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Show priation act (34 Stat. L., 358) Provided that the Secretary should also set apart for their use in common wch tracts of timber lands as would meet the reasonable requirements of the Indians for fuel and improvements. The allotments have been made, and the grazing and timber lands selected. On the 24th of July W. E. Casson, special allotting agent, for-warded to this Office an agreement concluded by him on July 20, 1906, with the Paiute Indians of the Walker River Reservation by which they cede to the United States all lands in the reservation ex-cept certain lands fully described by legal subdivisions. They make the cession in consideration of the allotments, and the payment to allottees who are heads of families of $300 each, to enable them to commence the business of agriculture." The allottees who are heads of families agree to accept the allotments made to them, and are to receive a per capita cash payment of $25. The remainder ($275 each) is to be expended in the purchase of fence wire, lumber, alfalfa seed, wagons, harness, farm machinery, etc., according to a list to be furnished this Office by each head of a family, thru the superintendent of the Carson School, Nevada. These cash payments and purchases are to be made within sixty days after the opening of the ceded lands for settlement, or as soon thereafter as prrqcticable. The agreement was to take effect when signed by the allotting agent and a majority of the male adult Indians-the latter including a ma-jority of the allottees who are heads of families--and when it should be proclaimed by the President that the relinquished lands are open to settlement. This agreement was laid before the Department on August 14, and the Presidential proclamation of September 26 de-clares that the lands will be opened on October 29. JICARILLA APACHE TImBER. The act of March 28, 1906 (3+ Stat. L., 91), provides for the sale of timber on the Jicarilla Apache Xeservation in New Mexico, as follows : That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, to sell or otherwise dispose of any or all of the timber on the Jicarilla Apache Indian Reservation in New Mexiw, mhether allotted or unellotted-if allotted, with the consent of the allottee--the proceeds to be deposited in the United States Treasury, to be expended by the Secretary of the Interior for the benefit of said Indians in such manner as in his judgment will tend to promote their welfare and advance them in civilization. The reservation comprises 415,713 acres, occupied by about 800 Indians. The entire tillable area is not in excess of 1,200 acres, and will probably fall short of that. The remainder consists of rough, |
