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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONEB OF INDIAN AFFAJRS. 81 Under this authority the Cherokee legislature enacted that this amount should be disbursed per capita to snch citizens of the said na. tion as were Cherokees by blood, thus excluding from any participation therein the freedmen, Delaware, and Shawnee members of said nation In order to secure to the said freedmen, Delawares, and Shawnees a . per capita payment equal in amoant to that received by the Cherokatw by blood, an additional sum of $75,000 was appropriated from the same funds by the act of Congress approved October 19,1888 (25 Stat., 609), and in order to ellable the Secretary of the Interior to determine who of the said freedmen, Delawares, hnd Shawnees are entitled to share in the said payment, an additional sum of $5,000 was appropriated by the act of Congress approved March 2, 1889 I25 Stat., 994). Under the authority conferred in the latter act, Mr. John W. Wallace, of Colorado, was appointed by the Secretary of t,he Interior to prepare a roll containing the names of all persons whose right to share in the said appropriation is admitted by the Cherokee Nation, to be known as the '' Roll of Admitted Claimants," and also a roll containing the names of snch as claim the right to share in the said money, whose claims are contested by the Cherokee Nation, to be known as the "Roll of Con-tested Claimants." In connection with the latter roll he is directed to take testimony and report to the Department relative to the claim of emh person so enrolled. Mr. Wallaceisnow on duty in the Indian Territory, under his appoin.t - . ment. FREEDNEN IN THE CHICKASAW NATION, INDIAX TERRITORY. Reference was made in the last Annual Report to a draught of a bill for the reliefof the freedmen in tho Chickasaw Nation, which was sob-mitted to Congress by the Department May 9,1888. (Senate Ex. Doc. 166, Fiftieth Congress, sewnd session.) The bill provided for the re-moval of such of said freedmen as should consent thereto fram .the Chickasaw Nation to lands ceded to the United States in 1866 by the Creeks and Seminoles, known as the "Oklahoma Country." This bill did not become a law, and by the cession of. said lands to the United States and their appropriation for homestead purposes, the relief contemplated has become impracticable. As the unfortunate conditiou of these people still exists, the subject will be fnrther considered, with the view of maturing some other plan for their relief. SALE OF IOWA AND SAC AND FOX RESERVATIONS IN KANSAS AND NEBRASKA. A s the survey of the Iowa Reservation, although made in the field, has not been approved by the General Land Office, no farther steps to. ward the allotment, appraisement, and sale of the lands have been taken since the date of the last annual reDort. It is houed th at the snr- |