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Show ,REPORT OF THE OOldMISSIONEIt OF INDIAN AFFAIR% 37 ALLOTMENTS AND PATENTS. The progress in allotment work since the last annual report is as follows: ALLOTMENTS ON RESERVATIONS. During the year patents have been issued and delivered -to the following Indians: Chippewa of Iwge Superior, L'Anae and Vieux d' Sert Reserva- tion in Michgan ........................................... 14 Chippewa of the Mkiasippi, White Earth Reservation in Minnesota .................................................. 4,318 Kickapoo in Oklahoma ................................... ..,. 1 Nez Per& in Idaho.. ......................................... 10 Sioux, Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota .................. 5 Winneb oin Nebraska ...................................... 92 ~ a iwn % hhoma (homeshad deeds) ........ ;.. .............. 247 Allotments have been approved by this O5ce and the Department as follows: Chippewa of Lake Superior, on the Lac Court Oreille k r v a - 'tion in Wisconsi n... ........................................ 112 Sioux, Rosebud Reservation in Bouth Dakota .................. 1,071 Swinomish in Wmhington .................................... 7 Schedules of the following allotments have been received in this O5oe, but have not been acted upon: Chippewa of Lake Superior, Lac du Flambeau Reservation in Wismain ................................................ :.. 116 Bioux, Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota ............. 313 The condition of the work in the field is as follows: Cheyenne River ~ e s e k t i o n8, . Dak.-Special Allotting Agent John H. Knight reported August 31,1903,that he had then made 1,174 allotments, being 315 for the year ended on that date. Crow Reservation, Mont.-Special Allotting Agent John K. Rankin reported August 2 4 1903, that he had made 1,358 allotments, being 550 for the year ended on that date. Shoshoni Reservation, Wyo.-The work of making allotments upon the Shoshoni Reservation, Wyo., was resumed May 21, 1903, H. G.. Nickerson having been appointed a special allotting agent and assigned to that duty. Thisworkwas suspendedbecause AllottingAgent Nick-erson's predecessors had made many allotments of lands which were worthless and where they could not be irrigated. They had made 766 allotments to the Shoshoni and 442 to the Arapaho Indians, aggrega-ting 1,208 dotmenta. Since his appointment Allotting Agent Nickerson has traveled over the entire reservation where allotments have been made and irrigation ditches constructed, or proposed to be constructed, and he recommends that all of the allotments be revised; that the allotments north of Big Wind River, on which there are no improvements, be canceled, as well as worthless allotments elsewhere, |