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-38 LAWS OF THEin the boarding schools of the Choctaw Nation," shall be and ishereby amended to read as follows :No family shall be allowed to have more than one scholarat schools in the States or in the boarding schools of the ChoctawNation at the expense of the Choctaw Nation.SEC. 2. In all cases wherein any family may have morethan one scholar at school in the states, or in a boarding schoolof the Nation, the Superintendent of Public Schools shall revokethe certificate of all but one, and proceed at once to fill any vacancies created thereby. This Act shall take effect from and after the first day of August 1890, and be in force thereafter.APPROVED, December 20, 1889.B. F. SMALLOOD, P. C., C. N.BILL LVI.An Act to provide for further development of the mineral resourcesof the Choctaw Nation.WHEREAS, There is a growing necessity for increase of the-funds of the Choctaw Nation to meet the demands for educationand all elevating agencies ; and whereas those minerals whichare undiscovered in the bowels of the earth can be of no posiblebenefit to the present or future generations unless they find devel-•opment and are operated , Therefore,Be it enacted by the General Council of the Choctaw Naionassembled, That any citizen of the Choctaw Nation who'shall discover Lead, Iron or other metal, or mineral than coal,shall be allowed the exclusive privilege of working the same,within a radius of one mile from the point of discovery, providedthat be shalj duly record the same in the office of the-county clerk of the county wherein the same metal or mineralmay be located.Provided, further, that he shall pay a royalty on the sameto the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations of 6 per cent., threefourthsto the Choctaw and one-fourth to the Chickasaw Nationof said 6 per cent of the value of the metal or mineial when it is-prepared for the general market; and provided, further, that be;shall be required to enter into contract with the National AgentCHOCTAW NATION.39-of the Choctaw Nation on the same terms, conditions and penaltiesas simular contracts are made for the mining of coal.APPROVED, December 23, 1889.B. F. SMALLWOOD, P. C. C. N.BILL LATH.. An Act relating to citizens of the Choctaw Nation taking theoath of allegiance to the United States.-Be it enacted by the General Council of the Choctaw Nation assembled, That any member of the Choctaw tribe of'Indians, either by blood, adoption, or by marriage into saidtribe and subject to the government of the Choctaw Nation, whohas taken or may hereafter take the oath of allegiance to the..government of the United States, shall be disqualified to holdamy office of trust or profit in the Choctaw Nation, and to vote:at any election in said Nation, and to be impanneled as a jurorin any court under the government of said Choctaw Nation.This Act shall take effect from and after its passage._APPROVED, October 25, 1890.BIL L LVIII.W. N. JONES,P. C. C. N.Amendment to Section 2 of the Act of November 1, 1882, inregard to shipping hay.Be it enacted by the General Council of the Choctaw Nationassembled, That from and after the passage of this Act aroyalty is hereafter levied , on all prairie or i ld grass cut forsale or barter, whether upon a public domain or within citizens'enclosures.The sheliff of each county shall collect said royalty andPay the same, less 10 per cent for his services, to the CountyTreasurer for county purposes of the county in which suchgrass shall have been cut.Nothing herein contained as to impose a royalty on gras$,.s..■aldr1141IN