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Show 56 REPORT OF THE COXMI88IONER OR INDIAN ABTAIR8. Adult male Indians not wholly disqualified by physical or mental infirmities from working a portion of their allotments, but who may be lea@ able than those not so disqualified, will be required to work or manage a part of their allotments, to be regulated and determined by the actual conditions in each case, to be fully and conclusively shown in the applications for permission to lease. In both of these cases the allottees will be permitted to receive a portion or per-centage of their lease money from that portion of their allotments that may be leased, the remainder to be rehined until the expiration of the lease period, whenever, in the discretion of the agent, such action will not work a hardship to the allottee. October 13, 1903, the Department amended the rules relating to mining leases on allotted lands, as follows: No applications for mining leases will be considered by the Department, unless specific permission has first been p n t e d by the Department for negotiating for the same with the individual Indians whose lands are sought to be leased. The following r6sum6 includes all leases approved since the date of the last annnal report, up to the 9th instant: Cheyenne and Arapaho Lands, 0kla.-Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency: Four hundred and fiftien farming and grazing leases and 2 business leases. The money consideration ranges from 25 cents per acre for grazing lands to $1.25 for farming lands. The business leases are for a drng and notion store, 5 acres, at $84.40 per acre; and for feeding and slaughtering cattle, 20 acres, at $1 per acre. Cantonment School: One hundred and thirteen farming and grazing leases. The money consideration ranges from 25 cents per acre per annum for grazing lands to 71 cents per acre for farming lands. Nine leases from this school have been received and are awaiting examination. Seger School: Fifty-seven farming and grazing leases and 2 busi-ness leases. The money consideration ranges from 20 cents per acre for grazing lands to $1 per acre for farming lands. The business leases are for a drng store and butcher sbop, one-half acre each, for three years, at $12 per annnm. Colville Agency, Wash.-Eight farming and grazing leases. The money consideration ranges from 6% cents to $5.62 per acre per annum. Crow Creek Agency, 8. Dak.-Forty-two grazing leases. The con-sideration ranges from 10 cents to 25 cents per acre per annum. Devils Lake Agency, 8. Dak.-Four grazing leases. The considera-tion ranges from 10 cents to 38 cents per acre per annum. Kiowa Agency, 0kls.-Eight hundred and sixty-three farming and grazing leases and 3 business leases-274 of the Kiowa, 267 of the Comanche, 65 of the Apache, 134 of the Wichita, and 123 of the Caddo Indians. The consideration ranges from 25 cents per acre for grazing lands to$l0.50 for farming lands. The business leases are for a brick kiln, 4 acres, at $30 per acre per annum; a water supply for an ice plant, $25 per annum for one-fourth of an acre; and a slaughterhouse, $10 per auuum for one acre. Two Kiowa leases for mining oil and gas are now before the Department for consideration. |