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Show COXMISSIONER OF INDIAS AFFAIRS. 15 mainder in different reservations of Arizona, California, Minne-sota, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington. and Wisconsin. In addition to the foregoing, schedules are pending for 169 ir-rigable allotments ag~egating 845 acres to Indians of the Salt River Reservation, Ar~z., 214 allotments from 10 to 40 acres each, to Indians of the Torres and Martinez keservations in California, with like work in progress on other Mission reservations in Cali-fornia, and a tract of 285 acres on the Crow Reservation, Mont.. Allotment work is also progressing in the Fort Peck Reservation, Mont., pn land classified as coal, with coal deposits t~o be reserved to the United States, and on irrigable lands to children, thus entitled under the act of Au st 1, 1914, to the extent of approximately 1,000 acres. The wory c of classifyin and allotting lands to about 1,150 Indians in the Fort Belknap Seservation, Mont., under the act of March 3,1921, is also going forward. PUBLICWM AIN ALLOTMENTS.-U~t~h~e~ a ct of February 8, 1887, as amended, 296 allotments were made and approved on land on the public domain in various States, comprisnlg an area of ap-proximately 45,100 acres. Two amendments were made to tlie replations governing allotments on the public domain, both per-taming to allotment applications of deceased Indians. APPRAISEMENATN D REAPPRAISEMEST , OF SURPLUS ? ~ E B B I ~ ~ ~ T I O N LANDS.-During the year many apphcittions for appra~sement and reappraisement of surplns reservat~qn areas, subject to llomester~l disposition, mere made nnder authority of the act of June 6, 1912, 2 of which mere disallowed. 10 approvecl: and the rrmainder await action and report from the field. On r a ~Ra ESEI<VATTIR~IXBA L LAx~s.-Dllring the year a considerclble number of applications for the exchange of lands because of the erosion of allotments by the Missonri Kiver TTere approved under the provisions of the act of May 11, 1912, pertaining to the reserva-tion of tribal lands. Most of these applications for eschange had been pending since 1912, awaiting the final clecision in the case of Hiram Chase, jr., and others, mentioned in my last annual report. A plan for future disposition of the remaining tribal lands is now under consideration by this office and the tribal coiincil. SALES AND REMOVAL OF RESTRICTIONS. The regulations governing the sale of allotted iuld inherited Inilian lands and the issuance of patents in fee and certificates of competency have been modified and revised in many particulars, and as approved bring the practice in these cases more in conformity m~ t htm nst~ctions b e t ~ e e nw hite citizens, particularly in enablin purchasers of Iuilian lands on the deferred payment plan to assign keir interests. A stricter policy has been followed in issuing patents to Indians on the around of comnetencv. as seemed to be renulred in order to more f i~l lyp rotect their;nteregts. Several prosec~itions under section 5 of the act of June 25, 1910, for the recovery of lands illegally conveyecl and tlie abatement of taxes illegally levied have been conducted to a successful issue. In maG ihstances it has been found necessary, on account of the general financial stringency, to extend the time of deferred payments |