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handle is hein.usccsset/usconset30932 and id is 1 raw text is: 58TH CONGRESS, SENATE. DocumEXT 2d Session. No. 58. MEMORIAL OF THE DELAWARE INDIANS. Mr. QUAY presented the following MEMORIAL OF THE DELAWARE INDIANS RESIDING IN THE CHEROKEE NATION, PRAYING RELIEF RELATIVE TO THEIR RIGHTS IN AND OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN LANDS WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF SAID NATION. JANUARY 4, 1904.-Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. MEMORIAL. Your memorialists represent: 1. That in Senate Document No. 16, Fifty-eighth Congress, first ses- sion, there was given a history of their grievances, extending from the time of the De aware-Cherokee agreement of April 8, 1867, down to about the 11th of November, 1903. 2. That on Novembor 16, 1903, Hon. Tams Bixby, chairman of the Dawes Commission, in reply to a letter dated November 14, 1903, inquir- ing as to whether or not the applications filed by Cherokee citizens on lands included in the Delaware segregation would give them any pre- ferred rights over the Delaware occupants, in case the suit now pend- ing should be decided against the Delawares, wrote a letter saying that the Commission declined to express in advance an opinion on any ques- tion but called attention to a case decided in the Creek Nation, which might apply. (Copy of this letter of Hon. Tams Bixby is attached hereto and marked Exhibit 1.) 3. During November 18, 1903, a number of Delaware Indians received notices from the Dawes Commission in regard to their enroll- ment as Delaware citizens of the Cherokee Nation. One such letter was sent to Stephen A. Miller on November 18, 1903, a copy of which is hereto attached and marked Exhibit 2. 4. That on November 21, 1903, a letter was written acknowleding receipt of the Commissions' communication of November 16, 1903. (Copy of said letter is attached hereto and marked Exhibit 3.) 5. That on November 24, 1903, a letter was addressed to the Com- mission to the Five Civilized Tribes by the attorney in fact of the Delaware Indians, copy of which is attached hereto and marked Exhtbit 4. 6. On November 24, 1903, Hon. Tams Bixby addressed a letter to the attorney in fact for the Delawares, in relation to a copy of the Delaware register. (Copy of this letter is hereto attached and marked Exhibit 5.) 7. On November 25, 1903, Hon. F. L. Campbell Assistant Attor- ney-General, addressed a letter to the Secretary of the Interior, giving an opinion as to the segregation of the Delaware lands. (Copy of said letter is hereto attached and marked Exhibit 6.) S D-58-2-Vol 3-1

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