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Show By summarizing the 1889-'90 columns of Tables 7 and 8, and the last two items of that column in Table 9;the total rtmonnt of fnnds availa-ble for expenditures for the Indian service during the fiscal y ear 1889-'90 is ascertained. - TABLE 11.-showing total money amailable for jtscal year endlng Jwe 30, 1890. TRUST FUNDS OF THE FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES. Of the $20,909,666.93, principal, held in trust, as shown in the 1889-'90 column of Table 9, the sum of $7,984,133.76 belongs to the five civilized tribes, in the following proportions : Cherokees ............................................................................................................................... . $a 625 52.37 Chiokmaw~ 1:30<695.65 Chootaws .................................................................. 549,59(.74 Creeka .................................................................... % 000 000.00 8eminoies .................................................................- 1,500-: 000. on Totsl ................................................................ 7,984,132.76 The interest on the principal of these funds is placed semi-annually, with the United States assistant treasurer at St. Louis, Mo., to the credit of the treaanrer of eaah nation, and the expenditure of these . fonds is entirely under the control of the nation and its council. This office has no control whatever over these expenditures. TRUST FUNDS OF OTHER TRIBES. The balance of the before.named sum of $20,909,556.93, amounting to $12,925,424.17, belongs to a number of tribes, as stated below, and the interest thereon, at 4, 5, 6, and 7 per cent., as the case may be, is either paid to or expended for the benefit of the respective tribes. |
