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Show REPORT OF THE 00~88IONER OF INDIAN AFFAIR8. 157 agreement and the agreement as amended by the Department, and they may be found in House Doc. No. 495, Fifty-aixth Congress, second session; but no action was taken by Congress looking to the ratification of the agreement. MI8SIY8IPPI CHOCTAW SCHEDULE. In January, 1899, the commission proceeded to Mississippi for the purpose of identifying Mississippi Choctaws who claimed a share in the lands of the Choctaw Nation under the provisions of the treaty of 1830. March 10, 1899, it made a report to the Department, to which was attached a schedule comprising nearly 2,000 names of Mississippi Choctaw claimants whom the commission had identified as "Choctaw Indians residing in Mississippi claiming rights in Choctaw lands, under article 14 of the treaty between the United States and the Choctaw Nation concluded September 27, 1830, as directed in section 21 of the act of Congress approved June 28, 1898." The schedule was not accompanied by any evidence as to the right of the parties to participate in the distribution of the Choctaw lands. The report and schedule were referred to this 05ce by the Department June 6, 1899, and on June 13,1899, the ofice suggested that, as the act of June 28, 1898, gave the commission jurisdiction over the question relating to the identity of Mississippi Cboctaws, it would seem that the Depart-ment was without power to supervise the action of the commission in this particular. However, Au g u ~1t0 , 1899, the Department decided that-prima facie the persona appearing on said schedule containing the names of the Miasiasippi Ohoctows entitled to enrollment as adopted lndians would be entitled to such enrollment, subject, however, to the final action of the Department, when the final rolls shall have been submitted by the commission for the approval of the Secretary. November 5, 1900, the commission reported that it proposed to visit Mississippi again for the purpose of identifying Mississippi Choctaws. This report was forwarded to the Department with office report of November 17,1900, in which the position was taken that the fullest opportunity should be given all persons to present their claims to enrollment as members of any of the Five Civilized Tribes, and expressed the opinion that the commiss~ons hould be permitted to make a second appointment in Mississippi for the purpose of identifying Mississippi Choctaws who chim to be entitled to share in the lands of the Choctaw Nation. The Department concurred, and December 3,1900, directed that the commission notify the principal chief of the Choctaw Nation and the governor of the Chickasaw Nation of the time and place at which it would hear applications from those " claiming to be Mississippi Choc-taws under the provisions of the fourteenth article of the treaty of |