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                 COMMISSION TO THE FIVE CIVILIZED
                 TRIBES, SPIRO, INDIAN TERRITORY
     In the enrollment of Mary Darneal as intermarried Choctaw. Stephen
 Darneal being sworn and examined by Com'r McKennon states:

         Stephen Darneal, forty-four years old.

 Q You are a Choctaw citizen by blood? A Yes sir.
 Q your wife is a white woman is she? A Yes sir.
 Q Were you lawfully married to her? A Yes sir.
 Q By whom? A Gilbert Thompson. A Choctaw Judge
 Q When? A In 1882
 Q In the Choctaw Nation? A Yes sir.
 Q You didn't get any certificate of marriage? A No sir, I
     didn't get any.

                Polly Barrard being sworn and examined testifies:

                     Polly Barnard, fifty-nine years old.

 Q Are you a Choctaw Indian by blood, or a United States citizen? A No sir,
 I never proved up my right.
 Q Are  you acquainted with Stephen Darneal? A Yes sir.
 Q Do you know his wife Mary? A Yes sir.
 Q Were you present at their marriage? A Yes sir, and I saw them married.
 Q By whom? A I cannot speak the man's name, he told you though.
 Q She has been living with him here ever since? A   Yes sir, ever since,
   and I saw him pay the money for his marriage.

 In the matter of the application for the enrollment
 of Mary Darneal as a citizen by intermarriage of the
 Choctaw Nation
>
                                              ********DECISION********

         It appears from the record herein that Mary Darneal (nee  Long or
 Logan), on December 24, 1882, was lawfully married to Stephen Darneal, a
 recognized and enrolled citizen by blood of the Choctaw Nation, whose name
 appears as number 8145, upon the lists prepared by this Commission under
 the act of Congress approved July 1, 1902  (32 Stat., 641), of persons
 entitled to enrollment as citizens by blood of the Choctaw Nation and approved by
 the Secretary of the Interior on January 17, 1903, that at the time of said
 marriage both persons above mentioned were residents in good faith of the
 Choctaw Nation, and that they have lived together continuously in said
 nation as husband and wife from the date of said marriage up to and
 including September 25, 1902.

         It is, therefore, the opinion of this Commission that Mary Darneal
 should be enrolled as a citizen by intermarriage of the Choctaw Nation in
 accordance with the provisions of the acts of Congress approved June 28,
 1898 (30 Stat., 495), and July 1, 1902 (32 Stat., 641), and it is so
 ordered.

 COMMISSION  TO THE FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES.


 Muskogee, Indian Territory,
       May 7, 1903