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Show 34 BEPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. RELEASE OF WACHE PRISONERS OF WAR. The survivors of Geronimo's band of Apaches and their descend-ants, who for many years have been living at Fort Si, Okla., as prisoners of war, have been released, some going to the Mescalero Apache Reservation in New Mexico, and others remainmg itl Okla-homa. On April 2, 1913, 183 of these Indians in charge of Maj. Geo. W. Goode, United States Army, went to M6scaler0, where they are now living with this branch of their kmdred, under the super-vision of the superintendent of the Mescalero Reservation. The transfer of these Indians was made with their consent and under the terms of the act of Congress passed at the last session making the necessary appropriations for the purpose. There were 78 of the band who elected to remain in Oklahoma, where they will be per-manently located on ,allotments proyided for them. FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES. The tribal work pertaining, to the Five Civilized Tribes is per-formed under the direct supervision of the Commissioner to the Five Civiliied Tribes acting under instructions from the deparb ment, through this office. The details of the work performed by hi during the past year are set forth in hi annual report to the Secretary of the Interior. The affairs of individual Indians after allotments are made, espe cially of the restricted class remaining under the supervision of the 'department, are handled through the office of the superintendent of the Union Agency under direction of this office. There are 101,216 persons enrolled as members of the Five'Tribes, , of which number 32,939 are what is known as "restricted" Indiana, which means that they are still wholly or partially under the super-vision of the Government. The citizenship rolls were closed by opera-tion of law on March 4, 1907. There were 1,238 applications for the removal of restrictions made during the year ended June 30, 1913, making a total to that date of 9,594. The work of allotment is practically completed, aithough there remains considerable work in connection with the closing of final records and other details and the disposition of the remaining tribal property. The work at the Union Agency, in connection with the Indians after allotment, includes the making of oil and gas and other leases by Indiana under supervision of the department, the collection, supervision, and disbursement of royalties, removal of restrictions, leasing of land, and the handling of money derived from sales of land, a11 of which required the handling of $8,215,989.71 by the agency during.the ye& ended June 30, 1913. During that time there were filed at the Union Agency 28,526 leases of which 26,846 were for oil and |