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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. VII &- ! the idea, and the following hare thus far been selected: Papago and Pima (Salt river), Arizona; L'Anse and Vieux de Sert, Michigan; Lac ' I .C ourt d'Oreilles, Bad River, Red Cliff, and Lac du Flambeau, Wiscon- sin; Fond du Lac, Minnesota ; Lake Traverse; Devil's Lake, Ponca: and ~ankt'on,'DakotaN; ez Perc6, Idaho; Crow, Montana; Absentee 1I Shawnee, Pottawatomie, Qnapaw , Modoc, .Ottawa, Shawnee, Seneca, and Wyandotte, Indian Territory; Winnebago, Nebraska; Siletz, Grnde Ronde, and Warm Springs, Oregon; and Muckleshoot, Wash- . , ington Territory. The state of the surreys on several of the ieservktions where allot-ments hare bee,n authorized is such as to render it impracticable to commence the work at once, but surveys have been contracted foh I Six special agents hare recently been appointed and assigned to duty, I as follows : 001. James E. Howard, Crow reservation ; Miss Alice U. I Fletcher, Winnebago; Michael D. Connellr, Siletz ; Isaiah Lightner, Lake Traverse ; James R. W&t, Yankton ; and N. S. Porter; Absentee Shawnee and Poxtawatomie. The limited amount of the a,ppropriation ($15,000) for the pay of special agents prevents the employment of such agents on reservations where otherwise the work might be prosecuted. Since the date of the last report thirty-five patents have been issued to tie Iudians on the Port Madison reservation, Washington Territory, and thirty-five certificates of allotments to the Sisseton and Wahpeton Ioclians on the Lake Traverse reservation, Dakota. The fourth section of the allotment act provides as follows: That where any Indian not residing upon a ressrrat,ion, or for whose tribe no rea-ervation has been provided by treaty, act of Congress, or Executive order, shsllmake . settlement upon any surveyed or nnaurveyed lmds of the United States not other. wise appropriated, ha or she shsll be entitled, upon application to the local land of-fice for the district in which the lands are located, to have the same allotted to him or her, and to his or her children, in quantities and manner ma provided in this i~ofto r Indians residing upon reservations ; snd whon such settlement is made upon unsoc veyedlands, the grant to such Indians shall be adjnstedupon the survey of the lands so M tooonform thereto: and Datents shall he issued to them for such lands in the ntnnnar and with the reatrietio~~na.r Iterrin provided. And rlw tees to 5rhich thnof-ficers oi'auclt local landoffice wuuld hare ktneot i r lud had soch lands l ,wo n ~ ~ t r r teudu-derthe -ce neral laws for the dis~ositiono f the Dnblic landashall behaid to themfrom - nnr luanejrin rha l'reirrury of thr llrbirrd Stateluut U ~ ~ S I I R I R Rai qnropriafed, 11p00 a starement of HI, R C C O U I I ~i ll tltejr b~bnlf,f or snclt fee* by the C001hi~>ldnero f the Geoerd Land Office, ssd a, certification of such account to the Secretary of the Treaa-nry by the Secretary of the Interior. . In a special report, dated July 8, 1887, I had tlle honor to invite your attention to this particular section, and to the reqoiiement of the law that all allotments shall be made by a special agent appointed by the President, and I suggested that, inasmuch as the Indians who will be expected to take advantage of the beneficent provisions made for them are scattered through the western States and Territories-a few here and a few t h e r e i t would be found impracticable to send a special agent into the field whenever awapplication should be made for an al- |
