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Show COMMISSIONER INDIAN AFFAIRS. 49 ernor, whose temporary continuance in office will be required to assist in the disposal of the few remaining details incident to the complete dissolution of the tribal government. Pursuant to previous ads of Congress applicable to all of the tribes, the Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole Tribes have been de-prived of their legislative and judicial functions, retaining only a corps of executive officers for the transaction of business matters. In the Creek Nation the only work of importance looking to the ultimate disposition of tribal affairs is the equalization of Creek alIotments. Preparations have already been made for this work in anticipation of congressional authority for the equalization of such allotments on basis of $800. Preparations have also been made in the Cherokee Nation, in an-ticipation of congressional legislation, for the distribution of the re-maining funds still held in common to the credit of the tribe. It is expected that after deducting all necessary charges this payment will amount to about $12 per capita. It is also probable that a per capita payment of $100 to the Chickasaws will be authorized. In the Seminole Nation there remain about $1,800,000 of tribal moneys to be individualized before the tribal affairs can be entirely finished. After the sale in the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes of the timber lands and the surface of the segregated coal and asphalt lands, which will be accomplished in the main within the next six months if pres-ent plans are carried out, the chief property of a tribal nature in which these tribes will be interested will be the mineral deposits and the common funds held in trust by the United States, estimated to be in value and amount between twenty and thirty millions of dollars. SUPERVISION OF INDIVIDUAL II?DI+NS. Out of a total enrolled population of 101,209 members and freed-men of the Five Civilized Tribes, those of the restricted class number 36,967. They are apportioned as follows: - / 1 Restricted closn. Chi< Cho MuSissibpiOhootau Ch* |