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Show REPOlZT OF THE COJIMISSIUXEB OF INDIAN AFb'AIHY. XLV I the relief and civilization of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Min-nesota," provides. that allotments shall be made to those Indialla in con-formity with the act of 1887. Since the date of the last aunual report, the 1341 patents issued to the Sisseton and Wahpeton Indians, on the Lake Traverse Reservatioo, in North and South Dakota, hare been delivered to the Indians. The agreement, however, for the cession of their surpluslands now pending in Congress, provides for additional allotments, so that each Indiau belonging to the reservation shall hare 160 acres of land. The work of making allotments under the act of 1887 to the Indians on the Yankton Reservation, in Sonth Dakota, has been completed by Special Agent James Q. Katchitt, xho suhmitted his final report and schedules on the 29th of March last. The number of Indians who took allotments on this reservation is 1?454. The work of coml)nring and verifying the schedules and recording the allotments in the tract books i has been nearly completed, and the schedule will he submitted for your approval and issuance of ~ a t e u t as t an early day. The schedule of allotments to the Winnebago Indians, referred to in - . , .. the last annual report, was submitted to the Department November 2, 1889. I have no official information as to the action talcen thereon. The number of allotments on the reservation is 952. Th@ schedules of the Qrande Ronde (Oregon) allotments, on which reservktion the xork was completed in June, 18S9, will be examined and submitted to the Department at a11 early day, the necessary plats of survey having been furnished this office. The number of allotments made is 269. Special Agent Spencer Hartwig has completed the work on the Eastern Shawnee Reserration, 72 allotments. The schedules have not yet been examined in this office. Under date of February 24,1890, the President granted authority . ., for making allotments on the l'apago or Sau Xavier Reservation, in Arizona, and Special Agent J, K. Rankin was assigned to that duty. June 18,1890, he reported that he had completed the work mid sub-mitted duplicate schedules of 291 allotments. These schedules will be . . examined at an early day with a view to their approval. During the year allotments were made by Special Agent Hartwig to the Confederated Peoria tribe and the Western Miami tribe, under the act of March 2,1889. Patents were issued to all the members of the former tribe (155), April 8, 1890, and to those of the latter tnbe (65), April.12, 1890. Since the date of the last annual report 41 patents dated October 28, 1889, and 3 dated November 8,1889, for lauds on the Lac du Flambeau Reservation, and 46 patents dated May 7, 1890, for lands on the Lac Court d'Oreiltes Reservation, issued nuder the treaty of September 30, 1854, with the Chippewas of Lake Superior and the Mississippi (10 Stats., 1109) have been transmitted to theLa Pointe agent for delivery '1 to the patentees. |