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Show With this new legislation in force, and from iuformation received respecting these Indians, I am led to believe that their proposed removal under existing law will be successfully accomplished by Agent Newmau. In fact, Illany have already gone to the reservations named. Some have delayed, awaiting the new legislation mentioned, and others to defend their rights to certain lands upon which they have settled and made their homes, being guaranteed title to such lands by the agreement aforesaid. The Department of Justice, upon request from this office through the Department, has instructed the proper U. S. district attorney to defend the actions instituted against these Indians for their homes, and Agent Newman has been instructed to fur-nisb the attorney the information in his possession and to aid him in the matter. I look for a completion of this work within a reasonable time. STOCKBRIDGE AND MUNSEE ENROLLMENT. The enrollmer~to f the Stockbridge and Mnnsee Indians, as provided for in the act of March 3,1S93 (27 Stats., 744), bas. been completed by Mr. C. C. Painter, who was designated by the Department for snch duty. His final report was submitted January 29,1804. He found 481 persous entitled to enrollmeut, and sitb~nittedfo r t.he decision of this office a llumber of other cases that had been contested. Five of these were cases of wolnell who had been adopted into the tribe, but who, Mr. Painter thought, were not entitled to enroll~nenot n account of the fact that at the time of the adoption the tribe was coniposed only of what was lrnown as the ludian party. Careful examinatioll vas given to the question as to the parties whose enrollment ba.d been objected' to by the Indlatrs and by Mr. Painter, and in the report of May 28, 1894, from this office, the rights of the parties were set forth and a revised roll submitt,ed for the approval of the Department. This roll contained 17 names Inore than were admitted to enrollment by Mr. Painter, making 498 ill all. The enrollment as revised was approved by the Secretary of the Interior June 12, 1894. Subsequently, on reco~nrnendation of the Indians, the agent, and Mr. Painter, the Department authorieed the enrollment of 5 other persons, whose names had been left off by Mr. Painter through inadvertence. The membership of the tribe, therefore, is now fixed as 503 persons, and as great care was taken in the preparation of instructions for the enrolling agent aud in the examinat.ion of his report, it is hoped that the divisions which have heretofore existed in the tribe as to the rights of certain persons to membership therein are now settled and will give no further trouble. . The act of March 3,1893, under which this enrollment was made, imposed the further duty upon the Government of issuiug patents in fee simple to the Stockbridge and Munsee Indians, who have, either thelnselves or by their proper representatives, continuously occupied |