UNITED STATES 
 
 DEPARTMENS? OF -THE INTERIOR 
 
 Office of Indian Affairs 
 
 Washington October 11, 1924* 
 
 § faPP^ men t fo Bulletin No. 20 on Indian Citizenship . 
 
 Indian Office Circular No. 1830, dated October 28, 1922 , and re¬ 
 printed as Indian Office Bulletin No. 20, gave brief information relative 
 to the Indian-citizenship question as it existed prior to June 2, 1924. Since 
 Bulletin, Congress passed an Act approved June 2, 
 
 1924, as follows: 
 
 n (PUBLIC—NO. 175— 68 TH CONGRESS.) 
 
 (h* r. 6355.) 
 
 ^An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior tb issue 
 certificates of citizenship to Indians, 
 
 2L, d !LJPX the Senate and House o f Renrescntat ives o f 
 states Of America in Congress assembled. That all 
 noncitizen Indians born within the territorial limits of the 
 United States be, and they are hereby, declared to be citizens 
 ox the United States* Provided , That the granting of such citizen¬ 
 ship shall^not in any manner impair or otherwise affect the right 
 of any Indian to tribal or other property. 
 
 Approved, June 2, 1924.» 
 
 , ... V ith this additional legislation, all Indians born within the 
 
 territorial limits of the United Stated are now citizens. 
 
 , . ^ yiH be noticed that the title of the act sta.tes that it is an 
 
 'A . ° au norize Secretary of the Interior to issue certificates of citizen- 
 f!??? .? ® ie as originally introduced in Congress was in harmony 
 
 SZ ^ WaS amended in Senate and passed and approved in accord- 
 
 , f ne an gaage of the act itself, in the rush during the last hours 
 
 e a journmem, of Congress, the title did not get changed to agree with the 
 
 ■passed and rfl Hor; f? or * that fact <loes not invalidate or change the act as 
 
 maticanr^r qU f 7 n ° certificates a **e necessary and the Indians auto¬ 
 matically became citizens upon the approval of the act. 
 
 under the ^ he r ® cei P^ of citizenship, Indians become eligible to vote 
 
 Sfteenth ^ ° ther Citizens of the respective States. The 
 
 Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that 
 
 , f ±sht of citizens of the United States to vote 
 
 hall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by 
 any State on account of race, color or previous condition: 
 
 01 servitude.” 
 
The Indians must of course,; conform to the conditions equally re¬ 
 quired of other citizens, such as registration, educational requirements, etc. 
 
 A number of States are known to have made special plans for the registration 
 and voting of Indians since the passage of said Act of June 2. 
 
 It will also he noted athat the act provides that the granting of 
 such citizenship shall not in any manner impair or otherwise affect the right 
 of any Indian to tribal or other property. Therefore, the restrictions upon 
 the trust property—real or personab-of Indians are not removed by the passage 
 of this act. Questions relative to the control or management of trust property 
 are therefore not changed by the act but are to be handled on their own merits 
 as heretofore* 
 
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