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Show I ZVI REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. patents for the lands. The benefits of the treaty should be extended to all adult allottees, without regard to sex, and provision should be made for the settlement of the estates of the class of allottees referred to. This subject was before the last Congress, but received no final action.' I SESERVATIONS FOR THE IiICKAPOOS AND IOWAS IN THE INDIAN TElZRITORP. Under the 1)rovisious of the acts of Congress approvccl July 15, 1870 (16 Stat., 359), and March 3,1571 (16 Stat., 569), some four hundred of the Kickapoo tribe of Iudisus, who left the State of Kansas and mi-grated to Mexico in 1863 and 1864, wore returned to the. United States and settled in tlln Indian Territor~in 1873 and 1875. Although la11ds were promised them nr) steps were takeu to secure then] iu posses-sion of the lan(ls ahin11 they have continued to occupy. Inasmuch as the insecurity of tbeis title was n source of' uueasiness 2nd discontent an Executive order was issued August 15, 1883, setting apart for thcir permanent use and occupation a tract o'f laud west of the Sac and FOX Reservation in the Indian Territory, sufficient for their present and future wants. A considerable number of the Iowa tribe have also resided for several Sears in the Indian Territory irnmedintely north of the tract occupied by the Hickapoos, and an Executive order setting apart the tract of country referred to for the use and occnpation of the Towas 2nd such other Indians as the Secretary of the Interior 1nig1lt seo B t to locate thereon was also signed by the President 011 the same date, Augu~t 15, 1883. These tracts :Ire within the "Oklaho~nad istrict" whicl~h as been sub-ject to incursions by Payue nnd otllers, and it is belieTed that this actiou will tend io defeat such attempts rtt ~oloniz~t iot~T.h e lands thus set apart slrould be svcured to these Iodians by a more permanent title, and legislation providing for thc issuance of patents will be rec-omn~ endeda t the eorni~igs essiou of Cougress. I SALE OF KICICAPOO LANDS IN KANSAS. On the 28th of 1la.y last, iustructiox~sw ere given to a Commission appointed to appraine certain Hickapoo Indian lanrls in Kansas, the appraisement and sale of which were authorized by the act of Congress approved July 28, 1852 (22 Stat., 1.77). Their report was xi~bmitted on the 12th of July last. I t appears from the schedule of appraisi.meut, ac-compauying their report, that the total number of acres appraised was 1,134.66, at a total valuation of $14,342.79, being an average of $12.64 per acre. The schedule was approved by yo11 July 20,1883, and the necessary instructions regarding the sale of the lands transmitted to the General Land Office on the same date. "See Smate Ex. Doe. No. 55, Forty-seventh Congreee, Erst session. |