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Show 40 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONEB OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. It wits therefore recommended that the agreement be forwarded to Congress for its conaideration. May 18,1897, the Department trans-mitted the agreement to the President of the Senate for consideration and ratification" by Congress, and the same, together nith the corre-spondence cited above, is printed in Senate Doe. No. 93, Fifty-fifth Congress, k s t session. The agreement will be found in the appendix to this report, page 409. After concluding their negotiations with the Choctaws and Chicka-saws the commission established its headquarters at Fort Cibson, in the Cherokee Xation, and began negotiations with that nation. So far as I am informed, no agreements have been concluded with the Chero. kees or with the Creeks and Seminoles. I LEASING OF INDIAN LANDS. The In&an appropriation act for the fiscal year ending June 30,1898 (30 Stats., 62)) limits the term for which allotted lands can be leased for farming and grazing purposes to three years and for miuing and business purposes to five years. Under the previous appropriation act the limits were axed at five years and ten years, respectively. No change has been made in the law relating to leasing tribal lands. UNALLOTTED OR TRIBAL LANDS. Since the date of the last annual report the following leasesof tribal lands have been approved: Omaha and Winnebago Remtions, Nebr.-Twentyeight farming and grazing leases on the Omaha Reservation and 19 on the Winnebago Reservation, each for the period of one year from March 1,1897. They are described as follows: O U E A RESERVATION. |