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Show 48 COMMISSIONER INDIAN AFBAIRS. The enrollment and,ori&nal area of these tribes are shown by the following table : Tribe. I ~ ~ ~ AM. Anca. Cherolrea ................................................................. 41 883 4,420,068.m Choctaw.. ...................................................................... 28'730 6 953 048.07 Chickmaw.. .................................................................... 10'955 4:707:901.28 Creek.. ....... : ............................................................... 18:712 3,079 W4.W 8eminole ........................................................................ 3,119 385:852.~ Of the foregoing the freedmen in the' several tribes number as follows: Cherokee . 4,916 Choctaw 5,994 2,473 Crek.---.-------------.--.------------..---.-.-.-------- 6,807 Seminole-------.----------------.------------.--.-.------ 986 DISPOSITION OF TRIBAL AFFAIRS. Of the total area embraced within the Five Civilized Tribes there were allotted to members 15,794,400 acres. Of the surplus there was sold at public auction under the act of Congress of April 28, 1906, 2,178,174 acres for a consideration of $12,189,193. There has been offered for sale 1,274,024 acres of Choctaw and Chickasaw timber-lands, of which 306,286 acres were sold for $1,460,244.85. There remains to be sold in the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations about one and one-half million acres, of which one-half million is segregated coal and asphalt lands, the surface of which only will be sold, and 968,640 acres of timberlands. There have been collected royalties on coal productions since 1899 $3,615,594.16. Under the act of March 3,1911, authorizing the deposit of receipts upon the sales of surplus and unallotted lands in national or State banks in the State of Oklahoma there have been deposited in 249 banks located in 69 counties in Oklahoma the sum of $5,083,988.82. These deposits draw interest bearing from 4 to 6 per cent. The de-posits are secured by surety company bonds. There have been de-rived from the sale of town lots $4,535,243.57. The total revenue collected and deposited to the credit of the Five Tribes from July 1, 1898, to June 30, 1914, was $17,099,826, and there is yet due and unpaid, for lands which have been sold, $5,623,950, which sum is drawing 6 per cent interest. The tribal form of government of the Cherokee Tribe was practi-cally abolished at the close of the fiscal year June 30, 1914, all tribal officers having tendered their resignations to be effwtive as of that date. The resignations of all were accepted except that of the gov- |