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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 7% action until August 17,1894, when the Department replied, approving the instructions submitted August 17, 1893, and concurring in the position taken in office letter of August 25, 1893, and deciding that no improvements should be appraised which should come under either oP the four heads enumerated in officeJetter of September 25,1893. October 7, 1893, the commissioners stated that they were satisfiedi that the whole $5,000 appropriated by the act under which they were appointed for the payment of the expenses of removing intruders from the Cherokee Nat,ion and the appraisal of improvements of those enti-tled under the act to receive compensation for the same., would not be sufficient to complete tbe work of appraisal alone; and, further, that another $5,000 would not be enough to defray the expenses of remov-ing the 7,llOU intruders in the Cherokee Nation, scattered over an area. of nearly 8,000 square miles, unless the U. S. Army assisted in making the removals. October 28,1893, I requested the commissioners to furnish this ofice with an estimate of what additional sum would be required by them to complete the appraisement of improvements, and what sum would be necessary to effect the removal of intruders from the nation, in order that the Department might request Congress to provide an additional appropriation sufficient to cover the expense both of apy(raisa1 and removal. Mr. Hutchius, chairman of the commission, replied that, in addition to the $5,000 already appropriated, the commission would require to complete the appraisal the sum of $4,996 (of which $300 would be needed for the expense of clerical assistance for the commissioners), and that $7,500 would be qecevsary to defray the expense of the removal of intruders from the Cherokee Nation, making in all $,12,496 to complete the appraisal and eEect the removal. 1 recommended to the Department that ~ongr e s sb e requested to appropriate $12,496 for the above named purpose, the same to be in?mediately available. Subsequently (December 4, 1893) I trans-mitted a copy of a communication from Chairmarl Hutchins, of the board of appraisers, urging, for reasons therein stated, speedy action in the matter of providing the additional a.ppropriation. The corre spondence ou this subject is printed in House Ex. DOC. NO. 26, Fifty-third Congress, second session. As the appropriation requested had not been made by Congress by December 22,1893, a telegram of that date from the Department to Chairmall Hutchins suspended further work by the appraisers arrd directed them to report their proceedings up to date. By a clause in t,he Indian appropriation act, approved Augost 15, 1894, $4,996 was appropriated to complete the appraisal of improve-ments of intruders in the Cherokee Nation; but Congress made no pro-vision for the payment of the expenses of. the removal of the intruders from. said nation, although in a report of March 17, 1894, on Honse |