The Tomahawk., 1918-04-18

ished. The force now maintained
at White Earth will be reduced to
probably not over a half dozen, or
a dozen, at the most, employees.
Similar changes are to occur at
all other agencies. Immediate steps
are lobe taken to wind up the
affairs within the next few years
OF the Chippewa Indians. To &C.
complish this Congressman Els
worth, the representative from
Minnesota or the House Commit
tee on Indian Affairs, has intro
duced a bill prepared by the tribal
attorney, Mr.. Webster Ballinger,
by direction of the Legislative
Committee. Section 1 of the bill
authorizes the appointment of a
commission consisting of three
members, one to be appointed by
the President, another by the Sec
rotary of the Interior, and third
to be appointed by the President
of the General Council, which
commission is directed to immedi
ately proceed to prepare four rolls,
as follows: Upon the first roll is
to be placed the names, age, sex
quantum of Indian blood of every
person entitled to an allotment un-
der the agreement of 1889 and who
has not received one. This relates
almost entirely to the Indians re.
siding on the Red Lake Reserva-
ton, very few of whom have re-
ceived allotments. Upon the second
roll is to be placed the names, age,
sex and allotment number and
description of the allotment of all
old and INDECENT, Indians. Upon
the third roll is to be placed the
name, age, sex, allotment number
and description Of the allotment Of
all incompetent full-bloods, and
upon the fourth roll is tn be placed
the name, age, sex, allotment num-
Der and description of the allot-
ment of all minor children. The
rolls are to be completed within
one year from the approval of the
act. All members of the tribe
whose names do not appear upon
any of these rolls are to receive all
their property both lands and
money absolutely and are no longer
to be- interfered with by the Fed
eral authorities. The funds of all
minor children are to be paid over
to the legal guardian when ap-
pointed, and as the children of
those parents whose names do not
appear upon any of the three last
named rolls become of age their
property is to pass to them in fee
simple title.
The second section of the bill
provides that allotments shall he
made to all those persons whose
names appear on the first roll of
100 acres of land and that upon
the completion of the allotments
all the remaining property, includ-
ing the property embraced in the
forest reserves shall be disposed of
under the provisions of the agree
ment of 1889 as amended by the
Acts of February 26, 1896, and
June ~, 1902, and the proceeds
placed in the principal fund of the
tribe in the Treasury.
Section three authorizes the
Secretary OF the Interior, to lay
off towasites on the Red Lake or
White Earth Reservations or any
portion of the coded lands, and to
dispose of the lots and to pass a
good title to the purchasers. This
provision is intended to enable the
owners of Improvements at Red
Lake, Ponsford, and other places
to obtain title to the land upon
which their improvements rest.
This provision will afford relief to
the owners of improvements upon
hundreds of lots to which the own
ers heretofore have been unable to
obtain title to the land upon which
thoir irnnrovompnts rnst- and will