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Show disapproved, and 457 are pending before this Office and the Depart-ment. The agent, under Department authority, dismissed 1,204 full blood hpplications, 126 heirship? and 72 on reqnest. He reports that there are pending before his office 1,116 applica'tions which are ready for: transmission and 204 which are incomplete. . Some complaint was made by the public about the manner in wKich information concerning the removal of restrictions was given out, and on February 19,1906, in accordance with Office recommendation, the Department ordered the adoption of the following plan, which is now in force: When applications for removal of restrictions are approved the certificates are forwarded to the Commissioner to the Five Civilized Tribes, with a wpy of Office letter to the agent notifying him of the action taken by the Department. On the fourth day after the date of the letter to t.he agent the copy forwarded to the commissioner is pnb- - licly displayed on a bulletin board in his office, at 11 o'clock a. m., and on the same day, at 12 o'clock noon, a copy of the same letter is posted ona bulletin board in this Office, the posting thus being simultaneous. In no other way is information to be given out at the Department, at this Office, at the office of the inspector, or at the Union Agency " con-cerning the receipt, examination, recommendation, transmittal, or. action on any application for the removal of restrictions." Restrictiom on allotments to full bloods.-Section 19 of the act of April 26, 1906, declares that no full blood Indian shall have power "to alienate, sell, dispose of, or encumber in any manner any of the lands allotted to him" for twenty-five years from the date of the approval of the act, "unless such restrictions shall, prior to the expiration of said period, be removed by act of Congress." A full blood allottee can not lease his homestead for agricultural purposes except on account of "infirmity or age," which must be established to the satisfaction of the Secretary. He can not lease the rest of his allotment for more than one year without the consent and approval of the Department. Prior to April 26 the Department had no control of the leasing or sale of the lands of full'bloods in the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations; they could be sold or leased on the same terms and conditions and under the same circumstances as could the lands of any other citizen of these tribes. Regulations to govern the leasing of lands allottid to full bloods and the sale of lands by full blood heirs were approved on July 7, 1906. For all purposes the quantum of Indian blood possest by any member of the Five Civilized Tribes is to be determined by the roll approved by the Secretary. Patents to deceased 'aZ1ottees.-It has been the custom of the Depart-ment in issuing deeds or patents to deceased allottees to issue them to their heirs without giving the names of the heirs. Many allottees |