Partially printed document completed in manuscript. Secretarily signed by President James Buchanan. Washington, D.C., 15 January 1858. 1 page, large folio, 11 5/8 x 17 3/4 in., on parchment. Docketing to lower corner. 

A rare registration of a Choctaw certificate for land claims under the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek (1842). A group of men, "Edward P. Wells, John W. Ridgell, Samuel Miller, and John B. Miller, and John Gulley, Sr., assignees of Ke-Kale-to-mah, representative of A-mah, deceased...deposited in the General Land Office at Champagnole, Arkansas, whereby it appears that Choctaw Certificate No. 311B in the name of A-Mah for 160 acres of land."

A-mah was listed as one of the Choctaw who were issued scrip under the provisions of the act of Congress of 23 August 1842, in lieu of land which they were entitled to under article 14 of the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek.

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Old folds, some wrinkling.