ROYCE. | TREATY OF JULY 19, 1866. 335 
said 96° so far that a line due east to Grand River will include a quan- 
tity of land equal to 160 acres for each person who may so elect to re- 
side therein, provided that the part of said district north of Arkansas 
River shall not be set apart until the Canadian district shall be found 
insufficient to allow 160 acres to each person desiring to settle un’er 
the terms of this article. 
5. The inhabitants electing to reside in the district described in the 
preceding article shall have the right to elect all their local officers and 
judges, also their proportionate share of delegates in any general coun- 
cil that may be established under the twelfth article of this treaty; to 
control all their local affairs in a manner not inconsistent with the con- 
stitution of the Cherokee Nation or the laws of the United States, pro- 
vided the Cherokees residing in said district shall enjoy all the rights 
and privileges of other Cherokees who may elect to settle in said dis- 
trict as herein before provided, and shall hold the same rights and priv- 
ileges and be subject to the same liabilities as those who elect to settle 
in said district under the provisions of this treaty ; provided, also, that 
if any rules be adopted which, in the opinion of the President, bear op- 
pressively on any citizen of the nation he may suspend the same. And 
all rules or regulations discriminating against the citizens of other dis- 
tricts are prohibited and shall be void. 
6. The inhabitants of the aforesaid district shall be entitled to repre- 
sentation in the national council in proportion to their numbers. All 
laws shall be uniform throughout the nation. The President of the 
United States is empowered to correct any evil arising from the unjust 
or unequal operation of any Cherokee law and to secure an equitable 
expenditure of the national funds. 
7. A United States court shall be created in the Indian Territory; un- 
til created, the United States district court nearest the Cherokee Nation 
shall have exclusive original jurisdiction of all causes, civil and crim- 
inal, between the inhabitants of the aforesaid district and other citizens 
of the Cherokee Nation. All process issued in said district against a 
Cherokee outside of said district shall be void unless indorsed by the 
judge of the district in which the process is to be served. A like rule 
shall govern the service of process issued by Cherokee officers against 
persons residing in the aforesaid district. Persons so arrested shall be 
held in custody until delivered to the United States marshal or until 
they shall consent to be tried by the Cherokee court. All provisions of 
this treaty creating distinctions between citizens of any district and the 
remainder of the Cherokee Nation shall be abrogated by the President 
whenever a majority of the voters of such district shall so declare at 
an election duly ordered by him. No future law or regulation enacted 
in the Cherokee Nation shall take effect until ninety days after pro- 
mulgation in the newspapers or by written posted notices in both the 
English and Cherokee languages. 
5. No license to tvade in the Cherokee Nation shall be granted by the 
