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Show ' . 16 BEPORT OF THE COMMI~~ICINERO F INDIAN AFFAIB~. May 21,1889, t.he president granted puthority for making allotments : on the Oneida Reservation in Wisconsin, the authority' granted No- , ' vember 27,1587, having been revoked March 2,1889. June 18,1889, Speoial Agent Dana O. Lamb was assigned to the duty of making the ' allotments. Work, however, has been temporarily suspended, owing' to the difficulty of making a satisfactory diviSion of the land. Many of these Indians have for years past been cultivating farms upon tbe reservation, but when they were located no regard was paid to the reg- , nlai survey, the selections being laid out to suit the convenieuce of the Indians; consequently as many as seven persons have occupied , and improved portions of the same eighty-acre tract. The matter is now receiving consideration with a view of adopting some plan for its proper adjustment. May 8, 1889, Spencer Hartwig, who had been appointed a special went under the act of February 8,1887, was directed to make allot-ments to the United Peoria8 and Miamis, in the Lndiau Territory, under the act of March 2,1889 (25 Stat., 1013), and when that work should be finished to complete the work of making allotments on other reser-vations belonging to the Quapaw Agency, which was commenced by Special Agent Howard in 1588. , . During the year 1,341 patents have been issued to the Ttkdians of the LakeTraverse Reservation in Dakota, which will be delivered at an early day. The allotment of lands on this reservation having been ' ' practically completed, recommendation was made June 21,1889, that . an officer or officers be designated to negotiate for the relinquishment of sueh portion of the surplus lands as the Indians might be willing to cede, ; , . and instrnctions for the guidance of such commission have been pre-pazed and submitted for your approval. The schedule of allotments made by late Special Agent Oonn6lly . on the Fond du Lac Resorvation in Minnesota was submitted 'to the Department February 13,1889, with the recommendation that they be not approved, for the reason that the lands are mainly valuable for timber and are not adapted to agricult,nral or gra.ziug purposes. ' This I ,' office has not been advised of the action taken by the Department in the matter. Forty-eight patents have been issued to members of the Bad River - hnil, and thirteen to members of thb Lao du Flambeau band of Chip-pewaa of Lake Superior, under the treaty of September 30, 1854 (10 Stat., 1109), the allotments having been made by the agent prior to ' , February 8,1887. .. The work of carrying out the ppovisions of the general allotment'act - - appears, ou the whole, to be progressing as satisfactorily aud as rapidly as a due regard to the condition of the Indians will permit. Iqthe , , practical application of the act, however, many perplexing, questions are constantly arising. The Indians on some reservations claim that an equal division of all the land should be made, alleging that as each , . . |
