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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 73 of 163.14 acres, for which was paid $9,608. The land thus purchased is a very desirable accession, adding greatly both to the value and ap. pearance of the school premises. By tlie Indian hill approved March3,1891 (26 Stat., 1013), Gongmss appropriated the sum of $6,000 for the erection of buildings and the purchase of lands or improvements at Phceuix, the capital of Arizona. When there last fall, 1 gave this matter attention, and in company wit.h Superintendent Rich and some of the most prominent citizens of the place, drove quite extensively about the city and its vicinity, studying locations. After careful consideration, an admirable site, was selected, about 38 miles north of the capital, with which, in a oom-paratitely short time, it will be connected by a broad and beautiful avenue. The laud is excellent, already nuder oultivation, sufficientiy elevated to be secure from inundation, and so located as to be easily irrigated. It is co~isidered amply worth $12,000 in its phsent condi-tion, but was purchsscd-for $9,000, $3,000 having been contributed by the citizens of Phoenix. A deed was executed April 8, 1891, together with two%ater.right certificates (Nos. 52 and 53) in the Grand Canal, the total cost to the Government beiug $6,000. The validity of the title to the lands thus purchased has passed the inspection of the Attorney-Ceuera1,as required by section 385 of the Revised statutes, and the deeds of conveyance hare been duly recorded in this office and in the respective counties in which the lands lie. INDIAN LAXDS OCCUPIED BY BENEVOLENT SOCIETIES. In recognition of the value of the religious and educational work undertaken among Indians by various denominations and benevolent societies and in fi~rtherancoef that work. it ha8 been the custom of this office to grant to such organizations the use and occupancy of specified tracts of land upon Indian reservations. The Indians receive no com-pensation for the use of the lands thus assigned; but the assignment is not made without their consent. The requisite consent of Indiana has r a r e l ~b cen withheld. In addition to the lands thus set apart, as exhibited in the. table on page CLXXII of bhc appendix to my last annual report, the office has during tho present year made further grants, as follows: On the GiIa River Reservation, Ariz., two tracts of 3 acres each to the Board of Home Missious of the Presbyteriau Ohurch ; on the Yakama Reservation, Wash., four tracts, containing respectively 160, G, 8, and 12 acres, to the Methodist Episcopal Church ; on the Nez Pcrc6s Reser-vation, Idaho, not exceeding 1 acre, to the Board of Foreign Missiuns of the Presbyterian Church; at the Navajo Agency, N. Mex., a bnild-ing site to the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church; on the Crow Reservation, Moot., not exceeding 1 acre, to the Board of |