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Show 138 REPORTOF THE CO~ISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. On October 2,1901, this Office recommended to the Department that the Commission be directed to send up partial rolls of Creek citizens in blocks of 400 or 500, or some other convenient number, believing that the work of allotment in the Creek Nation might be expedited thereby. October 16 the Department approved this recommendation, and accordingly the Commission, on November 30 forwarded a block of 542 names. Up to date it has forwarded, and there have been approved, rolls containing the names of 9,018 Creeka by blood and 4,954 Creek freedmen. In the agreements made with the Choctaws and Chickasaws, the Cherokees, and the Creekq provisions for sending 1 up rolls in blocks and for issuing deeds made thereafter have been incor- i porated. These provisions will doubtless very much expedite the work of making allotments and of issuing deeda to the citizens of the various tribes. ALIOTMENTS. Up to July 14, 1902, the Commission bad made allotmenh to 2,211 I Seminole Indians. The allotments made during the last fiscal year, or up to August 31, 1901, were 1,842. The Seminole allotments are' practically completed. It bas been reported to this office that about 6,000 deeds tb allotments among the Creeks have been written in'the 3 office of the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes and are now ready I for the signature of the principal chief of the Creek Nation. It is safe to say that with the close of the next fiscal year large numbers of the Indians in each of the Five Civilized Tribes will have received complete evidences of titles to their allotments, and, further, that the chaotic conditions now existing will, to a large extent, have been eliminated, thus quieting the discontentamong the Indians and assuring them of the gdod faith of the Government in dividing their lands in severalty among them. SEGREGATION OF TOWN SITES. The Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes on June 7,1902, recom-mended that lands be set aside and segregated for towns on the line of the Arkansas and Choctaw Railroad, in the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations, as follows: Benuington. Gilbert. , Meade. Soper. Fort Towson. Harrington. New Bokchito. ' Vallimt. Gamin. Hugo. Purnell. This office concurred in the Commission's recommendation, and on June 24, 1902, the Secretary made the segregations as recommended. July 11, 1902, the Commission recommende'd that land be set aside for the town site of Boswell, and on July 23 the Secretary made the segregation as recommended. |
