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Show 150 &*PORT OF THE COMMI~SIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. On August 15 the Department approved this plan and informed the Office that the Director of the Geological Survcy had been re-quested to direct Supervising Engineer Taylor to include the Indian allotments within the area to be irrigated under the Truckee-Carson project. On August 13 Special Agent Casson was directed to pro-ceed to Carson Sink and secure relinquishments of the allotments from the allottees, conditional on their receiving allotments of 1.0 acres each, brought within a reclamation project. PYRAMID LAKE RESERVATION. Under section 26 of the act of .April 21, 1904 (33 Stat. L., 225), any lands in the Pyramid Lake Reservation in Nevada made irrigable by work prosecuted under the reclamation act of June 17, 1902 (32 Stat. L., 388), may be "reclaimed, utilized, and disposed of" by the. . Secretary of the Interior as tho they were a part of the public domain; but it is stipulated that 5 acres of irrigable land shall be reserved for and allotted to each Indian belonging on the reservation. The remaining irrigable lands are to be disposed of to settlers under the reclamation act, on certain terms and conditions. On March 10, 1906, the Depkrtment referred to this Office a letter from the Director of the Geological Survey which said that the Pyramid.Lake lands would be irrigated from the Truckee-Carson project, and that a cen-sus of the Indians should be taken at an early date, as some of the irrigation work was already under way. On March 26 the superintendent in charge of the Nevada Agency was instructed to have a complete census made of all Indians belong-ing to the reservation or entitled to receive allotments on it. 'This census has not yet been received. WALKER RIVER RESERVATIOI?. The act of May 27, 1902 (32 Stat. L., 245-260), provided that the Indians occupyjng the Walker River Reservation in Nevada should receive 20 acres each of lands irrigable from existing ditches or their extensions, and that after a majority of the heads of families should have accepted allotments and consented to the relinquishment of the right of occupancy to land which can not be irrigated from existing ditches and extensions and which is not necessary for dwellings and school buildings each head of a family should receive-$300. The President by proclamation should then open the relinquished lands to settlement, to be disposed of under existing law. ' The joint resolution of June 19, 1902 (32 Stat. L., 744), provided that, before any of the reservation lands should be opened to settle: ment, the Secretary of the Interior should set. apart for the use of the Indians in co~mmon a sufficient amount of nonirrigable grazing land to meet their reasonable requirements, and the current Indian appro- |