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Show 102 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INUIAN AFFAIRB. No, 3, estimated to contain 199,000 acres, and tbe price to be paid is 3.51 mots per acre per auuum: or $20,964.70 for three gears; maxi-nlum number of cattle, 8,000. Di s t~icNt o. 4, estie~etedt o contain 1;0;000 acres, a t 3.57 cexlts per acre, or 810,170.90 fir 3 years, is held by Thomas Patou, of New York city ; maximun~ uomber of cattle, 7,500. The permit coreriug district No. 5,estimated to c o~~t a8i9u, 000 acres, is held by matt hew'^. Murphy, of Miles City, 310~1t.a, t 3.62 cents per annnm, or $'J,(iG5.40 for three p a r s ; maximum 1111u1bero f cattle, 5,000. It is pl.oridec1 in tliese agreements that no horses, sheep, or hogs shall be i~~t roduceud~b out hese lands, and that the herds a1111 private holtliugs of the Iodiaus shall be kept free fr0111 int(,rferenoe by the stock of the parties hol~lingth ese permits. A compariso~o~f the proceeds of the two syste~nss hows that under the arraogelueut now in force the tlimioisbed reservation yields a . . greater returu than the entire reservation did uutler the old system. Under the former, tile tiroceeds duriug tlte last fiscal year aggregated $24,079.65, whileunderthe present, theauuual proceeds will be$29,781.50, notwitlistnuding the fact that an area of 1,800,000 acres from the western portio~r nf the reservation has been relinquished by the Iudiaus to the Go\.er~~meut,. I CFIEROIIEE PI;EEI)MEN, 1)ELAWBRES AND SHAWNEES. Ey au act eutitled, ''An act to secure to the Cherokee freedmen and others their propor t io~o~f certair~p roceeds of l a ~ ~ duusc ler the act of March third, eighteeu hundred and eigl~ty-three." appro\.ed October 19, 1858 (25 State., 1). GOS), there was appropriakcl $75,000, the amount actually expended from this sun^ to be charged agaiost tlie Cl~erokee Ns ~ t i oo~n~ ,a ecoont of its lauds west of the Arkansas Xirer, and to be a lien to be deducte(1 fkom any pay~neuth ereafter made by reasou of those larids. It was s t i~~ulatetdh at this fuud sboultl be distriboted per capita b j the Secretary of the Iuterior, first, among such freedmen and their ~ l e s c e u ( l a a~s~ wt ~e re mentioiled in the uiuth article of the treaty of July 10, 18Gki; 8econcl. alllong the Delaware* tribe of Indiaus iutor11ora:c~rilu to t l ~ nC l~e~uBeeNatioann; d, third, amougtlle Sl~avneet tribe of I ~ ~ ( l i aiuncso rporated into the Cherokee Nation. The tlistribu-tiou mas to be lna(1e in sncb lunnllrr and in such amounts as to give to the Freetilaen, Delawares, and Shmv~~epeesr capita p a~me n t seq ual to those vliiah had bee11 nlacle to Chcl.okces by blood t out of thesum Agreenieut made under the fifteenth art,iole of the treazy of 1866 by the Cbero-kees and Delnnares on the 8th of April, 1867, and approved by the President April 11, 1867. 1 Agreement made udder the aforesaid srtiale hy the Cherokees and Shawnees an the 7th of June, 1869, and approved by the Preaideuk June 9,1869. t This payment was made in ncoortlance with an ~ ootf the Cherokee legislature whioll was gassed over the veto of the principal ohiet; and brcsme a law on the 19th of May, IPUR, |