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1887, Constitution and Compiled Laws of the Choctaw Nation (Eng.)
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SEE ALSO 41273 Constitution, treaties, and laws of the Choctaw Nation, made and enacted by the Choctaw Legislature. 1887, Democrat Steam Print, Sedalia, MO. The metes and bounds of the Nation were the first paragraph of the Constitution, followed by the boundaries of four districts. There were twenty-one stated rights, three sections for the Departments of Government, with sixteen sections for the Legislature, twenty-one for the Judiciary, and sixteen for the Executive Department. There were twenty-four sections of general provisions, a brief discussion of a militia, the method of amendment, and two amendments. The treaties were next. In 1830, a reservation was laid out for the Choctaw, largely in Arkansas. In 1837, the Chickasaw were put in the same space. In 1855, many problems between those two Nations were resolved, and in 1866, with fifty-one articles, the Nation ceded a certain amount of land and had to free their slaves and generally give civil rights to the African-Americans among them. The Nation could govern its own affairs, but it had to allow a government survey of the land into ranges, sections, etc. Certain sections could be sold to support schools, etc. The Laws were divided into chapters for schools, the executive department, legislative department, judicial department, criminal offenses, citizenship, roads and railroads, domestic relations, permits, militia, royalties, claims and improvements, and stock [animals], with four pages of topical index. P. 188 is completely illegible. The largest number of pages were devoted to the courts. (For the location of the original of this document, please consult the relevant section in A Guide to the microfilm collection of early state records (LLMC 61219; OCLC 756403775)
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Title:
Constitution, treaties, and laws of the Choctaw Nation / made and enacted by the Choctaw Legislature.
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OCLC Number:
1097494866
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