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Show 102 BEPOBT OF COMMISSIONEB OF INDIAN BFFAIES. leases authorized by law. At the request of any such allottee the local representative shall, without other charge than the necessary court and recording fees and expenses, take measures in the name of the allottee to cancel and annul any instruments constituting a conveyance or incumbrance of the restricted lands, including the bringing of any suit and its prosecution and appeal. The act provided also- That leases of restricted lands for oil, gas, or other mining purposes, leases of restricted homesteads for more than one year, and l a w s of restricted lands for periods of more than five years, may be made, with the approval of the See-retary of the Interior, under rules and regulations provided by the Secretary af the Interior, and not otherwise. On June 20,1908, the department promulgated regulations govern-ing the duties of the local representatives who are designated as "district agents," the leasing of restricted lands and the removal of restrictions on their sale. The regulations &vided the former territory of the Five Civilized Tribes into fifteen districts, each in charge of a district agent, as follows: Locations ot d&tr(ot agemts. Counties in district. I Office at- - -- The district agents, largely selected from the experienced em-ployees who had been discharging duties of a similar character in the o5ces of the Commissioner to the Five Civilized Tribes and the Indian agent at Union Agency, entered upon their duties on July 1, 1908. ILLEGAL CONVEYANCES. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 S 10 11 12 18 14 16 The department has had knowledge of the fact that a large number of warranty deeds, quitclaim deeds, mortgages, and powers of attorney had been procured from ignorant full-blood and mixed-blood Indians and from freedmen covering-lands still under restrictions, and the "restrictions act" appropriated $50,000 to be ~xpended under the direction of the Attorney-General in suing to set aside these illegal instruments. For several weeks during the summer a force of em- Delaware, Creig, Meyes snd that part of Ottawa County within the Chemkee Nation. Washington. Nawata and Rogem. ........................................ Creek and Tulsa .......................................................... Okmulgee and Okfuskee ................................................ Wagoner. Muskogee and MoIntosh ................. ., ............. Cherokee Adair and Sequoysh ........................................... IA lore ind ~ushmataha.. ............................................. Haskell. Lstimer and Pittsburg ........................................... Eughe. and Seminole.. ................................................ Pontotoc. Coal and Atoka ............................................... McLain Rarvin 8nd Murray.. .......................................... That p i i of Graay, Jefferson and Stephens Counties Wthin the Chick- &8&W Nation. Carter sna Love .......................................................... Mershall, Bryan and Johnston ........ ; ............................... Choctaw and Mecurtain ............................................ Vinita. Now&%. Sapul a Okm$gke. Checotah. We~tviile. Antlem. Mohleeter. Holdenville. Atoke. Pauls Valley. Chickasha. Ardmore. Tishomiogo. Hugo. |
