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Chickasha, I. T. Jan. 23d, 1903.
Mr. Guy P. Cobb,
Dear Sir:
In behalf of Maxwell & Morris, and some other owners
of live stock in the vicinity of Chichasha, in the Chickasaw
Nation, I submit the following proposition in order to obviate
strife and disturbance of the cattle and injury to the same.
Said Maxwell & Morris, and other clients whom I repre-
sent, do not believe that the Chickasaw Statute of May 3rd, 1902,
and the regulations of the Hon. Thomas Ryan, Acting Secretary of
the Interior, of June 3rd, 1902, seeking to impose a tax of 25
cents per head upon the cattle and horses of non-citizens, are
valid, and they are presecuting suits in good faith, in which
they hope to secure adjudications establishing the invalidity
of said statute and regulations. If said Statute and regula-
tions are valid, they do not desire to r esist compliance, and
if they are invalid, the Department of the Interior should not
seek to enforce them.
In order to prevent further friction, each stock man
will deposit in some solvent National Bank, either at Chickasha
or Ardmore, to be designated by you, the amount of such tax for
the year 1902, to be held by the Bank in trust, and paid to the
United States Indian Agent, at Muskogee, whenever it is decided
by a court of final resort, in the case of Edwin T. Morris, et
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This letter encloses papers from Representative John Stephens relative to the tax imposed on live stock in the Chickasaw Nation.
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