tion amounting to more than 8,333 kilowatt hours and less than 11,111 kilowatt hours per month, 44 cents per kilowatt hour; consumption amounting to more than 11,111 kilowatt hours and less than 12,500 kilowatt hours per month, flat. sum of $500 per month. All current in excess of 12,500 kilowatt hours per month, 3 cents per kilowatt hour. The extensions and improvements made in the plant and works during the year ending December 31, 1909, are as follows: Installation of additional apparatus at power station, Bennings... Installation of additional apparatus at substation on Eighth street..... Extensions of conduits, including new house connections, manholes, Extensions and enlargements of underground cables.. Installation of poles and fixtures and conduit connections for street incan- $6,875.88 1,707. 37 1, 619. 78 3,869. 89 10, 348. 74 34, 678. 55 34, 158. 01 67, 951. 75 67, 658.83 21, 675. 69 43, 857.47 Total.... 294, 401. 96 Credit for sale of real estate, second-hand apparatus, and other property.. 10, 681. 46 Net amount..... 283, 720.50 The amount expended for labor... 299, 484. 67 The amount set aside for depreciation, including loss on second-hand apparatus sold during year... The amount set aside for insurance and renewals, as shown in statement of operating expenses.. The amount paid out of earnings for betterments. The amount paid for betterments from other sources, from the proceeds of sale of bonds.. The amount set aside and paid in interest and dividends.. Names of stockholders and the amount of stock held by each: Total....... 50,000 I, George H. Harries, vice-president of the Potomac Electric Power Company, do hereby solemnly swear that the annexed statement is just and true to the best of my knowledge and belief. GEO. H. HARRIES, Vice-President. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 31st day of January, A. D. 1910. [SEAL.] E. B. BURRITT, Notary Public, District of Columbia, O 61ST CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. ( DOCUMENT 2d Session. 1 No. 630. SURVEY OF TRIBAL LANDS ON OMAHA INDIAN RESER VATION. LETTER FROM THE ACTING SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, TRANSMITTING, WITH A COPY OF A COMMUNICATION FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR, AN ESTIMATE OF APPROPRIATION FOR SURVEY, ETC., OF TRIBAL LANDS ON THE OMAHA INDIAN RESERVATION IN NEBRASKA, AND DRAFT OF PROPOSED LEGISLATION RELATING THERETO. FEBRUARY 1, 1910.-Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith, for the consideration of Congress, a communication from the Secretary of the Interior of the 28th instant, submitting an estimate of appropriation in the sum of $3,000 for the necessary survey, appraisement, and sale of the unallotted tribal lands on the Omaha Indian Reservation in Nebraska. Respectfully, CHARLES D. NORTON, Acting Secretary. The SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, SIR: I have the honor to inclose a draft of a bill to authorize the sale and disposal of the unallotted tribal lands on the Omaha Indian Reservation in Nebraska, and appropriating $3,000 for necessary survey or resurvey, appraisement, and sale of said lands. As the bill carries an appropriation it is transmitted to you, and I have to request that it be submitted to Congress, with the following explana tion: The original trust period on allotments to 954 Omaha Indians expired July 10, 1909, but the President, by authority conferred in the act of June 21, 1909 (34 Stat. L., 325), extended this trust period for ten years. Section 8 of the act of August 7, 1882, provided that the residue of lands, after all allotments had been made shall be patented to the said Omaha tribe of Indians, which patent shall be of the legal effect and declare that the United States does and will hold the land thus patented for the period of twenty-five years in trust for the sole use and benefit of the said Omaha tribe of Indians, and that at the expiration of said period the United States will convey the same by patent to said Omaha tribe of Indians in fee, discharged of said trust and free of all charge or incumbrance whatsoever: Provided, That from the residue of lands thus patented to the tribe in common allotments shall be made and patented to each Omaha child who may be born prior to the expiration of the time during which it is provided that said lands shall be held in trust by the United States, in quantity and upon the same conditions, restrictions, and limitations as are provided in section six of this act, touching patents to allottees therein mentioned. But such conditions, restrictions, and limitations shall not extend beyond the expiration of the time expressed in the patent herein authorized to be issued to the tribe in common: And provided further, That these patents, when issued, shall override the patent authorized to be issued to the tribe as aforesaid, and shall separate the individual allotment from the lands held in common, which proviso shall be incorporated in the patent issued to the tribe. For reasons which the present administration of this department is unable to discover at this time no patent for the tribal lands was issued to the Omaha tribe nor were any allotments made to children as provided for in the section quoted. Allotments of the residue tribal lands were made, however, under the terms of the act of March 3, 1893 (27 Stat. L., 612-630), which provided for allotments of 80 acres each to all children in being on March 3, 1893, who had not received allotments and for an additional allotment of 40 acres to all children who had received an allotment of 40 acres under the act of August 7, supra. There are between 500 and 600 children now living born after March 3, 1893, and prior to July 10, 1909, the date the original trust period expired, who are entitled to allotments of 40 acres each, as provided for in section 8 of the act of August 7, 1882, supra. The enlarged allotments, however, made under the act of March 3, 1893, supra, reduced the residue tribal lands so that there are now only about 4,500 acres available for allotment. This area would provide allotments of 40 acres each to the 112 eldest unallotted children only, leaving over 400 children equally entitled without allotments. The parents of these children who would thus receive none of the tribal lands are intensely opposed to this plan. To provide for the pro rata distribution of the tribal lands among all of the living children is equally objectionable, as there would be only about 8 acres for each allottee, and as the lands vary in value from $7.50 to $60 an acre an equitable distribution can not be made. The department is of the opinion, as it is no longer possible to carry out the provisions of the act of August 7, 1882, that the wiser course is to provide legislation which will enable it to carry out the spirit of that law as far as possible by selling the tribal lands and dividing the proceeds derived therefrom equally among the living children entitled. The value in the open market of the tribal lands has been variously estimated at from $100,000 to $200,000. It is probable, therefore, that a sale of these lands and an equal distribution of the funds arising therefrom would give each unallotted child on the Omaha Reservation about $275. If this sum were placed in the Treasury to the credit of each child at 5 per cent interest per annum until he reached the age of 25 years the amounts due them after they reach that age would vary from about $385 for the oldest child now living to about $890 for the youngest child now living. This plan of disposing of their tribal lands has been approved by a majority of the Omahas in open council, and was recommended by the former superintendent of the Omaha Indian School. The Indians in open council have expressed a wish that 49 acres of the lands now used for agency purposes, and on which are erected the agency buildings, be reserved from sale so long as they are needed for this purpose, and that 164 acres of the present agency reserve be set aside for an Indian town site. They have expressed their desire further for the reservation of 8 acres for a tribal cemetery, 10 acres for the use of the Presbyterian Church for missionary purposes, the patenting in fee of the 10 acres heretofore set aside for a mission hospital to the Connecticut Indian Association, and the issuance of a fee patent to the State Historical Society of Nebraska for the 2 acres on which is standing the old Presbyterian mission building. The department is of the opinion that all of these reservations will be for the welfare of the Omaha tribe and provision has been made therefor in the proposed bill. The act of February 18, 1909 (35 Stat. L., 628), authorizes the payment of any assessments which may be made by any drainage district in the State of Nebraska on the tribal lands of the Omaha and Winnebago Indians, to protect said lands from overflow, from the tribal funds remaining to the credit of these Indians. The estimated cost of drainage to protect the tribal lands of the Omaha tribe is approximately $600. The lands subject to overflow will be greatly enhanced in value by the drainage provided for in the act of February 18, 1909, supra, and it is but just that the cost of draining these tribal lands should be paid from the proceeds derived from their sale. Should the proposed bill be enacted into law, provision has therefore been made for reimbursing the tribal funds for the cost of draining the tribal lands from the proceeds derived from their sale. The department would be glad to see the proposed bill enacted into law. R. A. BALLINGER, Very respectfully, The SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY. Secretary. Estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1910, by the Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs. INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. INDIAN AFFAIRS. Disposal of lands of Omaha Indians, Nebraska For the survey or resurvey, appraisement, and sale of unallotted tribal lands on the Omaha Indian Reservation, in the State of Nebraska, to be reimbursed from the proceeds of said lands (submitted).... Draft of bill. $3,000 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repersentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he hereby is, authorized to cause to be surveyed, if necessary, and appraised, in manner hereinafter set forth, in tracts of forty acres each, and after such survey and appraisement to sell and convey, in quantities not to exceed one hundred and sixty acres to any one purchaser, all the unallotted lands on the Omaha Indian Reservation, in the State of Nebraska: |