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Show REPORT OF THE 00MNISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 59 Work in the field was suspended on the Cheyenne =ver and Rose-bud reservations during the month of June, and a portion of May, owing to the failure of the appropriation. Crow Reservation, Itfont.-Special Allotting Agent John K. Rankin reported August 24 that he had then made 809 allotments. Shoshoni Reservation, Wyo.-Work was suspended in 1900. The purpose is to plan a system of irrigation on that reservation before renewing the allotment work. When the irrigation plan shall have been made, and it is definitely known what lauds can be irrigated, the allotments will be completed. Exchange of Bad River allotments.-February 4,1901, Agent Camp-bell forwarded a list of Indians on the Bad =ver Reservation, Wis., whoseallotments had been burned over and the timbertotally destroyed. They asked that they be permitted to relinquish those lauds and select others in lieu thereof. In a report to the Department dated April 8, 1901, the o5ce recommended that if the Indians were permitted to relinquish their allotments and select others in lien thereof, they should be required to reimburse the tribal funds to the extent of sums previously received by them from the sale of timber. This was approved by the Department September 21. September 28, Agent Campbell was instructed accordingly, and on November 30, 1901, he submitted a list of 35 allottees who desired to relinquish their lauds and select others in lieu thereof, and also the patents which had theretofore been issued in their favor. These patents and the schedule of new allotments, together with the other papers in the case, were forwarded to the Department December 6, with recommendation that the schedule be laid before the President for approval, and that the relinquished patents be canceled of. record. February 10, 1902, the Department requested the President to approve the schedule, but said, referring to Department action of October 4, 1898, in a similar case: While I do not agree with the action taken by the then Acting Secretary in 1888, in similtlr cas~st,h is matter has goneso fsr that I have the honor to request that the schedule of the new selections herewith submitted be approved, and that your author-itv for the cancellation of the relinquished mtents he indomed hereon, with the ~lndrrntanclingth at tho* who had receircd any paywrnt from the titnbrrcut otl their old allotments should rzirriburJz the tribal iortdr for th? valur rt~erwia; nd 11,itht he iurrher unclerstandiny that tlliii authority rzlntt.8 only to thierilae 311d ihl~ti l!~tI~~)rity for clanwa in allotmenu ior rl~rr ramn that the timber thenon hw heeo destroyed by fire will not hereafter be granted. July 30,1902, the Department advised this Office of the approval of the schedule by tse President on February 24 last, and stated that the patents hsd been forwarded to the Commissioner of the General Laud Office for cancellation. August 12,1902, Agent Campbell was advised of this action. |
