EMERSON WADE, and )
THOM SNEAD, )
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Preferrers, )
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VS ) Case Number: SP-R-82-1
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HOLLIS E. ROBERTS, )
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Respondent. )

NOW, on this 7th day of May, 1983, the above styled and numbered case came on for hearing on the respondent's Motion to Make More Definite and Certain, Motion to Strike and Demurrer. The preferrer Emerson Wade and the preferrers' attorney Jimmy L. Sam, appeared in open court. The respondent's attorney Vester Songer was present in open court.

The Court, after hearing argument by counsel for the preferrers and counsel for the Respondent and having duly considered the brief submitted by counsel for the respondent, hereby

ORDERS, ADJUDGES AND DECREES that pursuant to Article VII Section 4, of the Proposed Constitution of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, the Chief shall have the power to veto any legislative act, rule or regulation of the Tribal Council, and must do so within five (5) working days after passage.

FURTHER that the act of "passage" of any legislative act, rule or regulation of the Tribal Council is not complete until it is reduced to writing, certified to by proper certifying authorities, to wit: The Speaker and the Secretary, and delivered to the Office of the Chief Executive Officer, who has the authority to veto that legislative act, rule or regulations.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED that the veto of Chief Hollis Roberts of R152-82 was a legal veto and that R152-82 is of no force or effect.

Dated this 7th day of May, 1983.

JOE C. TAYLOR, Presiding Judge, ED CURTIS, Judge, CHARLEY G. JONES, Judge