Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs - 1891(Pt I)

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122 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. TRUST FUNDS OF THE FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES. Of the $34,256,808.42 principal held in trust, as shown in the 1891-'92 column of Table 19, the sum of $8,009,'324.52 belongs to the five civ- \> ilized tribes in the fo.ll owing proportion : TABLE P2.-TTWlt f t w d s of t h e j t u e oivilised tribes. I amount of Annual p~.inoipal. I interest, Chemkeea ................................................................ Chickasaw8 ............................................................... Choctaws ................................................................. Ssmioales ................................................................. Creeks .................................................................... . - The interest on the principal of these funds is placed semiannually with the United States assistant treasurer at St. Louis, Mo., to the credit of the treasurer of each nation, and the expenditure of these ' funds is entirely under the control of each nation and its council. This office has no control whatever over these expenditures. 1 ! I TRUST FUNDS OF OTHER TRIBES. 1 The balance of the before-named sum of $34,266,808.42, amounting to $18,346,883.90, belonga to a number of tribes, as stated below, and the interest thereon, say 4,5,6, and 7 per cent., as the case may b ~is, e ither paid to or expended for the benefit of the respective tribes: TABLE 23.-Truat funds of tribes other t h a n t h e f i c e cioili#ed tribes. I Tribes. I I Rincipd. 11 - Tdbe8. Cheueones end Arapahoes. ... ....! $09I0 ,00 0.00 Chiipewa and Chri~tianI ndians../ 42: 560.36 Delaw I...a............r.........es 874186.51 Eastern Shawnees ................ 11, 070. 12 Iow*a ............................. 171.641.37 Hsnsit~. ............................. ... 27,174.41 Kaskaskias aod Peorias, eto / 52,000.00 Kiokapoo~.. ...................... 115,721.01 L'Anss and~ietxrde~ert~ndiana./ 20 009.00 Menornonee1 ...................... 153: 039.38 Oasxes .......................... ..I &295,070. 09 .- Omahas. ........................ 182,324. OR ........ Phvnees.. ...................... ..I 309,196.41 Pone89 ........................... 70.000.00 Pottawatomies ................... 184,091.57 The balances of accrued trust-fund interest, as shown in Table 19, amonoting to $973,643.85, are applicable for such expenditures as from time to time n ~ a yb e found to be proper.