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Show REPORT OP TEE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. - OFFICEO F INDIAAFNF AIRS, Washington, D. C., September 30,1901: SIX: I have the honor to submit herewith the seventy-sixth annu& report of the Office of Indian Affairs. A SESSION'S LEGISLATION. The Fifty-ninth Congress ended, as it began, with a most striking array of important permanent legislation respecting Indian inter-ests. A quick survey of the last session's work shows statutes pro-viding for the payment, out of an Indian allottee's share of his tribaI fund, of taxes on his allotment, where the restrictions on alienation have been removed and such payment will save his home from attachment; permitting white children to attend Indian schools under similar conditions to those surrounding the attendance of Indian children at white schools; putting the sale of the allotment of any noncompetent Indian under the control of the Secretary of the Interior, and the use of the proceeds by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for the benefit of the allottee or his heirs; furnishing a means . for giving to any competent Indian, on his application, his pro rats share of the funds of his tribe, and authorizing the Secretary to apply part or all of the share of a blind, crippled or helplws Indian to the relief of his necessities; to quiet title to allotments on the Jicarilla Reservation and sell its timber; to open a further part of the Rose-- bud Reservation; to dispose advantageously of the desert lands 02 the Southern Ute Indians; liberalizing the law for the allotment of the Indians on the Bad River Reservation; opening a way out of tha dSculty hitherto attending the irrigation of the Pima lands; begin-ning a system of irrigation on the Fort Hall Reservation; taking % ther steps for winding up the affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes; distributing remnants of funds among a number of Indian tribes and wiping their accounts off the books of the Trewury; removing restrictions from the allotments of all adult mixed bloods of the White Earth Reservation; permitting the Fort Belknap Indians to 7 |