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Show R E P O O~F THE C036311SSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 116 ment made by Mr. Farr, the lands would immediately thereafter be offered for sale to the highest bidder. In every instance the deposit was made within the time fixed. One purchaser paid in $63,110, although he had claimed to have paid to the Indians in goods or money the entire purchase price$18,000--for the tracts deeded to him. These matters will be closed up as fast as' certain defects in the original conveyances are cured. WHITE EAFCTH ALLOTMENTS AN11 THE RESIDENCE QUESTION. The act of April 28,1904 (33 Stat. L., 539), grants an additional allotment of 80 acres- I to each Chippewa Indian now legally residing upon the White Earth Reserva-tion * * and to those Indians who may remove to said reservation who are entitled to take an allotment under article seven of the treaty of April eighteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. A question arose as to whether the wife of Robert Morrison, a Mississippi Chippewa woman, was entitled to hold an additional allotment on the reservation and at the same time reside off the res-ervation. Refusing to express an opinion on the case submitted, because the facts were not sufficiently clear, the assistant attorney-general for the Department said, on June 21, 1906: As a conclusion of law, however, my opinion Is, from the legislation involved, that the anthority to make allotments contained in the act of 1904 is restricted to those Chippewa Indians who were legally residing upon the White Earth Reservation at the date of the passage of the act and to those who may remove to and take up thelr residence on said reservation; and that the same rule Is equally applicable and should prevail in respect to those claiming the heneflts of the flrst proviso to said act. Following this opinion, though very much against its own prefer-ences, the O5ce instructed the superintendent in charge of the White Earth Agency that under the law actual residence on the reservation would be necessary in order to hold the additional allotment. Later the ruling was so far modified as to exempt from its provisions all persons in Government employ, the wives and children of employee at Indian agencies, all persons absent from the reservation attending school, including adults, and persons under any form of judicial restraint. Notwithstanding these modifications the ruling occasioned much dissatisfaction among the Indians. For instance, one who had an allotment under the act of January 14, 1889 (25 Stat. L., 642), was an Episcopal clergyman in charge of a church in the southern part of the State; actual residence on the reservation necessitated leaving his parish. Another was a member of an engineering corps con-nected with the Great Northern Railway Company, with beadquar- |