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Show 44 . REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. INDIAN LANDS SET APART TO MISSIONARY S0CIEl"l'ES. . Several tracts of reservation lands have been set apart during the yem for the nse of societies ca,rrying on educational and missionary work among Indians, as follows: TABLE1 1.-Lam38 set apart m Ifidiaa rssmotMna for the use of ~eZ1oiol~1s1o cieties from Auguat 81,1896, to Awguat 31, 1897. . . Chumh of Arnetioa. Woman's Executive committee Board Domesti0 Miasions c5 mom and Comanche, Okla of DutahRaformed Church. xethoaist E ~ ~sonth~ .....~.....~......~......~......I....... aa DO. Domestio and Foreign M~llsslonary Society of Protestant SO Crow Creek. 8. Dak. Episcopal Church. o0n traot reserved for sgac and sob001 pnrpmea at Pones soh eno?.. aLot 150 b 450 fee6 set mi& iin 1891 to ~ e thodi s t~ p i s c o p a8~h -h and aomnaemd in.1897 in favor of d i l ~ o Cdh ristisn Reformed Church. con Fort Sill School tract. don agency traot, called ''town of A"adsrk0." In nearly every case the amount of land assigned is the amount asked for by the society desiring to occupy it, and the Indians have given their consent to such nse of the land. A table giving d l lands on Indian reservations set apart for mission-ary purposes will be found on page 446. LOGGING ON RESERVATIONS. La Pointe Agency, Wis.-The work of logging on the Lac Court dlOreilles and Lac du Flambean reservations has progressed during the last year without special incident. No complaints have been received from the Indians on these reservations as to the disposition of their timber or the conduct of the contractors. 1 Some dissatisfaotionwas expressed by some of the Bad River Indians over the losses suffered by a few of the allottees on account of the j deterioration of their timber by reason of e e s which raged over a part ! of the reservation during the winter of 1894-95. It was claimed that / the loss should be borne by the contractor because he failed to cut the - : timber in time to save it. Lienteuant Mercer, ating agent, seemed to : concur in the position taken by the Indians, but desiring to be just he requested that the question be investigated in order to reach a clear i determination as to the responsibility of the contractor. Acoordiuglyl I Inspector J. George Wright was directed by the Department to investi-gate this and other matters at La Pointe Agency. ; In his report of Angust 8,1896, Inspector Wright stated that while ; he found that some of the dlottees had suffered greater or less loss from |