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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN PFAIFLS. LV I inclusiGe, in Tallahatohie County; 1 tract (No. 125)in Palabusha County; and 2 tracts (Nos. 131 and 132) in Bolivar County. Of these 134 tracts only two orphans (Ebeneeer and Alexander Pitchlyn, of Mish-a-la.tnb-bee district, orphans of James Pitchlyu and Wi-ha-ni-ye, a Chickasaw woman), had quarter.sections allotted to them, vie: tracts 133 and 134, being the southeast quarter and the southwest quarter of section 22, township 19, range 17 east, Lowndes County, for which patenta were issued in their favor. When an attempt was made to allot the remainder of these lands to the other . orphans,,respectivcly, it was found to be impracticable, as the Choctaw authorities were unable to identify all of said orphans, in view of which the Choctaws concluded to ask for the sale of said tracts as provided in the treaty. These laods were sold on credit in 1838, through the agency of Hon. A, V. Brown. A few of the purchasers paid for the lands bought, bnt many failed, for satisfactory reasons, to pay more than the interest on the notes given in purchase for these lands, and some even failed to pay the interest, and the lands, in many cases, reverted to the Indians. For a statement showing the names of the porchasera, theamounts re-ceived on aooount of principal and interest, aud the balance due nuder each head, prepared in this office May 11,1848, see H. R. Ex. Doc. No. 45, Thirty-first Congress, second session. Owing to the delays incident to the settlement of the sales made in 1838, the matter was placed inthc hands of Hon. Charles Borland, of . Laneaster, Ohio, under office inatmotions of Jnne 4, 1849. After a , thorough investigation Mr. Borland submitted a revaluation of the lands, and the Department ordered their sale at this revaluation. He reported the followin& sales : April 25, 1851 .......................................................... $3'3,412 42 June -, 1851 .......................................................... 14,506 98 Februsq10, 1852 (inoloding rents, $4m) ............................... 3,631 25 June 1, 1852 ............................................................ 13.556 39 January 19, 1853, amended May 11,1853 (including rents, $831.84) ........ 8,659 81 . 7S, 966 85 Less expenses .......................................................... 5,186 59 Net amount paid over by Mr.- Borland ........................ ..:. 68,780 26 4 In his adjustment of acoouvts with the original purchasers of lend, or debtors to the Choctaw orphans, Mr. Borland acquired certain lands in settlement or comp~omisew ith said debtors, amounting to 716.60 ares. On the 20th of July, 1855, Col. Edward 0. Walthall, of Ooffeeville, Miss., was appointed to appraise these lands and such lalids as had reverted to the Choctaw orphans from failure of purchasers to pay for said lands, on completion of which he was appointed, November 22, 1855, to sell both the reverted and acquired lands aforesaid. Colonel |
