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Josephine Laflore
Long, Choctaw Minor
Class 6.
The claimants in the following cases are
minor children of enrolled Indians whose
names were omitted from the final roll, but
who were entitled to be placed thereon:
Josephine Laflore Long
Et Al., Choctaw Minor.
Dawes Commission, No. 872.
Forbis Long, father of these children, is
enrolled opposite No. 16005 upon the
approved roll of citizens by blood of the
Choctaw Nation, and their sister, Francis
Long, appears upon the approved roll of
minor Choctaws enrolled under the act of
Congress 01 April 26, 1906, opposite No.
669.
Record
July 17, 1906. Application made to the
Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes for
enrollment as minor citizens of the Choctaw
Nation of Josephine Laflore Long, Francis
Long, and Jake Laflore Long.
September 20, 1906. Proof of birth of
Francis Long completed and child enrolled by
Commissioner to the Five Civilized Tribes.
October 15, 1906. Enrollment of Francis Long
approved by Secretary of the Interior.
February 13, 1907. Proof of birth of
Josaphine Laflore Long and Jake Laflore Long
completed and children enrolled by
Commissioner to the Five Civilized Tribes.
March 1, 1907. Enrollment of Forbis Long,
father of claimants, canceled by Secretary
of the Interior.
March 1, 1907. Enrollment of Josaphine
Laflore Long and Jake Laflore Long
disapproved by the Secretary of the
Interior.
March 4, 1907. Enrollment of Francis Long,
sister of claimants, canceled by Secretary
of the Interior.
January 19, 1909. Forbus Long and Francis
Long, father and sister of claimants,
restored to the roll by departmental
authority of January 19, 1909, in accordance
with the opinion of the United States
Supreme Court of November 30, 1908, in the
Goldsby and Allison cases.
March 1, 1909. Department requests report as
to claimants.
April 17. 1909. Report to department showing
the facts set forth above and stating that
the applications for enrollment of these
claimants were made upon blanks prepared for
that purpose; that no formal decision was
prepared by the commission, but when the
proof of birth was complete the applications
were approved and the names of the claimants
placed upon a schedule which was forwarded
to the department for approval as a part of
the final roll; that the proof of birth of
these claimants was not complete at the time
their sister, Francis Long, was enrolled by
the commissioner and her enrollment approved
by the department, and their names were not
forwarded at that time for that reason.
Subsequent to February 13. 1907, when the
names of these claimants were transmitted
for approval, the Secretary of the Interior
had, in accordance with an opinion of the
Attorney General of the United States of
February 19,1907, in the William C. Thompson
and Richard B. Coleman cases, on March 1,
1907, canceled the enrollment of Forbis
Long, father of claimants, and on March 4,
1907, the enrollment of Francis Long was
canceled and that of these claimants
disapproved by the Secretary of the
Interior.
When the names of Forbis Long and Francis
Long, father and sister of the claimants,
were restored to the roll these claimants,
never having been upon the approved roll of
citizens of the Choctaw Nation, their names
were not included in departmental
instructions of January 19, 1909.
August 25, 1909. Department held that this
case was not analogous to that of John E.
Goldsby and did not come within the
principles announced by the Supreme Court of
the United States in its opinion of November
30, 1908, and that no action would be taken
looking to the enrollment of these
claimants.
Counsel for claimants respectfully represent
that Forbis Long, the father of claimants,
is enrolled on the approved roll of citizens
by blood of the Choctaw Nation, opposite No.
16005, and their sister, Francis Long, is
enrolled upon the approved roll of minor
Choctaws under the act of April 26, 1906,
and that the following claimants are in
equity entitled to be enrolled as citizens
of the Choctaw Nation: Josaphine Laflore
Long, Jake Laflore Long.
(Two in all.) .
Respectfully submitted.
Ballinger & Lee
Department Of The Interior.
Muskogee, Okla., December 23, 1910
Notes About the Book:
Source: Five Civilized Tribes In Oklahoma, Reports of the Department of the
Interior and Evidentiary Papers in support of S. 7625, a Bill for the Relief of
Certain Members of the Five Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma, Sixty-second Congress,
Third Session, Published 1913, by the Department of the Interior, United States.
Online Publication: The manuscript was scanned and then ocr'd. Minimal editing
has been done, and readers can and should expect some errors in the textual
output.
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