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Show COXMISSIONER OH' INDIAN AFFAIRS. 145 ticable date, for until that is done no steps can be taken toward the making of allotments on the reservation. Article 6 of the amended agreement provides that all members of the Turtle Mountain band of Chippewa Indians who may be unable to secure land upon the reservation may take homesteads, without charge, on any vacant land belonging to the United States. There is very little public land near the reservation which the Indians can take as homesteads or allotments, and it is necessary for them to go a long distance to iind suitable land. On his own recommendation, the superintendent was granted authority to employ a suitable man to assist Indians in locating land, as provided in the agreement. f ,08AOE RESERVATION, OELA. The act of April 23,1904 (33 Stat. L., 299), extends the provisions of the timber and stone ad for the Indian Territory (32 Stat. L., 774) to the Osage Nation. The act is also made to include gravel. The Indian appropriation act of March 3,1905 (33 Stat. L., 1061), creates a town-site commission for the Osage Reservation, of which one member shall be the Indian agent of the Osage Agency, one ap-pointed by the chief executive of the Osage tribe, and one by the Secretary of the Interior. The Osage executive appointed Julian Trumbly and the Secretary of the Interior appointed Special Agent William L. Miller. The act provides for the survey and platting of certain town sites on the reservation and the sale of the lots at auction to the highest bidder, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior. None of the town sites have yet been offered for sale. The Indian appropriation act of March 3,1905 (33 Stat. L., 1061), renewed for ten years from March 16, 1906, the oil and gas lease, covering 680,000 acres, on the Osage Reservation, now owned by the Indian Territory Illuminating Company; also the subleases executed thereunder prior to December 31, 1904, or based upon contracts exe-cuted prior to that date, and duly approved by the Secretary of the Interior, subject to the provision, however, that the President may fk the rate of royalty that shall be paid after that date. The President has fixed the rate of royalty at one-eighth, instead of one-tenth, as heretofore paid. The act provides also that the lessees shall pay $100 per annum royalty on gas wells, instead of $50, as heretofore. TEE UINTAH RESERVATION IN UTAH. Theact of March 3,1905 (33 Stat. L., 1048), prhvided for the open-ing of the surplus lands on this reservation not later than September 1, 1905. The act was so framed as to permit reservations of lands for several purposes, and accordingly a large part of the reservation IND 1906-10 |
