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Show COMMIS£4IONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 39 ENROLLMENTS WITH INDIAN TRIBES, LA POINTE OR BAD RIVER, WIS. By the act of August 1,1914 (38 Stats. L., 582-605), the Secretary of the Interior was directed to prepare and complete, within 90 days, a roll of the unallotted members of the La Pointe or Bad River Bana of Chippewa Indians, Wisconsin, such roll to be made with the assistance of a committee of five Indians, to be chosen in council by the band. i A council, held August 17,1914, elected the required Indian com-mittee, which, with a representative of this office, prepared a roll containing the names of 523 Indians found entitled to allotments on the Bad River Reservation. Between 1,200 and 1,400 persons were denied enrollment, many of them belonging to other Chippewa reser-vations in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Following the approval of the roll, October 26, 1914, on a com-plaint made by a number of the rejected applicants that they had not been afforded an opportunity to present their cases for review, a committee of three officials reopened the case, in connection with the original Indian committee of five, and recommended the roll ap-proved October 26, 1914, be amended by adding the names of 31 persons and striking therefrom the names of 9 persons. 1 PURIFICATION OF WHITE EARTH (MINN.) ROLLS. In 1911 complaint was made by 16 Indians of the White Earth Reservation that 86 mixed-blood Chippewa of Lake Superior were fraudulently enrolled and receiving benefits with their band. The tribe was requested to furnish proper evidence to support this charge, and due notice was served on the contestees, consisting of the Beau-lieu and Fairbanks families and their descendents, to show cause why their names should not be dropped from the White Earth tribal ~~olalnsd refund made to the Government of moneys alleged to have been wrongfully paid to them. Special Attorney Thomas G. Shearman, of the Interior Depart-ment, investigated the charges in the field. His report sustaining the charges and finding against contestants was submitted to the Court of Claims February 28, 1913. By decisions of June 6, and December 21, 1914, the court held that it had "no jurisdiction of saiC claim or matter.'' April 8, 1915, a hearing was granted to the attorneys representing the respondents, and the case is now pending before the department for decision. 1 WHITE EARTH LAND-FRAUD CASES. The act of June 21, 1906 (34 Stat. L., 325-353), permitted only adult mixed bloods of the White Earth Reservation, Minn., to alien-ate their allotments. In 1909 it was learned that gross frauds had |