ROYCE.] TREATY OF JULY 19, 1866. 337 
IVY. Said council shall be presided over by such person as may be 
designated by the Secretary of the Interior. 
V. The council shall elect a secretary, who shall receive from the 
United States an annual salary of $500. He shall transmit a certified 
copy of the council proceedings to the Secretary of the Interior and to 
each tribe or nation in the council. 
VI. Members of the council shall be paid by the United States $4 a 
day during actual attendance on its meetings and $4 for every 20 miles 
of necessary travel in going to and returning therefrom. 
13. The United States may establish a court or courts in the Indian 
Territory, with such organization and jurisdiction as may be estab- 
lished by law, provided that the judicial tribunals of the Cherokee 
Nation shall retain exclusive jurisdiction in all civil and criminal cases 
arising within their country in which members of the nation shall be 
the only parties, or where the cause of action shall arise in the Cherokee 
Nation, except as otherwise provided in this treaty. 
14. Every society or denomination erecting or desiring to erect build- 
ings for missionary or educational purposes shall be entitled to select 
and occupy for those purposes 160 acres of vacant land in one body. 
15. The United States may settle any civilized Indians, friendly with 
the Cherokees, within the latter’s country on unoccupied lands east of 
96°, on terms agreed upon between such Indians and the Cherokees, 
subject to the approval of the President of the United States. If any 
tribe so settling shall abandon its tribal organization and pay into the 
Cherokee national fund asum bearing the same proportion to such fund 
as said tribe shall in numbers bear to the population of the Cherokee 
Nation suelr tribe shall be incorporated into and ever after remain a 
part of that nation on equal terms with native citizens thereof. 
If any tribe so settling shall decide to preserve its tribal organization, 
laws, customs, and usages not inconsistent with the constitution and 
laws of the Cherokee Nation, it shall have set apart in compact form 
for use and occupancy a tract equal to 160 acres for each member of 
the tribe. Such tribe shall pay for this land a price agreed upon with 
the Cherokees, subject to the approval of the President of the United 
States, and in case of disagreement the price to be fixed by the Presi- 
dent. 
Such tribe shall also pay into the national fund a sum to be agreed 
upon by the respective parties, not greater in proportion to the whole 
existing national fund and the probable proceeds of the lands herein 
ceded or authorized to be ceded or sold than their numbers bear to the 
whole number of Cherokees, and thereafter they shall enjoy all the 
rights of native Cherokees. 
No Indians without tribal organization, or who having one shall have 
determined to abandon the same, shall be permitted to settle in the 
Cherokee country east of 96° without the permission of the proper 
Cherokee authorities. And no Indians determining to preserve their 
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