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Show 108 OO~ISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. Cherokee Nation: June 28,1898, to June 30,1899 ....................... 83,150.87 July 1, 1899, to June 30, 19M) ........................ 19,455.05 July 1, 1900, to June 30, 1901 ........................ 19,392.65 July 1, 1901, to June 30, 1902 ........................ 17,060.08 July 1, 190Zj to June 30, 1903 ........................ 58,767.17 July 1, 1903, to June 30, 1904 ........................ 115,265.75 Total. ............................................ 233,091.57 The Union Agency is one of the most important Indian agencies in the country. It has been found that during the last year Agent Shoenfelt handled, including royalties and taxes of all natures col-lected by him, amount received on requisition through this Office, individual Indian moneys, and $125.31 paid by him to cover disallow-ance in his cash account, a total of $1,686,124.05. UNLEASED SEOREOATED COAL AND ASPHALT LANDS, CHOCTAW AND CHICKASAW NATIONS. - The act of April 21 last declares that- All nnleased lands which are by section fifty-nine of an act entitled "An act to ratify and confirm an agreement with the Choctaw and Chiokasaw tribes of Indians, and for other purposes," approved July first, nineteen hundred and two, directed to "be sold at public auction for cash," and all other unleased lands and deposits of like character in said nations segregated under any act of Congress, shall, instead, be sold under direction of the Secretary of the Interior in tracts not exceed-ing nine hundred and sixty acres to each person, after due advertisement, upon sealed proposals, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior and approved by the President, with anthority to reject any or all propwls: Pro-dded, That the President shall appoint a commission of three persons, one on the recommendation of the principal chief of the Choctaw Nation, who shall be a Choc-taw by blood, and one upon the recommendation of the governor of the Chickasaw Nation, who shall be a Chickasaw by blood, which commission shall have a right to be present at the time of the opening of bids and be heard in relation to the accept-ance or rejection thereof. All expenses, inclusive of necessary clerical help in the Department of the Interior, connected with and incident to such sale sball be paid from the funds of the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes on deposit in the Treasury of the United States: Provided, That all leased lands shall be withheldfrom sale until the mrther direction of Congress. June 17,1904, the President approved regulations to govern the sale of the unleased segregated coal and asphalt lands and deposits in the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations. In accordance with the provisions of section 58 of the Choctaw-Chickasaw supplemental agreement, act of July 1,1902, the Secretary of the Interior, on March 24,1903, L'by written order segregated and reserved from allotment" 445,052.23 acres of land in the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations, found to be "principally valuable because of their deposits of coal and asphalt." |