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Show REPORT OF THE COMMIRSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. . 57 connected with the application and found that Mike Williams was a half-breed, his father being a white man named Ham Williams and his mother a full-blood Manache Indian. Thereupon the Commissioner of the General Land O5ce submitted the application to this office for such action as it deemed necessary to determine the status of the minor. This office returned the application expressing the opinion that it should be allowed to stand, because until August 3, 1896, the Department had recognized the chid of an Indian woman born of a marriage entered into prior to the act of August 9,1888 (25 Stat., 392), as entitled to an allotment under said fourth section; since August 3, 1896, such applications have not been allowed. The Commissioner of the General Land Office, on the contrary, expressed the opinion that this minor, being the son of a white man, took the status of the father, which made him a citizen of the United States, and therefore not entitled to an allotment as an Indian. The hsistant Attorney-General's opinion is that a child of a white man married to an Indian woman follows the status of the father as to citizenship, and that there is nothing to indicate that this applicant comes under any exception to the rule. Therefore, under the rulings of the Department (Black Tomahawk u. James E. Waldron, 13 L. D., 683, and 19 L. D., 311, andUlin u. Colby, 24 L. D., 311), this applica-tion of Susan Williims for her minor child, Mike Williams, ahonld not be allowed. Department approval of this opinion, dated June 23, was forwarded to thi office by the Commissioner of the General Land O5ce on July 18, 1900. July 25, thisofice requested theDepartment to reconsider itsapproval of that opinion, basing the request upon the argument contained in its letter to the General Land Office of January 25,1900. The Department replied, July 27, that that argument had been fully considered by both the Department and the Assistant Attorney-Gen-eral, and that there seemed to be no reason for a reconsideration of the case. The views of this office upon cases of this character having been fully set forth in the Annual Report for 1899, pages 46 to 50, it is not necessary to repeat them here. Case of Stephen Gheen.-January 25, 1899, the application (No. 28, Duluth, Minn., series) by Stephen Gheen, a half-breed Chippewa Indian, for an allotment, under said section 4 of the general allotment act (supra), of certain surveyed lands was submitted to the Depart-ment by this office. The application was made by Gheen on October 2, 1888; the lands applied for were agricultural in character, and the applicant had made settlement and improvements thereon. The o5ce referred to the fact that the Department did not decide until August 3, 1896, that the children of an Indian mother and white father, a citizen of the United States, are not entitled to allotments under said fourth |