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Show 20 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. Patents have been issued and delivered to the following Indians: Pottawi~tomiesi n ICansaa ................................... 151 Panneea in Oklahoma. ...................................... 821 Klamath River Indians in California ........................ 125 Iowas iu Kansas aud Nebraska .............................. 143 Chippewas, Lao du Flambean Reservation in Wisconsin (under treaty of 1854) ............................................ 85 Chippewas, RadRiver Reservation in Wisoonsin (under treaty of 1854) ................................................... 37 Winnebagoes in Nebraska.. ................................. 798 Allotments have been approved by this office and the Department, and patents are now being prepared in the General Land Office for the following Indians: On Yankton Reservation, South Dakota. .................... 1,171 Siletz Reaervation in Oregon ............................... 536 Chippewas of Lac Court d'Oreilles Reservation in Winoonsin (under treaty of 1854) .................................. 118 Chippewas of L7Anae and Vieax de Sert in Michigan (under treaty of 1854) ......................................... 176 Schedules of the following allotments have been submitted by this office for the approval of the Department: Nes Peroh8 in Idaho. ........................................ 1,665 Schedules of the following allotments have been received in this office, but have not been finally acted npon: Kiokapoos in Oklahoma .................................... 276 Yakimss in Washington ..................................... 1,851 Work is progressing in the field as follows: Moqni Reservation, Ark-The work of alloting lands in severalty to the Indians of this reservation has been discontinued. All but a few of the Indians had made their selections, which had been properly scheduled by the allotting agent, but a small number continued their opposition to allotment work. This opposition, together with formal objections to the approval of any of the allotments presented to this office by friends of the Indians, led to a discontinuance of the work in February last. Addition to Roopa Valley Reservation in California.-Special Agent Tur-pin reports that these allotments are completed in the lield. He has been ordered to report to this office for the purpose of preparing the schedules. hission Beservations, California.-The work of settling the Mission Indians on the several reservations selected for them by the late Mis-sion commission is progressing satisfactorily. There are twenty-seven of these reservations, and allotments have been completed in the field, or nearly completed, upon six of them, :as follows: Pala, Rincon, Potrero, Campo, Temecnla, and Sycuan. Before allotments can be made npon any Mission reserve, apatent for the reservation in common must first be issued to the It~diansb elong-ing thereon. Suoh patents have been issued for all the reservations |