1897_private laws_208_23
CHAPTER 207 An act to correct and amend chapter 166, private laws of 1895, entitled an act to amend chapter 211, laws 1889, relating to the charter of eastern band of Cherokee Indians. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: That chapter 166, private laws of 1895, entitled an act to amend chapter 211, laws of 1889, relating to charter of eastern band of Cherokee Indians, be amended and corrected so as to read as follows: ,
That the council of the eastern band of Cherokee Indians shall direct the management and control of all property, either real or personal, belonging to the band as a corporation ; but-no person shall be entitled to the enjoyment of any lands belonging to the eastern band of Cherokee Indians as a corporation or as a tribe, or any profits accruing therefrom, or any moneys which may belong to said band as a corporation or as a tribe, unless such person be of at least one-sixteenth (1-16) of eastern Cherokee blood, and in case that any money derived from any source whatever, belonging to the eastern band of Cherokee Indians, shall be distributed among the members thereof, the same shall be divided per capita among the members entitled thereto.