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Show scheduled. Much more rapid progress could be made if funds were avsjlable to employ enough persons to do the work. In view of the importance of speedily giving these people their lands in sever-alty and preparing for the restoration of the surplus lands to the public domain, it seems that it would he economical and profitable to allow the Office money to increase the allotting force enough to close the work within the next two years, possibly during the.next year. The act of March 2,1907 (34 Stat. L., 1230), authorized the sale or other disposal of all that part of the surplus or unallotted lands in the Rosebud Reservation, in South Dakota, lying south of the Big White River and east of range 25 west of the sixth principal meridian. It also provided that before opening the lands the Secretary of the Inte-rior might permit any Indian who had an allotmint within the Rose-bud Reservation to relinquish such allotment and to receive in lieu thereof an allotment anywhere within said reservation, and that he should also allot 160 acres of land to each child of Indian parentage; living at the time of the passage of the act but still without an allot-ment, whose father or mother " is or was, in case of death," a duly enrolled member of the Sioux tribe of Indians belonging on the Rosebud Reservation. John H. Scriven, who has been. appointed to make the allotments, entered upon his duties on May 13,1907, and expects to finish them in about a year. Spokan.-Allotments are being made to the Indians on the Spo-kau Reservation,. in Washington, by Special Allotting Agent Clair Hunt, under authority of joint resolution of June 19,1902 (32 Stat. L., 744). Under the act of June 21, 1906 (34 Stat. L.,.377), he was directed to reserve for town-site and terminal purposes not &ceeding 360 acres at or near the junction of the Columbia and Spokane rivers. On December 26 he reported the reservation of. lots 7, 8,9,10,11, the E. 4 of the NW. 4 and the NW. 4 of the NE. 3 of sec. 30, T. 28 N., R. 36 E., Wiltamette meridian, aggregating 293.65 acres. Turtle Mountain.-The work of allotting the Turtle Mountain Chippewa Reservation in North Dakota under the act of April 21, 1904 (33 Stat. L., 194), has been concluded, and the 275 quarter sec-tions comprising the reservation have been divided . among 326 Indians, heads of families. I n addition, about 650 locations have been made on the public domain, under the same act, to members of the Turtle Mountain band of Chippewas, thus providing for approx-imately 1,000 Indians. According to the census of 1905, there were 2,362 enrolled members +f the Turtle Mountain band. Some few additions were recommended by E. A. Allen, special agent, who enrolled 'the Indians entitled to maintain tribal relations with this band, and some names have been stricken from the roll. Accepting the total enrollment as 2,370 in |