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Show 26 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. facts as to any lands taken for the main ditch, and to fix theamount of compensation to be paid the Indian owners or allottees for lands so taken, including damages that might thereby be caused to other lands; also, to fix the mount of compensation to be paid for any unallotted tribal lands required by the company for reservoir, dams, and adjaceut-grounds. This commission had been appointed and was in the field engaged in the discharge of its duties when my last annual report was made. May 3 last I received, by Department reference, the report of this commission, dated April 23, 1894, which I returned to you, with certain suggestions and recommendations. May 15, 1894, you returned the papers to thia office, with instructions to call upon the commission for the completion of their report in. accordance with the suggestions made, and on May 18 they were given such instructions. Upon the receipt of the report it will be promptly transmitted to the Department for further consideration. Miice1laneous.-During t,he year the expenditure of some $20,000 for irrigating purposes on other reservations has been authorized, the prin-cipal part of t,his sum being assigned to the Uintah and Wind River reservat.ions. AGREEMENTS WITH INDIANS. Siletz, Yankton, and Be5 Perces.-The agfeement concluded with the Siletz Indians in Oregon, October 1,1892, that with the Yanktou Sioux in South Dakota, conclnded December 31,1892, and that with the Nez Percbs in Idaho, concluded May 1, 1893, referred to in my last annual report, were ratified by the act of Congress approved August 16,1894- the Indian appropriation act. TJnder these agreements sonle 880,000 acres of land will be restored to the public domain for diaposition as provided in said act. Yuma.-An agreement was concluded with the Yuma Tndiaus,Decem-ber 4,1893, whereby they ceded to the United States all their right, title, and interest in their reservation in California,, established by executive order of January 9,1884, each of said Indians to have an allotment of 5 acres of land. This agreement was also ratified by the said act of Aagust 15, 1894. It will result in the restoration of some 27,500 acres of noliirrigable and some 14,000 acres of irrigable land. The former is subject to disposal under the general land laws, and the latter is'to be sold at public sale to the highest bidder. Pyxamid Lake and Walker River.-As stated in my last annual report, the President transmitted to Congress, January 11,1892, the agree. ment concluded October 17, 1891, with the Pah-Ute Indians residing upon the Pyramid Lake Reservation in Nevada.. That agreement has not been ratified, but Senate bill No. 99, Fifty-third Congress, second session, now pending, provides for vacating ai~drestorir~tog t he public d~ma inth e entire Walker 'River Reservation, and also a portion of the Pyramid Lake Reservation, which portion embraces a larger extent of |