Acts and Resolutions of the Creek National Council

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Excerpt from Acts and Resolutions of the Creek National Council: Of the Extra Sessions of April 1894, and the Regular Session of October, 1894 3. Every person who shall open a grave or other place of interment with the intent to remove the dead body of any human being, for the purpose of stealing the coffin or any part thereof, or the vestments or other articles or money interred with any dead body, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 4. Persons convicted of any offense specified in the preceding sections shall be fined one hundred dollars, and in addition thereto suffer the penalty of fifty lashes on the bare back. Fifty Dollars of said fine to be paid to the heirs of the deceased and fifty dollars to be transmitted to the National Treasurer. It shall be the duty of the Prosecuting Attorneys of the several Districts to prosecute all persons violating this act. Approved October 12, 1894. Debarring Adopted Citizens From Receiving Compensation For Property Confiscated. Be it Enacted by the National Council of the Muskogee Nation: That any person making application for indemnity occurring by confiscation of property or improvements that has occurred before his or her admission to citizenship to this Nation is hereby debarred from receiving any compensation out of the National Treasury on account of said loss. This act shall be in force from and after its approval. Approved October 12, 1894. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.