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Show 36 COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AEBAIRS. title to which is in dispute, has been disposed of, and the Cherokee tribal government was abolished on June 30,1914, with the exception of the principal chief, who was continued at a nominal salary to sign deeds. The Creek tribal property has been disposed of except 2,495 acres of unallotted land, 47 town lots in the town of Lee, 121 lots in Mns-kogee and Tulso recovered for the Creek Tribe in town-lot litigation, the Creek capitol building and lot at Okmulgee, valued at $60,000, the investigation of alleged duplicate or erroneous and fraudulent - enrollment and allotment of land in the Cush'iug oil field, notably the Barney Thlocco (deceased), Thomas Atkins, and Emma Coker allotments, valued at several million dollars, toward recovery of which suit has been instituted for the Creek Tribe. There also ' remain 500 Creek tribal deeds to be delivered, which were returned unclaimed or refused, and five boarding schools are to be disposed of. The Seminole tribal affairs are practically completed except the delivery of 500 tribal deeds to allottees, the distribution per capita to 3,127 members of the Seminole tribal funds in United States Treasury, amounting to $1,517,894.70 on July 1,1915. The Emahaka Academy is in litigation. The Choctaw and Chickasaw tribal affairs will be the last to be closed up, inasmuch as approximately $7,400,000 remain unpaid on the sale of 20,000 tracts of unallotted land heretofore sold, and the time for payment has already been extended until March, 1916, on deferred payments falling due, and pleas for further continuance are being daily received from purchasers who allege inability to pay, on account of poor crops, low price for cotton, and depressed con-dition of the money market. Regulations for the sale of the remain-ing 31,700 acres of unallotted lands and 184,800 acres of the surface of the segregated coal and asphalt land area have been submitted for approval for the sale of said lands, to commence January 3, 1916. The sale of the coal and asphalt underlying the surface of 431,080 acres of the segregated coal and asphalt land area can not be made without an act of Congress authorizing it. Thirty-five thou-sand nine hundred and fifty-six and ninety-nine one-hundredths acres of said surface have been classified as suitable for town-site pur-poses and appraised at $195,917, to be sold as town lots in tracts of from 1 to 40 acres each. PROBATE WORK IN OKLAHOMA. The system of handling the probate work in the Five Civilized Tribes, which was instituted and organized under my supervision in January, 1914, has, during the present fiscal year, accomplished re-mlts which justify its establishment. In my last report I described the conditions affecting minor and other incompetent Indians that induced me to give special attention |