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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF 1NI)IAN AFFAIR#. LI EASTEXN CHEROKEES. I n Septc.~nl)er1, 882, Joseph G. Hrster was apl~oiuteda gent to ta.ke a census a ~ m~aldie a list. of a11 the Cherokee Indians residiug east of the Mississil)pi Rirer, nu required by an act appro\.ed Angl~s7t , 1882. To assist hi~u in this work, I fu~.uished llinr with copies of four previous lists of this 11eol1le One tt~keu hy J. C. Mullay ad early as 1848, mu-tainiug the lrames of all who resided in t l ~ eS tate of North Carolina a t the tinre of the treaty of 1836, aud who had not relnovrrl West, and ona taken by D. W. Giler in pursasncq of an act'apltroved September 30, 1850, which,-it is believed, includes all of these people then residing in North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Alaba~nit. This roll was used by Alfrerl Cha ,~n~aanct,i ng for this Depart~nenti,l l the fol lo~ingy ear, to make a per capita payment to t l ~ eE astern Cherokees, and io doing so he fonn~li t neersswi-y from evi(le~~lc,ree nentt'~lt o m;~kea few cl~a~nges, so that a copy of the pay-roll made by him was also given to the agent together wit11 a copy of a liut of t l~r sep eople taken by 8. H. Swetland under all act approved July 27, 1868. In eousequeuce of tlre wise ~1i~tril)utioofl l these llldia118 and their descenclauts or r r rn;u~yS t;iu>s,n gl.eat. ~~l:rior.illiyv ing in localities re.' mote from all usual routes of travel, the task proved to be of muoh greater mag~~itudieli,f ficultv,a ndexpense tlrsu was a t first anticipated, and it was not n11ti1 the 5tl1 of last Januarg that it could be com-pleted and the list sul~~~jitte(Ilt. contains the narnes of 1,881 merubers resicliug i i r So~.rlrC ;~rolill;~i.7. 8 in (+e~~rgi2;1r,3 ill Ten~lrsst.ei, l in Ala-bama, 11 in Krut~~cktyi ,i n Sv!v Jel.srp, 5 ill Virginia, 3 each in Kan-sas (at, present) ;~ncl South Cilrolina, aud 1 eacll in Cttliforuia, Colorado, and Illinois (at present), innki~rga tots1 u~embersl~iopf 2,956. I t gives the E~~g l i sauhd I11dia11l ralnes (wlreo they have both), the ape and sex of each, ant1 the resideuoe or post-office address of every family or single person, together wit11 the relatio~~shiopf each member of a family to the lread thereof. Itefere~~icse a lso made to thenumbers opposita their names, or the nanles of their ancestors on the previous rolls al~oven oted, that they may be it1e.ntitied there, ant1 there are such marginal references aud explanatory notes as special eases ~eemedto require. Thus no person's name was enrolled on this list whose name or tile name of wllose arrcestor does not appear on some one of tile pre-vious lists, and all except forty-seven on the previous lists are accounted for, eitlrer as dead, an having pone west to reside with the Natioll io the Indian Territory, or by er~rollmeut as now residing eist of the Missis-sippi River. These fort^-screu persons whose wl~errabouts could not be ascertained are believed by their friends and relatives to have either died, gone west, or to be now known by different names fro811 those under which they were previously enn>lletl. A list of the forty-seven names is given wit11 this census. Wl~ile the a,gent !vas engaged in the work, parioay persons presented themselves to him, claiming to be Eastern |