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Show 44 REPORT OF W E COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. Utah after April 1,1898, and to issue patents therefor, as provided by existing law. April 12,1899, this office transmitted to the Department a description of the surveyed lands included in the allotments, together with copies of the descriptions of the allotments on unanrveyed lands, of which there were twenty-five in whole or in part, and it was recommended that they he forwarded to the General Land Offlce, that proper nota-tion might be made upon the books of that office to protect the surveyed tracts from entry or location and that the allotments on unsurveyed tracts might be respected when the surveys come to he made. The condition of the work in the field is as follows: Lower Brnl6 Reservation, S. D&-The agreement of March 1,1898, with theLower Brd6 Sioux, referred to in my last annual report (p. 41), was ratified by the act of Congress approved March 3,1899 (30 Stats., 1362). By it the 550 Lower Brul6 Sioux who have joined the Rosebnd Sionx are allowed to stay among them, and thr, balance of the tribe, who remain upon the Lower Brul6 Reserve, are to have their lands reallotted under the following provision: All ohildren born prior tothe time of making such reallotments shall receive allot-ments of land in manner and quantity ss provided in section eight of the act of Congress approved March second, eighteen hnndred and eights-nine: And provided fwther, Thst. instead of giving an allotment of three hondred and twenty acres of agricultural or double that quantity of grazing land to the head of a family, asa pro-vided insaid section eigh0, one-hslf of thst quantity shall be allotted to the hueband snd one-half to the wife, where both areliving and otherwise entitled to the benefits sooruing to Indians belonging upon said reservation. March 28, 1899, the Department assigned Special Allotting Agent John E. Knight to revise the allotments under that agreement and approved instructions prepared by this office for his guidance. Up to September 30,1899, he had made 341 allotments. Rosebud Resemtion, S. Dak.-The work on this reservation has been continued during the year by Special Agent William A. Winder, who was assisted, until the 1st of April, by Special Agent John H. Knight. Up to September 30 3,189 allotments had been made., leaving some 1,260 to be made. An agreement of March 10,1898, with the Rosebud Sioux (also rati-fied by act of Marcb.3,189!)) makes the same provision in regard to allotments as that quoted above from the Lower Brul6 agreement, and allotments previously made to the Rosebnd Sionx are to be revised in conformity with the terms of that provision. The readjustment of allotments thereby required will somewhat prolong the work. Omaha and Wiebago Reservation, 1Pebr.-April 24, 1899, Special Allotting Agent JohnK. Rankin was instructed to make the additional allotments to the Omahas provided for in the Indian appropriation aot approved March 3,1893 (27 Stats., 612), as follows: That the sat of Congress approved August seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, entitled "An aat to provide for the sale of s, part of the reservation of the Omahha tribe of Indians in the Stllte of Nebraakq and for other pnrposes," be, and |
