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!
It is further agreed that the Choctaw orphan lands in the State of Mississippi, yet unsold, shall be taken by the United States at one dollar and twenty-five-cents ($1.25) per acre, and the proceeds placed to the credit of the Choctaw orphan fund in the Treasury of the United States, the number of acres to be determined by the General Land Office.
In
witness whereof the said commissioners do hereunto affix their names, at Atoka, Indian Territory, this the twenty-third day of April, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven.
Green McCurtain, Principal Chief
R. M. Harris, Governor
J. S. Standley
N. B. Ainsworth
Ben Hampton
Amos Henry
D. C. Garland
Choctaw Commission
Isaac O. Lewis
Holmes Colbert
Robert L. Murray
Wesley Anderson
William Perry
R. L. Boyd
Chickasaw Commission
Frank C. Armstrong, Acting Chairman
Archibald S. McKennon
Thomas B. Caraniss
Alexander B. Montgomery
Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes.
H. M. Jacoway, Jr.,
Secretary Five Tribes Commission.
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Laws, Decisions and Regulations Affecting the work of the Commissioners to Five Civilized Tribes, 1893-1906, Copyright 1906
