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Show I. EXPORT OF THE CObIMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFbIRR. 53 I TBLW, 13.-Showing $&at fund8 of tri868 other than the jtus oivilized tpibes. Tribes. Tribe*. hnoipal. Ghippewss md Christian Indiana .. Delawares .......................... Eastern Shawnees .......,....... ... 1owas.. ............................. x8,nsrrs ............................. Haskaskiq Peoria@, Wem, hnd Pi. ankeahwa ........................ Osages.. ............................ Ootmoeash ss ........................................... . and Missooriaa .p*wneea ............................ ponoa~... ........................... The balances of accrued trust-fund interest, as shown in table 9, amounting to $803,331.81, are applicable for such expenditures as from time to time may he found to be proper. I CASH PATICENTS TO INDIBNS. Payments made to Indians per capita, of interest on funds held in trust by the Government for them, and of funds annually appropriated in fulfillment of trea@ stipulations, have amounted to about $645,000 during the year. In view of the advanced condition of the Omaha Indians in Nebraska, and to enable them to further improve their homesteads and to por-chase cattle, agricultural implements, and other necessary articles, the payment of annuities due them was anticipated, at their earnest re-quest. By act approved May 15, 1888 (25 Stat., 150), the last aeven annual installments of $10,000 each, due them under fourth article of the treaty of March 16, 1854 (10 Stat., 1044), were appropriated and directed to he paid to them in two annual installments of $35,000 eaoh,' with the provision that the payment of the second installment should be made only to those who made wise use of the money obtained from the first payment. The act also provided that a special.agent should make the payments, advise and direct the expenditure of the money by the Indians in such manner as would he conducive to their welfare, and make report thereon to the Sec?etary: The special agent completed the payment of the first installment during third quarter, 1889. In his report, which shows how each head of a family aud each single person expended his or her share of the payment, he states : . . * " From the report you will aee that, on the whole, the tribe made most ex-oellent use of their money; in fact, I think, much better than that number of white men would have made. * * In traveling over the reservation 1 ooold see evi-dence of improvement on every Land; such sa new houses, new agricoltural imple-ments, eto. From present indioations a large portion of the Omahas will, in a few yearn, be, a8 some of them now me, prosperous farmers and atook raisers. |