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Show I OONXISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 153 have not already received allotments, including children born since the existing allotments were made. It also provides for the reservation of tracts that are needed in connection with the conqtrnction of irri-gation ditches, lands that are necessary for agency, school, and religious purposes, and such tracts of timber and grazing lands as may be deemed expedient for the use and benefit of the Indians. Section 3 provides that the residue of the lands shall be classified and appraised--except the mineral lands, which need not be ap-praised- and disposed of under the general provisions of the home-stead laws of the United States, and shall be opened to settlement and entry at not less than their appraised value by proclamation of the President, which shall describe the manner in which the lauds shall be settled upon and occupied. The allotments have been finished and the reservation of lands made, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior. The classification and appraisal of the lands will be under the super-vision of the General Land Office. HOMESTEBDS IN WISCONIIIN UNDEB THE WINNEBAGO ACT. In the last annual report it was said that all the 680 original home-stead entries and selections, and 40 entries made in 1897, had been finally disposed of except 6. Of these, the homestead entry No. 8402, of Joseph Goodheart, a W'iebago, at Wausau, has been canceled and the case finally closed. The homestead entry No. 4975, of Ole Thompson, a Chippewa, at Eau Claire, was suspended because of contest. This contest was decided in favor of the Indian on May 20, 1905, and a white man's entrn was held for cancellation on that date, with the right of appeal. There still remains unsettled at Wausau, Wis., Winnebngo home-stead entry No. 8782, Starwoman Dick, proof to be made. Pota-watomi homestead entry No. 8164, Joe Pemmobines, suspended because of contest. In Chippewa homestead entry No. 7308, Johl~ Wildcat, proof is not finally disposed of. At Eau Claire, Wis., in Winuebago homestead entry No. 8572, Beautiful Cloud, proof is to be made. I The agreement with the Indians residing on the Shoshone or Wind River Reservation, Wyo., was ratified by act of March 3, 1905 (33 Stat. L., 1016). Section 2 of that act provides that the lands ceded to the United States under the agreement shall be disposed of under the provisions of the homestead, town-site, coal, and mineral land laws of the United States and shall be opened to settlement and entry by proclamation of the President on June 15, 1906, which proclamation |