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Show T- .7K. . i,K: -.T-:F?--.: . . . ~ . . . , , , . . . . . ET OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAI m e foilowing schedoles of dlotments have been receivedin this office, bwt hkve not yet been actedupon: Sio6x on Crow Creek Reservation, 8. Dak .......................... 879 .. Jioa,Tilla Apnohes in New Mexico.;. .................................. gp6 ,Ymktmn Siouxin South Dakota (revi~ed~iindaerc t of February 8,1891). 1,129 Sioux on Devil's Lake Reservation, N. Dak -...... ..................... 844 Tonkawa Indians in Oklahoma ...................................... 70 Chippewa on the White Emth Reaeryation, Minu.. ................. 236 : S'ioux ooonpying ceded lands in South Dakota, under Sioux act of March 2,1889 (25 State., 888) ...................................... 464 work is progressing in the field i s follows: D~evil's Lake Reservation, N. Dak.; allotments are being made to married women, who were not included in allotmenttreported. Nee Per& Reservation in Idaho, nearly completed. . Sileta Reservation in Oregon; will probably be completed e&lY in October. Reservations attrtched to the Ponca Ag e n~yin Oklahoma. Warm Springs ~eservationin Oregon. Yakama Reservation in Washington. Moqiii Reservation in Arizona. Pottmvaiomie.and ~i ckapoore servations ii Kansas. Iom Reservation in Kansas and Nebraska. Chippeea reservations in Minnesota. Surveys hme been executed on the Rosebud and Pine Eidge reseha: tiona in ~ o u t hD' akota, but this office has not yet been furuishd with the plats and field notes. Speci~Al llotting Agent McKean has been instructed to make allot-ments on-the Lower Brul6 Reservation, 8. Dak., and the work will ,. prograss as fast as public surveys will permit. Surveys on the Mesoalero Reservation in New Mexico, the Round , Valley Reservation in California,~and Quinaielt and Makah reservrt- tions in WneBiugton, have been reoommeiided. . . . Special Alloting Agents Bushee aqd Eddy report 828 allotments made 'I to date to Indians of the Umatiia Reservation: The appropriation is . -: exhausted, and as Congress failed to provide for continuing t.he work, ~ .' the agent$. have been instructed to desist unless they are milling to ' . oontiiue the +ark and look' to CongreBs for -payment of their salaries aod other expenditures. I am not yet advised of their decision. . , . . ALLOTMENTS TO NONBESERVATION INDI~NS. . . . By act of Mmch 3, 1891 (26 Seats., 989), the Secretary of the Iliterior . ( is anthorized and directed to apply the balance of the sum carriedupon , ..,:- the books of the Treasury Department, under the title'of homesteads . . . for 'Indians, i n the empJoymeut of aUoting agents, and payment of ~ ,their neceBsrcry expenses, to assist Indians who desire to take, home- . . . . . . . . . 8397 1 A 4 . ' , , . . .~ - steads under sectiou4 of the general allotment act appro~edFebruary .. , . . . . . . . - ... .. . . . . ~~ ~- ~p~ ~~~~~ . G . - 3..~'. '. ~ ~~ |
