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Show aEPO3T OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. !O3 together with three directors, appointed by and to serve during the pleasure ot the President of the Unlted States, * and two persons elected by the stockholdem of the mrporatlon, one of whom shall be a Choctaw and the other a Chickasaw by blood. Thq shortness of the session and the temporary provision made for the administration of the affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes pre-vented the Congress from giving any particular consideration to either measure; hut I am in hope that at the coming session it may be taken up seriously and examined and compared on its awn merits with the various other projects mooted for malrmg at once the most prudent and the most profitable disposal of the income-producing property of the Choctaws and Chickaskffs. COLLECTION OF REVENUES. By law it is made the duty of the Government to collect the taxes and royalties belonging to the several tribes, and the responsi-bility of making such colledion devolves upon the United S t a h Indian agent. During the fiscal year just ended he reports the handling of funds as follows: BECQPTB. Choctaw aW (;alckasaw nations : Coal royal* ----------------$-237-,3-85..0.3. --------.--- b a t ro yalty . . 2,814.20 Condemnation town lots- -.-.--.-....-. ---2-87..4-5 -. Condemnation of lands for railway purposes.--- 7,411.71 Sale of seized timber --------------1-32-.90- ...-.---- Quarterly payment right of way St Louis and S a t e R . C o . . 3,000.00 Rent of jall a t Tlahmlngo- ---.-------1-60.-00- .---.- Sale of seized furs- ---------.---....7..6-5 -. -----.. Grazing fee------.--.--......----...---..----- 12,0f34.50 Town lots -------.--.-........--3.89-,5-89...61- .--.--.. Individual Indian moneys, oil and gas- -----.-32.-84 - $662,875.69 Choctaw cattle tax .......................................9..6.0 ... Cherokee Nation : Oil and gas royalty (lndivldnal) _.__.66.8-,8-35..3-4 ---. Coal royalty (individual) .---.---.---2-,-17-6.-48. ..-- Limestone and shale royalty (Individual).--_--- 2,060.00 Oil-lease bonus (Individual): ----.--.----8.11..0-0 -.- School revenue (board of teachers and pupils) -- 9,050.21 Taxes on pipe lInw---.----------------.------. 233.85 Improvements former orphan asylum lands__.-- 80.00 Sale of property, Cherokee Orphan Asylum------ 419.35 Sale of estray stock ..--..-.--......--....-22-8..4-8 . Stone and ballast ____._..._.......3.3.2..7-6 --.-.... Ferry cha~ers-----.--------.-----------.----- 140.00 Grazing fee----------------.-------.---------- 865.90 Town-lot payments- -..---------148-,5-82.-23- ----------- 731,316. @I |