Transcription of the Cherokee Dawes Roll
enrollment transcript of W. E. Dupree and family. section 2
Cherokee 3354
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DEPART OF THE INTERIOR,
COMMISSION OF THE FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES.
In the matter of the
application for the enrollment of William E. Dupree as (et al) a citizen
by blood of the Cherokee Nation.
D E C I S I O N
The record in this case shows that on September 24, 1900 William E.
Dupree appeared before the Commission at Vinita, Indian Territory and
made application for the enrollment of himself and minor children,
Elmer, Herbert, Emma, Wright, Bessie, Fred and Annie Dupree, as
chitizens by blood of the Cherokee Nation. Further propredings in the
matter of said application were had at Muskogee, Indian Territory, on
March 1, and October 13, 1902. Fannie L. Dupree, wife of the principal
applicant, appeared in person and made applicatnion to this Commission
for enrollment as a citizen by intermarriage of the Cherokee Nation. She
has been differently classified and is, therefore, not embraced this
decision.
The evidence shows that the said
William E. Dupree was married on January 11, 1883, to said Fannie L.
Dupree and as a result of that marriage, the minor applicants herein
were born.
The evidence further shows that on
September 10, 1889 the said William E. Dupree, among others, was
readmitted to citizenship in the Cherokee Nation by the Cherokee
Commission on Citizenship, Having made application on October 5, 1887,
for such readmission.
It further appears that William E.,
Elmer, Herbert, Emma, Wright and Bessie Dupree are identified on the
1894 Cherokee strip payment roll and on the 1896 census roll. Fred and
Fannie L. Dupree are also identified on the said 1896 census roll. Annie
Dupree, having been born since the making of said roll, is identified by
a birth affidavit made a part of the record herein.
An act of Cherokee National Council, approved December 2, 1894, provides
as follows:
“Be it enacted by the National
Council, That all persons who have been or hereafter be readmitted to
citizenship in the Cherokee Nation are hereby required to permanently
locate within the limits of the Cherokee nation within six months from
the passage of this act, or from the date of readmission of the persons
hereafter readmitted, or no rights whatever shall accrue to such persons
by reason of such readmission: Provided, that nothing in this act shall
bar minors and orphans.
It further appears that the said
William E. Dupree removed to the Cherokee Nation on December 16, 1890
and since that time has resided, with his family, in said nation
continuously, up to and including the date of their applications herein:
and that by such removal and continued residence he has complied with
the provisions of the act above quoted.
It is therefore, the opinion of the
Commission that William E. Dupree, Elmer Dupree, Herbert Dupree, Emma
Dupree, Wright Dupree, Bessie Dupree, Fred Dupree and Annie Dupree
should be enrolled as citizens by blood of the Cherokee nation, in
accordance with the provisions of section twenty-one of the Act of
Congress, approved June 28, 1893 (30 Stats., 495) , and it is so
ordered.
COMMISSION TO THE FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES.
(signed) Tams Bixby
Chairman
T. B. Needles
Commissioner
C. R. Breckinridge
Commissioner
W. E. Sianley
Commissioner
Dated at Muskogee, Indian Territory,
This June 1- 1903
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