approved on the thirtieth day of June, 1902, contains a
provision as follows:

That the following supplemental agreement, submitted by certain
commissioners of the Creek tribe of Indians, as herein amended, is
hereby ratified and confirmed on the part of the United States, and the
same shall be of full force and effect if ratified by the Creek tribal
council on or before the first day of September, nineteen hundred and
two, * * *

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 a supplemental agreement with the United States" approved the
twenty-sixth day of July, 1902, which contains a provision as follows:

That the following supplemental agreement by and between the United
States and the Muskogee (or Creek) Tribe of Indians, in Indian
Territory, ratified and confirmed on the part of the United States by
act of Congress approved June 30, 1902 (Public--No. 200.), is hereby
confirmed on the part of the Muskogee (or Creek) Nation, * * *

And whereas paragraph twenty-two provides as follows:

The principal chief, as soon as practicable after the ratification of
this agreement by Congress, shall call an extra session of the Creek
Nation council and submit this agreement, as ratified by Congress, to
such council for its consideration, and if the agreement be ratified by
the National council, as provided in the constitution of the tribe, the
principal chief shall transmit to the President of the United States a
certified copy of the act of the council ratifying the agreement, and
thereupon the President shall issue his proclamation making public
announcement of such ratification, thenceforward all the provisions of
this agreement shall have the force and effect of law.

Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States,
do hereby declare said agreement duly ratified and that all the
provisions thereof became law according to the terms thereof upon the
twenty-sixth day of July, 1902.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of
the United States to be affixed.

[SEAL.]

Done at the city of Washington, this eighth day of August, A.D. 1902,
and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and
twenty-sixth.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

By the President:
ALVEY A. ADEE,
_Acting Secretary of State_.

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