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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 43 Nonresemtion.Special Allotting Agents William Williams and George A. Keepers have been engaged in making allotments to Indians on the public domain in Arizona and New Mexico under the provi-sions of the fourth section of the general allotment act of February 8, 1887 (24 Stat. L., 388). as amended by the act of February 28, 1891 (26 Stat: I,., 794). The allotments comprise 80 acres of agri-cultural or 160 acres of grazing land. ' 51r. Williams has made allot-ments to some 487 Indians in the Mojave Valley, Arizona, and Special Allotting Agent Keepers has made allotments to 732 Navajo Indians in the Territories of Arizona and Kew Mexico. EQUALIZATION OF CREEK ALLOTMENTS. The Creek national council on April 22, 1909, rejected the proposed equalization of Creek allotments as provided in the Indian appropria-tion act of March 3, 1909 '(35 Stat. I>., 781-805), king $800 as the standard value of a Creek allotment. The Creeks contend that the provision of the above act king the standard value of a Creek allotment at $800 is in violat,ion of the original Creek agreement of March 8, 1900, approved by Congress March 1, 1901, and ratified by the Creek May 25, 1901 (31 Stat. L., 861), wherein it was agreed that: One hundred and sixty acres of land, valued at $6.50 per acre, shall constitute th6 standard value of m allotment, md ahall be the mmsure for the equalization of values. The supplemental Creek agreement approvd by Congress June 30, 1902, and ratfied by the Creeks July 26, 1902. (32 Stat. L., 500),pro-vided further: If my citizen select lands the appraised value of which is $6.50 per acre he shall not receive any further distribution of property or funds of the tribe until all other 1 citizens have received lands md moneys equal in value to hi8 allotment. . . The Creeks claim that pursuant to above agreements 15,784 Greek citizens, including freedmen, were enrolled as entitled- to allotments of the standard value of $1,040 fixed by above agreements, and many members have received allotments valued at $1,040 as their I equal share of the whole in value. The contention is made that I Congress by subsequent acts providing for the enrollmeht of 2,918 new-born Creek children, requiring as allotments for them 466,880 I I acres of tribal lands of the value of $6.50 per acre, entailed a loss to the Creek Nation equal to $3,034,720, thus necessitating the reduc-tion of the standard value of an allotment from $1,040 to $800 to each allottee ~9 proposed by Congress in the act of March 3, 1909, which loss the United States Government guaranteed to make good. The Creek national council on November 5, 1908, by resolution, petitioned Congress to appropriate $4,000,000 to equalize Creek allotments, and on same day authorized a committee to enter into |