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transmitted April 14, 1890 and quoted in the Office letter referred to, "that whatever restrictions there may be upon the buildings the same do not apply to the lands of the military reservation which are left in their former condition of Indian reservation and that the Department has power to change the limits of the school farm there on to subserve the interest of the Indians and allot the lands in severalty to the Indians."  In the same letter is said that reason "that the consent of the Indians to setting apart lands for mission uses within the limits of the old military reservation, as indicated in office letter of May 4, 1891 was based upon the idea" ... "that said mission enterprize was a private undertaking, and not that the Indians had a right to control the lands as against the right of the government to use them for school or other proper Indian purposes."   There is a misapprehension in supposing that the "mission enterprize" referred to