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Show COMMILIBSIONE& OR INDIAN AFFAIRB. 117 Also 2,255 have been identified as Mississippi Choctaws entitled to participate in the distribution of the Choctaw estate under article I4 of the treaty of September 27,1830. The Delawares born since the reg-ister of 1887 was made have been enrolled on the regular rolls of citi-zens of the Cherokee Nation as Cherokee citizens LLoDf elaware blood." They number 196. The citizenship work of the different nations is nearing completion, and by order of the Department the citizenship rolls of the Creek Nation closed September 1, 1904, after which date no application for enrollment as a citizen of that nation will be considered. The dates of closing the rolls of the other nations are fixed by the provisions of the different agreements. Intermarried Cherokees.-The act of June 28,1898, generally known as the Curtis Act, provides that the commission shallmake a roll of the different tribes, enrolling among others "such intermarried white per-sons as may be entitled to citizenship under C%erokee laws." A cou-troversy arose as to the right of white persons intermarried with Chero-kee citizens to share in the distribution of the tribal estate, and as stated in my annual report for last year, the Department, under date of February 24, 1903, referred the subject to the Court of Claims for findings and opinion in accordance with the provisions of sec-tion 2 of the act of March 3, 1883 (32 Stab., 485). The court has not yet rendered an opinion, and consequently nothing has been done dur-ing the last year with rbference to applications involving the question of intermarried citizens in the Cherokee Nation. If applicants for enrollment as citizens by blood are parties to a case involving the right to enrollment of an intermarried claimant, the right of those who apply for enrollment by blood is p s e d upon, and the right of the applicant who applies for intermarried citizenship will not he consid-ered until after the Court of Claims shall have rendered its opinion. SEMINOLE NATION. During the latter part of January, 1904, Hulbutta Micco, principal chief of the Seminole Nation, and other members of that nation Hed a petition in this 05ce requesting that Congress be aeked to enact certain legislation touching their affairs. Among other things they requested that their surplus lands be allotted per capita without regard to value to children born to enrolled Seminoles since December 31, 1899. February 4 their petition was referredto the Department with recom-mendation that the subject be brought to the attention of the Com-mission to the Five Civilized Tribes. During the last session of Congress a bill (H. R. 12764) entitled "A hill to make haldisposition of the affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes, and for other purposes," was introduced in 'the House of Representatives, and a bill (S. 5307) entitled "A hill to wind up the affairs of the Seminole tribe of Indians |