University of Oklahoma College of Law University of Oklahoma College of Law Digital Commons American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899 2-11-1891 Cherokee Outlet. Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.law.ou.edu/indianserialset Part of the Indian and Aboriginal Law Commons Recommended Citation H.R. Rep. No. 3768, 51st Cong., 2nd Sess. (1891) This House Report is brought to you for free and open access by University of Oklahoma College of Law Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899 by an authorized administrator of University of Oklahoma College of Law Digital Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. 51ST CONGRESS,}. HOUSE OF H.EPHESENTATIVES. REPORT 2d Session. { No. 3768. CHEROKEE OUTLET. FEBRUARY 11, 1891.-Committed to the Committee qf the Whole House on the state of the Uni.on and ordered to be printed. Mr. STRUBLE, from the Committee on the Territories, stibmitted the following REPORT: l To accompany H. R. 1357~.] The Committee on the Territories to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 13195) to open up to homestead and settlement certain lands in the Indian 1'erritory claimed by the Cherokee tribe and commonly known as the Cherokee Outlet, having had the same under consideration, rec ommend that said bill be laid on the table, and the bill herewith reported be substituted therefor. The Cherokee Outlet originally em braced all the lands lying west of the ninety-sixth meridian of longitude, in extent about 280 miles long by 59~ miles wide, and adjoins on the south the State of Kansas for its -entire length.