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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 73 &om its decision within the time specified, as well as many noncitizen8 who were occupying lands belonging to the Five Civilized Tribes, and who did not apply for citizenship, were preparing to plant and grow crops on those lands; and the commission recommended that some action be taken thereon. Aeeordingly, the following notice, prepared by this office under direc-tion from the Department, was promulgated: NOTICE TO INTRUDERS IN THE FIVE OIYILlZED TRIBES. DEPARTMENOTF TRE INTERIOR, Washington, January 23,1897. Whereas by the act of Congress approved June 10, 1896 (29 Stst., 339), the com-mission appoioted under the act of March 3, 1893 (27 Stat., 645), to negotiste with the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory, commonly oalled the "Dawes Conk-mission," was anthorized and directed to <'hear and determine the application of a11 person8 who. may apply to them fur oitisenship" in any of said Five Civilized Tribes; and Whereas provision waa a180 made for appeals by appliomts and by the several Pive Civilized TrLhes from the decision of said oommission, to be taken witbin sixty days from the date of anch decision, to the proper oourts of the United Shtes for the Indian Territory; and Whereas it has been reported to me that many of said applioants whose applio* tiona were denied by said Commission, and who did not appeal to the courts within the time specified, and others, nonoitieens, who did not apply for citizenship, are occnpantsof landsbelonging to the Five Civilized Tribes, and arepreparing toplmt md grow crops on said lands: Now, therefore, warning is hereby given to all olaimsints to citizenship in any of theFive CivilizedTribea whose claims have been rejected bytha Dawes Commission, so called, and who haive not tsken their appeal8 to the courts as provided in the eot of Congress first above mentioned, md ta nll noncitizen8 who are oceapying 1~ndS belonging to any of s&d Five Civilized Tribes, and who did not apply to said Com-miasionfor citizenship, that afterFebrua>y 6,1897, they will have no right toremain in possession of snoh lands, but from md after that date will be intruders thereon and oompelled to remove therefrom. DAVID 8. FRANCISS, ecretary. Copies of this notice were furnished the agent for the Union Agency, the Dawes Commission, and the respective principal chiefs of the Five Civilized Tribes. Although theoffiee has received requests fromthe authorities of each of the Five Civilized Tribes for information concerning the promulga-tion of this notice, only the Cherokee and Creek officials have made any formal demand for the removal of the intruders. In a letter dated in tbis city April 15,1897, and addressed to the Department, Messrs. George W. Benge and W. W. Hastings, delegates of the Cherokee Nation, asked for the removal from that nation of intruders whose claims to citizenship had been rejected by the Dawes Commission and who had not appealed to the courts within tho sixty days allowed. They stated that there were filed before the Dawes Commission about 5,000 applications for citizenship in the Cherokee Nation which involved the status of about 50,000 individuals; that out |