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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAlRS XLIlI question of the disputed boundary line between Texas and the United States, in regard to which a bill (8. R. 1565) authorizing t.he aypoiut-ment of a commission to run and mark said boundary line is now pend-ing before Congress. The matter was on tbe 2d of June last referred by the Department to the honorable Secretary of War, with the state-ment that, in the absence of any definite settlement of the controversy, the status of the lands must be maintained as Indian country, and re-questing .the ~ervice of the military in removing all intruders there. from. The official reports oE the War Department show that thelset-tlers were notified to vacate the lands by the 1st October, 1884, failing which they would be promptly removed by the troops. INTRUDERS AND DISPUTED CITIZENSKIP W TKE INDIAN TERRITORY. By your decision of March 15,1884, the act of the Choctaw council, approved October 21,1882, has been made the basis for determining all questions relating to intruders and disputed citizenship in that nation. Under this decision instructions were given Agent Tufts under date of March 22, 1884, which are hereto appended, together with the act of the Choctaw couocil. The method of dealing with these qnestions thus adopted leaves their ultimate decision with the Department in accord-ance with the opinion of the honorable Attorney-General (1G Opinions, 404), and it is believed will produce satisfactory results. No action on this matter has been taken by the other civilized nations, but the Sen-ate Committee on Indian Affairs is about to visit the Territory for the purpose of investigating the subject, among other matters, and it is presumed will present a report which will enable Congress to reach a satisfactory solution of the question at the ensuing session. ACT OF CAOCTAW COUHCIL. To the Gensral Counoil : Your comutittee to whoox was referred that portionof the ohhf's message referring to our -reliltions with the United State~tes, would report the following and ask its idaption : Whereas, by the seventh article of the treaty of 1&5, the Choctaws are secured in the unrestricted right of self-government and full jurisdiotion over persona and property within their respective limits, which unrestriated right of self-government does, and of aright ought to,seoure to the Choctaw Government the sole right aqd power to hear and determine all appliaetiona for a citizenship; and Where= great injury has bees done the Chaotzwa in the past by non-citizens, after they have failed to establish their claims to citizenship according to the Choctaw law, resorting to Fort Smith and there hefora a commission and t,oo often by meam of bribed witnesses,and without the Chootaw Government having any repreiientativs present to protect her interest, established clrsims which sure not only detrimental to the interests of the Chootaws, but are in open violation of the seventh artiole of the treaty of 1855, above urentioned; and Whereas the Chootawa, in order to quiet all cries of prejudice and partiality againat spplioants for citizenship, agree that after an applicant for cit,isenship has been refused the right he olaimed, and feels aggrieved by such refusal, such applioantmai have B rehearing of his case before the United Rtatea Indian agent: Provided, The agent notify the priooipdcbief of the L*e and place of all such rehearings, ao that |