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Q. Article fourteen of the treaty of 1830 is as follows:
    "Each Choctaw head of a family being desirous to remain
    and become a citizen of the States shall be permitted to do
    so by signifying his intention to the Agent within six
    months after the ratification of this treaty, and he or she
    shall there upon be entitled to one section of six hundred
    and forty acres of land, to be bounded by sectional lines
    of survey; in like manner shall be entitled to one half that
    quantity for each unmarried child which may be living
    with him over ten years of age, and a quarter section to
    such child as may be under ten years of age, to adjoin
    the location of the parent. If they reside upon said land
    intending to become citizens of the States for five years
    after the ratification of this treaty, in that case a grant in
    fee simple shall issue. Said reservation shall include the
    present improvement of the head of the family, or a
    portion of it. Persons claiming under this article shall
    not lose the privilege of a Choctaw citizen, but, if they ever
    remove are not to be entitled to any portion of the Choctaw
    annuity."   Do you claim under this article?
A.Well, I don't know whether I do or not; I guess so
    though.
Q. Have you ever received any benefits as Choctaw Indians?
A. No
Q. Have any of your ancestors ever received any benefits as
    Choctaw Indians?
A. Not that I know of
Q. What was the name of your ancestor or ancestors who
    were residents of the old Choctaw nation in Mississippi or
    Alabama and acknowledged members of the Choctaw
    tribe of Indians in 1830 when the treaty of Dancing
    Rabbit Creek was entered into between the United States
    and the Choctaw Tribe of Indians?
A. Daniel Davis, my great-grandfather and Paul Davis
    my grandfather.
Q. Have you any evidence showing that such ancestors
    were ever recognized members of the Choctaw tribe at that
    time?
A. No
Q. Did they, if Choctaw Indians, remove frm the territory
    occupied by the old Choctaw nation in Mississippi and
    Alabama to the present Choctaw Nation in Indian
    territory at the time of removal of other members of the
    Choctaw tribe from 1833 to 1838?
A.Not that I know of
Q. If they did not remove with the other members of the tribe
    did either of them within six months after the ratification
    of the treaty of 1830 signify to the United States Indian
    agent to the Choctaw Indians in Mississippi his intention
    to remain in Mississippi and become a citizen of the
    United States?
A. Not that I know of
Q. Have any of your ancestors ever claimed or received any
    land in Mississippi as beneficiaries under the provisions
    of the fourteenth article of the treaty of 1830?
A. No
Q. Are there any additional statements your desire to make
    at this time in support of your application?
A. I don't know
Q. Is there anything else you want to say?
A. No
Q. Have you any documentary evidence, affidavits, written
    evidence of any description, copies of records, deeds or
    patents, or any proper papers showing that your
    ancestors were ever recognized members of the Choctaw
    tribe of Indians in Mississippi in 1830, or that they
    ever complied or attempted to comply with the provisions
    of the fourthteenth article of the treaty of 1830, or that
    they ever received any benefits under that article of that
    treaty?
A. No
Q. Do you want time in which to file evidence?
A. Yes

       Thirty days from the date here of is allowed applicant
       in which to file additional evidence to support of this
       application.

       The decision of the Commission as to your application
for indentification as a Mississippi Choctaw will be determined at the earliest possible date and report of the same will be made to the Secretary of the Interior, conformable to the provisions of the 21st. Dection of the Act of Congress of June 28, 1898, and a copy of the same will
be mailed to you at your post office address as given by you in your testimony.
       APPLICANT APPARENTLY A WHITE WOMAN
       Henry G. Hains being duly sworn on his oath states that as stanographer to the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes he reported in full all proceedings had in the above entitled cause on June 12, 1901, and that the above and foregoing is a full, true and correct transcript of his stenographic notes in said cause on said date.

Subsrcibed and sworn to before me this date 15th day of July 1901.

       signature of the Notary Public not able to make out.

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