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Show REPORT OF TEE 00MMI88IONER OY INDIAN Al?FAIB8. 151 After having carefully examined the records in all of the Missis-sippi Choctaw cases pending, the office reported to the Department June 18 that it wanr not believed that any of them would meet the requirements laid down in office 'eport of April 30,1901, concurred in by the Department June 10; it was therefore recommended that the cases whose record this office did not consider sufficient for the Department to act npon be returned to the commission. This was ailthorized by the Department June 21. Of the 161 Mississippi Choc-taw canres, 141 have been returned to the commission (12 of them through the Department), 6 have been forwarded to the Department with the recommendation that the commission's action be approved, and 14 are pending in this office. Choctaws by blood.-December 3,1900, and Fehrnary 15 and June 15, 1901, the commission transmitted the records in 52 cases wherein the applicants claimed to be Choctaws by blood. These records were forwarded to the Department with recommendation that the decisions of the commission be approved. The commission's action in 39 cases has been approved, 13 not having yet been acted on by the Department. Chickasaws by blood.-December 3,1900, the commission transmitted the records pertaining to the application of 10 persons for enrollment as Chickasaw citizens by blood, which the commission, under the pro-visions of the act of May 31,1900, had refused to enroll. These cmes were transmitted to the Department with recommendation that the action of the commission be approved. The Department has acted npon 9 cases and sustained the commission's decision. Cherokee cases.-The commission, May 28 last, forwarded the rec-ords pertaining to the application of 158 persons who desired to be enrolled as citizens of the Cherokee Nation. The records in 156 of those cases have been forwarded to the Department with recommenda-tion that the action of the commission in refusing to enroll the appli-cants be sustained, and 2 cases have been returned to the commission for further hearing and consideration. The Department has approved the action of the commission in 73 cases and has not yet acted npon the remainder. Creek cases.-May 2, 1901. the commission transmitted the records in 10 cases, and May 20, 1901, the records in 20 cases, wherein the parties had made application for enrollment and had been refused. All of these have been transmittedto the Department for consideration; 9 have been returned to the commission for further hearing. In 14 cases the commission's action in refusing to enroll the applicant8 has been sustained and 7 cases, which the office recommended be returned to the commissiou for further hearing, have not yet been acted upon by the Department. Early in June last Warwick Moore, of Fort Scott, Kans., fnr-warded to the office an application in the form of an atlidavit for |