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Show Navajo Reservation, N. Mex., not excleeding 640 acres to the Mission ary Society of the Methodist EpiscopaI Church. Eickapoo Reservation, Okla., not exceeding 160 acres to the Society of Friends. Kiowa, Comanche, eto., Reservation, Okla., not exceeding 160 acres to the Home Missionary Board of the Christian Church. Sisseton Reservation, S. Dak., not to exceed 240 acres (G tracts of 40 acres each) to the Presbyterian Church. In a few instances societies engaged in mission work on the Sioux Reservations have availed themselves of the clilnse in the Sioux act of March 2,1889 (25 Stats., 888), and purchased additional land with a view of extending their work. The money so received is placed to the creclit of the permanent fund of the Sioux and used for their benefit. ALLOTDIENTS. PROGRESS MADE. The progress made in allotment work since the date of the last an-nual report is as follows: To the following Indians patents have been issued and delivered: Grmd Ronde Indians in Oregon. .................................... 265 Poncas in South Dakota.. ........................................... 167 Iowas in Oklahoma under the agreement ratified by the not of Fob-m a y 13,1891 (26 Stata., 749). ..................................... 109 Miami Indiana, under act of Marab 2, 1889 (25 Stats., 1013). .......... 1 Wyandottcs of Inrlian Territory ..................................... 242 Ottawas of Indian Territory ......................................... 157 Modocs of Indian Territory.. ........................................ 68 The Papagaea en the San Xavicr Reservation in Arizona.. ........... 284 Patents have been issued but not yet delivered to the folloiving Indians : Cheyennes and Arapahoes of Oklahomra, nnder agreement ratifidby aot of Maroh 3, 1891 (26 Stats., 989). .............................. 3,321 Citizen Band of Pottawatomics in Oklahoma, nnder agreement rati-fied by aot of March 3, 1891 (26 Stats., 989) ........................ 1,363 Absentee Shawnees in Okl&homq under the same act ................ 561 Allotments have been approved by this office and the Depilrtme~tt and patents are now being prepared in the General Land Office for the following Indians : Oneidas in Wisoonsin (approved by this offioe last year). ............. 1, 530 Sac and Fox in Kmsaa and Nebraska ................................ 76 Sisseton and Wahpeton in South Dakota, ............................. 1,338 Pottawatomies (Prairie Baild) in Kansas ......................... .-. 115 Allotments have also been approved by this office but not by tho Department, so far as I am advised, as follo~vs: Eastarn Shnwnees in the Indiax Territory.. .......................... 48 'SenecasintheIndianTerritorp ..................................... 303 |