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Show limits of the United States to whom sllotments 8liall have b a n made under the pro- , .',. visions of this act, or onder any law or treaty, anX every Indian bwn within the territorial limits of the United States who has volontarily taken up within said limits hisresidence separate md apart from any tribe of Indians therein, and has adopted the habits of civilized life, is hereby declared to be s, citizen 6f the United , *.. States, and is entitled.to all the rights, privileges, end immunities of such citieenq whether said Indian has been or not, by birth or otherwise, a member of any tribe of Indians within the territorial limits of the United States without in any manner impairing or otherwise affecting the right of any suoh Indian to tribal or other property. Number of lndisns now citizens under the Allotment Act.-The first effect I of the "General Allotment Act," as the act of February 8,1887, above referred to has come to be knuwo, was the immediate a,dmission to full ctitizenship of 104'22 Indians, to whom, it appears from the records of this office, allotments had beeu vade utlder special laws and treaties; also the admission to citizenship of all Indians who had voluntarily taken up their residence separate and apart from their tribes, and adopted the habits of civilized life; the number oE the latter there are no means of determining. In addition to the number who immediately became citizens under this act, the records of this offlce ?how that 3,072 members of various tribes had, by special laws and treaties: previously become citizens. Since the passage of the act allotments hare beer1 made and patents issued to 2,897 Indians who have thus become citizens, and allotments haye been made to 3,650 others to whom no pdte~~htaav e as yet been issued. So at this time there are in the Uuited States over 16,000 In-dians kho have become citizens, either under the general allotment act or under special acts. or treaties, and nearly 4,000 others who, by taking allotments, have signified their desire to become citizens, and who will be entitled to the rights of citizeus assoon as thepatents pro-vided for by law shall have beeu issued to the allottees." This statement does not include the allotments recently made in the Territory of Oklahoma under agreements ratified by the second session of the last Congress. Exceptions under the Qenersl Allotment A&.-Section 8 exempts from the operation of this act the territory occupied by the Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, Ohickasaws, Seminoles, Osages, Miamies and Peorias, and Sacs and Foxes in the Indian Territory, the reservations of the Senem Nation in the State of Wew Pork, aud that '&stripo f territory in the State of Nebraska adjoining the Sioux Nation on the south added by executive order." The eltect of this section, however, is not to exclnde from citizenship any member of the triiies named wpo may take up his . residence in the United States, separate and apart from his tribe, and adopt the habitsnf civilized life, but only to exempt the lands occupied by said tribes, from allotment in severalty under the act. Subsequent F o r detailed iuformation in regard to allotmants see page 38. L |