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Show 72 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. The court allowed R.H. Kern, the attorney, 2 per cent of the amount of the recovery, $18,067.30, and 4 per cent more of the recovery, $36,134, charging the former amount to the Cherokee Nation, and allowed Moses Whitmire $5,000 as trustee, etc., chargeable to the freedmen fund. 4. January 27,18QG, overruling the application for the appointment of commissioners to take an entirely new census and for a judgment, subject to revision, of $1,300,000. 5. February 3, lSOG, setting aside t,he Wallace approved roll, and au-thorizing tho Secretary of the Interior to appoint three commissioners, one to be nominat.ed by the Cherokee Nation and one by thefreeJmen, to proceed to the Cherokee Nation wd hear any testimony that might be offered by parties to the suit, both for and against the identity of all freedmen, free colored persons and their descendants, claiming to be entitled to share in the distribution of the $903,365, the purpose being to ascertain and determine who are the individual freedmen of the Cherokee Nation entitled to share in.that fund. Those commissioners are., therefore, to ascertain who of said persons on the authenticated roll were alive and what descendants were alive on May 3,1894. The conrt dec~eed the payment of the money to the persons entitled, not, however, to exceed $256.34 per capita, the cost of such distribution and payment to be a charge npuu the fund of compl&ants. Tho sum of $6,600 was allowed for compensation of commissioners and expenses and costs incidental to the ascertainment of the individual complainants, one-half to be paid by the freedmen and deducted from the recovery, the other half to be paid by the Cherokees. The followiug figures show the status of the funds under the decrees: Statmnent of aooowts. Delaware aaoount (No. 16837): 2. Decree of March 18,1895- Gressmoney ........................................ $17,011.00 Outlet money ....................................... 188,254.00 Total ............................................. 205.265.00 Shawnee eooount (No. 16856) : 4. Decree of March 9, 1896- Grass money ........................................ 13,834.08 Outlet money ....................................... 154,770.46 Total ............................................. 168,604.54 Freedmen account (No. 17x9) : 5. Decree of February 3,1896, grass mud Outlet money ...... 903,365.00 |