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lations for its administration were prepared by the Secretaries of the 

 Interior, War, and Agriculture, with the cooperation of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, and were promulgated on December 28, 1906, in 

 the form printed in my last report to the Regents. Under rule 8, 

 applications for permits are referred to the Smithsonian Institution 

 for recommendation. During the past year I have acted upon several 

 such applications. The conservation of the nation's archeological 

 possessions was regulated by law none too soon to prevent further 

 mutilation or useless destruction of interesting antiquities in many 

 places. 



The President of the United States, by executive proclamation 

 during the year, made several additions to the list of national monu- 

 ments, including three of archeological interest: (1) the Tonto Na- 

 tional Monument in Arizona, where there are two cliff dwellings not 

 yet reported on; (2) the Gila Cliff-Dwellings National Monument in 

 the Gila National Forest in New Mexico, comprising a group of 

 cliff dwellings, and (3) the Grand Canyon National Monument, 

 which includes a large number of cliff dwellings, pueblos, dwelling 

 sites, and burial places in the Grand Canyon of the Colorado. 



CASA GRANDE RUIN IN ARIZONA. 



In 1906 Congress granted an appropriation of $3,000 to be ex- 

 pended under the supervision of the Secretary of the Smithsonian 

 Institution for the preservation of the Casa Grande ruin in Pinal 

 County, near Florence, Ariz., and for the excavation of the reserva- 

 tion. An account of the work accomplished by Doctor Fewkes up 

 to June 30, 1907, was published in the Smithsonian Miscellaneous 

 Collections under date of October 25, 1907. The work done during 

 the past fiscal year, under a second appropriation, is noted in Appen- 

 dix II of the present report. The largest structure excavated 

 at Casa Grande is a building 200 feet long with 11 rooms, the massive 

 walls inclosing a plaza. In the central room there is a seat called by 

 the Pima Indians " the seat of Montezuma." The ruins at Casa 

 Grande are found to be very much more extensive than was antici- 

 pated, and their permanent preservation is of great archeological 

 importance. 



MESA VERDE NATIONAL PARK. 



In addition to the work of excavation, preservation, and repair of 

 the cliff dwellings and other prehistoric ruins in the Mesa Verde 

 National Park in Colorado, which was intrusted by the Interior 

 Department to the direction of the Institution in February, 1908, a 

 moderate grant from the Smithsonian fund was approved this year 

 for additional general studies of the prehistoric culture of the Gila 



