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Show Creek Nation : Oil and gas royalty (individual)- -----$-18-1,2-66-.93. ..- Coal royalty (individual)- ----_-.--12-,92-1.5-6 --------- Clay and shale royalty (individual) ------------ 300.00 Oil-lease bonus (individual)- --.---.-_7.,0-95-.0-0 ---__ Taxes on pipelin es.--------.--.....--.-------- 34.76 . Occupation tax.____----------.--..-.--.--.---- 133.13 Grazing fee- -----...-------.1-2,8-02-.6-5 ----------.--- Town-lot payments --_..--_.---2-2,7-01-.9-6 --------..-- $237,245.99 Bilaeellaneous : Sale of town-site maps ---------------..--2-10-.80- -----------.-. Overpayments, advanced royalty, Creek and Cherokee-----.. 10,291.48 Total moneys actually mllefted by Indian agent _.._.-1-,6.3.1,.9.49 .36 Amount received by agent to mver disaiiowances_ .--._-...-2.47..6-7 -. Received by Treasury warrants on requisition ------_-1-,3-79-,85-2.-73 ---.-. 3,012,049. 76 Balance "individual Indian moneys " carried over from previous flscai ear . . . . . . . . . . 47,902.36 Balance "overpayments, advance royalv, Creek and Cherokee," carried over from previoua fiscal year __._.____343.90 ...--.------- TotaL ---.------------..------3,-OB-O-,29.6..02. .---.... The amount actually disbursed by him was $1,989,197.09 leaving a balance of $1,071,168.93, which was on deposit with the subtreasury at St. Louis, Mo., or in the United Statas !Treasury. The total amount collected as royalty on coal and asphalt in the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations, from June 28, 1898, to June 30, 1907, was $1,975,972.61. TOWN SITES. Town-site work is substantially finished, there being but few sup-plemental schedules to be approved in cases where the lots were in contest and could not be scheduled to the parties entitled. Several small towns, however, have sprung into existence on the segregated wal and asphalt lands, and it is the purpose of the O5ce to attempt to obtain legislation during the coming session of the Congress which will authorize the sale of the surface of the land to actual occupants. If authorized, this will not involve much work or any considerable expense. PUBLIC ROADS. The Creek and Cherokee agreements declare that public highways shall be established on all section lines, and during last year the agent recehed 196 petitions asking that obstructions be removed from &ion lines. The cost of establishing roads has been small, and many allottees have waived claims for damages. Public highways in the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Seminole nations are established along section lines in accordance with the act of April |