Whereas the act of Congress entitled "An act to ratify and confirm an
agreement with the Muscogee or Creek tribe of Indians and for other
purposes," approved on the 1st day of March, 1901, contains a provision
as follows:
That the agreement negotiated between the Commission to the Five
Civilized Tribes and the Muscogee or Creek tribe of Indians, at the
city of Washington on the 8th day of March, nineteen hundred, as
herein amended, is hereby accepted, ratified, and confirmed, and the
same shall be of full force and effect when ratified by the Creek
national council. The principal chief, as soon as practicable after
the ratification of this agreement by Congress, shall call an extra
session of the Creek national council and lay before it this agreement
and the act of Congress ratifying it, and if the agreement be ratified
by said council, as provided in the constitution of said nation, he
shall transmit to the President of the United States the act of council
ratifying the agreement, and the President of the United States shall
thereupon issue his proclamation declaring the same duly ratified, and
that all the provisions of this agreement have become law according to
the terms thereof: _Provided_, That such ratification by the Creek
national council shall be made within ninety days from the approval of
this act by the President of the United States,
And whereas the principal chief of the said tribe has transmitted to
me an act of the Creek national council entitled "An act to ratify and
confirm an agreement between the United States and the Muscogee Nation
of Indians of the Indian Territory" approved the 25th day of May, 1901,
which contains a provision as follows:
That said agreement, amended, ratified and confirmed by the Congress of
the United States, as set forth in said act of Congress approved March
1, 1901, is hereby accepted, ratified and confirmed on the part of the
Muscogee Nation and on the part of the Muscogee or Creek tribe of
Indians constituting said Nation, as provided in said act of Congress
and as provided in the Constitution of said Nation, and the Principal
Chief is hereby authorized to transmit this act of the National Council
ratifying said agreement to the President of the United States as
provided in said act of Congress.
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