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Show 78 REPORT OR THE OOMMI88IONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. Yankton Agency, 8. Dak.-Twenty-eight farming and grazing leases. The terms are from one to three years. The consideration is 19 cents per acre per annum. Forty-six grazing leases are pending before the Department; 183 leases have been executed upon which no action has been taken. Improvements on leased lands.-At a majority of the agencies some of the leases provide for the erection of certain improvements on the premises lea~eds, uch as fences, barns, etc., and for the breaking of new land. July 16 last, the Department sugg&d to this office that future leases of Indian allotments should protide for sonie specific improvements, such rn clearing the land, the breaking of new land, the erection of fences, barns, and other necessary permanent improve-ments, the character and mlue of which should be specifically stated in the lcase, with a provision for keeping the same in first-class condi-tion and repair. The Department regarded these subatantial benefits as much more essential to the interests of the allottee, and for the future good and value of his property, than the temporary or present good an all money payment for rent would do him. Instructions to that effect have been sent to all agencies where allot-ted lands are being leased. Since the above-mentioned date farming and grazing leases for three-year periods that have no provision thewin for placing some substan. tial improvements on the lands or for breaking new lands, but are fo;. a money consideration only, have been approved for the term of only two years. Grazing leases that are for a money consideration only have been approved for only one year, regardless of the term for which they were drawn. UNALLOTTED OR TRIBAL LANDS. %rice the date of the last annual report the following leases of tribal lands have been approved: Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Reservation, 0kla.-Ten grazing leases and one mining permit (for red sandstone only, at 75 cents per cord), deacribed as follows: TABLE 2O.-L.%we8 m Kiowa, Cmanche, and Apache resdons. Lessee. 1 Acres. (Tenn. --- Gruiq 1esses: Chleago, Rock Island and Paoific R%ilwaVC o ........................ Amos A.Eall.o.w...e.l.l. ............................................ ...................................................... Nellie Jones ....................................-..-.-.. ................... Jamen Myers D O ......................... -. ................................... Poh 8 wy. ............................................................ H.G.Wil isms ......................................................... P.S. Wi t h ~ ~ g :m::~::f:: :.. ........................... ..(..... ......... Florenoe J. all .............................................. Minin lease ~ o f wn . &ht,for red sandstone only,at 15oentsper cord mined ..... |