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Show OOMXI88IONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 119 SErrLERS ON TFlE NORTHERN CHEYENNE RESERVATION, MONT. The Indiin appropriation act approved March 3, 1903 (32 Stats., 982), appropriated $2,965 for payment of settlers for improvements upon certain lands situated within the boundaries of the Northern Cheyenne Reservation, Mont. The Office is pleased to state that deeds approved by the Department have been obtained from the set-tlers who were reported last year as still lingering on that reservation. As accounts in favor of the respective settlers for their lands and improvements have been stated in this Office and forwarded to the Treasury Department in order that warrants might be drawn, it is presumed that each settler has been paid before this time. They have all removed from the reservation and the lands occupied by them and by other settlers who had previously been bought out have been placed in the possession of worthy and industrious Indians. Accord-ing to the report of the agent, the Indians are making good use of these lands, and in fact of the entire reservation; there is therefore some hope now for improvement among these Indians whose progress in civilization has hitherto been very slight. WALKER RIVER RESERVATION, NEV. The Indian appropriation act, approved May 27,1902 (32 Stats., 260), contains a parhgraph providing for the allotment of lands to the Indians of the Walker River Reservation in certain quantities and the con-struction of irrigation ditches; and it also provides that when such allot-ments shall have been made, and the consent of the Indian obtained to the relinquishment of the remaining lands, the President shall, by proclamation, open the relinquished lands to settlement to be disposed of under existing laws. The Indian appropriation act of March 3.1903 (32 Stats., 997), made an appropriation for the necessary surveying and other expenses in connection with the Walker River allotments, and on February 5,1904, this Wce recommended that the Gieral Land Office be authorized to make contract for the survey of the lands necessary for allotment in severalty to the Indians and for grazing purposes. The Office is informally advised that such contract has been made. NEW YORK INDIANS. - No progress has been made in the effort to have these Indians allot-ted in severalty. The Seneras have begun proceedings before the courts to determine the shtus of the Ogden Land Company's claims. As they were unwilling to let the Department of Justice conduct the |