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In pursuance of the third article of the treaty of 1866, and in accordance with the terms of an act of Congress approved July 27, 1868,613 H. R. Kretschmar, on behalf of the United States, and —— Stephens, on behalf of the Cherokee Nation, were appointed, in the summer of 1868,614 commissioners to appraise the cost of property and improvements on farms confiscated and sold by the Cherokee Nation from acts growing out of the Southern rebellion. J. J. Humphreys had been appointed May 21 of the preceding year to perform the same duties, but had not fulfilled the object of his instructions. The commission reported615 the value of the improvements of the character referred to as $4,657.

Mr. H. Tompkins was designated in the summer of 1867616 to take the census of Cherokees in the Indian Territory contemplated by the twelfth article of the treaty of 1866. From his returns it appears that the nation then numbered 13,566 souls.