chief, the locations, surveys, and sales of lots, receipts and expenditures, on the first day of October of each year.

SEC. 13. The sales, payments, and conditions of title shall be the same as provided by law in the sales of lots in the town of Fort Gibson.

SEC. 1. Two expert and responsible persons, who shall be residents of the district from which they are appointed, and one of whom talks (speaks) the Cherokee language, shall be appointed by the Principal Chief, in each district, are hereby directed and authorized to take the census of their respective districts, between the first day of March and the first day of May, 1880, and make full and certified returns thereof to the Principal Chief, on or before the first day of June of said year.

SEC. 2. The said census takers, before entering upon the duty hereby assigned them, shall take an oath for the full and impartial and correct performance of the same, as hereinafter defined.

SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of said census takers to make full and complete returns of all persons found residing or sojourning within the limits of their respect

ive districts, at the time of making the enumeration, as required by the foregoing section. And said returns shall show the names of all heads of families, giving a complete registration of births, deaths and marriages; also, the age and sex, and names of all males above the age of eighteen years; the names of all females above the age of eighteen years; the names of all males under the age of eighteen years; the names of all females. under the age of eighteen years; the names, sex, and ages of all orphans under sixteen years; the names of all whites entitled by law to citizenship, within the ages above specified; the names of whites not so entitled; the names of all colored persons entitled by law to citizenship, within said ages, and the names of all such persons not so entitled; and the names of all Indians not so entitled; also a report of the chief productions of agriculture, including number of horses, cattle, hogs, sheep, etc., during the year ending May 1st, 1880.

SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the Principal Chief to cause ruled blanks to be prepared, of a suitable and convenient form, and furnished to said census takers, · for the purpose of making the enumeration herein provided for; and said census takers shall be allowed three dollars per day in the performance of the duties hereinbefore imposed upon them.

SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the Principal Chief to cause a summary of the returns of said census to be prepared and laid before the National Council, together with the full returns of the same, at the beginning of the

annual session thereof in 1880, and which returns shall serve as a basis for apportioning the representation of the several Districts of the Cherokee Nation in the National Council, in accordance with the amendments to the Constitution dated November 28th, 1866.

SEC. 6. All persons whose rights to citizenship in the Cherokee Nation shall be called into question, and who shall be reported by the persons authorized by this act to take the census of the Cherokee Nation, on the list of doubtful persons, shall be required by the Principal Chief to appear before the commission on citizenship, at Tahlequah, during the month of September, 1880, for the adjudication of their claims to Cherokee citizenship. (Dec. 2d, 1879.)

ARTICLE II.

JOINT RESOLUTION PROVIDING FOR AMENDMENTS TO CENSUS

ROLLS.

SEC. 7. Each census roll of the enumeration of 1880 are referred to a joint committee, for each district, to be composed of one member from the senate, and two members from the council, of their respective districts, whose duty it shall be to carefully examine and pass upon each name appearing on said roll, and the names of any persons appearing thereon, they may know, or have good reason to believe, are non-citizens, and not entitled to appear on said census roll, shall be plainly marked in red ink, "suspended for examination ;"