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Show STOCKBRIDGES AND MUNSEES IN WISCONSIN. REPORT OF THE COMMIRSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 95 take them. November 30,1895, the commission transmitted schedules showing allotments to 332 Indians, the quantity of land allotted being In my last annual report an a:cnunt was given of the action taken under the first section of the act of March 3,1893 (27 Stat. L., 744), for the relief of the Stockbridge and Mnnsee Indians in Wisconsin, by which the ageut for the Green Bay Agency was directed to ascertain and report those members of the tribe who are entitled to receive fee-simple patents for their allotted lands. Since then I have received i 65,4m.z~a cres. While these schedules were before the Department for approval, Agent Day, of the Southern Ute Agency, who was also a member of the commissio~r~e,p orted that the few Indians who had wanted their improvements appraised and sold with the intention of removing to the diminished reserve to live in common with those members of the tribe who had decided not to take allotments had reconsidered their deter-minatiou and wanted allotted to them the land upon which their improvements were located. Agent Day, in his capacity as commis-siouer, was accordingly directed March 27,1896, to prepare a supple-mental schedulc showing the additional allotments. April 14 he transmitted a supplemental schedule showing 39 allot-ments aggregating 7,360.82 acres, which, added to the original schedule, makes a total of 371 allotments, covering 72,811.15 acres. June 12 the Department approved the two schedules of allotments and directed the Commissioner of the General Land Office to issue the patents therefor. The surplus or unallotted lands of that portion of the reservation lying eastof range 14 have not yet been opened to settlement, and they probably will not be until the east boundary line shall have been prop-erly located. It is said now to be located about 5 miles too far west. A matter of mnch importance to the allottees on the Southern Ute Reservation is that of irrigation. Agent Day has had surveys and the necessary filings made for five ditches, and he was directed September 1 to submit estimates of cost of putting in the head gate for each of the ditches and for doing a limited amount of additional work on two of them, the idea being to prosecnte the work with "due diligence," as required by the laws of Colorado. The office is delayed in the proper prosecution of this work by lack of funds. For the completion of the ditches a special appropriation will have to be asked, the regular appro-priation of $30,000 for irrigation generally on Indian reservations being eutirely too small to provide for payment of the total cost of irrigation for the Southern Utes. It is proposed, however, to use about $5,000 thereof in making the start, and to depend upon Congress for the remaining funds necessary to complete the work. |