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Show ~ ~ July 2% 1890, executive anthoritx was given for making allotments on the Sac and Fox Reservation in Kansas and Nebraska, and Special Agent E. 5. Obnklin designated to make the same. There are seventy-one Indians on this reservation. Recommendation has been made that executive authority be given for making allotments on the Pottauatomie aud Kickapoo Reservations in Kansas, and the Red Cliff Heservatiou in Wisconsin, under the aot of Februilry 8,1887. Surveys have been oommen<:ed on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, and the Nenomonee Reserratio~in~ W isconsin, with a view to their early itllotment: The survey of the Koopa Valley Reservation in California, preliminarr to the allotment of iauJs in severa1t.y thereon, under the act of February 8,1887, was autborizecl by the President Xovember 29,1887, and on tlie 7th of J a n u a r~1, 888, this office recommended that the Commis-siouer of the General Laud Office be instructed to cause said reserva-tion to be surveyed and subdivided. Considerable delay occurred before the contract was finally executed, said contract calling for the completion of the survey by the 91st of December, 1888. I am in-formally advised by the General Land Office that the contract was aub-sequently extended to December 31, 1839, and that no returns have as yet been received. These allotments should be made as soon as plats of the surveys become available. July 10,1890, the Preddeut grantetl au~horityfo r making surveys on the Moqui Reservation in Arizona, preliminary to the work of com-mencing allotments; The General Land OFEce, however, has called for more definite information as to the localities to be surreyed, it being deemed expedient to survey the entire reservation. This information will be obtained as soon as possible, in order that the work may be commenced this year. Authority was asked for making allotments on the Oheyenne .and Arapaho Reservation, upon information received from rarious sources that quite a number of those Indians uere both ready and willing to take them. Id view of the pending negotiations by the Cherokee Com-mission you deemed it expedient, howerer, to defer action until the re-sult of those negotiations should become kno~n. As1 deem it important that these Indians should be given their allotments and permanently located, and as their example would be an incentive to others, I a.gain called your attention to the matter ou the 5th of August, suggesting that this course would aid rather than retard the work of the comniission. A considerable nnmber of these Indians hare been located on sepa |
