Letter from President Theodore Roosevelt to Secretary of the Interior E. A. Hitchcock

This item is a letter regarding the Act of March 3, 1901 and granting of political emancipation of the Five Civilized Tribes.

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-4- Withdrawal of lands from allotment. Here it is only necessary for me. to say that I approve of the action you took with the object of preserving to the Indians and the country at large the rapidly disappearing timber. I feel that the Department had the right to have been make the withdrawal, and that it would 4 a dereliction in duty for it not to have acted as it did act. Very truly yours, Heodore Rosalt Hon. E. A. Hitchcock, Secretary of the Interior.