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Show BEPOBT OF TEE COMMISEIOIPEB OF INDIAN ATFbIBB. 37 claimant under any railroad land grant a relinquishment or recon-veyance of any lands situated within the States of Arizona, New Mexico, or California, passing under the grant, which are shown to have been occupied for five years or more by an Indian entitled to receive the tract in allotment under existing law, but for the grant to the railroad; and, upon the execution and &g of such relinquish-ment or reconveyance, the land s h d thereupon become available for allotment and the wmpany relinquishing or reconveying shall be entitled to select, within the period of three years after the approval of the act, and have patented to it, other vacant, nonmineral, non-timbered surveyed public lands of equal area and value, situated in the same State, as may be agreed upon by the Secretary of the Interior under the terms of the act. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized by the act of March 4, 1913 (37 Stat. L., 1007), under rules and regulations to be prescribed by him, to grant to the operator of any coal mine in the State of Oklshoma, the right to lease additional acreage from the unleased segregated coal lands of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations in Oklahoma, not to exceed in any case 640 acres of land, under certain conditions named in the act. The act of February 14, 1913 (37 Stat. L., 678), very materidy broadens the scope of section 2 of the act of June 25, 1910 (36 Stat. L., 855), relating to the disposition of trust prop&y of Indians by will. Under the original law only allotments held in trust could be disposed of by will by the allottee with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior. The mt of February 14, 1913, authorizes any Indian 21 years of age to dispose of any right, title, or interest in any allotment held under trust or other patent contrtining restrictions on alienation, or individual Indian moneya or other property held in trust by the United States, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior and under such regulations as he may prescribe. The act of February 14, 1913 (37 Stat. L., 675), authorizes the sale and disposition of the surplus undotted lands in the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in the States of North Dakota and South Dakota. TRADERS' CLAIMS AGAINST INDIANS. Superintendents were directed on December 28, 1910, to forward to the Indian Office all claims for goods furnished and services rendered to individual Indians prior to December 17, 1909. C l a h amounting to $1,706,196.82 were submitted. The greater part of these claims were against Indians in Oklahoma, South ,Dakota, Montana, Wisconsin, and Nebraska. After compiling records in this office of the claims submitted, they were returned to the superin-tendents with a circular letter under date of October 12, 1912, in-structing them to audit each claim with the view to determining the |