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Show I BEWXT OR COMMISSIONEB OX INDIAN m A I B S . 113 Dewey.-The town of Dewey in the Cherokee Nation was laid out and lots sold by an intermarried white citizen before allotments were made, and a part of the land included in the town site was selected in allotment by Julia Lewis, a claimant to enrollment as an inter-married white citizen. Before a decision was rendered by the Su-preme Court in the citizenship case, her selection was laid out in lots, the lots sold and valuable improvements erected. Under the Red Bird decision involving the claims of intermarried whites, she was declared not to be entitled to enrollment, and the purchasers of the lots, being thus deprived of any title to their holdings. asked for congressional relief. In the " omnibus Indian act " there was inserted a provision authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to set aside for town-site purposes the land selected by Julia Lewis, and to survey, appraise and sell the lots for cash. The Commissioner to the Five Civilized Tribes has been directed to carry out the law. Tuttle.-A suit is pending in the courts of Oklahoma and the supreme court of the District of Columbia, involving a part of the town site of Tuttle, in the Chickasaw Nation. which has heen a source of great embarrassment to the lot-holders within the area in-volved. The suit arises out of a claim by Ethelbert Dowdep to ownership of the land in question through an alleged purchase by him from the heirs of Aaron Colhert, a deceased Choctaw Indian. After the land had been selected in behalf of the estate of Colbert, the department segregated it for town-site purposes and surveyed and sold the lots. The Government is making a defense in behalf of the townspeople, but pending the final determination of the controvers~. it is impossible for sales to be made or loans to be negotiated to pay for improvements. Lots for school sites.-In some sections among the Five Civilized Tribes it has been difficult for the directors of school districts to pro-cur? sites for schoolhouses, because the suitable land was unsalable, being included in full-blood allotments or in homesteads or in the nn-allotted lands of the tribes. To meet the difficulty, a provision in the omnibus Indian a d " authorizes the Secretary of the Interio~ to sell for schhol purposes from the unallotted lands tracts not ex-ceeding two acres in any one district, and to sell from allotted lands E any tracts not exceeding two acres which the allottees, including full-bloods and minors, wish to dispose of for such purposes. t ROADS. The work of establishing roads in the Creek and Cherokee nations was substantially hished before the beginning of the last fiscal year, but in the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Seminole nations it was con-tinued. From July 1, to November 16, 1907, 1,211 miles of section- |