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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS 35 eration paid the allottees at this agency ranges low, the principal part of the consideration consisting in improvements to be placed upon the lands by the lessees. Bez Perch Reservation, Idaho.-About thirty farming and grazing leases. The period is from one to three years. The prevailing price is $1 per acre per annum, though some pieces are leascd as low as 50 cents per acre, while a few pieces are leased as high as $2 per acre. Omaha and Winnebago reservations, Behr.-About sixty-one farming and grazing leases. The prevailing period is three years, though some that have been executed since November 15,1894, are for the period of five years. The prices are about the same aa last year, ranging from 25 cents per %re for grazing lands to $2.50 per acre for the best farm-ing lands. For raw unbroken lands, for the period of three years, the average price is 75 cents per acre per annum. For average farming lands where small improvements have been made the prevailing price is $1 per acre. Ponca, Pawnee, etc., Agency, Okh-Thirty-eight farming and grazing leases of the Tonkawa Indians and GO leases of the Pawnee Indians. The leases, with few exceptions, are either for t,hree or five years; most of those executed since November 15,1894, are for the period of Eve years. The prices, as last year, range from 25 cents per acre per annum for grazipg lands to $1 per acre for farming lands. Most of the lcases call for the erection of certain improvements in addition to the money oonsideration therein mentioned. Quapaw Agency, Ind. T.-Five leases for business purposes, on t,he W~andot teR eservation, each for the period of ten years from date of execution; approved by this office ou July 31,1895, and by the Depart-ment on August I. Two miuing leases, exeouted, respectively, by Samuel Ball t,o James L. Sherer, and by Charles S. Hood, guardian, to James L. Sherer aud Thomas E. Thompson, have been transferred by the lessees to Thomas T. Luscombe. Santee Agency, Bebr.-So leases have been approved at this agency during the past year. For a statement of the leases in force see annual report for 1893. Sac and Fox Agency, 0Okla.-About 21 farming and grazing lcases. Those executed prior to November 15,1894, are mainly for the period of three yeztrs; those executed since are almost invariably for the period of five years. The cash consideration at this agency ranges low, the practice lxevailing to lease the lands mainly in consideration of improvements to be placed there011 by the lessee. 8 Siletz Agency, Ore;.-Tvo farming leases, each for the period of three years from date of execution. The consideration in each case consists of one-third of all the crops to be raised ou the leascd lands. Umatilh Agency, 0wg.-About 160 farming and grazing leases, and two business leases. The period ranges from one to five years. The |