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Show COMMISSlONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. ix TABLE6. -Showing the trust fuxda of tI,s.ee of the B v e Ciailixad Wibm. Tl'ibaa. ...... ...... -. -! Cherokees .............................................................. j $2,625,812.37 $137,400.33 Chiokasaas. ............................................... ...... 1,808,605.66 68,404.05 Choctaws ............................................................... 1 549,604.71 -3-2.844.7 k rot* ............................................................. j,48P, 238~1e.01 - The interest on the principal of the invested funds of each of these tribes is placed anuually, with the Assistant Treasurer of the United States at Saint Louis, to the credit of the treasurer of each nation, and is expended as its council directs. The Bureau of Indian Affairs has no control of the expenditure of this interest. TRUST FUNDS OF OTHER TBIBES. The balance of the before-named sum of $17,097,463.32, amounting to $12,613,230.56, helongs to a number of tribes, as enumerated below, and the interest thereon, at 4,5, and 6 per cent:, as the case may be, is either paid to or expended for the benefit of thoee tribes. TABLE? .-Showing t~. s sftr cnds of tribes olher than the f i v e Civilized Tribes. -- Tribes. Tribes. Principa,l. - Cllippawsand chriatianlndiana.. .. ............................ 70.000.00 nelanarea. ... ......... 874,178 54 Pottawatomies .................... 1M,4.O9.5? Emtam Shawnees .................. ........... 21.659.12 ....... Eaakaskiiaa, Peorias. Weas, and ............................. .......... .. ~ o n s s ............................. 171,343.37 1 Saa and Poxof Miasissippi.. 55.05821 m s m 27.174.41 1 SB~BDBB 40,018.66 ......... 86,950.00 PIznkeshla~.. ................... ............. 15,140.42 Eickapoo~.. ........................ 1,935.85 L'nnae and Vienx de Sart bands. .. ...................... 75,886.04 ~enorno;ees .................. ........... 6,000.00 Osages. ............................. ....................... 80.080.04 0m;rhae ............................. ............................. 1,750,000.06 otoes and Missondas. .............. 412 116.80 ........................ Pawnees ............................ 266.042.14 Total 12,614 230. Ml The accrued truxt.fund interest, shown iu Table 3, amounting to the sum of $656,023.44, is applicable for such expenditures as from time to time mag be found to be proper. The foregoiug statements of moneys to the credit of Iudian tribes will nudoubtedlr suggest to persous not acquainted with the difficult atid perplexing details of Indian finances the questions, Why is there |