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Show BEPOET OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFALRS. XXXIII rolls submitted by the Commission, showing who are entitled to take lands in severalty, the diminished reservation as shown upon the map anl field notes accompanjing the report of the Commission, and the selection of a tract of laud for an industrial farm and school have beeu approved by yourself in accordance with the requirements of the act. The Commissioners were required to make an accurate, classili~xl census of the said contederated bands ; to estimate the amount of agri-cultural lands required to allot to each person the quantity of lands stipulatcd in said act; to select a diminished reservation suf6cient in area to supply agricultural land for allotment, together with suficient pasture and timber lands for their use, and also 640 acres for an in-dustrial farm and school, the whole not. to exceed 120,000 acres for all purposes. The census shows the whole number of 1ndians entitled to allotments to be eight hundred and forty-five, as follows: ~ e i d ba f fdi l i e s entitled to 160 aorcs each ................... i... ............ 247 Children over eighteen years of age entitled to 80 aoros each .....; ............ 259 Orphan children under eighteen years of agaentitled to 80 aorea each ......... 25 Otherchildran nndercighteen yssra of age entitled to 40 sore8 each ...........- 314 Total entitled to allotments ............................................ 845 The aggregate amount of agricultoral land necessary to make these allotmeuts a8 computed by the Commissioners is 74,800 acres. In selecting the diminished reservation, the Commissioners deferred as far as possible to the expressed wish of the Indians that the new or diminished reservation ~houldem brace the lands upon which the three bauds were then residing, at the'same time endeavoring to lay it out in a8 compact form as possible. At best a few Indians had to be left out-side of the boundary lines. This could not well bb avoided because of the general desire on the part of the Indians that the lands on that part of the reservation where the scattered few were located should be sold udder the provisions of the act. The area of the diminished reserva-tion is 119,8fi4 acres, which is within a few acres of the limit prescribed in the act, viz, 120,000 acre% Eefore the allotments can be made the diminished reservation must be surveyed, or so much thereof as shall be required for allotments, and the surveys approved. These surveys are now in progress, not only within the dimillisled reservation, but upon the surplo~l,a nds to be appraised and sold under, section 2 of the act, and a commission has been appointed to make the a1lotment.s as well as the appraisement. They will be ordered to this duty as soon as the required surveysshall have beeu completed and approved. . . JURISDIGTIOPV OF CRIMES GOXMITTED BY INDIANS. For the third time I AUI compelled to call attention to the defects in the ninth section of the act of March 3, 1885 (23 Stats., 385), provid-ing for the punishment of certain one% committed by Indians, Ooq- 8375 T A-3 |