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Show 78 REPORTO F THE COXML8810N.EB OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. Urnstills Agency, 0reg.-Thirteen farming andpzing leases; terms, two and three years. The consideration ranges from $1.50 to $2 per acre per annum. Also one business lease for post-o5ce and general merchandising, 2 acres for five years; consideration $10 per annum. Yakima Agency, Wash.-Seventy-eight farming and grazing leases; terms, one to five years; the consideration ranges from 50 cents to $2 per acre per annum. Also one lease for feed and stock yard, 6 acres for five years, annual rental, $110. Also one lease for school purposes, 1 acre for five years, annual rental, $15. Also one lease for hotel pur-poses, 1 acre for five years, considei-ation, $420 per annum. Yankton Agency, S. Dak.-Eight hundred and thirty-six farming and grazing leases. The term is from one to three years. The considera-tion ranges from 15 cents per acre per annum for grazing lands to $1 for farming lands. Fiftythree leases from this agency have been received and are awaiting examination. UNALWTl'ED OR TRIBAL LANDS. Since the date of the last annual report leases and permits for the use and occupancy of tribal lands have been executed as follo*s: Cheyenne River Reservation, 8. Dak.-Three grazing leases for the period of five years each from June 1, 1902, as follows: Lewee. District. A*&. Rate. Annual ---rent. Minnesota snd Dakota Cattle Co ..................... NO.,.~.. ...... 291,UO IR).m11 814.91s.m Charles L. Millett ..................................... N0.S .......... 568 W ,046 I4 966.58 Douglw Webater .................................. No.4 .......... 397:685 .03; 16;4C6.42 The lease to Douglas Webster has not yet been approved by the Department. Crow Reservation, Hont.-The McCormick lease on grazing district No. 3, comprising an area of 435,000.acres, will expire on December 31,1902. The Department on September 8, 1902, granted authority for the inauguration of the permit system of pasturage on that grazing district for two and one-half years from the expiration of the McCor-mick lease, at the rate of $1 per head per annum for the pasturage of rattle and 20 cents per head per annum for the pasturage of sheep. Duck Valley Reservation, Hev.-Three gigzing permits, as follows: Permittee. Term. Number1 Rate. Tar. -ofh ead. -- Garat & Co ................................ Mar, 1,19M, to Mar. 1,1905. SW S1.W m . W Johns. Winter ................................ do ...................... €4 1.W W.W E. M.Rrm&Co ..... do ...................... 1W 1.W 150.W Eastern Shawnee Reservation, Ind. T.--One farming lease in favor of James B. Jarrett, covering agency and school tract; term, five years a |