SUPPLEMENT.

[NOTE. The following acts were not found by the committee who compiled this code until the work was in press. It being impossible to place them in the body of the book, without great additional expense, it has been deemed best to have them printed in the form of a supplement.]

CRIMINAL LAWS.

CRIMINAL LAWS, APPROVED OCTOBER 12, 1867.

1. Be it enacted by the General Council, That all cases of murder shall be punishable by death upon conviction.

2. Be it further enacted, That the accused shall have a fair and impartial trial, and no one shall sit on any case where he is related to either of the parties by blood or marriage, unless it is by consent of the parties.

3 Be it further enacted, That if any person kill another accidentally, or in self-defense, he shall not be punished.

4. Be it enacted, That should any person be convicted of rape, he shall for the first offense receive fifty lashes; for the second offense he shall suffer death.

5. Be it enacted, That if any person shall steal propperty from another, the party thus aggrieved shall recover damages in full.

6. Be it enacted, That it shall be unlawful for any woman to use medicine calculated to cause infanticide; and any woman who may be found guilty of the violation of this law shall receive fifty lashes on the bare back.

CIVIL LAWS.

CIVIL LAWS, APPROVED OCTOBER 12, 1867, AND NOT

REPEALED.

1. Be it enacted, That no persons shall receive dam.. ages for injuries done their crops, unless they have a fence nine rails high, staked and ridered; and when they have lawful fences around their farms, and the stock of another individual injures their crops, they shall be entitled to damages, to be assessed by two dis interested persons.

3. Be it enacted, That if any person or persons shall set the woods or prairies on fire, and the fire should damage another individual in person or property, the offenders shall pay such damages as shall be assessed by two disinterested persons.

4. Be it enacted, That if any person of this Nation refuse to pay his or her just debts, it shall be the duty of the light-horse company to proceed and collect the debt out of any effects that may be found in his or her possession.

5. Be it enacted, That the last will and testament of any citizens of this Nation shall be valid; and should any citizens of this Nation die without making a will, not having an opportunity to do so, and shall express, before two respectable witnesses, the manner in which they wish their effects disposed of, it shall be valid; and no will shall be valid unless the testator shall have been in his or her proper mind, and such fact testified to by two respectable witnesses.

6. Be it further enacted, That if any person die without a will, having property and children, the property shall be equally divided among the children by disinterested persons; and in all cases where there are no children, the nearest relation shall inherit the property.

7. Be it further enacted, That no citizen or other per sons of this Nation shall bring any claim against a deceased person without two respectable witnesses, who shall have been present at the time the claim was created, or shall hold his or her obligation; in either case, where the deceased has property, it shall be collected; otherwise the claim shall not be good.

8. Be it further enacted, That no will shall be valid where it is proven that it was made to avoid the pay. ment of just debts.

9. Be it further enacted, That in order more effectually to carry into effect the law prohibiting the introduction and vending of ardent spirits, it shall be the duty of the light-horse company to execute the said law to its full extent; to search, find and spill all the spirituous liquors that may be found in their respective limits, and to collect a fine at the hands of the vender, at the rate of four dollars per gallon for all liquors spilled.

13. Be it further enacted, That if any citizen of this Nation be found guilty of having violated the above law by selling liquors, he or she shall be fined as provided for above.

14. Be it enacted, That it shall be unlawful for any stallion, over two years old, to run at large, and all such may be castrated.

15. Be it enacted, That should there occur a vacancy in the executive office of this Nation, eight months or less before the expiration of his term, the President of the House of Kings shall perform the duties of that office to the end of the term; but if it is for a longer period than eight months, he shall then issue an order

for the filling of the vacancy by the popular vote, as provided for by the Constitution.

16. Be it enacted, That no person who has been convicted of felony shall be eligible to any office of profit, honor or trust under this government.

Be it enacted by the National Council of the Muskogee Nation: That it shall be the duty of the several committees of the National Council to act only on such business as shall have been committed to them from either of the houses.

Be it further enacted, That all business intended for the consideration and action of the Council must be introduced or submitted by a member, except official reports required or authorized by law.

Approved October 8th, 1872.

Be it enacted by the National Council of the Muskogee Nation: That places which have been vacated without fencing, or houses, for the term of five years, shall be liable to settlement and improvement by any citizen of this Nation.

Be it further enacted, That any citizen who may settle upon such places shall have all the rights to them as though they had never been occupied before.

Approved October 16th, 1872.

Be it enacted by the National Council of the Muskogee Nation: That from and after the passage of this act all public officers, such as captains of light-horse companies, etc., who handle public funds, shall be required to execute a bond for the penal sum of one thousand dollars each, with good security, to the Creek Nation, for the faithful transaction of all financial business assigned them in law.

Approved October 19th, 1872.

Be it enacted by the National Council of the Muskogee Nation: That where a district judge has issued a writ in case of crime, and the officer of the district fails