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Show and Special Agent Cooper, under his instructions, reported, Septem-ber 14, 1893, the names of five men, viz: Andrew Jackson, Joseph Bradley, Elijah Pilcher, Peter Bennett, and Philip Gruet, who were snbsequently (October 9, 1893) appointed by the Secretary of the Inte-rior as the business committee for the purpose herein specified. Similar contentions arose among the Shawnees in the Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory. At their election for chiefs and council in September, 1893, each party, one headed by H. F. A. Rogers, the other by Charles Bluejacket, claimed to have elected its own ticket. Agent Wisdom was called upon to make an investigation of the fair-ness of tbe election; but when he made his report, April 20,1894, party spirit ran so high that the suggestion was made that the election of chiefs be auuulled, and that a busiuess committee of seven persons be appointed from tho best representative men of both parties to act in the same capmity as the Chippewas on the Isabella Reservation in Michigan. This seemed particularly advisable, since chiefs within the Oherokee Nation, other than their own chiefs, would not be acceptable to the Cherokees, and the creation of such an office would not be in harmony with the agreement .whereby the Shawnees became incor-porated in aud a part of the Cherokee Nation. In accordance with these views, a business committtee was appointed June 4,1894, con-sisting of Charles Bluejacket, Johnson Blackfeather, Henry F. A. Rogers, Charles 0. Cornatzer,Thomas Dougherty, Stephen Bluejacket, and John H. Bailey. These men have accepted the position, and are performing their duties promptly, faithfully, and satisfactorily to their tribe and to the Government. INDIAN LANDS SET APART TO MISSIONARY SOCIETIES. In furtherance of its policy of granting to missionary and religious societies the temporary use and occupancy of Indian lands for religious and educational purposes, or in carrying out special legislatio~~th, e office, during the past year, by your authority and with the consent of the respective Indians, has set apart within several reservations certain specified tracts of land for the use of the respective denominations applying therefor, in order that they might have a fixed habitation and the better carry on their missionary labors. The lands so reserved are as follows: T ~ L11B.-L and8 set agert on Indian reaeruatio~sfor the ase of religious aocietiea frm A v o ~ s 2t 4. 1853. to Auozlst $8. 1854. |