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RESLOLUTION NO. 23

whereas it has come to the tttention of the Tribal Executive Committee, that Supt. F. J. Scott of the Consolidated Chippewa Agency is to retire from the Service on August 31, 1950, and 

WHEREAS
Mr. Scott has given excellent service to the Chippwea Indians, it is with extreme regret to find that we are to lose him, and

WHEREAS, the Chippiwwas are timbered people with conditions vastly different from other tribes of the United States that a Superintendent of this agency should be one familiar with conditions peculiar to this country and acquainted with the Chippewa Indians, and,

WHEREAS, under the Reorganization Act we are required to make our preference known, and believing that we have so far progressed as to be able to govern our affairs,

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a person of "Indian blood" be chosen for the office of Superintendent of this Agency, and we hereby recommend that T.W. Sanders present Chief Clerk, be promoted to Superintendent of the Consolidated Chippewa Agency.

/sgd/
Ed. M. Wilson, Chairman
Tribal Executive, Committee
The Minnesota Chipewa Tribe.

I hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was duly presented and enacted at a regular meeting of the Tribal Executive Committee held in the the Village of Grand Portage, Minnesota, on August 19, 1950,

For:  10
Against:  0

/sgd/
Lyseme Savage, Secretary
Tribal Executive Committee
The Minnesota Chipewa Tribe.

RESOLUTION NO. 21
SEAL