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Show 112 REPORT OF THE COMXISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. CLOSING OF THE TRIBAL ROLLS The rolls of the several tribes were closed on March 4, 1907, and the Department is now without jurisdiction to consider the right of any person to tribal enrollment. .The following table shows the Enrolhent of the Five Lrivilized Tdes. Netion. Full Part Inter- -bloods. -bloods. -married. -- Choctaw 8 319 10 717 1,M 6,994 26,616 ......................................... ! Chiokasaw ....................................... 1 . ~ 8 4:146 636 4 670 10 989 Creek ............................................. 6:812 5 083 .......... 6 ' 8 ~ 18:702 Chemkee ......................................... 6 MI o29:986 286 4:925 41 798 Seminole ......................................... 1:399 739 .......... 986 3:124 Total ....................................... 1 24,669 50.671 2,606 23,382 101,228 =Includes 197 regirtere8 Delawares The work of enrollment has continued for nearly fourteen years, and the completion of the rolls is decisive, as far as the Department is concerned, as to the number of persons entitled to share in the land and other property of the Five Civilized Tribes. However, a number of names were stricken from the approved rolls in accordance with the opinion of the Attorney-General of February 19, 1907; and among others John E. Goldsby, an inter-married Chickasaw, and Ida and George A. Allison, Cherokees by blood, filed suits in the supreme court of the district of Columbia asking that a writ of mandamus be issued to compel the Secretary of the Interior to restore their names to the rolls. The couj, held that even if the Secretary had power to strike a name from the rolls-which was not decided-he had no right to do so without first giving the applicant opportunity to be heard, and it was ordered that mandamus issue directing the restoration of the three names to the approved rolls. An appeal has been taken by the Government to the court of appeals for the District of Columbia. On June 14 the Department directed that, until the final deter-mination of these suits, no action be taken looking to the cancel-lation of any selection in allotment which W. C. Thompson may have made, and on August 6, 1907, ordered-that all persona struck from approved rolls be given the heneflt of letter of June 14, 1907, in case of Wflliam C. Thompson and others. It is probable that the litigation growing out of the striking of names from the approved rolls will delay to some extent the com-pletion of the allotment work in the Five Civilized Tribes, but not very long. Much yet remains to be done in winding up the business of the Five Civilized Tribes, but nothing can be accomplished looking .to the disposal of the surplus tribal lands until allotments shall have |