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Show 50 DOMMIBSIONER OF INDIAN AFF~IRE. chases; $7,429,066.10 were disbursed on account of per capita pay-ments to the Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Seminoles; 2,328 leases for various purposes were approved, and 1,252 canceled; the restric-tion against alienation of land was removed from 155,428.39 acres and $4,407,909.62 were collected on acoount of royalties arising from leases, not to mention 16,000 separate accounts, maintenance pay-ments, thousands of investigations, reports and miscellaneous matters. The Five Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma now number 101,506 enrolled members, tabulated as to tribes as follows: CblfLassw ...................... 2 481 3 821 4 882 8 4% ........................ 10 Sf8 ChWtSW ............. 9:440 9:688 ..6.....:. 1~6:738 %: l a ~ s l p pohi a etew I 4 n 183 is 1,m Cherokee ........................ a : 4 a 23 424 4 919 as 34s 41,824 Creak ........................... 8 , W 3:3M 6 : 1~0:20 5 18 781 earninole ........................ 1,732 408 9% 1,395 3:121 -- ----- TOW ...................... 3 37,167 40,834 a3,405 84,339 1101,506 sstlan: PROBATE WORK IN OKLAHOMA. The volume and importance of the work accomplished during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917, by the corps of probate attorneys, stationed in that part of Oklahoma comprising the former Five Civilized Tribes, can only be fully appreciated by those who are familiar with conditions obtaining there; and this year, as in the past, these men have demonstrated, in no ancertain manner, the value of their work and have justified, by actual results, the estab-lishment of this arm of the Indian Service. The establishment of such a force followed as a necessary corol-lary the allotment of the lands and other property of these Indians among the one hundred and one thousand persons who were enrolled as members and freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes, for it was inevitable that the personnel of that body of persona should be entirely changed, within a few short years, by the pwing of the old and the substitution of a new generation. With this change, which is now being rapidl~a ccomplished, has come a host of per- $& MLred t h ' 1Wrths or more. one. MI to h e . lmrtba. Total. Leas than ao*llslf Includink- Inter-mared whites. men. TOW. totel. |
