An Act to Adopt the Negroes of the Chickasaw Nation
An Act to adopt the negroes of the Chickasaw Nation, &c.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the legislature of the Chickasaw Nation, That all the negroes belonging to Chickasaws at the time of the adoption of the treaty of Fort Smith, and living in the Chickasaw Nation at the date thereof, and their descendants, are hereby declared to be adopted in conformity with the third article of the treaty of 1866, between the Choctaws, Chickasaws, and the United States: Provided, however, That the proportional part of the $300,000 specified in article third of the said treaty, with the accrued interest thereon, shall be paid to the Chickasaw Nation for its sole use and benefit: And provided further, The said adopted negroes of the Chickasaw Nation shall not participate in any part of the said proportional part of the said $300,000, nor be entitled to any benefit from the principal and interest on our invested funds or claims arising therefrom, nor to any part of our common domain, or the profits arising therefrom, (except the forty acres per capita provided for in the third article of the treaty of 1866,) nor to any privileges or rights not authorized by treaty stipulations: And provided further, That the said adopted negroes, upon the approval of this act, shall be subject to the jurisdiction and laws of the Chickasaw Nation, and to trial and punishment for offenses against them in every case just as if the said negroes were Chickasaws.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall be in full force and effect from and after its approval by the proper authority of the United States. And all laws, or parts of laws, in conflict with this act, are hereby repealed.
Approved January 10, 1873.
- Title
- An Act to Adopt the Negroes of the Chickasaw Nation
- Description
- This tribal law, which was adopted by the Chickasaw Nation on January 10, 1873, called for the adoption of Chickasaw Freedmen as citizens of the Chickasaw Nation. The law included three primary stipulations for the adoption of Chickasaw Freedmen as tribal citizens: first, that Chickasaw Freedmen be excluded from any financial interests in the $300,000 the tribe would receive and any other tribal invested funds or claims; second, that despite these exclusions from monetary benefits, Chickasaw Freedmen be considered fully subject to the "jurisdiction and laws" of the Chickasaw Nation; and third, that the law would go into effect after being approved "by the proper authority of the United States." The law would not be approved by the U.S. Congress until 1894.
- Date
- 1873-01-10
- Document Type
- Legal Code
- Document Category
- Primary Source
- Bluebook Citation
- H.R. Exec. Doc. No. 207, 42nd Congress, 3rd Sess. (1873)
- Digital Repository
- GovInfo
- Contributor
- Keziah Anderson
- Title
- An Act to Adopt the Negroes of the Chickasaw Nation
- Description
- This tribal law, which was adopted by the Chickasaw Nation on January 10, 1873, called for the adoption of Chickasaw Freedmen as citizens of the Chickasaw Nation. The law included three primary stipulations for the adoption of Chickasaw Freedmen as tribal citizens: first, that Chickasaw Freedmen be excluded from any financial interests in the $300,000 the tribe would receive and any other tribal invested funds or claims; second, that despite these exclusions from monetary benefits, Chickasaw Freedmen be considered fully subject to the "jurisdiction and laws" of the Chickasaw Nation; and third, that the law would go into effect after being approved "by the proper authority of the United States." The law would not be approved by the U.S. Congress until 1894.
- Date
- 1873-01-10
- Document Type
- Legal Code
- Document Category
- Primary Source
- Bluebook Citation
- H.R. Exec. Doc. No. 207, 42nd Congress, 3rd Sess. (1873)
- Digital Repository
- GovInfo
- Contributor
- Keziah Anderson