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Show , REPORT OF THE COJlMISSlONER OF 1NI)IAN AFFAIRS. 103 of $300,000 appropriated by the act of Karch 3, 1883 (22 Stats., p. 624). By thejIndia,u act approved Marc\ 2, 1890, the further sum of $6,000 was appropriated to enable the Secretary of the Interior to ascertain who were entitled to share iu the per capita distribution of the aforesaid sun^ of $75,000 and to make payment thereof. (3: Sbwts., p. 994). In pursuance of said legislation, John W.Wallace, of Leadville, Colo., was appointed a special agent, au(l under instructions fkom this office July 11, 1889, he was informed tllat there were three cl?sses of freedmen coming wit.hin the purview of the ninth article of t l~eO heroliee treaty of 1866; first, those liberated by the voluntary act of t11elr former own-ers or by law; second, all free colored persolis a110w ere in t l ~ eC lrero-kee couutry at the commeucemeut of the rebellio~i or who returned within 6 mouths ai'ter the proclamstion of the treaty of Augnst 11, i 1866; aud, third, the clesce~~dao~f ~ttlu~ tew o classen ila~i~etl. The qoestion of the rights of the Delawares a11c1 Shamnees was more susceptible of read1 adjustment t l ~ ete rms of their iocorporation with the Cherokees beiug fi~llys et out in Senate Executive Uociu~ientN o. 86, Portyeight.h Congress, first session, aud Flouse Iteport No. 844, %if-tietll Congress, first session, which were f i~r~~ishhieutrnl. Be was directed to yroceed to the Uuiou Agencf, I11d T., anti else-where, as migllt be fonnd necessary, snd, after co~~sultatiowni th Agent Benuett, to adopt some plan to be observed ill making thenecessary en- . rollment. He was especially directed to give the widest publicity to the l>rovisious of the act aud to the fact that evidence and the testi-muug of claimants would be received at a give11 timeand place, to tile end that all persons i~~tcrcstemd ight here an~pleo pportunity to pre-sent their claims, and that sufficient. time migl~t be allowed to give ever? claimant.an opportunity to fully present his case and to have it prol~erlyc unsi(1ered. He was also iustructed to obta,inf rom the Chero-kee authorities certified copies of t,he schedules of enrollment of the freedmen referred to in the ninth article of the treaty of 1866 who merb' duly recognized by the nation, as well as of the schedules of Delaware .and Shawnee India~ls incorporated in the uation bysaid agreements. - He was further directed to obtain a certificate in due form as to the amount of per capita pasment made to the Cherokees by blood under the act of the Cherokee legislature of May 19, 1883, aforesaid. 111 his report, of April 8,1890, Agent, Wallace states that, after con- ', sultil~gw ith Agent Bennett and before settliug upou a definite plan of of action, l~ecousulted with J. B. Mayes, principal chief of the Chero-kee Xatioo, and obtained the opinions of many of the principal Chero-kees nu well as of intelligent freedmeu. It was suggested that, in the absence of some one who hat1 personal knowledge of the oharacter and &aim, of those who should yresellt tbe~uselvefso r enrollmeut, the oppor- . tuaity for imposition upon him aud injury to the uation mould be very great; and he therefore requested Chief Hayes to appoint some person properly qualiiied, whose duty it should be to be present at all examina- |