While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
To each of the Chiefs in the Choctaw Nation (to wit:)
Greenwood Laflore, Nutackachie, and Mushulatubbe
there is granted a reservation of four sections of land, two of which
shall include and adjoin their present improvement, and the other two
located where they please but on unoccupied unimproved lands, such
sections shall be bounded by sectional lines, and with the consent of the
President they may sell the same. Also to the three principal Chiefs and
to their successors in office there shall be paid two hundred and fifty
dollars annually while they shall continue in their respective offices,
except to Mushulatubbe, who as he has an annuity of one hundred and
fifty dollars for life under a former treaty, shall receive only the
additional sum of one hundred dollars, while he shall continue in office
as Chief; and if in addition to this the Nation shall think proper to
elect an additional principal Chief of the whole to superintend and govern
upon republican principles he shall receive annually for his services five
hundred dollars, which allowance to the Chiefs and their successors in
office, shall continue for twenty years. At any time when in military
service, and while in service by authority of the U. S. the district
Chiefs under and by selection of the President shall be entitled to the
pay of Majors; the other Chief under the same circumstances shall have the
pay of a Lieutenant Colonel. The Speakers of the three districts, shall
receive twenty-five dollars a year for four years each; and the three
secretaries one to each of the Chiefs, fifty dollars each for four years.
Each Captain of the Nation, the number not to exceed ninety-nine,
thirty-three from each district, shall be furnished upon removing to the
West, with each a good suit of clothes and a broad sword as an outfit, and
for four years commencing with the first of their removal, shall each
receive fifty dollars a year, for the trouble of keeping their people at
order in settling; and whenever they shall be in military service by
authority of the U. S. shall receive the pay of a captain.
