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Show , REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 66 The Indians to be allotted on the Pine Ridge Reservation under the act of March 2,1889 (25 Stat. L., 888), number approximately 6,700. A special allotting agent has been actively engaged in this work during the year and has made 3,077 allotments. On the Rosebud Reservation 1,159 allotments have been made dur-ing the year. After all the Indians have received allotments, the surplus lands south of the Big White River and east of range 25, west of the sixth principal meridian, are to be disposed of under the act of March 2, 1907 (34 Stat. L., 1230). The allotting agent has finished the field work in Tripp County and he is now free to proceed during the coming year with the allotments on the remainder of the reserva-tion. His work in Tripp County has been somewhat delayed by the filing of a suit in the circuit court of the United States for the district of South Dakota by Mary Sully and twenty-four other complainants, who claim rights, as members of the tribe, to certain allotments on the Rosebud Reservation. The special allotting agent is enjoined temporarily from making allotments of the lands involved to any Indians other than the complainants in this suit. The proclamation of the President for the opening of the Tripp County lands has been issued, and the drawing will take place at Dallas, S. Dak., on October 19,1908. Spokane, Washington.-This reservation includes 153,600 acres, and after allotments are made to the Indians the surplus lands are to be classified as agricultural and timber lands and the agricultural lands opened to settlement and entry under the homestead laws and the act of May 29, 1908 (35 Stat. L., 458). Special Allotting Agent . Clair Hunt has been making the allotments, and up to the present time has made 501. It was expected that all the allotments would be made by the middle of October, but the vorlr has been greatly delayed by reason of its being necessary to subdivide the lands lying in the narrom bottoms between the Spokane River and its high roclry bluffs. It is believed that the work will be complete by the last of December. Turtle Mountain, North Dakota.-Members of the Turtle Mountain band of Chippewa Indians who were unable to procure allotments on their reservation owing to its limited area, were permitted to make selections on the public domain under the act of April 21, 1904 (33 Stat. I,., 189-195). The act failing to provide for the issue of pat-ents, some regislation looking to this end was recommended to the Congress at its last session but failed of enactment. White Earth, Minnesota.-On April 2, 1908, the department approved a supplemental schedule of 236 allotments on the White Earth Reservation under the a d of April 28, 1904 (33 Stat. L., 539), embracing an approximate area of 19,304.25 acres. These allotments |