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No licence was required for the citizens to marry, but if a non-citizen
, Ca . ? marry 3 C'tlZen “ Iicence had to be secured and the person
had to take the oath of allegiance to the nation Divorces were given
tor adultery, for imprisonment for three years or more, for wilful de
sertion and for neglect for the term of one year next proceeding the fil-
mg of the complaint or petition, for extreme cruelty, whether by vio-
lence or other means, and for the habitual drunkenness for one year
immediately preceding the filing of the complaint or petition
The act iucoporating the town of Fort Gibson was passed in 1873
The legal rate of interest was 10 per cent and the contract rate 15
percent.
In 1880 an act was passed establishing a paper, half of which was to
be published in English and half in Cherokee, and at that time two men
were appointed to complete the laws of the nation and have them print
ed
the national print shop, and it is from a copy of this old book that
the above information was taken.
RICHEST PEOPLE
I N D I A N S W O R K IN G T O W A R D H IG H E S T C IV IL IZ A T IO N
URING the course of annual conference’of Indians of
America, held last October, the following interesting
article appeared in the press of the country:
The interest of the 265,683 Indians of the United
States is aroused by the coming conference of all In
dians of the country.
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. Indians from all over America will congregate in
the Ohio capital city, make their headquarters at the Ohio state univer
sity and there discuss the rights and destiny of the race as Americans
in America.
The leaders of the conference deny that the Indian is vanishing and
assert the contrary.
Representative Charles D Carter says that it must not be supposed
that because the Indian has sold his buckskin shirt to a museum or
stowed it away as an heirloom, that he vanished when he put on a tailor
He reminded his interrogator that the Indians were the most weathly
people in America per capita, they having an average of $3500 each-
and that the Indian still had enough land in his own right to equal the
acreage of several large states. This, he said, was why land and dollar
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