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Show COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 35 appreciated in the statement that 34,654,645 barrels of oil were pro-duced during the year. FIVE ClVlLlZED TRIBES. The o5ces of commissioner to the Five Civilized Tribes and super-intendent of Union Agency, Muskogee, Okla., were abolished by sec-tion 17 of the act of Congress approved August 1,1914 (38 Stats. L., 598), and in lien thereof a superintendent for the Five Civilized Tribes was appointed by the President at a salary of $5,000 per annum, effective September 1, 1914. However, the superintendent was not appointed until December 22,1914. Since 1898 the supervision and handling of the restricted indi-vidual Indian affairs after allotment of tribal lands in severalty, the receiving of and accounting for large sums of money realized from lands leased for oil, gas, and other purposes, and for proceeds of sale of restricted allotted lands and other work connected there-with, has made this superintendency the largest in the Indian Service. The enrollment of members of the Five Civilized Tribes began un-der the act of June 10,1896 (29 Stats. L., 321), and closed on March 4, 1907, by section 2 of the act of Congress approved April 26, 1906 (34 Stat. L., 137), with a total enrollment membership of 101,209, to which was added 312 members authorized to be enrolled and paid money in lieu of allotment by the act of Congress approved August 1, 1914 (38 Stats. L., 600), making a total membership to date of 101,521 for the Five Civilized Tribes. Every 40-acre tract contained in the 19,525,966 acres belonging to these Five Civilized Tribes has been classified and appraised-15,794,400 acres have been aLlotted in severalty to individual Indians, 2,549,959 acres unallotted were sold, leaving 1,042,405 acres still unsold, which amount (1,042,405 acres) includes 823,521 acres of timber lands and 184,757 acres of surface of segregated coal and asphalt land area belonging to the Choctaw and Chickasaw Tribes authorized to be sold. From July 1, 1898, to June 30, 1915, there was collected and de-posited as tribal money an aggregate of approximately $19,500,000, which amount was derived from sale of town lots, coal and asphalt royalties, sales of unallotted and other tribal properties. There is still due on unallotted land sold about $7,050,000. It is estimated that the remaining tribal lands will bring from $4,000,000 to $5,000,000, and in addition thereto the coal and asphalt deposits underlying the segregated coal and asphalt lands will bring when authorized to be sold by Congress an additional $12,000,000 (the lowest estimate). An aggregate of 309 towns, and subsequently various additions thereto, were platted, appraised, and sold. All the Cherokee tribal property except an 80-acre tract involved in litigation and another 226-acre tract known as "Big Lake," the |
