Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes · Muskogee, Indian Territory · 27 September 1904
“identical”
This room does not ask the Workshop to settle Robert Bell. It puts the administrative act itself in front of us and keeps its maker attached.
Commission finding · this proceeding
“the Robert Bell through whom these applicants claim is the identical Robert Bell whose name appears in the records cited”
The cited record body includes Court of Claims material and the earlier Ward / Murray–Vroom Article Fourteen adjudication. Here the Commission turns that record body into an identity finding for the consolidated applicants.
Administrative confidence is not historical closure.
The finding belongs to the Commission and to this proceeding. It does not by itself join this Robert Bell to MCR 879, Public Lands, the 1837 compiled index, or any other Robert occurrence outside the consolidated MCR 5156–5168 body.
The film can show the force of the verb without inheriting it as a Workshop conclusion.
Source road
Bell Wash.pdf → consolidated Mississippi Choctaw decision, MCR 5156 et al. → provider PDF pp. 30–33 → identity finding on decision p. 4 / provider p. 33.
Governing source jacket: Wash Bell MCR 5156 — Commission decision — 27 Sep 1904 — Robert Bell Article Fourteen identity finding. The jacket keeps the Commission’s act distinct from independent historical identity proof.