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Show LXX REPORT OF THE ,C!OXJIISSIOSER OF ISDI.4R AFFAIRS. of the i~ati?u\Cest,r eferred to in ~ u yla st a11uual kep&rt,I have to state that, 41 persons orer 12, aud 32 persolis nuder 12, ~.nnoved from Loudon, Tqnn., J i u ~ e2- 17, 1881, at a cost to the government. of $1,281.50; that 16 persous orer 12, suil R persons under 12, removed from Chatta.uooga, Tenu., Septe~nber1 3-15, 1SS1, at a cost to the goverumeut of $389.90; and 26 pumous orer 12, anud.21 persous uuder 1.2, re1nove11f rom Ohatta-nooga, Ten~O~c.t~o ber 10-22,1881, a t a cost to the governn~enot f $846.20 ; ; I I I ~th at 14 pr s so~~osv er 1.2, aud 8 perso~rsu uder 12, removed from Clevelaud, Teuu., Deceu~be5~-.7 , 1881, a t a east to the governme~o~ft $415.90, making iu all 97 persons orer 12 years of a,ge and 64 per-nous uurler 12? mho removed duling 1881;at a cost to the govern-ment of 82,930.50. ~ p ~ ~ l i c a tfoiro a~id~ froslo rn the government have since heell n~acle from parties desiriug to remore West, and recommendation was m-ade February 11,1SS2, that Congress be requested to appropriate the su~uo f eO,OOO for t l~ere moval of those who desired to go West., including the sum of'$!2,!)30.50 expeuded out of the LLcivilieatiofuu ud" in the r e ~ ~ ~ oovfa tlh e aforesaid persong. Congress did, through the deliciency appropriation act of August 5, 1882,appropriate thP. sum of $2,930.50 '(to r e i ~ n b u ~w~heat is commonly known as tDe Lciviliaa.tion f l~od't he :tmo~~utatk eu therefrom to defray the expenses of the re-moval of certaia Nmth Carolina Cherokee Iudians to the Inaian Terri-tory during the eighteel1 hundred aud eighty-oue," but failed to ,111ake any other appropliation fbr those desiriug iemoval. While admitting the uhim that some of these hdians have apou the go\-erument tbr the removd aud subsistence gna.raBnteeitlo them by the 8th articleof the Cl~erolreet reat~.olfS S5f'i Stat., p. 4S2), it would not be politic to uralie f ~ ~ r t ln~see or f the 'Lcivilizatiouf und," in view of the fail- . ure of Co~lgressto malco the appropriation aslred for in February last. By the suncky civil appropriation act uf August 7,1882,Congress ap-propriated the stun of WOO "to enable' the Secretary of the Interior to cause the ceusus to be t;~keua.n d a. new 1.011 to be wade of all the Cher. okee Indians resicliug east or the Mississippi Rivei." This work will require a.rery extencled tour tllrough the Stat,es of North Carolina, Ten-nessee, Georgia, ancl Alabama, if not elsewhere, and involve a carefill ;md thorough investigation into the ance6try of the Indiaus and their relatiou to indi7-iclua,ls whose names are borne on former rolls of the Cherokee Nation. Xr. Joseph G. Hester, of this city, has been'ap. point4 the special agelit to perform this dutx. S~TTIALWENT OF DIPFBlZENOES IN PEE CHEEOliffrE NATION. Duiing the last aessiou of Congress a bill was iutroctuwd in the House of Representatives (H. R. No. 3037) to authorizb and enable the Eastern Baud of Cherokee Iudians to institute and prosecute a suit in the Court of Claims against the Cherokee Nation. This bill received %he favorable iuclorsen~ent of this office. from the fact that the issuw |
