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Show 104 REPORT OF THE 003fMIS8IONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. The following table gives the estimated population of the several nations and the areas of their reservations as shown by the tract books in this office: TABLE 26.-P@pd~dion and area ofresova*ions, Ew OiviZized Xbes in Indian Ter?itory. Number 1 pig: 1 Of F;E Of Cherokee: Indians ................................................................... SO,m .............. Freedmen ................................................................. 4 , m .............. Delawares ............................................................... 1 l.m I .............. Creek: &I" ..............- Indisos ................................................................... 10,m Freedmen ................................................................. 6,000 .............. Total Creek ............................................................ 16.m 3,(n9,086.46 Choctaw: Indians .................................................................... 1 6 ,m ............................ meedmen ................................................................. 4,250 Total Choctaw ........................................................... Chick-w: Indians .................................................................... 6,000 .............. Wedmen ................................................................. 4,m .............. Total Chickasaw.. ....................................................... Seminole: Indians ..................... .............. Freedmen .............. Total Seminole lThe reoent establishment of the yrue meridihn by the resurvey of the ninety-eighth meridian west, will add to the Choctaw and Chlekassw lands 65,765.65 aowa not included in these figures. As in last year's report, the discussion of affairs in the Indiin Ter-ritory will be divided, for convenience, into three parts, the first being matters over which the United States Indian inspector for the Indian Territory and theunited States Indian agent for theunion Agency have supervision, and this subject may properly he divided into four gen-eral subdivisions, to wit: 1. Educational matters. 2. Mineral leases. 3. Collection of revenues. 4. Timber. The second division includes matters coming within the province of the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes, and the third relates to the surveying, platting, appraising, and selling of town sites in the different nations, and is followed by some miscellaneous subjects. EDUCATION. The provisions of the nineteenth section of the Curtii act are as follows: That no payment of any moneys on any account whatever shall hemafter be made by the United dates to any of the tribal governments or to any officer thereof for disbursement, but payments of all sums to members of said tribes shall be made under direction of the Secretary of the Interior by.an officer appointed by him. ' * * |