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54TH CONGRESS,             SENATE.                   DOCUMENT
   1st Session. J                                      No. 214.




         IN THE   SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.


APaL 15, 1896.-Referred to the Committee on IndianAfairs and ordered to be printed.


             Mr. PETTIGREW   presented the following
MEMORIAL OF THE CHOCTAW AND CHICKASAW NATIONS OF
  INDIANS, RELATIVE   TO THEIR  CLAIM  TO AN  INTEREST  IN THE
  LANDS  EMBRACED IN GREER COUNTY, OKLA.



                            WAsHINGTON,   D. C., April 15, 1896.

To the Senate and  House of Representatives, the President of the
  United States, the Secretary of the Interior, the Attorney-General,
  and all officers of the United States having in charge, or who may
  hereafter have in charge, the disposition of the lands embraced in
  Greer County, Okla., being the land the title to which was recently
  adjudicated in the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of
  The United States v. Texas, original docket, No. 3, October term, 1895.
  The memorial  of the Choctaw and Chickasaw  Nations of Indians
respectfully shows:
  In view of possible legislation by the Congress of the United States,
at the present session thereof, relating to Greer County, Okla., your
memorialists, the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations of Indians, desire to
remind the Government of the United States of their claim to an inter-
est in the lands embraced in said county.
  Your memorialists claim that the Government of the United States
only has the right to use the lands embraced in the said Greer County
for the settlement thereon of such friendly bands or tribes of Indians
as the Government may decide to place upon said lands, the same being
within the limits of what is known as the  Leased district, to wit, that
section of country which is bounded on the east by the ninety-eighth
degree of west longitude, on the west by the one hundredth degree of
west longitude, on the north by the Canadian River, and on the south
by the Red River, and that, upon their sale or diversion to any other
use than the settlement thereon of said Indians, your memorialists will
become entitled to payment, in money, by the United States for the full
value of such interest in said lands as your memorialists may, by com-
petent authority, be adjudged to be entitled to.
  Your memorialists further say that the grounds upon which they base
their claim to said lands are, at least in part, set forth in the petition
filed by them in the case, now pending in the Court of Claims, of your
memoralists against the United States and the Wichita and affiliated
bands of Indians, No. 18932, the said suit having been brought by
your memorialists under and by virtue of the provisions of the special
act of Congress approved March  2, 1895, entitled An act making
     S. Doe. S-1

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