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Show that in all other cases it shall be optional with said members to a p t snch all06 ment, or in lieu thereof the sum of $2 per acre, which is hereby agreed to be the equivalent of said land: Bovided furlho; That where the selections msde as above do not equal the acreage to which snch persons may be entitled hereunder, said mem-bers mav elect to take the balance due them in land or money".. a s Der above. A That whereas under the act of February 6, 1871, about 140 members of said Stock-bridge and Munsee tribe of Indians were refused enrollment with said tribe and debaked from the enjoyment of any rights and privileges to which said tribe was entitled; and whereas the tribal funds were divided. under said act, between those enrolled and admitted members of the tribe who becamecitizens of the United States purstuunl to said act and received said money as their supposed share of the tribal funds and those who were enrolled under the act as Indians, which portion was left in tho Treasury of the United States to the credit of said tribe: and whereas said money should have been divided on the basis of an additional membership of 140; and whereas said Indians so excluded asabove, protesting against said act, have since maintained and defended their rights tosuch enrollment and under the act of March 3, 1893, established their rights to such enrollment and were duly enrolled as mem-bers of said tribe: and whereas if said tribal funds had heen divided dn the basis of the preaent corr&ted and spprovsd enrollment of snid tribe a nluch larger sum of money than is now the case would he on deposit to the credit of said tribe and would . for and a satisfaction of our claims arising out of said wrong and grievance, Congress shall appropriate, out of the funds in the Treasury of the United States and belonging to the United States. a sufficient sum to provide land for all members of said tribe in accordance with the above provisions; provided, with the exception above stated, that any member or members may elect to receive $2 per acre in lieu of said allot-ment on condition that such election shall be made within sixty days after the pas-sage of an act of Congress to wry ant the above agreement. I Second. That all funds now on deposit to the credit of said tribe shall be divided pro rata, share and share alike, between the living members of said tribe and their children, as per the enrollment above referred to governing the allotment of land hereunder. Signed at the Stockbridge and Munsee Reservation, Shawano County, Wis., this 8th day of December. 1900. February 1, 1901, in acco~dancew ith office recommendation of Jan-nary 24, the Department transmitted the report of the inspector and accompanying papers to Congress, with recommendation for favorable consideration and urgent request for speedy action. They were printed in House Document No. 405, Fifty-sixth Congress, second sesaion, but no further action seems to have been taken by Congress on the matter. I t is earnestly hoped that the affairs of t h e ~ eIn dians will receive consideration at the next session of Congress and that the proposition of settlement negotiated by Inspector Beede, or some equally meri-torious plan, will receive Congressional sanction. THE WINNEBAGO OF WISCONSIN. Henry W. Lee, of Wisconsin, filed a claim in the Department .Jan-uary 30, 1888, against the Winnebago Indians of Wisconsin for the I sum of $5,000 on account of alleged servlces as attorney for these |