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Show REPORT OF THE 001WIISSIONER OF INDIAN APTAIRS. 125 of reports from the several deputy surveyors having contracts for the execution of surveys of the ceded lands, stating approximately the dates when they would complete, the field work of the surveys covered by their respective coutraxts. The. latest (late given was September 30,1901. August 6,1901, the Commissioner of the General Land Office stated that it was proposed to have Examiner of Surveys Flank H. Brigham examine the surveys of the Fort Hall ceded lands, and suggested that he might at the same time advantageously make the classification of agricultural lands, grazing lauds, eta., required by said section 5. August 10 the o5ce concurred in the recommendation that Mr. Brigham be authorized to make such classification. INDIAN TERRITORY UNDER THE CURTIS ACT AND SUBSEQUENT LEGISLATION. The provis' ns of the act of Congress approved June 28,1898 (30 Stats., 495), entitled "An act for the protection of the people of the Indian Territory, and for other purposes," commonly known as "The Curtis Act? were fully discussed in my annual reports for the years 1898, 1899, and 1900, and it will be unnecessary, therefore, for me to enter here into any general discussion of them. Section 27 of the Curtis Act is as follows: That the secretary of the Interior is authorized to locate one Indian inspector in Indian Territory, who may, under his authority and direction, perform any dutiea required of the Secretary of the Interior by law relating to affairs therein. The Secretary of the Interior, under its provisions, assigned United States Indian Inspector J. George Wright to the Indian Territory August 17,1898. Inspector Wiight reports to the Department through this ofice on all matters coming within his jurisdiction. For convenience the discussion of affairs in the Indian Territory will be divided into two parts, the fimt being matters over which the United States Indian inspector for the Indian Territory and the United States Indian agent for the Union Agency have supervision. This sub-ject may be properly divided into five subdivisions, to wit: First, educational matters; second, mineral leases; third, collection of reve-nues; fourth, town sites, and fifth, timber. The second division includes matters coming within the jurisdiction of the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes, and relates to the making of the roll of the citizens of each tribe and to the division in severalty among them of the laud and other property of the tribe. EDUCATION. Under the plovisions of sections 19 and 29 of the "Curtis Act," the Secretary of the Interior assumed a general and specific control of educational matters of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Cherokee |
