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Show LXU REPORT OF TEE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. the joint or concurrent action of both nations was required in order to make valid the action of either. On November 2,1880, the Choctaw legislature memorialized Congress expressing their willingness to ac-cept their fmedmen as citizens, and asking for legislation that would enable them to do so. A Senate bill, which was never reported, was the sole result ofthis effort. ' . In 1882, in order to give the freedmen of these two nations, some school facilities, the following clause was inserted in the Indian appro-priation bill of May 17 : That the sum of tan thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of the three hun-dred thousand doliara reserved by the third artielo of the treaty with the Chootmws and Chickasaws concluded April eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, for the pur-pose of educating freedmen in said tribes, to be expended nuder the direction of the Secretary of tho Interior, three-fourths thereof for the freedmenamong the Choctaws and one-fanrthfoc the freedmen among the Chiakagaw%: Provided, That said sum of ten thousand dollars shall be deducted in like proportionfrom any molleys in thisact appropriated to be paid-mid Choctaws and Chickasaw: Bad proaided fzvther:That either of said tribes may, before such expenditure, adopt and pmvido for the freed-men in said tribe in pocordnnoe with said third article, and in such osse the money herein provided for such education in said tribe shall he paid over to said tribe, to he taken from the unpaid balance of the three hundred thousand dollars due said tribe. Under this legislation the Choctaws adopted their freedmen and the balance of the share of the Dhootaws in the $300,000 was placed to the credit of the Choctaws on the books ofthe United States Treasury. The account for both nations was stated as follows : From the $300,000 should be deducted, not only the $200,000 appropriated and paid over. immediately upon the proclamatiop of the treaty, but also the two years7 interest on that $200,000, which for some unknown re,ason was also ap propriated : Residue of $300,000 unappropriatsd.. .................................... $100,000 Amount appropristed %a interest on'$J00,000for year ending June 14'1867 ........................ ................... $15,000 Deduct amount of appropristian of interest for said year on $lOO,oUO ......................... ; .......................... 5,000 --10, o ou Leaving .......................................................... 90,000 Amount appmpri,riated es interest on$300,000 for year ending June 10, .1 868. ..................... ......................... 15,000 Dedoct amount of appropriatio~ of interest for said year on $90,000 ....................... :. ............................ --4,5 00 10,5W Leaviog .......................................................... 79,500, From this amount should be deducted the sum appropriated by act sp-pmved May 17,1882.. ................... .:. ........................... --10, W n Leaving ........................................................... 69,500 to be paid the Choctaws and Chickasaws in case they adopted their freedmen. Of this their three-fourths share, amounting to $53,125, mas appropristed audplaced to the credit of the Choctaws. |
