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Show 86 REPORT OF THE COMMI8SIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. ninth article of the Cherokee treaty of 1886,89 are found on the roll of Cherokee Freedmen in this office, which is known as the "Wallace roll." A proviso to the article of the Cherokeeagreement of 1891, which . requires the rcinoval of Cherokee intruders on the demand of the principal chief of that nation, protects the rights of all entitled to citi-zenship under said illnth article of the treaty. In addition to this the Court of Cla.ims, in a decree in the Cherokee Freedman Case, on March 18,1895, a.ccepted said '' Wadlace roll" "as furnishing the true number of Freedmen, 3,524." The.refore those whose names appear on said roll are not iutruders and not subject to removal on the demand of the principal chief of tlie Cherokee Nation. In view of this the office recommended tliat these 89 names, a list of which was inclosed, be stricken from the Cherokee intruder lists. As to the 77 other Freedmen claimants whose names do not appear on the 11 Wallace roll," it was ascertained that the wives and children of some of them are on said roll, and as the acceptance of the Cherokee intruder lists without modification would involve the declaration not only that the parties nanied are intruders, but also that the other mem-bers of their family; some of whom are known to be on the "Wallace roll," are likewise intruders and liable to removal, it was recommended that these 77 names, a list of which mas furnished, be suspended from the intruder lists until the status of their families call be ascertained by some proper investigation. The Department, August 3,1895, approved the findings and awards of the board of appraisers with the lnodifications recommended by this office, and August 23,1895, a copy of so much of the papers in the case as was deemed sufficient to give the Cherokee authorities the iuforma-tion necessary to enable them to tender the amounts awarded to the persons entitled to reeeive them was transmitted to the principal chief , of the Cherokee Nation in accordance with the instructions contained in Depart,ment letter of August 13: 1895. CHELAN INDIANS IS WASHINGTON. The Department havi~ig set aside and allotted certain lands in the State of Washington to some of the Chelan Indians uuder the Moses agreement, as explained in my last annual report, the office directe.d Acting Indian Agent Buhb, of the Colville Agency, to put the allot-tees in possession of their respective allotted tracts. In his endeavor to carry out the instructions of the office, temporary injunction was obtained against him in the United States circuit court for the district of Washiugtou, sitting in equity, by one La Chappelle, a trespasser upon a portioii of the allotted lands. On final hearing had April 19, 1895, the injunction was made perpetnal, but the prayer of the complaina~f~otr a decree declaring him to be the owner of the land iu coiitroversy and quieting the title in him was denied. The decree making the injunction ljerpetual was rendered without prejudice |