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Show % XVI REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. which have hitherto been presented to Congress, will not, therefore, be again submitted. In the appendix to this report; page 320, will be found a table showing in detail thc number of Indian pateuts and certificates of allotments issued, and allotments made for whioh no patents or certificates have been issued up to the present time. This table is necessarily only ap-proximately correct, as time could not be spared for a thorough search of the records. The.aggregate number of patents issued, as shown br this table, is 11,073; of certifioates upon whioh no have subse. quently issued, 1,290; ,and of allotments where no patents or certifi-cates have been issued, 931. LEASES OF INDIAN LANDS BOR GRAZING. At the ope~lingo f the second session of the Fortyeighth Congress the Senate adopted a resolution instructing the Committee on Indian Affairs to inquire what leases of lands in the Indian Territory or Indian reservations for grazing or other purlmses had been made by the tribes therein, the number of acres embraced in each of said leases, the terms' thereof, and the persons, aorporationp, or associations named as lessees ; also the circumstinces under which such leases were made, the means used for obtaining the same, and whether said leases were authorized by existing legislation, or were collducive to the welfare of the Indians in the Indian Territory or Indian reservations. Said resolution being referred down in regular course for report, this ofice, on the 3d Jand-ary, 1855, transmitted to the Depart~nent a tabulated statement or achednle of all leases of lands in the Indian Territory or Indian reser: vations for grazing or other purposes which had been made by Indian tribes, so far as the same had conle to the official knowledge of this office, showing the dates, names of parties, description and qua~t~i tojf ? lands, terms, and rental embraced in suoh leases respectively, with references to the sources from which suoh information was derived, to-gether with copies of all docnments, papers, and correspondence on file and of record in this office, and the Indian Division of the Secretary's Office, touching the subject-matter of the resolution; all of which will be folind printed in Senate Executive Document No. 17, Forty-eighth Congress, second session. I t appears from said schedule (page 12) that with but one exception the leases reported to have been made by'Indien tribes were all of lands in the ludian Territory for grazing purposes, and were for diEer-erit periods, ranging from two to ten years, and at va,rious rentals, as therein mentioned. Of tbose made in the Indian Territory, there had been leased as follows: Acre& Cherokees .............................................................. 6,000,000 . Cheyenues and Arapahoes .......................... .;.... ............... 3,831,880 Omgee .................................................................. 380,000 Kanaas or Kaws ........................................................ 52.300 |