Show nation the laws of the chickasaw nation provide that white men and other persons may live and cultivate lands within the boundaries of the nation upon the payment of 5 yearly they will be allowed under permit to keep a certain number of cows and herd cattle and graze them on chickasaw lands but if found with more than the number allowed the excess is to be confiscated and sold the natural increase of cattle has largely exceeded the limit of the law and a short time ago a large number of cattle were seized by a chickasaw sheriff and are now offered for sale the white men appealed to the secretary of the interior and he recently decided that he could not interfere with chickasaw laws |