BROKEN ARROW TOWN.

SECTION 295. All persons who were born, or who may be hereafter born, beyond the limits of the Indian Territory, and may have heretofore been entitled to make application for citizenship, on account of Indian blood or tribal adoption, and who have continuously resided beyond or outside of the jurisdictional limits of the Muskogee Nation for the period of twenty-one years, are hereby declared aliens, and not entitled to citizenship in the Muskogee Nation, or to any of the privileges thereof.

SEC. 296. The minor children and descendents of persons so debarred from citizenship and declared aliens, are hereby also excluded from citizenship in the Muskogee Nation, and from all the privileges thereof.

SEC. 297. All persons who have heretofore applied for citizenship in the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw or Seminole Nation, and accompanied his application with a declaration of right to citizenship in such Nation, by blood or adoption, is hereby declared an alien, and shall not be entitled to citizenship in the Muskogee Nation, nor to the privileges thereof.

SEC. 298.

This act shall not apply to persons who have heretofore filed application for citizenship and where cases

are now pending.

Approved October 26, 1889.

CHAPTER XXII.

Section

299.

300. 301.

302.

303.

304.

Section

Shall have no right.

NON-CITIZEN.

Shall own no improvements.

Licensed traders' right to enclose ground and keep stock.

Penalty for violating Section 301.

No right to cut timber.

Abolishing of the office of District Inspector.

NON-CITIZEN INDIANS.

305. Removal of.

306.

Appropriation for removal of.

307. Using District Officers for the removal of.

SECTION 299. No non-citizen shall, on account of marriage with a citizen of this Nation, acquire any right pertaining or belonging to a citizen of this Nation.

SEC. 300. No non-citizen shall have the right to reside in or to own any improvement in this Nation, except as provided for in the treaties between this Nation and the United States.

SEC. 301. No licensed trader shall have the right to enclose more than two acres of land, or to cut or put up hay from the public domain, nor shall he have the right to keep stock or permanent herds of cattle in this Nation.

SEC. 302.

Any licensed trader who shall violate this law shall be reported by the Prosecuting Attorney to the United States Indian Agent, with the request that said licensed trader's license be revoked, and that he be removed from the Nation as an intruder.

SEC. 303. No non-citizen shall have the right to cut and sell any timber from the public domain of this Nation, under penalty of forfeiture of all timber so cut and of being reported to the United States Indian Agent for removal beyond the limits of this Nation as an intruder. The Prosecuting Attorney, confiscating the timber cut by a non-citizen, shall

sell the same to the highest bidder, and retain 15 per cent. of the proceeds thereof for his personal fee, the balance to be paid into the National Treasury.

ABOLISHING THE OFFICE OF DISTRICT INSPECTOR. SEC. 304.

The office of District Inspector is hereby abolished, and all laws providing for and regulating the issuance of permits to non-citizens as laborers or for other purposes are hereby repealed, and it is hereby made the duty of the Prosecuting Attorney of the several Districts to report as intruders to the United States Indian Agent the names of all persons who shall be found residing or sojourning in their respective Districts for expulsion from the limits of the Muskogee Nation. For the purposes of this act the annual salaries of the District Attorneys are hereby increased by the addition thereto of the sum of one hundred ($100.00) dollars.

Approved October, 1892.

NON-CITIZEN INDIANS.

SEC. 305. The Principal Chief is hereby authorized and directed to adopt such means and measures as in his judgment will secure the peaceable removal from this Nation, at the expiration of five months from the 30th of November, 1892, of all non-citizen Indians who may then be found residing within the limits of this Nation.

SEC. 306. The sum of one thousand ($1,000.00) dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this act, is hereby appropriated out of the general funds of the Nation.

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SEC. 307. The Principal Chief shall, for the purpose carrying out the provisions of this act, have authority to command the services of any or all the District Officers of this Nation.

SECTION 308.

From and after the passage of this act, all marriages between citizens, who are now living together as man and wife, are hereby legalized.

SEC. 309. No new marriage shall be contracted whilst either party has a husband or wife living, nor between parties who are nearer of kin than the third degree.

SEC. 310. Marriages may be solemnized by any of the Judges of the Courts of this Nation, or by any ordained minister of the Gospel in regular communion with any religious society; and any marriage, contracted in writing, or in the presence of two or more witnesses who shall sign the marriage contract as such, shall be lawful.

SEC. 311. A divorce from the bonds of matrimony may be adjudged by the District Court of the District where the parties, or either of them reside, on application, by petition or complaint, of the aggrieved party.

SEC. 312. Actions for divorce shall be conducted in the same manner as other actions in Courts; and the Court shall have power to enforce its judgments as in other cases; and when a judgment of divorce from the bonds of matrimony is granted in this Nation, by a Court of competent authority, such judgment shall fully and completely dissolve the marriage contract as to both parties.

SEC. 313. The bonds of matrimony may be dissolved for either of the following causes, viz: Adultery, willful deser