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Show 84 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. it had considered the statements made by Mr. Fabian Chamberlain and found no reason to modify its previous decision, and in view of the leniency that had been shown in their case it directed that no further temporizing measures be tolerated, and that Fabian and his brothers, Rwthclomew and James, be removed from the reservation within thirty days from the date of notice from the Indian agent in charge, the notice to be given at once. Such instructions were given the agent May 6,1899,and he replied that he did not have sufficient police force to accomplish the removal of these parties and requested military assistance. Accordingly the office recommended, June 2, that the War Department be requested to detail a sufficient guard of soldiers to aid the agent in effecting the ren~ovals. June 9,1899, the War Department informed the Interior Department that the commanding general, Department of Columbia, hail been directed to send an ofioer with a sufficient detaahment to aid the Indian agent, and June 24 the agent reported that with the assistanoe of the military detail he had removed Bartholomew Cham-berlain and his personal effects from the reservation, and also the wife anil five children and household goods of Fabian Chamberlain. Fabian Chsmberlain himself was at the time away fkom his home. James Chamberlain was also away, employed in a logging camp off the reser-vat, ion, and a white man named Pence had been put upon his place. Pence was uot removed because of illness in his family, but he agreed to remove from the reservation when the condition of hia family would permit. The agent posted notices upon the doors of the houses of both Fabian and James Chamberlain warning them not to interfere in any manner with the premises after the date thereof under penalty of :proseontion. They have returned to tbe reservation and instituted action in the United States court to determine their rights. . INDIAN TERRITORY UNDER THE CURTIS ACT. My last annual report discussed the provisions of the act of June 28, 1898 (30 Stats., 495), "for the protection of the people of the Indian Territory, aud for other purposes," otherwise known as the "Curtis act." There was also give11 a statement of the most radical and im-portant changes that would be effected uuder the act in the admin-istration of the affairs of the tribes in the Territory; also a comparison of the provisious of the act with those of the two agreements with the Oreeks and with theChoctawandChickasaw nationswhich are embodied in rsections 29 and 30 of the act. Election 29 of the act provided that the agreement entered into between the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes and the Choctaw and Chick- I asaw nations on Apri123,1897 (as amended and setforth in that section), should become law on its ratification by the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians at an election to be called for the purpose by the execnt.ives of the nations, respeatively, before the 1st clay of December, 1898. Section |
