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Maud Spring Enrollment as an Intermarried Citizen of the Choctaw Nation

Department of the Interior.
Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes.
Antlers, I. T., December 4^th, 1902

Choctaw 1650
Intermarried

In the matter of the application of Maud Spring for enrollment as an  intermarried citizen of the Choctaw Nation.
Maud Spring being first duly sworn testified as follows:

Examination by the commission:

Q   What is your name?    
        A    Maud Spring.

Q    How old are you?       
        A    Twenty-three.

Q   What is your post office address?   
        A    Hugo.

Q    How long have you been a resident of the Choctaw Nation?
        A    Ever since ’91.

Q    Lived here continuously since ’91 ?    
        A    Yes sir.

Q    Never made your home anywhere else during that time?  
        A    No sir.

Q    Do you claim intermarried rights in the Choctaw Nation?  
        A    Yes sir.

Q    What is the name of your Choctaw husband through whom you claim?
        A    Samuel B. Spring.

Q    Is he a recognized and enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation?  
        A    Yes sir.

Q    His rights to enrollment have never been disputed?     
        A    No sir.

Q    When were you married to Samuel B.  Spring?     
        A    April 25, ’95.

Q    Where was this marriage ceremony performed?    
        A    Goodland.

Q    At that time were both you and he bona fide residents of the Choctaw Nation? 
        A    Yes sir.

Q   Who performed the marriage ceremony?   
        A    J. P. Givens.

Q    Minister of the gospel?     
        A    Yes sir.

Q   Were you married under a license ?   
        A    No sir.

Q    Were you ever married before your marriage to Samuel B. Spring?
        A    No sir.

Q    Was he ever married before his marriage to you ?   
        A    No sir.

Q    Since that marriage have you lived together continuously as husband and wife up to the present time?
        A    Yes sir.

Q    There has been no separation, abandonment or divorce?  
        A    No sir.

Q    Were you given a certificate of marriage by that minister who married you?
        A    It was presented previous to this enrollment.

Q    To the commission ?  
        A    Yes sir.

    Albert G McMillan being first duly sworn states that as stenographer to the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes he reported the proceedings had in the above entitled cause no the 4^th day of December, 1902, and that  the above and foregoing is a full, and true  and correct transcript of his stenographic notes taken in said.    

Albert G. McMillan

 Subscribed and sworn to before me this 20^th day of January, 1903.

Charles H. Sawyer
Notary Public

Additional letter:
Choctaw 1650
Muskogee, Indian Territory, October 17, 1903.

Maud M. Spring.
Hugo, Indian Territory.

Dear Indian:
    Receipt is hereby acknowledged of certificate of marriage between you and your husband, S. B. Spring.  The same has been filed with the records of the Commission in the matter of your application for enrollment as a citizen by intermarriage of the Choctaw Nation.

    Respectfully,
    Commissioner in Charge.

transcribed & contributed by Doris Dykes