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Show 18 C'OAI~IISSIOXER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. thereon to promote reforestation, as authorized by the act of May O-"R, 1QllQ AY"U. The commission designated for this investigation Till aim to secure accurate and full information, to be submitted for your con-sideration with a view to having any legislation to which the Indians may lie entitled brought to the attention of Congress at its regular session in December of this year. This bureau has for many years held that the State of Minnesota has no valid claim to the swamp lands on Indian reservations within the State as they existed on January 14, 1889, and has sought in various ways to prevent the patenting of such lands to the State, which prior to 1913 had co~~erearpl proximately 152,364 acres. On June 22, 1922, the Department of Justice was requested to in-stitute an original action in the Supreme Court of the United States to determine the respective rights of the Chippewa Indians and the State to these lauds and to about 37,000 acres that remain un-patented. LAND PO4 HOMELESS INDIANS IN.CALIF0RNIA. By the act of March 3. 1021 41 Stat. L., 1234) an appropriation was made for the purchase o 4 land for various small bands of Indians scattered throughout the State of California who are with-out means of obtaining a home or of earning adequate subsistence, and options recommended by this office on June 24, !922, were approved for the purchase of six tracts of land totaling 289.61 acres in different sections of that State at a total cost of $8,846.50, which exhausted tlte available balance of the appropriation for the fiscal year. These tracts were carefully selected by field officials of the Indian Service, and are deemed especially suitable for the object in view. The title to the land is retained by the Govwn-ment. FINAL ROLLS OF INDIAN TRIBES. During the year final rolls of the following tribes were made and approved under the provisions of the act of June 30, 1919 (41 Stat. L., 9), for the purpose of prorating the tribal trust fun+: Pawnee, Cheyenne and Arapahoe, Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, and Ponca, in Oklahoma; Rosebud Sioux, in South Dakota; Bannock and Shoshone, in Idaho. TRIBAL CLAIMS. Bills were introduced in the Sixty-seventh Congress proposing to authorize various tribes and bands of Indians to submit alleged claims against the Government to the Court of Claims for adjudl-cation. Reports were made to the Committee on Indian Affairs of the Senate and House of Representatives on such bills relating to abont 20 claims of this character. FORESTRY. Because of continued depression in the lumber market no large offering of timber Fas made during the first half of the year and the |
