<p class="ql-align-justify"><strong style="color: black;">The Applications for Enrollment of Chickasaw Newborn, Act of&nbsp;1905, are found in National Archive film M-1301, Rolls 455-458, under the&nbsp;heading of Applications for Enrollment of the Commission to the Five Civilized&nbsp;Tribes. These applications contain considerably more information than stated on&nbsp;the census cards found in series M-1186.</strong></p><p class="ql-align-justify"><br></p><p class="ql-align-justify"><span style="color: black;"> </span><strong style="color: black;">The governing 1905 statute&nbsp;(H.R. 17474) defined Chickasaw Newborn as "infant children born prior to&nbsp;September twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and two, and who were living on said&nbsp;date, to citizens by blood of the Choctaw. . . ." It also authorized the&nbsp;Department of the Interior to enroll and make allotments to such children based&nbsp;on applications received on their behalf no later than May 2, 1905. (At the&nbsp;time, the Interior Department estimated that the statute would cause about&nbsp;1,500&nbsp;Newborns to be added to the Chickasaw Rolls.)</strong></p><p class="ql-align-justify"><br></p><p class="ql-align-justify"><span style="color: black;"> </span><strong style="color: black;">Like their Choctaw&nbsp;counterparts, the Chickasaw allotments were among the most sought after&nbsp;properties in Indian Territory. There was supposed to be a 25-year restriction&nbsp;on the sale or lease of any Indian lands so as to ensure that the owners&nbsp;wouldn't be swindled; however, the presence of huge asphalt and coal deposits&nbsp;in&nbsp;both the Choctaw and Chickasaw Districts elicited pressure from private&nbsp;interests to purchase the lands. On April 26, 1906, President Roosevelt signed&nbsp;the Five Tribes Bill removing some of the restrictions from the sale of all&nbsp;inherited land but continuing to prohibit full-bloods from selling their land&nbsp;for 25 years.</strong></p><p class="ql-align-justify"><br></p><p class="ql-align-justify"><span style="color: black;"> </span><strong style="color: black;">Mr. Bowen's faithful transcriptions of the Chickasaw&nbsp;Newborn applications provide the names of the applicants and their relatives,&nbsp;as&nbsp;well as the identities of all others--doctors, lawyers, midwives, etc.--&nbsp;named&nbsp;in the applications.</strong></p><p class="ql-align-justify"><br></p><h2><br></h2><p class="ql-align-justify"><br></p><p><br></p>