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Show REPORT OF TEtE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 83 of the Iiiterior should cause the Wallace roll to be further corrected by adding thereto descendants born since March 3,1883, and prior to May 3,1894, and striking therefrom the names of those who have died or have ceased to be citizens of the Cherokee Nation, so that, when so amended and changed, it should represent the Freedmen entitled to participatein the distribution of the fund awarded them, vie, $903,365. To that end the Secretary of the Interior was authorized to appoint a commissio~~teor proceed to the Cherokee country and ascertain and report to the Secretary the facts necessary for the correction of the roll above described, so that, when a new and corrected roll should be thus made and approved by the Secretary of the Interior, he should cause the money to be paid and distributed to theFreedmen entitled thereto. The final decree in this case, tiled May 8,1895, carries out what was anticipated in the decree of March 18,1895, directing that the Secretary of tlie Interior, when a new and corrected rollis made and approvedby him, shall cause the amount remaining of the fund awarded the Freed-men under this decree to be paid and distributed to the Freedmen, free colored persons, and their descendants aforesaid entitled thereto, not to exceed the sum of $256.34 per capita, etc. Shawnees.-The suit by the Shawnees having been heard, the Court of Claims filed its 6rst decree thereon June 12,1893, which was similar in purport to that rendered in behalf of the Delawares. This decree was carried to the Supreme Court by appeal. A second decree was entered in the Court of Claims May 21,1895, in pursuance of a mandate of the Supreme Court of the United States, which ordered that out of the sum of $593,625 distributed by the Cherokee Nation to Cherokees by blood only a distribution be made based on the agreement and stipulation made by and between the Cherokee Nation and the Shawnees and approved by the Supreme Court of the United States, to wit, to 737 Shawnee persons; and that the fund so ascertained, $21,862.05, be paid by the treasury of the Cherokee Nation or by the Secretary of the Inte- ' rior to the 737 individual Shawnees, per capita, who would have been entitled to the same if the unoonstitutional restriction and discrimina-tion in the Cherokee statutes had not existed. A supplemental petition was also filed by the Shawnees January 12, 1895, in regard to their share in the $8,595,736 received from the sale of the Cherokee Outlet. In its decree the court stated that it appeared to the court that the sum of $1,660,000, which had been retained out of the $8,595,736, would not be sufficient to pay to the several parties in interest the full amount due them to make them "equalin every respect" to the native Cherokees, namely, $265.70 per capita, which, for the Shawnees, would have amounted to $195,820.90, the sum asked by them. It was therefore decreed that there was due and payable to said Shawnees, out of said fund now availablein the United States Treasury, the sum of $226.69 per capita, or a total sum on their supplemental peti-tion of $167,070.53. This, added to the $21,852.05 previously decreed, |