and the names of any person so marked, shall not be placed upon the record, to be made, of citizens of the Cherokee Nation by the persons to be appointed for that purpose by the proper authority; and the names of any Cherokee citizens, bona fide, whose names have been omitted through an error or mistake of the census takers, shall be added to the census roll, as a part of the census of 1880.

SEC. 8. The rolls shall be signed and approved by the several committees, and returned to the executive department of the Nation. (Nov. 8th, 1880.)

SEC. 9. The register or schedule of citizens of the Cherokee Nation, submitted to the Principal Chief by the census takers of the year 1880, under requirement of the act providing for taking the census of the Cherokee Nation, as the said register or schedule has been examined, revised, or amended by the committees of the present national council duly appointed for the purpose, and by them submitted to and accepted by this council, is hereby approved as a true and correct list of persons acknowledged and recognized to be citizens of the Cherokee Nation, at and within the time the said census was authorized to be taken.

SEC. 10. There shall be made in fair and legible handwriting, and under the supervision of the Principal Chief, a neat and complete alphabetical transcript, or copy, of all names of citizens and non-citizens to be found in the census returns, revised and amended as before mentioned, with such descriptive, matters and things, as are attached to cach name. The work of making such copy shall be done by two clerks of the executive department, duly appointed, and instructed by the Principal Chief to perform the same, and who shall receive as compensation therefor, when the said work shall have been finished, approved and filed as provided by this act, the sum of two hundred and fifty (250) dollars each, for which amounts, the Principal Chief is authorized to draw preferred warrants upon the general fund. The said transcript, or copy, shall be made upon blank forms of the like kind furnished the census takers to take the census of 1880.

SEC. 11. When the said copy shall be made and completed, as hereinbefore provided, the "returns" of each district as copied, shall be by the said clerks, submitted to the Principal Chief, duly certified to by them as to pages, number of names in each schedule, and that the copy has been made correctly according to the provisions of this act. When so certified, and upon the examination of the Principal Chief approved by him, he shall be authorized to endorse the copy of the returns of each district as so approved, and place the file in the executive office for safe keeping and general reference under his care and direction.

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SEC. 12. Any person, citizen of this Nation at the time of taking the census of 1880, (March and April,) who shall have been inadvertently omitted to be registered by the census takers or the committee appointed to revise the census, and whose name does not appear enrolled or recorded otherwise, and who shall desire to be enrolled as a citizen, shall be required to make satisfactory showing to the Principal Chief, by methods and evidence which he may consider sufficient in such case, that such person was a citizen of the Nation when the census was being taken, and of what district; and the Principal Chief is required to report the names of all persons who shall apply under this section, with the material facts ascertained by him in each case, to the National Council of 1881, for their information and action.

SEC. 13. All persons, whose names have been reported by the census takers in schedule 1, as citizens, and whom the revising committee of this council have marked, and signified as not entitled to be so.returned, shall be summoned by the Principal Chief to appear before the commission on citizenship, at their next September session, 1881, for the adjudication of their claims, according to the provisions of law relating to "doubtful citizens," and the names of all persons who have appeared, or shall appear before said commission as "doubtful citizens" either by authority of the act of December 3d, 1879, authorizing the taking of the census, not including "new claimants" enrolled in schedule 4, or by authority of this act, in whose favor the said

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commission have decided or shall decide, shall be by the Executive Secretary attached to the official copy of citizens hereinbefore authorized to be made and filed in the Executive Office.

[Tahlequah, C. N.]

Approved December 9th, 1880.

D. W. BUSHYHEAD,

Principal Chief, C. N.

CHAPTER XV.

SPECIAL ACTS.

ARTICLE I.

AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A SCHOOL BY

THE AMERICAN HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

SEC. 1. Permission is hereby granted to the Home Missionary Society to establish a school within the limits of the Cherokee Nation, with the privileges, and under the restrictions of the fourteenth article of the treaty of 1866; provided, that said school shall not occupy for buildings and grounds more than fifteen acres.

SEC. 2. Hon.

Hon. D. W. Bushyhead, Principal Chief, and W. P. Ross, A. N. Chamberlain and A. W. Tim

berlake, are hereby appointed to represent the Cherokee. Nation in locating said school. (Dec. 11th, 1880.)

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