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Show REPORT OF THE CODIMISSIONEB OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 35 8aid act of 1890, and submitted its report April 6, 1893. That report, which was transmitted to the Department by office letter of May 18, 1893, shows the appraisement of 63,841.57 acres of land at 8B115,938.26, and the appraisement of improvements at $12,'260. The said lands are to be restored to the public dornaiu and sold at public sale at a price not less than the appraised value, the proceeds of said sale to be placed 60 the credit of the Indians. The Indians of this reservation are very auxions for the allotment of their lands in severalty: and, their agriculturalland having beensur-veyed, they have bee,n permitted to make their selections subject to such revision as may be found necessary when a special agent can be assigned to make the allot~neutsfo nndly. Tnvtle mountain Reservation, ~VorthD ukotn.-Effort has beenmade to effect a settlement of the difficulties of this band of Chippewa Indians referred to in the last auuual report of this office. The commi~sion provided for by a clause in the Indian appropriation act of August 19, 1890 (27 Stats., 139), having been duly appointed and qualified, visited the Indians and col~cludeda n agreement mith them for the relinquish-ment of their claim to a large tract of land in North 1)akota; but they could not be iuduced to vacate the t\ro townships near the international line which they are at present occupying. The report of the commission, dated December 3, 1892, was traus-mitted to the Department, January 6, 1893, with a draft of bill to ratify the agreemei~t,a nd was by the President transmitted to Congress for its action. Theagreeinelit mas not, however, ratified by Oongressat its last session, and until it is ratified no steps can be taken looking to allotments of land in severalty and pernraneut settlement of these Indians. LOGGING BY INDIANS. lienornonee Reseruation, 7.Viseonsin.-The Menomonee Indiaus on their reservation in Wisconsi~d~u ring the winter of 1892 and spring of 1893 engaged, as usual, in logging, under act of June 12, 1890, and succeeded in banking the entire quantity allowed by the act to be sold each year, via: 20,000,000 feet. As the act referred to places the authority to permit and regulate I theloggiug in the hands of the Secretary of the Interior, it is custom- ' ary each season to ask the Departmelit to consider and approve such rules as shall goveru during the year. Therefore, July 16, 1892, this office wrote to the agent as follows: Consult with the logging superintendent and let me know as soon as convenient if any change in last senson's rnlas is necessarr or desirable, and if so, specify said changes and givo yoor reaaona for recommending them ft~llya, s I intrnd to reoom-mend to the honorable Secretary that he continue last seaaon's rules in force just as they are, unless some good reason for modifying them ia presented. |