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Show of former allottees in accordance with the act of June 21, 1906 (34 Stat. L., 349); and another reservation thus eliminated. Shoshoni.-On April 29, 1907, the Department approved schedules of allotments to the Shoshoni and Arapaho Indians on the Shoshoni Reservation in Wyoming, which had been made under the treaty con-cluded July 3, 1868 (15 Stat. L., 637), and the amended general allotment act. The Shoshoni schedule showed 116,340.68 acres on -surveyed lands and approximately 1,603.20 acres on unsurveyed or partly surveyed lands. The Arapaho schedule showed 71,216.28 acres ,on surveyed lands and approximately 2,980.98 acres on land unsur-veyed or partly surveyed.or on the unmeandered parts of 'the Big W i d and the Big Popo Agie rivers. Only allotments on surveyed lands were approved. The Department has given'instructions to have the south bank of Big Wind River and the north bank of the Popo Agie River mean-dered, and certain fractional townships surveyed. When this is done the allotments on the diminished reservation will be finished. The Sioua-The aet of March 1, 1907 (34 Stat. L., 1048), author-ized the allotment of lands to children of the Sioux tribes' in the Dakotas, and to the married women of the Cheyenne River, Lower Brul6, and Standing Rock reservations who had not already been provided for. A special allotting agent has been appointed to make allotments to children on the Lower BrulB, Crow Creek, and Stand-ing Rock reservations and to the married women of the Cheyenne River Reservation. He began work on the Lower BrulB Reserva-tion early in June and his reports show satisfactory progress The exact number of allotments to be made is not known, but it is believed that this work will be closed at the end of the current fiscal year. The work begun by the sp,ecial allotting agent, on the Standing Rock Reservation in June, 1906, has advanced most satisfac:trrily because the Indians there have shown a greater interest in receiving .allotments than any other Sioux. Often as many as 15 or 20 Indians 'have fogowed the surveyors in the field, urging that the 1ands.which ~ they had selected be the next to be surveyed. A little additional help was given Agent Gunderson so that he might be able to accom-modate the Indians who showed such interest in the work. The total number of allotments to be made is approximately 3,500. At the rate it is now going forward, the field work is likely to be completed :about the close of the present year. The Pine Ridge Sioux have been kssigned their lands under the :act of March 2,1889 (25 Stat. L., 888). The provision for allotments to children and married women has materially increased the work, which bids fair, at the present rate, to continue four or five years more. The nnmber of Indians entitled to allotment exceeds 6,700,. and probably not more bhan 3,000 have yet had their selections |