The San Francisco call., 1906-11-26

for cultivation, and for Indians who are now
upon reservations in said State, suitable tracts
or parcels of land, water and water rights in
said State of California. and have constructed
the necessary. bitches, fumes and reservoirs for
the purpose OF rrigating said lands, and the rri-
CATION of any lands now occupied by Indians in
said State, and 10 construct suitable buildings
upon saio iands, ano 70 renee the tracts or land
so purchased, and fence, survey and mark the
boundaries of such Indian reservations in the
State Of California as the Secretary of the Inte-
rior may deem proper. One hundred thousand
dollars, or SO much thereof as may be necessary,
is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the
purpose Of carrying out the provisions Of this act.
The services of Mr.. Kelsey have been
secured as special agent to carry out
the provisions of this act, and it is
hoped that the deplorable conditions
found by him will be at least anne
liorated, and that the Indians of Call
ifornia will be put into a position
aggression of white people and have
fair chance to make e. liviag.
WALKER RIVER RESERVATION
The act of May 27 1902. provided
that the Indians occupying the Walker
River reservation in Nevada should re-
rigable from existing bitches or their
extensions, and that after a majority
OF the heads of families should have
accepted allotments and consented to
the relinquishment of the right of oc-
cupancy to land which cannot be irri-
gated from existing bitches and extern
SiOHo anu WHICH Is not necessary Tor
dwellings and school buildings, each
head OF a family should receive $500.
The President by proclamation should
then open the felinquished lands to
settlement. to be disposed of under ex-
listing law.
The. joint resolution of June 10, 1902,
provlded that, before any of the res
ervation lands should be opened to set
tlement, the Secretary of the Interior
snouId set apart for the use Of the In
dlans In common sufficient amount of
non-lrrlgable grazing land to meet
their reasonable requirements, and the
current Indian appropriation act pro-
vided that the Secretary should also
set apart for their use in common such
tracts of timber lands as would meet
the reasonable requirements of the In
dians for fuel and improvements.
Inc allotments have been made and
the grazing and timber lands selected
on the 24th of July w. E. Casson.
special allotting agent. forwarded to
this office an agreement concluded bv
him on July. 20. 1905, with the Piute
ton by which they cede to the United
States all lands in the reservation ex-
cept certain lands fully described by
sion in consideration of the allotmentg.
and the payment to allottees who are
heads Of families of $500 each, ito en-
able them TO commence the business of
agriculture. The al1ottees who are
heads Of families agree to accept the
allotments made to them, and are to
receive per capita cash payment of
SIS. The remainder (s275 each) is to
be expended in the purchase Of fence
wire, lumber, alfalfa seed. wagons,
harness, farm machinery, etc, accord
ing to a list to be furnished this Office
by each head OF family through the
superintendent of the Carson School.
Nevada These cash payments and
purchases are to be made within sixfv
days after the opening OF the ceied
lands for settlement, or as soon there
after as practicable.
The agreement was to take e4fAct
when signed by the allotting agent ana
a majority OF the male adult Indians
the latter including a majority Of the
allottees who are heads of families