THE ARDMORE STATESMAN Axdmo re, Old ahoma Saturday noon, Nov. 11, 1911 Vol. 5, No. 46 Roy M. Johnston, -editor

PAYMENTS TO BE MADE TO CHOCTAW AND CHICKASAW

The per capita payment of $50 each to be paid to the members of the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes will result in turning loose in Ardraore a large sum of money. According to District Indian Agent S. A. Mills of this city, the total sum of money that will be paid to Indians who either live in Ardmore or who do their trading here ?fill easily reach §150,000.

Mr. Mills says that in order to avoid delay in payment in the cases of minors, all guardians and admin-istrators should have their last annual report approved by the county court, otherwise payment to such guardians and administrators will be indefinitely delayed.

Robert G. Valentine, commissioner of Indian affairs, has issued a pamphlet containing the regulations governing the per capita payment to the enrolled citizens

and members of the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Seminole tribes

of Indians in the state of Oklahoma, a brief resume of the contents of which is as follows:

The payment will be made out of any moneys belonging to said tribes now in the United States treasury; provided, that payments shall be made from "Indian moneys, proceeds of labor, royalties, grazing,» etc., Choctaw and Chickasaw.

1'iie payments will be based upon the final rolls of the citizens of the Choctaw and Chickasaw and Seminole nations, as approved by the secretary of the interior and corrected to date.

Payments to adults of the unrestricted class, in their own right, shall be made to them in person or by official check to their order, except where they are under legal disability.

Payments due unrestricted minors and adults under legal disability shall be made to their guardians or curators. if no legal guardian has been appointed, payment may be made to the father, mother or other re-lative .

Payments due adults of the restricted class, in their own right, shall be made to them in person or by official check, and in case of adults under legal dis-aiility to their legal guardians or curators.

payments due restricted minors,in their own right, shall not be paid to legal guardians or curators, except where, in the discretion of the officers in charge of the payment, payments should be so made.

•'/here payments are made to legal guardians, original letters of guardianship will not be required, but a copy thereof duly certified by the superintendent or special disbursing agent, or a certificate of the probate court, satisfactory to the officers in charge of the payment, will be accepted and filed with the account.

No payments will be made to administrators or executors, but where payment is due any person or persons as the heir or heirs of a deceased citizen or member of any of said tribes, such payment shall be made to the heirs in person or by check.

All suspended payments shall be held either in the treasury of the United States subject to proper requisition, or in the hands of the cashier and special disbursing agent of the Union agency, or such other of-ficer of the interior may designate, to be disbursed under the supervision of the superintendent of the Union agency.

ho arrangements v.ill be maae or allowed for the furtherance or the interest of any merchant, trader or

other creditor of1 the Indians, and neither said merchants, traders or creditors nor their representative nor collectors of any kind shall be allowed in the office wnere the payments are being made while said payments are in progress.

powers of attorney will not be recognized, nor will any order given by an Indian to another person for his share of t. e payment be honored.