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Show Under this section the Sffiretary has approved the applications of 875 allottees up to August 1,1910. This releases from departmental control practically 150,000 acres, or about 400 acres to each allottee. By the terms of the act of 1906 all the funds, the lands, except as above noted, and minerals belonging to the Osage Indians shall be held in trust by the United States for twenty-five years from the 1st day of January, 1907. At the expiration of such period the lands, minerals, and moneys held in trust are to become the absolute prop-erty of individual members of the Osage tribe according to the roll approved by the Secretary, and the act provides that deeds for the lands shall then be issued to the members, or to their heirs, and the moneys shall be &stributed to said members or their heirs as is pm-vided in the act, and said members are to have full control of all lands, moneys, and mineral interests now belonging to the tribe. I THE CONSOLIDATION OF THE OMAHA AND WINNEBAQO AGENCIES. The Omaha and Winnebago agencies were consolidated in the spring of 1910 and one superintendent placed in charge of both. These reservations are situated in northeastern Nebraska and have an area of about 250,000 acres. They were first consolidated in 1878, and the agencies were administered together until 1903, when they were again placed under separate superintendents. Under the present consolidation the business of the agencies is kept separate and conducted in practically the same manner as before. A chief clerk at the Winnebago Agency and another at the Omaha Agency take the place of the former superintendents. This arrangement makes it possible for the superintendent of the consolidated agencies to give all his time to constructive work on the two reservations. Two expert farmers have been placed on each reservation, and an agricultural fair is to be established to further promote interest in agriculture. The trust period of the Omahas expired during the past year. It was extended for ten gears further so that the offim might have op-portunity to determine the competency of the allottees to manage their own affairs. A competency commission was created to do this work, and it re-ported March 11, 1910. The commission divided the Omahas into three classes: (1) Composed of those fully competent to receive pat-ents in fee for their land; (2) those partially competent and capable of making business transactions in connection with their allotted holdings, but not sufficiently competent to receive patents in fee; (3) those who were wholly incompetent and should remain under the supervision and jurisdiction of the Government for a further period |